REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR ( SHORT TITLE) by Marcy, W. L - 1849

Washington: gpo. Very Good. 1846. Softcover. Senate Doc 358, 29th Congress, 1st Session. 6 pages, disbound, bright and complete .

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. Good. 1848. Softcover. Disbound, no covers. Title page and last (blank) page are foxed. Some other pages are thoroughly foxed, but most have little or no foxing. Great majority of the contents (pages 6 through 46) consists of abstracts of claims. In the text portion there are some written marks. ; Approx. 5 5/8" wide by 9". Thirtieth Congress - First Session Ex. Doc. No. 63. House of Representatives. May 16, 1848 ; 46 pages .

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. Fair. 1848. Softcover. Disbound, no covers. First leaf is missing a piece of paper approximate maximum 1" wide by 1 7/8" from lower spine corner, with loss of words on each side of leaf. Some of missing information is available in one or more of the Tables. ; Approx. 5 1/2" wide by 8 3/4". Report covers "...the number of United States troops that have been engaged in the war with Mexico, ...killed, died from wounds, &c." Thirtieth Congress - First Session. Ex. Doc. No. 62. House of Representatives. ; 86 pages .

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. Good. 1846. Softcover. Disbound, no covers. ; Approx. 5 3/4" wide by 8 3/4". 29th Congress, 1st Session, Doc. No. 168. Ho. Of Reps. AI 46-151. A map is mentioned as being transmitted with the report, but there is no indication it was reproduced with this document. ; 18 pages .

Washington: GPO, 1846. 29th Cong., 1st Sess., HD 96 (War Department), 8 pp., self wrappers, extracted from larger bound volume, good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Washington, DC: 29th Congress, 1st Session, Ho. of Reps. Doc. No. 167, 1846. First edition. 8vo. 95 pp. Tables, financial statements. The reports pertain to portions of the river in both Alabama and Tennessee. Disbound pamphlet (removed from a bound volume with some spine residue). Very good.

Washington DC: United States Congress, 1848. Wraps. Good. Disbound wraps. 86 pages. Light toning and light edge stains to the paper. Stitching on spine is loose. Contents are mostly tabulated statistics of the Mexican War.

[Washington, D.C.]: Ritchie & Heiss, printers, 1845. First edition. Removed. Inked numeral on title else a very good copy.. 13 pp. Illus. with 1 b/w drawing. 8vo. 29th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Doc. no. 26. Rfats were a contlinual problem for navigation. OCLC locates onlt 4 hard copies: Tulane, Historic New Orleans, LSU, NSU Louisiana.

[Washington]: 1849., 1849. First edition. First Edition. Disbound. 189pp. 30th Congress, 2nd Session. Senate. Ex. Doc. No. 28. An extensive presentation of claims against the Cherokees who were parties to the treaty of August 6, 1846, especially against that portion of the nation called "old settlers" or "western Cherokees." Some very minor tanning to paper, else near Fine.

Washington, D.C: U.S. Government Printing Office, Depart of War, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 1st edition, Senate issue. Housed in a custom made morocco leather backed slipcase. Bound by Jacques Desmonts, James Macdonald, Norwalk Conn. 24.5 cm. Bound in original printed wrappers. Wraps are worn, and nearly detached. Loss to bottom corner of front and rear wrap. Contemporary signature on front wraps. 132 pages: 24 plates, folded map; 24 cm. Large folding lithographic "Map of the Territory of New Mexico." Pages are clean and unmarked. Includes plates of Santa Fe, Fort Marcy, San Felipe, and Native Americans. Howes A-11; Sabin 57; Wagner-Camp 143; Streeter I.168; Graff 5, Rittenhouse 2. One of the earliest U.S. government sponsored explorations of the Southwest. James Abert left Ft. Leavenworth in Kansas along the Santa Fe trail in order to map the newly won territory. He made his way via Bent's Fort and returned to back His map was the most detailed up to that point.… Read More

YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Fred Rogers: First Experiences Book Series: Going To the Doctor (1986 1st Ed. 3rd Pr. Thus, G.P. Putnam)RARE in this first hardcover edition. Quite the find. Used. VG/VG condition unclipped dust jacket, printed price $12.95 Mr. Rogers appears on the back dj panel wearing a pale blue sweater. "In this book, real life photos are used to help young people feel more comfortable with interacting with other children and making new friends. A Note From Fred Rogers: A child's first visit with a pediatrician usually comes soon after birth. It may be months or even years later, though, that a child first shows fear about going to see a doctor. The worry of an injection or some other unfamiliar medical procedure can trigger that fear. It can also appear because another family member may be feeling medical anxieties. And, of course, new body awareness and needs for privacy develop naturally in children's early years, so all these feelings can make it very hard for them to let doctors investigate the workings of… Read More

New York: Exposition of Indian Tribal Ars, 1931. First Edition . Soft cover. Good. First Edition; 4to, stapled pamphlet of a short essay by Austin; good (covers stained and soiled; waterstain to bottom corner and bottom stapled corner from cover to cover; rear cover creased; stapled ends torn; edgeworn); 5pp.

First edition 1st printing, Fair to Good book with spine slant, wear and fraying at edges, corners and ends of spine, offsetting and yellowing of end pages and paste-downs, PON front end page, something had been taped at one time to back end page with old tape residual and offsetting from tape to back paste-down. Now in new facsimile jacket for appearance. Waters' classic story of cultures clashing in the Four Corners area of the Southwest.

London: Harvey and Darton, 1839. Disbound. Good+. Tracts relative to the Aborignes No. 4. A disbound 24-p. tract, primarily a collection of extracts from letters, mostly concerning the Christianization of the Indians. G+; title page is taped along the left side, and loose from the rest; other pp. nearly separating but all in one piece, and free of marks.

Georgetown, Guyana: Red Thread Women's Press, 1993. Staple-bound paperback. Revised Edition. Good. Ex-Library. Text block unmarked. Binding secure. Covers clean. 74 pages. 8.5 x 11 inches.

Millwood, New York: Todd Publications. Very Good. 2004. Eleventh Edition. Soft Cover. 777 pages: 8.25 x 10.75 in.: 4.4: Ex-Library: KB#005426: Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Copy's covers and pages are bright, clean, tightly bound and sharp cornered. It does have Library stamp inside, label on spine, some dark marks on covers under plastic covering and title page has been neatly removed. Editorial Review by From Library Journal: "Klein's editions of the Reference Encyclopedia have been the major source for listings of information on American Indian and Alaska Native groups for more than a decade. The first section of the book contains the source listings, presenting names, addresses, and often leaders of the tribal organizations (both federal and other) across the United States. The resource provides similar information for Canada. The second section is the bibliography, which contains citations for 4500 in-print titles. Separate lists by subject follow, and there is also a… Read More

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER. Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge (1929 Houghton Mifflin 1st. Edition) No date on title page. USED. 302 pages. 5 3/8 X 7 5/8. Green boards with maroon titling. Spine is sunned. / No DJ included.Summary: Laughing Boy is a 1929 novel by Oliver La Farge about the struggles of the Navajo in Southwestern United States.

Pasadena, Socio-Technical Books, 1970, hardcover, 176 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight and tightly bound, spots to top edge, previous owner's name and date to front endpaper. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, rubs, light wrinkles, slight edge nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. The well-regarded anthropologist, museum director, supervising archaeologist for the Fort Massac Reconstruction project in Southern Illinois, and author of The Long Walk: A History of Navajo Wars, 1846-68 takes us back to the years 1863-68, the military roundup of the Navajo Indians and the creation of Bosque Redondo near Fort Sumner, New Mexico, a forty-square mile concentration camp where the Navajo lived according to the dictates of an alien people and suffered disease, starvation, and generational trauma. Illustrated with 22 period photographs. Appended: Bibliography, Index. ISBN 9780870261008

RARE! Phoenix Park, West Bank, Demerara, Guyana: Harpy Books, November 2002. Staple-bound pamphlet. First Edition (stated). Very Good. Stamp of Michael Forde Bookshop to title page, otherwise interior pristine. Rubbing and shelf-wear to covers. Not from a library. 40 pages. Contents: Encounter with a Tiger-Cat, The Year of the Wild Pig, A Night to Forget, Jungle Tug-O-War - Man vs. Beast, Trespasser in the Jungle, The Angry Bull, Bush-master!, Christmas in the Deep South, Diamonds are Fatal.