Merchants of Menace by Edward J. Allen - 1962

Medford OR, Webb Research Group, 1990, Hardcover, One of a Limited, Presentation Edition of 20 hardcover copies, this copy is designated by the bookplate as a gift from the Author to her husband, Roscoe Albert Baker. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket, Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight corner and spine end bumps. Dustjacket lightly bumped at corner and spine ends, in Brodart sleeve. An in-depth study of the places and people involved in the World War II relocations of Japanese, German, and Italian-Americans throughout the United States, filled with documentary and photographic evidence regarding this period of U.S. domestic history. Nominated in 1990 for the Pulitzer Prize "for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States". ISBN 9780093673831

Harrisburg: Office of the Reporters, State of Pennsylvania. Good+. 1828-29. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Clean brown 1/4 leather with marbled boards. Volume #1, 981pp + 55pp index. Damp stain on front endpaper. Volume #2, 766pp + 8 pp of index. Sporatic foxing throughout. Containing Messages, Reports and Documents. Both volumes have light shelf wear. Banks, Laws, Elections, Prisons, Health, Canals, Railroads, State Roads and Bridges. 212 miles of Canals currently under contract and in progress toward completion. Pennsylvania; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1749 pages .

First English edition. Henry Colburn. London. 1828. 8vo. Title, xii, 428pp. Full marbled paper covered boards, 19th Century pseudo tree calf papier croisé pattern. Red spine label with gilt lettering and edge rules. Blue endpapers. Title page slightly toned. Lacking half-title. Rubbing to spine edges. A crisp copy of the rarer London first edition.
In making a Papier Croisé, the final step required that the paper be lifted up and carefully moved while still wet. This caused the characteristic knotting in the design.
John Ledyard (1751-1789) American explorer and adventurer. Ledyard accompanied Cook on the third and final voyage 1776-1780. Visiting the Sandwich Islands, Cape of Good Hope, the Prince Edward Islands off South Africa, the Kerguelen Islands, Tasmania, New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Tonga, Tahiti, and then Hawaii. It continued to the northwest coast of North America, making Ledyard perhaps the first U.S. citizen to touch its western coast, along the Aleutian islands and Alaska into the… Read More

1821 Navy Commodore Perry Naval Battles War of 1812 Ships + Pike & Lawrence RARE

Oliver Hazard Perry was an 18th-century American naval commander who served in various wars including the War of 1812. In 1820, a Connecticut politician, John Milton Niles, published a biographical sketch of the life of Commodore Perry, which also featured brief outlines of the lives of General Zebulon Pike and Captain Lawrence. Niles covers naval battles, strategy, military tactics, battle plans and outcomes, making note of both large and small victories across the seas and Great Lakes.

Item number: #9419
Price: $499
NILES, John M
The life of Oliver Hazard Perry: With an appendix, comprising biographical sketches of the late General Pike, and Captain Lawrence, and a view of the present condition and future prospects of the Navy of the United States.
Hartford, Conn.: W.S. Marsh Publisher, 1821.

Details:
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Collation: Complete with all pages
o [3], iv-xii, 376, [2]
o 5 engraved plates
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References:… Read More

Printed by E. Guyer, Harrisburg, PA, 1839; First Edition. 8vo, 16 pgs. A special message from Pennsylvania Governor Joseph Ritner (1780-1869) criticizing the rejection of his petition to the state legislature to provide payment to Pennsylvania militiamen for their service in putting down the recent insurrection at Harrisburg, commonly known as the "Buckshot War," giving a detailed chronology of the events leading up to the incident and explaining his reasoning in taking the actions he did, together with complete copies of the correspondence between state and federal officials involved in the matter –William B. Reed, Martin Van Buren, George Douglas Ramsay, A.J. Pleasonton, and J. B. Pointsett. The conflict began over a question of the legitimacy of the electoral vote count subsequent to the election of 1838. Both political parties in the State Legislature refused to seat certain members from the other side, resulting in a bitter fight and riot as onlookers stormed the chamber threatening… Read More

Medford OR, Webb Research Group, 1990, Hardcover, One of a Limited, Presentation Edition of 20 hardcover copies, this copy is designated by the bookplate as a gift from the Author to her husband, Roscoe Albert Baker. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket, Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight corner and spine end bumps. Dustjacket lightly bumped at corner and spine ends, in Brodart sleeve. An in-depth study of the places and people involved in the World War II relocations of Japanese, German, and Italian-Americans throughout the United States, filled with documentary and photographic evidence regarding this period of U.S. domestic history. Nominated in 1990 for the Pulitzer Prize "for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States". ISBN 9780093673831

Harrisburg: Office of the Reporters, State of Pennsylvania. Good+. 1828-29. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Clean brown 1/4 leather with marbled boards. Volume #1, 981pp + 55pp index. Damp stain on front endpaper. Volume #2, 766pp + 8 pp of index. Sporatic foxing throughout. Containing Messages, Reports and Documents. Both volumes have light shelf wear. Banks, Laws, Elections, Prisons, Health, Canals, Railroads, State Roads and Bridges. 212 miles of Canals currently under contract and in progress toward completion. Pennsylvania; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1749 pages .

First English edition. Henry Colburn. London. 1828. 8vo. Title, xii, 428pp. Full marbled paper covered boards, 19th Century pseudo tree calf papier croisé pattern. Red spine label with gilt lettering and edge rules. Blue endpapers. Title page slightly toned. Lacking half-title. Rubbing to spine edges. A crisp copy of the rarer London first edition.
In making a Papier Croisé, the final step required that the paper be lifted up and carefully moved while still wet. This caused the characteristic knotting in the design.
John Ledyard (1751-1789) American explorer and adventurer. Ledyard accompanied Cook on the third and final voyage 1776-1780. Visiting the Sandwich Islands, Cape of Good Hope, the Prince Edward Islands off South Africa, the Kerguelen Islands, Tasmania, New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Tonga, Tahiti, and then Hawaii. It continued to the northwest coast of North America, making Ledyard perhaps the first U.S. citizen to touch its western coast, along the Aleutian islands and Alaska into the… Read More

1821 Navy Commodore Perry Naval Battles War of 1812 Ships + Pike & Lawrence RARE

Oliver Hazard Perry was an 18th-century American naval commander who served in various wars including the War of 1812. In 1820, a Connecticut politician, John Milton Niles, published a biographical sketch of the life of Commodore Perry, which also featured brief outlines of the lives of General Zebulon Pike and Captain Lawrence. Niles covers naval battles, strategy, military tactics, battle plans and outcomes, making note of both large and small victories across the seas and Great Lakes.

Item number: #9419
Price: $499
NILES, John M
The life of Oliver Hazard Perry: With an appendix, comprising biographical sketches of the late General Pike, and Captain Lawrence, and a view of the present condition and future prospects of the Navy of the United States.
Hartford, Conn.: W.S. Marsh Publisher, 1821.

Details:
·
Collation: Complete with all pages
o [3], iv-xii, 376, [2]
o 5 engraved plates
·
References:… Read More

Printed by E. Guyer, Harrisburg, PA, 1839; First Edition. 8vo, 16 pgs. A special message from Pennsylvania Governor Joseph Ritner (1780-1869) criticizing the rejection of his petition to the state legislature to provide payment to Pennsylvania militiamen for their service in putting down the recent insurrection at Harrisburg, commonly known as the "Buckshot War," giving a detailed chronology of the events leading up to the incident and explaining his reasoning in taking the actions he did, together with complete copies of the correspondence between state and federal officials involved in the matter –William B. Reed, Martin Van Buren, George Douglas Ramsay, A.J. Pleasonton, and J. B. Pointsett. The conflict began over a question of the legitimacy of the electoral vote count subsequent to the election of 1838. Both political parties in the State Legislature refused to seat certain members from the other side, resulting in a bitter fight and riot as onlookers stormed the chamber threatening… Read More