Search Results: Americana from Little Sages Books, ABAA

Grand Rapids , 1871 . Letter. Very good. 4p. (3p of Mr. Harriman, 1p. from Mrs. Harriman writing in 'space he has left her') with mailing envelope. He describes the logistics of starting business, borrowing of money, inability to repay recipient until match business takes off, four female employees and need to hire dozen more, etc. 

Washington : Printed by Beverley Tucker, 1955. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. Disbound pamphletm 40p., New York YMCA Inc stamp July 16, 1852

Philadelphia, 1880. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. 20pp in original wrappers, disbound, kerfs visibile, hinge neat and intact.

Philadelphia: Helfestnstein, Lewis and Green, 1875. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 114 pages, with both folding plates (maps) 23 cm. In wraps, with rear cover detached but present, chipping to edges.

Hartford, 1787. Letter. Very good. In the fall of 1785, after Revolutionary War service, Greene and family settled to Mulberry Grove in Chatham County, Georgia, near Savannah, where land had been gifted from the State of Georgia and the Carolinas, yet Nathanael's time there would be short -within one year, Greene was dead. The children's tutor, Phineas Miller, took up the role of plantation manager. It is within this time period that this letter was written, I have sent you the best assortment of garden seeds I am now able to procure - They are from a retailer, who received them fput up, mark'd and warranted from Col. Wadsworth's gardener. [Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth was a friend of General Greenes]. I intended to have had a larger assortment selected by himself but he went out to West Division early this morning with the intention of putting them up this evening, and Capt. Sweet sails today so that I had no alternativebut to get them of the retailer - I have put on board a… Read More

Leuphanae (Hanover, N.H.): Typis Caroli Spear, 1816. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. 25 [1] p., removed, mild to moderate toning and foxing..

Leuphanae (Hanover, N.H.): Typis Caroli Spear, 1810. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. 24p., removed, mild to moderate toning and foxing.. Half-title: Catalogus Universitatis Dartmuthensis. M,DCCC,X.

Detroit, 1922. First Edition. Staplebound. Very good. 24pp, with one and a half of text by Agnes Van Dyke Richardson, the rest dedicated to luxury ads and quarter page photos of the seaon's debutantes Hats, furs, jewels, hosiery, corsets, beauty products and resturants advertisements throughout. 10 1-2" x 16", newspaper forma. t Eleven libraries hold an issue or number of issues, unknown quantity of the Debutante 1922 issue held (

Worcester : Leonard Worcester , 1793. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. 20p., 22cm. Removed, without wraps. Toned mildly throughout, rear leaf darkened with creasing, detached. Charles L. Nichols notes in his American Antiquarian Society publication, 'Some Notes on Isaiah Thomas and his Worcester Imprints' that Leonard Worcester, the minister and printer, has twelve known titles with Isaiah Thomas and eight for IT, etc. Nichols 220. Evans 25447. Many in holdings, including AAS, none found in trade at time of writing.

San Juan , 1948. Letter. Very good. Half sheet printed on two sides for the election of the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico, Luis Munoz Marin . Amigo, cuando estes en la caseta piensa en el porvenir da tus hijos y de Puerto Rico.. y Haz una sola cruz debajo de la Pava.

San Francisco: Southern Pacific Company Passenger Department , 1908. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. Featuring many pages of ads, literature, poetry. Here noted for the Jack London piece that was rejected many times before Sunset's inclusion. Covers show loss, interior complete and unmarred.

Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Society for Internal Improvement; Printed by Joseph R. A. Skerrett, 1826. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. 47pp. in original unprinted wraps. Bits of loss at corner tips, closed tear 1/4 inch along top edge, through all pages, not affecting text. An important pamphlet containing the original instructions given to Strickland for his historic mission to Britain. The Society's instructions list the precise details wanted on British techniques in railway, canal, bridge and road construction, as well as their methods of iron and steel manufacture. Strickland's work was of major importance in opening the way for U.S. entry into the Industrial Revolution.

Norwood, Pennsylvania, 1905. Card. Very good. Lists athletic sports and games to be played at Prospect Park, parade route with streets and songs played at evening band concert. Fireworks by Masten and Wells. Textured paper printed in deep blue, with dragon emblem.

Harrisburg: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Internal Affairs, 1938. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. 82pp in wrappers, with intact and neat spine.

City Point, Virginia , 1865. First Edition. Letter. Very good. Orders for cessation of trade, delivery of goods and supplies passing into the Eastern Shore.

Boston: George E. Littlefield , 1884. First Edition. Wraps. Good. 28p, in original salmon wraps, light wear and softening, intact, uncut.

Harrisburg : Printed by Boas and Coplan , 1839. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 10pp stitched, disbound pamphlet, trimmed. Mild foxing. Five in holdings (three by Boas and Coplan).

Cooperstown, New York , 1928. Letter. Very good. Yes, let us, Jim, young James think onSilient -there- toward the setting sun! No furious Germans charge faced heNor crossed the broad and dangerous sea But dear is he still to you and me Who died to save our land countrie! WFM August 19th, 1928Morgan, 1895-1970, graduated from Yale in 1917, served in the Army during World War I, and was a sugar executive in Cuba during the 1920's.

Baltimore : Printed for the Society by John D. Toy, corner of Market and St. Paul Streets , 1849. First Edition. Wraps. Good. 32p. in original printed wraps. Ramsay McHenry ownership in ink as well as blind embossed A. Hyatt, Portobello, Maryland. McHenry was the first grandson of Fort McHenry namesake James McHenry, a Revolutionary War veteran who served as a personal secretary to General George Washington and as the nation’s first Secretary of War. Howes H227. A bit of foxiing, not removed.

Utica: Roberts, printer, 1858. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. 71pp., including Students and Trustees and Faculty of Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 1858. Disbound, with corner loss, two page tips of appendix.