Search Results: American History from Peter Austern & Co. Books & Ephemera / Brooklyn Books

Handwritten. Good. No Binding. 1864. HANDWRITTEN 1st DRAFT OF A RESOLUTION TO RAISE FUNDS (by the national delegates to the Democratic Convention) for the family of Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois (the Democratic presidential candidate of the famous 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates). Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, statesman and patriot, ran against Abraham Lincoln in the historic 1858 Presidential election. Douglas died suddenly in June, 1861, and at the Democratic National Convention of 1864, the first after Douglas died, a resolution was adopted to raise charitable funds for his family. The final resolution was presented to Douglas's widow and children, who were 'left in comparative indigence by the sudden decease of their supporter'. This initial draft to benefit the widow and children of Stephen A. Douglas - had $2000 commited thus far [as written on reverse of sheet]. The first subscriber was August Belmont Sr., a German-American financier, diplomat, politician and party chairman of… Read More

NY: Signet , 1961. Book. Very Good. Mass Market Paperback. Signed by Author(s). 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Signet #P2709 [ii], 157, [3] pp., later printing. Very good condition with lite 'dog ears' at the corners o the first several pages. The author's best-known work, in which he darkened his skin and traveled the Deep South; an influential civil rights book. Uncommon signed. Housed in a custom made box..

NY: Doubleday, 1969. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾. 237 pp. Decorated endpapers. Signed on a tipped in White House carte-de-visite. the story begins with his Kansas boyhood, service in the Army, rise to General in WW II, his presidency and major events, and then home to Gettysburg..

Billings, Montana: Charles G. Du Bois, 1954. Book. Very Good. Soft cover.

Photographic Image. Good. No Binding. 1917-27. (107) b&w Photos. Disbound sheets, housed in a protective, custom-made box, 7"x10"; leaves have been extensively repaired. 'Country Folks & Life on the Southern Plains'-- in the years prior to the Depression & Dust Bowl, photos of rural Oklahoma, Arkansas & Missouri show folks having good times in the back-woods and countryside. Names of folks inscribed in ink: 'Taggart, Mitchell, Osborne, Brown, Linthicum'. (107) PHOTOS from 1917-1927 -- People in homemade, rakish ready-made clothes/ men wear fedoras/ old-time motor cars/ folks doing manual labor/ wheel carts, hand-drawn wells, oil wells/ fishing/ farms/ rural byways/ small town life/ nature shots- mountain-top at Little Rock/ men in WW1 uniforms/ kids & summer fun/ dogs/ water-hole by small dam/ ladies on factory stairs. Domestic s/h $15..

Photographic Image. Very Good. No Binding. c1917. A TEXAS FAMILY'S PHOTO ALBUM. (200+) PHOTOS-- Album of 47 leaves, approx. 7"x 11". Most snaps: 3"x5" & 2.5"x3.5". Photo album of life in early 20th century-- group and individual snapshots of people brimming with optimism in 1917 Texas, in the San Antonio-Kerrville vicinity-- photos show working men and women (tradesmen, nurses, technicians, company workers) in groups or individual pics... well-dressed people with cars, backyards, and time for leisure.... folks mug for the camera, take pictures of each other at home and away. Snapshots of workers, families, friendships, happy days... an optimistic time in American life. A smattering of missing photographs, else pages are quite full. Housed in custom-box. All pages have separated evenly from the binding..