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Vista, Calif: The author, 1967. First edition. Publisher's wrappers, 160 pp., 18 cm., illustrated. Near fine. Jones's memoir of his travels around the U.S. for more than 30 years, preaching non-discrimination, promoting civil rights and peace. He was frequently arrested and imprisoned, at one time held two months for eating in a Black restaurant, and another time eight months for attempting to integrate a Georgia church. His was the first case of an American persecuted for his political beliefs to be taken up by the newly-founded Amnesty International (see Peter Benenson, "Persecution 1961", Penguin Books 1961). "Appearing at the [Pasadena Friendship Baptist] church on July 12, 1965, [Martin Luther King Jr.] also seized a rare opportunity to meet a fellow crusader in the civil rights movement—the Rev. Ashton Jones of San Gabriel, who was associate pastor at the People's Independent Church of Christ in Los Angeles. Like King, Jones was a native of Georgia, but unlike King, he was white. Born in… Read More

Washington: Byron S. Adams, 1909. First edition. Two volumes, viii, 731;xii, 311 maps. Green buckram,very good, War Dept. Document No, 324.

Declining an invitation to lecture at the Dover, N.H. Lyceum. 12 lines, excellent condition.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1946. Dean, Mallette. Small folio, cloth backed boards, usual offset to endpapers, fine copy , one of 280 printed by the Grabhorn Press. Cover design, initials and decorations by Mallette Dean.

Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1796. First edition. Original sheep, with leather label, rubbed, front hinge cracked but cords holding, light browning. A graduate of Yale College, Strong was Pastor of the North Presbyterian Church in Hartford, and editor of the Hartford Selection, a popular and influential hymnal. Evans 31246.

Sheet size 10 1/4 inches x 14 inches, fully margined beyond the plate mark, except the bottom edge, which is trimmed to the plate mark, a few tiny worm holes toward the right margin and lower left. The drawing has been attributed to Richard Brookshaw and the German engraver Johann Elias Haid made his own mezzotint from the same drawing.

Lynn, Mass: Published by Dr Asa G. Eddy, 1881. Third edition revised. Two volumes, original green cloth, gilt. Extremities rubbed (v. 1 more than v. 2) but a very good copy, internally fresh. Pencil ownership signature of Elizabeth F. Williamson. This scarce third edition contains a chapter titled "Demonology," (greatly expanded from the second edition) in which the author criticizes mesmerism, after the famous "Witchcraft" lawsuit brought against one of her former followers.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First edition. Inscribed by the author to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Original cloth, spotted, worn at extremities. With the bookplate of W. Alfred Cave, Rector of St. Mary's Episcopal in Nebraska City, Iowa, who (according to an article in the Circleville, Iowa Herald, for March 7, 1929, which describes this book), possessed a private library of over 6000 volumes. War-Lyrics includes his best poems, "The River Fight" and "The Bay Fight" which deal with the naval actions at New Orleans and Mobile Bay. Stowe herself wrote of Brownell "We regret that the limits of our sketches do not allow us to do justice to those wonderful, inspiring, romantic scenes by which our navy gained possession of New Orleans and Mobile. But if one wants to read them in poetry, terse and vivid, with all the fire of poetry and all the explicitness of prose, we beg them to read the ‘River Fight,' and ‘Bay Fight,' of Henry Brownell," (Stowe, "Men of Our Times" 1868). And Thomas Bailey… Read More