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8vo. 2 pages, approximately 150 words. "Feeling a deep interest in those who have so nobly sacrificed all for the defense of our glorious country, and seeing your brief advertisement in one of our daily papers, I thought I would avail myself of the opportunity of helping one brave soldier while away a few moments of his tedious camp life." Amy later requests a carte-de-visite and a reply. Folded (small hole at fold corner).
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Offering sympathy and hope to a Union soldier, in an autograph letter, signed [with her last initial only] 22 April 1864 from Chelsea, Massachusetts, to "Sir."
by H., Amy L.
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MY WIFE SHALL BE A LADY. A THREE ACT ROMANTIC DRAMA OF THE PIKES PEAK GOLD RUSH OF 1858-59
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1960. Unpublished typescript; 77pp. With author's signed entry form submitting it, plus manuscript sheet music for three different songs to accompany the play.
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LAND OF THE BRAVE & THE FLEA
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Fifteen Minute Radio Script. Unpublished typescript; 9pp. Plus one copy of an unpublished article on THE HUMAN FLEA--PULEX IRRITANS.
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HEROES OF TIME PICKLED IN RHYME. A BOOK OF LIGHT VERSE
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Unpublished typescript; no pagination. Including a page of drawings, being "suggestions for the professional illustrator." Very good.
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LAND OF THE BRAVE & THE FLEA
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Fifteen Minute Radio Script. Unpublished typescript; 9pp. Heavily annotated & rewritten in pencil.
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Broken Hand: The Life Story of Thomas Fitzpatrick, Chief of the Mountain Men
by Hafen, LeRoy R., and W.J. Ghent
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Denver, CO: Old West Publishing Co, 1931. First edition. 8vo. vii, 316 pp. Illustrated from photographs, old prints, and paintings, plates, portraits, double-page map. Fitzpatrick (1799-1854), trapper, trailblazer, and head of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, discovered South Pass, Wyoming (with Jedediah Smith), led the first two emigrant trains to Oregon, guided John C. Fremont and Philip Kearney, and helped negotiate the Fort Laramie treaty of 1851 (cf. Wikipedia). Howes H-10. Owner's name, else very good. Original gilt-stamped green cloth. (#8139).
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RECOLLECTIONS OF A HANDCART PIONEER OF 1860, with some account of frontier life in Utah and Nevada. St
by HAFEN, Mary Ann
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George, UT: Privately printed for the author's descendants, 1980. Second edition, with added material (first published in 1938). Small 8vo. 153 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, portraits, facsimiles. Gilt-stamped green cloth. Very good.
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THE GREAT REPUBLIC: ALLEGORY AND TABLEAUX: REVISED AND RE-MODELED EXPRESSLY FOR J. M. HAGER'S GRAND CENTENNIAL ENTERTAINMENTS. [cover title]
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(New York): np, 1873. Revised edition (this version first published in 1870). 16mo. [3]-25, (1, ad) pp.; verso of front wrapper and rear wrapper print ads for Steinway & Sons. OCLC: "Hager, originally a singer, conducted large voice classes in New York and supervised his students in concerts. He came to specialize in presentations of this musical allegory, at first titled "The Great Rebellion, written in 1863 by Henry Morford. Re-written by Joseph W. Miller and renamed "The Great Republic," its themes are reunion, reconstruction, nationalism, and post-Civil War expansion. Hager continued to produce the work through 1885, recruiting more numerous bodies of singers, including an entire student body, in one instance, from Flushing, New York" (Cf. George C.D. Odell's Annals of the New York Stage, v. 6-13). OCLC locates five copies of this edition (American Antiquarian Society, Harvard, Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Brown, SMU). Very good. Original printed wrappers. (7150).
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Memoirs of the War of Secession. From the original manuscripts of Johnson Hagood, Brigadier-General, C.S.A. I. Hagood's 1st 12 Months, S.C.V. II. Hagood's Brigade. [Edited by E.R. Brooks.]
by Hagood, Johnson
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Columbia, SC: State Co, 1910. First edition. 8vo. (10), [9]-496 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author, maps, one folding. Hagood (1829-1898), a native of Barnwell, was elected colonel of the 1st S.C. Volunteers as the war began, served at Fort Sumter and the first battle at Manassas and in his home state, before returning to Virginia for the 1864 battles around Richmond to Petersburg; he served as governor of South Carolina, 1880-1882. Nevins I, p. 98: "As much a biography as an autobiography; Gen. Hagood's account of service in South Carolina and Virginia is heavily padded with official and relatively unimportant correspondence." Dornbusch III, 1192. Not in Nicholson. Very good. Original green cloth, gilt spine title. (9975).
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Bright Waters, Bright Fish: An Examination of Angling in Canada
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Vancouver and Portland: Douglas & McIntyre and Timber Press, in association with the British Columbia Wildlife Federation, 1980. First edition. 4to. 142, (1) pp. Illustrated from photographs, color plates. Sporting book author Keith Russell's copy, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Fine. Tan boards, color illustrated dust jacket. (8765).
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The Creek War of 1813 and 1814
by Halbert, Henry S., and Timothy H. Ball
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Chicago, IL, [and] Montgomery, AL: Donohue & Henneberry [and] White, Woodruff, and Fowler, 1895. First edition. 8vo. 329, (3) pp. Illustrations from wood engravings, plates, portrait plates of the authors, maps, one folding, plans. The war ended in August, 1814, when Gen. Andrew Jackson forced the Creek Confederacy to cede over 20 million acres of land in Alabama and Georgia. With the ownership signature "A.W. Halbert / Starkville, Miss." on the front endpaper. Howes H-28: "Careful and detailed monograph on Alabama's last border war." Hinges staring, a good copy, but much better than usually encountered. Original plum cloth (flecked), gilt spine title (dull), floral endpapers. (9112).
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VALEDICTORY LETTER TO THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
by Hale, Benj[amin]
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[Hanover, NH]: np, 1835. First edition. Stitched sheets, 18.5 x 11 cm. 24 pp. Ink inscription on front cover: "Presented by Mellen Chamberlain." Chamberlain was a graduate of Dartmouth, a lawyer, historian and librarian. He was head librarian at Boston Public Library for over 10 years. Hale taught for eight years at Dartmouth until his job was abolished. This "letter" to the trustees, was composed by Hale upon his departure. "One of the outstanding injustices in the history of American academic freedom had occurred in his unwarranted dismissal by the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees. In 1828 he had been ordained in the Episcopalian ministry, and two years later he began to hold services in his home at Hanover on Sunday evenings. This custom perturbed the Congregational ministers of the region, and they ultimately brought pressure to bear on the college administration to force Hale's removal. This the college fathers accomplished not by removing Hale from his job but by abolishing the job itself.…
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HISTORY AND MYSTERY OF THE KANAWHA VALLEY. A PAPER READ BEFORE THE WEST VIRGINIA HISTORICAL AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY... January 19th, 1897
by Hale, Dr. J.P.
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Charleston [WV]: published by the W. Va. Historical and Antiquarian Society; Butler Printing Co, 1897. Black lettered grey paperwraps (edge chipped). 8vo.; 18 pp. One plate. Research into the original inhabitants of the valley. A good copy.
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THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
by HALE, Edward Everett
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Boston, (MA): Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition, first issue without the publisher's announcement slip tipped in. 12mo. 23, [1]pp. Soiled terracotta printed wrapper with some old staining to wrapper and title page, and chipping to edges and short splits at spine. "The intended immediate purpose of 'The Man Without a Country' was to influence an impending election. It's larger, long-continued service as a rarely effectual incentive to patriotism was unforeseen." DAB.
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TRANS-ALLEGHENY PIONEERS
by Hale, John P.
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Cincinnati, OH: Graphic Press, 1886. 12mo. 330pp. First edition. Maps & plates. Very good, bright. HOWES H32.
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Four Valiant Years in the Lower Shenandoah Valley, 1861-1865
by HALE, Laura Virginia
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Strasburg, VA: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1968. First edition, 1/300 copies. 4to. (4), ii, 554 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, maps, portraits, facsimiles of old documents and wood engravings, etc.; publisher's prospectus/order handbill laid in. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. The conflict in the Shenandoah Valley as far south as Lexington, "covering week by week, the military, political, economic, and domestic phases of the war ... told with the help of letters, memoirs, and diaries (many heretofore unpublished)." Very good. Gilt-stamped red cloth. (#4725).
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THE AMERICAN SYSTEM; OR, THE EFFECTS OF HIGH DUTIES ON IMPORTS, DESIGNED FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF DOMESTIC INDUSTRY; WITH REMARKS ON THE LATE ANNUAL TREASURY REPORT
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Boston: From Nathan Hale's Press, 1828. 8vo. 86 pp. Disbound pamphlet. Very good. First edition. An essay on the injurious effects of protectionism. Sabin 29648.
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The XIT Ranch of Texas and the Early Days of the Llano Estacado
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Chicago, (IL): Lakeside Press, 1929. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 261 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, portraits, maps, one folding. Howes H-39. Graff 1718: "The work was suppressed by court injunction." Jenkins Basic Texas Books 82: "Vivid picture of every aspect of life on a big ranch." Adams Herd 969: "One of the best books about a Texas Ranch." Adams Six-Guns 894: "It contains some material on outlaws, brand blotters, and cattle rustlers." Reese Six-Score 54: "Foundation work on ranching in the Panhandle, and an important ranch history." Dykes Range Country 20. Vandale 82. Original gilt-stamped decorated green cloth. (#8114).
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Earl Vandale on the Trail of Texas Books
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Canyon, TX: Palo Duro Press, 1965. First edition, 1/500 copies designed and printed by Carl Herzog. 8vo. 44 pp. Illustrated with plates, portrait frontispiece, title page facsimiles; 4-page prospectus laid in. Biography and bibliographical tales centering around a collector of Texana. "Wright Howes's simple appraisal [after his death in 1952]: 'He was one of the great natural book collectors of our time.' The Vandale Collection at Austin, Texas, is ample proof, as well as a fitting monument to his memory." Very good. Gilt-stamped rust cloth. (#8216).
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Dry Fly Fishing in Theory and Practice. With 26 plates
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Reading, England: Barry Shurlock, 1973. First edition thus, 1/100 copies (this #94) of the de luxe edition (a reprint of the 1889 original). 8vo. xii, 288 pp. Illustrated, color plates. "It was Halford's outstanding achievement that he completed successfully the laborious task of classifying and describing the life histories of aquatic insects and relating them to artificial flies" (introduction to this edition). Very good. Black cloth, gilt spine title, publisher's illustrated slipcase.
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