Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1894. Third Edition. Third edition of James's study of the history and ethnology of the Alaskan people through poetry. Octavo (19.5cm); burgundy cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; all edges gilt; iv,410,[2]pp; illus. Pinpoint wear to spine ends, tiny..... More
Boston: D.L. Guernsey, Publisher, 1882. First Edition Thus. "Almost anyone who encountered Lincoln in a significant way felt compelled sooner or later to tell about it, often less with a view to adding to the historical record than to caressing Lincoln's memory. As the supply and demand for reminiscences fed..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.25cm); brown cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; xii,369,[3]pp, with portrait frontispiece of the author and 44 photographic plates. Contemporary (Christmas, 1905) holograph signature of Arthur R. Fahnestock on..... More
Richmond: R.F. Walker, 1876. First Edition. Pamphlet chiefly comprised of an address to the General Assembly by James L. Kemper (1823-1895), former Confederate General, Conservative Party member, and Governor of Virginia from 1874-1878. An appendix contains various letters to Kemper from various residents, his responses to them, and his proclamation..... More
Weimar: Gebrüdern Gädicke, 1799. First Edition. Uncommon volume by Hunnius (1765-1807, an Armenian physician living in Weimar), and among the earliest titles sold by Salomon Henkel. Although the famous Henkel Press did not arrive in New Market, Virginia until 1805, there is reason to believe that some printing was being..... More