Chicago: (1868). Newspaper format, 2 8-page issues. 39 x 55 cm. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Horizontal crease on both issues where folded. Last leaf detached on Nov. 5 issue. Democrats nominated Horatio Setmour, a former Governor of New York while the Republicans nominated Ulysses Grant, the Northern military..... More

Philadelphia: King & Baird, Printers, 1864. 2nd ed. Paperback. 43p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Minor cover spotting. Upper right corner darkened on a few leaves, the darkest of which is also clipped at the tip. Moderate vertical crease. Pictorial image of the school on the front cover. The school..... More

Rome, GA: Fletcher Smith, Printer, [1892]. Broadsheet. 21cm. x 20cm. Printed on both sides on thin pink paper. Minor chipping and wear along page edges. One side is devoted to claims under the newly enacted Indian War Soldiers' Pension Bill under which qualified soldiers or their widows could receive a...... More

Philadelphia: Printed for Gratuitous Distribution, n.d. [1863]. Hardcover. 8p. Recent marbled boards. Original wrapper bound in. 23cm. The first six pages of this item also appeared separately in 1863 as an eight-page pamphlet titled "General Washington and General Jackson on Negro Soldiers." Banks' statement and Boker's poem were added to..... More

Philadelphia: H. C. Baird, 1863. 1st ed. Paperback. 8p. No separate wrapper. 23cm. Unevenly browned. Issued to urge the use of African American soldiers in the Union army. More

New York: Board of Publication of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, (c. 1863). 1st ed. Hardcover. 2 plates (including frontis portrait of the deceased), 216p. Recent quarterbinding. 15cm. A father's loving memoir full of Christian sentiment for a son who sickened and died in Beaufort, South Carolina while serving as..... More

Philadelphia: Printed for Gratuitous Distribution, 1863. 1st ed. Paperback. 24o. Softcover pamphlet in original wrapper. 24cm. Former owner's name on front cover which is a bit ragged along right edge. Ex lib. ("Brookline Public Library" stamps or embossed (or both) on cover, title-page and one other leaf). Contents sound. A...... More

Baltimore: N. Murray, Pulication Agent, Johns Hopkins University, 1887. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, index, 176, (10)p. Original green cloth. 24cm. Cover slightly scuffed. A mob tried to prevent the 6th Massachusetts Militia from passing through the streets of Baltimore to the railroad station on their way to Washington. Four members..... More

2 1/2 page Letter (on a singled lightly-ruled 8 x 10 inch sheet folded to form four pages). Later folds, probably for mailing in a small envelope. Austin writes that he wants to attend the Free School for applicants seeking commands in colored troops. He asks Benjamin to send him..... More

Single sheet folded to form four pages, 20 x 26 cm., as folded. Written in a neat hand although there were quite a few words that we didn't decipher. Corey devotes the first three pages of this letter to reporting on the unpleasant voyage to New Orleans which featured two..... More

New York: Ledyard Bill, 1868. Revised ed. Hardcover. Original green cloth. Covers bright but with significant spotting which is heaviest around the edges of both covers and at base of backstrip. Name penciled on first blank. Internally clean and tight. More

Buffalo: Peter Paul Book Co., 1898. Hardcover. 391p. Cloth-backed boards. 19cm. Edges rubbed. Minor cover soiling. A novel. More

4 unnumbered pages on a now-folded single sheet of blue-toned paper. Dated April 5, 1863. 23 x 18 cm. Clear and readable. Return address at head of letter: Headquarters 176 Regt. PA MA, Beaufort, S.C. April 5, 1863. We don't know for certain whether Dreher was an officer in the..... More