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Read’Em Again Books, ABAA Kurt and Gail Sanftleben Catalog 16-2 Summer - Fall of 2016 Sketch of the Atlanta Barracks Prison from Item 29 – An Archive of Material Documenting the Ordeal of a Conscripted Alabama Unionist Who Was Sentenced to Death by a Confederate Army Court-Martial - 1857-1873. Click on any title or catalog picture for more information and larger images. Read’Em Again Books – Catalog 16-2 – Summer-Fall of 2016 Terms of Sale If you have questions about anything you see in this catalog, please contact us at [email protected]. Prices quoted in the catalog are in U.S dollars. When applicable, we must charge sales tax for orders coming from or shipped to addresses in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Standard domestic shipping is at no charge. International shipping varies, but is usually around $30.00 for the first item. All shipments are insured. Reciprocal trade discounts are extended. Established customers and institutions may be invoiced; all others are asked to prepay. 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Regards, Kurt and Gail __________________________ Kurt and Gail Sanftleben Montclair, VA 22025 Email: [email protected] Phone: 703-580-6946 Website: read-em-again.com Member ABAA and ILAB Catalog Number Index By Location By Topic Alabama: 29, 38, 53 Advertising: 1-9 Printing: 1 Arkansas: 43 African-Americana: 10-14 Racism: 14 California: 19 Agriculture: 15 Radicals & Reactionaries: 14, 24, 42 Colorado: 39 Alcohol & Cocktails: 6, 16 Railroads: 2, 6, 56, 57 Georgia: 5, 14, 30, 46, 53 Art: 17 Roycrofters: 58 Illinois: 2, 7, 9, 34, 43 Anti-Semitism: 17 Rubber: 3 Indiana: 2, 34, 43 Aviation: 19-21 Shakespeare: 37 Iowa: 2 Biography: 22-24 Sports: 6, 48 Kentucky: 27, 43 Bookselling: 5 Travel: 2, 4, 34, 39, 43, 47, 59 Louisiana: 22, 41, 43 Maine: 57 Candy: 9 Water Wars: 57 Women & Girls: 9, 17, 24, 27, 45, Maryland: 32 Children’s: 17, 25-27 49, 52, 55, 60 Massachusetts: 1, 3, 8, 20, 39, 45, Colonial America: 28 Michigan: 54 Confederate States of America: 5, Mississippi: 43 15, 22, 27, 29-31 Missouri: 2, 6, 29, 43 Construction: 32 Nebraska: 2 Disabilities: 24 New Mexico: 12 Dolls: 26 New York: 33, 55, 58 Education: 11, 20 North Carolina: 60 Executions: 29, 33 Ohio: 40, 43, 56, 57 Expositions & Fairs: 34 Oklahoma: 52 Film: 9 Pennsylvania: 4, 32, 43, 55 Food & Cooking: 35 South Carolina: 44 Tennessee: 2, 41, 43, 53 German-Americana: 6 Texas: 15, 31 Hunting: 36 Virginia: 33 Illustrated: 17-18, 25-26, 28, Washington: 52 33, 35, 37, 58 Washington, DC: 11 Immigration: 4 West Virginia: 43 Imperialism: 21 Wisconsin: 36 Jewelry: 8 Wyoming: 2 Labor: 38-42 Maps: 4, 28, 43 The Original Colonies: 28, 47 Maritime: 4, 43, 44 The South: 13, 27, 30 Medicine: 39, 44-46 Nationwide: 59 Military & War: 11-12, 13, 15, 21- 23, 27, 29-31, 33, 35, 39, 44-45, China: 48 47-51, 53 France: 49 Mining: 38 Germany: 17, 26, 50 Music: 10, 30, 40 Great Britain: 4, 16, 35 National Parks: 59 Haiti: 21 Ireland: 35 Native Americans: 52-53 Russia: 35 Original Art: 12, 32 Sweden: 17 Philately: 1, 3, 5, 33, 39-42, 44 Vietnam: 51 Photography: 8 Politics: 7, 13, 15, 42, 53-54 Popular Culture: 9, 34 Pottery & Ceramics: 55 1. [ADVERTISING] [PHILATELY] [PRINTING] Multi-Color Illustrated Billhead for Morrill’s Printing House with U.S. Revenue Stamp. Boston: 1867. This very attractive billhead is 7” x 8.5” and printed in red, green and black on light gray faux moiré paper. The primary illustration features four wingless putti; one setting type, two operating a wood-frame press, and one carrying copy. A smaller vignette shows a then-modern printing press. An orange 2 cent Internal Revenue stamp (Scott R15) is affixed to the document. $150.00 #8534 2. [ADVERTISING] [RAILROADS] [TRAVEL] Turner’s Guide from the Lakes to the Rocky Mountains, . also, from Missouri Valley, . including a Historical and Statistical Account of the Railroads of the Country, Towns and Cities along the Route and Notices of the Connecting Roads and Routes by T.G and C.E. Turner Chicago: Spalding and LaMontes, 1868. Approximately 5.5” x 8.5”. 288 pages, about 50 of which are advertisements. Full-page color advertisement of “The Celebrated Studebaker Wagon” inserted between pages 4 and 5 (as called for by Graff 4251). Brown endpapers. Publisher’s green cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine; page edges stained red. Complete. Sound binding with intact hinges. Worn, wrinkled, and soiled endpapers with owner’s name in pencil. Generally clean pages with some toning at the edges. Some wear to the cover, heaviest at spine ends. This guide focuses on routes west to the Rockies from Cleveland and Chicago via railroads (Cleveland and Toledo, Michigan Southern and Northwestern Indiana, Chicago and North- Western, Union Pacific, and Pacific and Sioux City) and Missouri River steamboats (North-West Transportation Company). Includes chapters on the Discoveries and Early Exploration of the West, Railroads and their Histories, Western Manufactures, and Capabilities of the West in addition to detailed travel tips, regional descriptions, and some route guidance from Cleveland to Chicago, Chicago to the Missouri, The Missouri to the Mountains, and within the Missouri Valley. It contains advertisements for businesses located in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, and Wyoming Relatively scarce. As of 2016, two other copies are for sale in the trade. Only one auction sale is listed at ABPC and the Rare Book Hub. OCLC shows six examples are held in institutional collections. $600 #8573 SOLD 3. [ADVERTISING] [PHILATELY] [RUBBER] Illustrated Billhead for Henry A. Hall India Rubber and Gutta Percha Goods with U.S. Revenue Stamp. Boston: 1869. This very attractive billhead is 5.5” x 8.5” and printed in black. The terrific illustration features two men in a downpour. One very unhappy man is dressed in street clothes and top-hat getting drenched by rain as the wind rips apart his umbrella. The other man remains content wearing rubber raincoat, pants, and hat. A brown 2 cent Internal Revenue stamp (probably an unstable color variant of Scott R15) is affixed to the document. $100.00 #8536 4. [ADVERTISING] [IMMIGRATION] [MARITIME] [TRAVEL] Advertising Brochure for the America Line of Mail Steamers. Philadelphia: Circa 1880. The brochure measures 6” x 13” unfolded and is printed in red and blue on buff paper. A U.S. flag is prominently displayed on the front cover, and a map showing connecting routes from Liverpool to various European ports is featured on the inside pages. The advertisement lists the company’s ships as the Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Lord Clive, Lord Gough, and British Crown; all were built between 1872 and 1879. The American Line was a shipping company founded in 1871 and based in Philadelphia. It began as part of the Pennsylvania Railroad, although the railroad left the ship business soon after founding the company. The line ran its ships between the United States ports of Philadelphia and New York City and the British ports of Liverpool and Southampton. During its early years, the company specialized in immigration transport and touted a pre-paid service that would conveniently allow someone to purchase one ticket “to bring friends from their homes in the Old Country [primarily Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark] to any part of the United States or Canada.” This brochure was distributed by C. H. Hassenplug, a prominent Lewisburg, Pennsylvania attorney during the 1870s and 1880s. $150.00 #8532 5. [ADVERTISING] [BOOKSELLING] [CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA] [PHILATELY] Pane of 70 “Altered Plate” Confederate 10-cent Jefferson Davis stamps with an advertisement for “The Old Book Store” printed on the reverse. Atlanta: The Old Book Shop, circa 1885. Circa 1885. This pane of Confederate stamp reprints is from an altered plate of the 1862 5-cent Jefferson Davis stamp (see the note after Scott #s 6-7). Both the stamps and the advertisement are nicely centered. The sheet was previously folded and has a few small splits along some of the folds. There are several small pieces of what appear to be very thin, transparent, tissue or archival tape reinforcing two folds and the margin of the stamp side of the sheet. There has been considerable discussion about the confusion surrounding these altered plate stamps (see The American Philatelist 1888-1889 volumes 3 and 5, Dietz’s The Confederate States Post-Office Department: Its Stamps & Stationery published in 1950, Easton's The De La Rue History of British & Foreign Postage Stamps 1855 to 1901 published in 1958, Bennet’s “The Stamp That Never Was" in the November 1982 issue of The American Philatelist, and “The 10¢ Typographed Altered Plate of the Confederate States of America” by Leonard H.