Read’Em Again Books, ABAA Kurt and Gail Sanftleben Catalog 16-2 Summer - Fall of 2016

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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 : 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 : 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. : 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. Hartmann in Issue 192 of The Chronicle of the U.S. Classic Postal Issues published in 2001.) This pane of stamps was used as a broadsheet advertisement for W. B. Burke, the owner of The Old Book Shop in Atlanta, Georgia, circa 1885. In his advertisement, Burke bills himself as “The Napoleon of the Book Trade South” (J. B. Lippincott having already claimed the sobriquet, “The Napoleon of the Book Trade”). Burke claims that the stamps were “printed from the genuine plate – captured at the fall of Atlanta – on Confederate made paper.” While the stamps were printed from a genuine plate (which Hartmann suggests was broken from a sheet of 100 to a sheet of 70 to fit on the handbill-sized paper) it is unconfirmed—but not impossible—that his plate was captured by Union forces at Atlanta. Very scarce. There are references to partial-sheet examples from this reprint having been in the collections of George B. Sloan and August Dietz. OCLC records no copies, and auction meta-sites show only three results ($250, $584, and $1,000) in the last fifty years all of which were for ragged examples in far worse condition than this.

$850.00 #8530

6. [ADVERTISING] [ALCOHOL & COCKTAILS] [GERMAN-AMERICANA] [RAILROADS] [SPORTS] 1897 North American Gymnastic Union (Turnerbund) Festival Program with Full-Color Anheuser-Busch Advertising. St. Louis: Western Engraving Co., 1897.

24-page Programme: 27th National Festival of the N. A. Gymnastic Union. Turnerbund. May 6, 7, 8, 9, 1897. St. Louis, Mo. Complete. Full-color front cover shows a gowned woman holding a barbell in her left hand while raising a champion’s laurel wreath with her right. A full-color advertisement for Anheuser-Busch’s “Malt Nutrine, the King of Tonics,” features a red-sashed turner standing in front of the famous eagle logo.

The program contains an essay about the origin and history of the turnverein movement and a detailed schedule of events in both English and German. In addition to Malt Nurtrine, there are full- page advertisements for Lemp’s Brewery (later the Falstaff Brewing Company), the Union Trust Company, Faust Blend Coffee, and the American Brewing Company (A.B.C. Beer). A three-page section is devoted to Meramec Highlands, an impressive park-resort, which was located in what is now Kirkwood, Missouri, and served by the St. Louis-San Francisco (Frisco) Railway.

In 1895, Anheuser-Busch began producing a low-alcohol drink named Malt-Nutrine, which it billed as “a sparkling non-intoxicant” health drink designed to produce “more flesh and greater strength.” Malt Nutrine was “a highly concentrated liquid extract of malt and hops” that contained only 1.99% alcohol and was often prescribed by physicians for consumptives and nursing women.

$250 #8570 SOLD

7. [ADVERTISING] [POLITICS] The Fight is on! We are ready for you. Campaign Uniforms, Torches, and Equipments [William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan 1896 Presidential Campaign Catalog]. Unknown location and publisher, (1971 Reprint). Originally Chicago: G. F. Foster, Son & Co., 1896.

Complete with 52 pages including the orange-red card wrapper. Approximately 7.5” x 5”. Light wear with small half-inch tear to rear wrapper and last leaf. A fascinating collection of McKinley-Bryan turn-of-the-century campaign supplies. The Foster Company was a well-established manufacturer of uniforms and paraphernalia for bands, fire companies, militias, and fraternal organizations. This special catalog for the 1896 presidential election includes a wide variety of uniforms, head wear, gauntlets, torches, campaign lanterns, umbrellas, ribbons, badges, buttons, bunting, flags, banners, swords, fireworks, and more. Almost all items are illustrated. This is a reprint but quite scarce none the less. As of 2016, OCLC shows only two institutions with examples of the reprint and no holdings of the original. $50 #8561

8. [ADVERTISING] [PHOTOGRAPHY] [JEWELRY] Photographic Jewelry Broadsheet Catalog (Catalog No. 10). Boston: The G. A. Shuler Photographic Company, circa 1900.

Bi-folium broadsheet. Approximately 15.5” x 19” unfolded. Minor wear: tiny tear on the rear leaf and rubbing along a horizontal storage fold.

This attractive large broadsheet catalog features a two-page display of 58 different buttons, pins, cufflinks, chatelains (sic), stick-pins, charms, and lockets offered for sale by the G. A. Shuler Photographic Company of Boston. The catalog also includes information about the company (which claimed to have been “the oldest Photo Button Company in this country”), the quality of the jewelry, instructions for ordering, and a prospectus for potential agents. Shuler advertised heavily in city newspapers and national magazines during the first decade of the 20th century.

$200 #8586

9. [ADVERTISING] [CANDY] [FILM] [POPULAR CULTURE] [WOMEN & GIRLS] Memory Scrapbook and Candy Wrapper Collection. Compiled by Bethel “Betty” France. Freeport, Illinois: 1925-1928.

Approximately 220 items mounted in a 110-page, 6”x8” composition notebook by Ms. France while she was an elementary and junior high school student.

The cover has some edge-wear, but the contents are in nice shape; a few of the items are starting to loosen. The owner’s name with a 1928 date in faded ink is on the front cover.

The notebook is packed to the gills with letters, clothing tags, receipts, menus, pamphlets, lottery tickets, magazine and newspaper clippings, postcards, and more. Almost all of the items are captioned with dates and info about how they were obtained.

Bethel collected a fascinating assortment of about 40 different candy wrappers. Many of the brands no longer exist (Pulver Too Choo’s, Base Ball, Captain Kid’s Treasure Chest, Cat-Tails, Chicken Dinner, Circus Smokes, Flat Tire, Lindy Bar, Little Red Hen, Raz-Raz Gum, Snirkles, Turtle Peanut Bar, Walter Johnson’s Golf Game, Zeno Yucca Gum, etc.). Of those that are still with us, some of the candy types are unfamiliar (Baby Ruth Gum, Beech-Nut Butterscotch, Milky Way Vanilla, Wrigley’s Pink P.K., etc.) or have long-out-of-style wrappers (Bit-o-Honey, Hershey’s, Wrigley’s “Peppermint” Gum, etc.).

Among the wide variety of other items in the scrapbook are:

Newspaper advertisements for about 25 movies that she attended (including The Student Prince - Ramon Navarro, Speedy - Harold Lloyd, The Big City - Lon Chaney, 3 Sinners - Paula Negri, Sadie Thompson - Gloria Swanson, The Big Killing – Wallace Beery, Steamboat Bill Jr - Buster Keaton, and Ladies of the Mob - Clara Bow),

A dozen or so colorful, die-cut Bridge tallies (recording scores for Wonk-um, Coolie, Bunko, Five Hundred, etc.),

A flip-book featuring Gilda Gray performing the Moonlight Dance from Aloma and the South Seas,

A program for Sells Floto Circus and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West,

A 1926 Knot-Hole Football Season Ticket for the Northern Illinois High School Conference,

A thick die-cut tag for Red Goose Shoes,

Two red remembrance poppies, and

An advertising pamphlet for Knickernicks underwear.

A terrific 1920s popular culture time-capsule.

$900 #8566 SOLD

10. [AFRICAN-AMERICANA] [MUSIC] Pop Goes the Weasel Songster. Philadelphia, New York, and Baltimore: Fisher & Brother, Circa 1853.

Approximately 3" x 4.25". The pink wrapper features a wood engraving of black men chasing a running weasel with a chicken in its mouth, which is repeated on the title page. Complete with the usual irregular pagination: frontispiece (affixed to the inside of the front cover), title page, 167- 221, 42-44, [2]. Sound binding with 3/4 of the spine covering present. Clean pages. Light wear to cover including small scuff in the front illustration.

One of the earliest American printings of Pop Goes the Weasel, this songster was probably published in 1853 shortly after the British dance/song took America by storm (see Fuld #441 which explains that this songster was probably published in 1853 as the lyrics on page 171 note that the 1853 World's Fair "now whirls.") The frontispiece shows three black men shucking corn.

This songster contains the lyrics to Weasel and 44 other songs, many of which were minstrel staples. Some of the most interesting titles include: Blow de Horn (a song about the cook, "Black Dinah on de dinner-horn," which likely influenced I've Been Working on the Railroad (published fifty years later), The Nigger's Wedding Day (which includes the lyrics "as we both jump'd ober de broom and wed widout any boder."), and Aunt Harriet Beecha Stowe (an anti-abolitionist song about a fugitive slave who after becoming frustrated by finding Ms. Stowe had left the U.S. to "in England make a fuss," implores her to "Don't come back, Aunt Harriet . . . . Go talk against your country, put money in your puss; And when us happy darkies you pity in your prayer, Oh don't forget de white slaves dat's starvin ober dar!").

Fairly scarce. As of 2016 there are no others in the trade and only four auction records in the last eighty years; OCLC shows only ten institutions with physical copies of this songster.

$200 #8544 SOLD

11. [AFRICAN-AMERICANA] [EDUCATION] [MILITARY & WAR] Autographed Letter Signed (ALS) by General O. O. Howard along with a Portrait CDV and Uniform Button. Obtained by J. Frank Knight. Philadelphia: 1872.

The letter, cdv, and button are arranged and matted in an 11” x 12” frame. The letter is written on Howard University stationery and dated Nov. 26, 1872; it reads: “Mr. J. Frank Knight / My Dear Sir / Your kind request is just received and I am pleased to comply / Yours truly / O. O. Howard / Brig. Gen. U.S.A.” A note on the reverse of the frame reads, “Photograph and uniform button sent to great grandpa Frank Knight by General Oliver O. Howard in 1872.” All three items are in nice shape; the button is tarnished. Not examined out of the frame.

O. O. Howard, a career officer who led a corps at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg and commanded the Army of the Tennessee during Sherman’s March to the Sea, is best known today as the Commissioner of the Freedman’s Bureau where he played a major role during the Reconstruction and was in charge of integrating freed slaves into American society. He was one of the principal campaigners to establish a theological and normal school for African-Americans. When Congress finally established such an institute in Washington, DC in 1866, he served as its first president, and the school was soon renamed Howard University in his honor.

$600 #8580

12. [AFRICAN-AMERICANA] [MILITARY & WAR] [ORIGINAL ART] African-American Soldier’s Handwritten Mexican Border Journal: Diary of a Crute Bugler in the Army. Kept by Lance Corporal Edward C. Price. Camp Furlong, New Mexico, 1920.

Approximately 4” x 5.5”. This notebook contains about 140 un- numbered pages including Price’s “dictionary” of army slang. Original art frontispiece and six in-text hand-drawn illustrations of a centipede, Yaqui Indian, and other soldiers. Five additional drawings of more soldiers, four newspaper photographs, and a YMCA envelope front postmarked in Columbus, New Mexico with a Camp Furlong return address are laid in. The rear cover is missing. The worn, soiled, and faded front cover has been neatly reattached. The laid in items show some wear.

This journal was kept by an African-American “crute” (recruit) bugler, Lance Corporal Edward C. Price, assigned to one of the famous Buffalo Soldier units of the U. S. Army—the 24th Infantry Regiment—at the tail-end of the hostilities along the Mexican border. Although Price was an entertaining writer and engaging illustrator, by his own admission he was an abysmal soldier—a drunken, violent, thief who spent the majority of his time avoiding work, womanizing, assaulting others, and smuggling alcohol from Mexico.

The diary is exceptionally entertaining and provides a fascinating window into enlisted life in an African-American infantry unit guarding the Mexican border. Some of its highlights include:

Arrived at Columbus. . . . Time is eleven thirty P.M. . . . Went to camp was given two blankets and sent to an empty barracks to sleep on soft side of board. killed centipede five inches long. . . .

Had breakfast . . . rice garnished with cactus thorns, gravy mixed with lumps of flour as large as dice. Coffee with sand instead of sugar. Bread filled with bugs. Was hungry and ate everything with relish and got seconds. . . .

Stole black necktie went up town was ordered back by M.P. . . . Learned how to skip drill by putting on fatigue clothes and going up town on water wagon. . . . Told Sgt. C. I was a prize fighter and he told me to start training at once. I won’t have any drill.

Everything is sand and mesquite bushes, cactis and adobe huts. The sun shines ten hours a day and no rain. Wild life is beautiful. Jack rabbits, quail, grouse, road runners, rattlesnakes, fer de lances, horned toads, scorpions and gila monsters. . . . lance corporals and 2nd Lieuts are also classed with the lowest of the animal class. . . .

The town is pretty place with everything adobe and frame building and nearly every building is full of bullet holes where Villa raided town in 1916. . . . Visited the Green top house where Villa’s raiders killed fifteen people . . . found three bullets to fit Mauser rifle and broken knife blade went in room where women were killed and slept until supper time. . . . I am now in guard house for hitting a man with pistol, showing insubordination towards an officer. . . .solitary confinement. . . . a beautiful place here underground . . . is cool and nice . . . Smalls slipped me a carton of dopes, candles, books, and matches so . . . I am having a nice time. . . . Went out on detail with prisoners guarded by Emma Gee (machine gunner) who has a record of shooting two men . . . he carries a riot gun and pistol. . . . Met Colonel French this morning. had an interview with him in my office (cell No. 2) and he told Provost Marshall to release me as buglers were scarce and B Co. needed me.

Had fight with Tony Rose got a nice beating. Am going to fight him some other time. . . . Am studying Espanole. Am getting along fine. Can ask for things and curse. . . . I can beat the world. . . .

Went to the Western Front Cabaret and talked to Madam Leon she wanted to sell me a quart of Pulque, but I wouldn’t pay twelve bucks for it. So when she left I stole it. [Bought] 15 cartons of dopes (cigarettes), five pounds of tobacco, nine pipes, and ten pounds of chocolate candy costing me twenty-four dollars and seventy cents. . . . Sold junk and cleared seventeen dollars for myself and ten dollars for the pulque.

Was sent to Carlsbad to bring back prisoners. . . . eight guards escorted sixteen prisoners. All Mexicans from Villa’s detachment. . . . All hardboiled I wish one would run so I could knock him off. I hate Mexican men and love their women. I am half drunk all the time. . . . We can get it right over the line anything Jose Cuervo, Tequila, mescal, pulque, gin, San Miguel, Aguardiente and Canadian Club. . . . A woman uptown I wanted to raise H—l up there in her house and she called me a name I didn’t like so I pinged her on her head with a quart bottle and Sgt. P. hit me with his pistol and I went out for the count. Came to . . . and stole her quart of Jose Cuervo and nine bucks. . . .

C.O. searched my locker and found my six quarts of liquor and confiscated it. Now I must find a way to steal it back. I still have a pint of lemon extract to get drunk with. . . . Stole my liquor back and more besides. . . . Had a fight today with Jose O Jesus a Porto Rican. He pulled a knife on me and I used my pistol on his head. . . . I may get charged again. . . . 1Sgt R--- is trying to find out where I get my liquor. . . . If he knew I was getting it from his wife I guess he would see if I was bulletproof. She buys it from some Mexican and gives it to me. I stand in good.

They started what they call a Death Patrole a mounted detail who shoot first and halt you afterwards. They are trying to break up smuggling over the line. If they do that how am I going to live, why I supply half the town with silk and satin and I even flooded the recruits with Mexican money for good U. S. dinero. what will I do oh my. . . .Must go over the line tonight . . . to trade for liquor. I have enough for ten gallons of tequila. I must make three trips and each one a different way to a different cache. . . . If I can keep from drinking I’ll get there alright. . . .

Am going to call on Senorita Delores . . . a new one who just came over the lines last night. She has no passport but I signed a paper. . . . I got a chance to make good with her. I think she is a “Snow Bird” (dope fiend) she looks it and acts it. If she is I will make her pay me to keep quiet. . . . That damned Mexican girl is a hop head she smokes Marijuana and some other dope. refused to pay me . . . I can’t snitch on anyone but if I find her selling to any jokers in my Co. or Regiment up she goes. . . . Just to think I have been here two months and know the ropes already. . . . I can steal better than Fagan and lie.

Been out on patrol with Denton. Haven’t sighted the enemy yet. They gave us some pigeons to carry messages back to P.C. but we had a nice pigeon roast. Denton cooks a nice meal pigeon stuffed with acorns and cactus shoots.

Drunk as usual today. Just got sober go on guard at 4:30 this P. M. . . . . I am going to get drunk for meanness today. . . . Top kick gave me a good talking but I don’t know what it was because I was all doped up from smoking marijuana. . . .

Was busted today I am now just plain Bugler Edward C. Price. The charges against me are D.D.D. (drunk, dirty, and disorderly), bringing women in camp after night, resisting officers and trying to drive truck. Never again. I am off Jose Cuervo it makes you crazy I am going to stick to tequila and mescal it just makes you drunk. . . .

Smuggled some junk over the line today. I had short armed inspection (penis check for venereal disease). This morning I stole a bottle of Bay Rum and am going to get drunk off it. . . . Am sick again today I think the Bay Rum and Lilac de France made me sick. I shall drink red ink from now on. . . . Just found out our marching compasses are filled with alcohol. Am going to open one up and drink the contents. . . . Just sold six wrist watches to some Yaqui Indians.

Everyone is getting ready for Thanksgiving. . . . The cookie has nearly three hundred pies made and my gang has planned to rob him tonight. . . . Raided mess hall and got forty four pies we are sitting pretty now. . . . Company was lined up this morning and finger prints taken. . . . I left no fingerprints because I had on rubber gloves. . . .

Thanksgiving. No drill, nothing to do but eat, sleep drink???? and take it easy. . . . I guess this will be my last entry . . . because a girl has asked me to send it to her to read so I am going to put an Army dictionary in the back. I hope the one who reads it enjoys theirselves as much as I did while writing it and also the pictures that I have tried to draw.

Exceptionally scarce. Other well-written, self-illustrated journals from Buffalo Soldiers protecting the Mexican Border simply do not exist. None in the trade. No auction results at ABPC or the Rare Book Hub, and no institutional holdings per OCLC.

$7,500 #8578 SOLD

13. [AFRICAN-AMERICANA] [MILITARY & WAR] [POLITICS] Circulars, Etc. Issued by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, from the Organization of Said Bureau to December 31, 1867, with Copies of Acts and Joint Resolutions of Congress and Proclamation by the President. . . . Complied by Major General O. O. Howard. Washington DC: assembled in 1867.

Half Leather. This official sammelband contains over 120 original documents, trimmed to uniform size. There are numerous Commission Circulars and high-level War Department General Orders promulgating official acts, laws, and a proclamation.

Minor wear and sound binding; the front hinge is just starting to crack. The documents are in nice shape. There is a diagonal fold to the top corner of the front free endpaper and fly-leaf.

This important collection of documents was issued by the Freedmen's Bureau (a component of the War Department established to aid former slaves), as a ready reference for use in its offices throughout the South during Reconstruction following the American Civil War. Most of the documents address administrative concerns and provide considerable insight about the Bureau's mission and the magnitude of its problems. Several documents in the volume are of special significance including:

General Orders No. 1, [The Emancipation Proclamation], January 2, 1863 - "By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation, . . ."

General Orders 91, May 12, 1865, which established the Bureau and contained the famous Section 4 which authorized the Bureau to rent up to "forty acres" of "land within the insurrectionary States . . . [that had been] abandoned, or . . . acquired . . . by confiscation" to former male slaves, and

General Orders No. 50, Civil Rights Act of 1866 (the precursor of the 16th Amendment), July 21, 1866, which afforded "equal protection" under the law to former slaves.

In place of the original Circular 13, July 28, 1865, is a placeholder that simply reads, "Will not be published." In the original circular, Howard instructed subordinates to ignore the intent of President Johnson's declaration of amnesty for white Southerners noting, "The pardon of the President will not be understood to extend to the surrender of abandoned or confiscated property which by law has been set apart for Refugees and Freedmen." Johnson immediately countermanded the circular and personally wrote a revised version that drastically reduced the land available for redistribution and in many places stopped land redistribution completely.

Very scarce. As of 2016, no examples appear in the trade (although one excised copy of the Emancipation Proclamation is listed), and there are no auction records showing at ABPC or the Rare Book Hub. OCLC shows copies of the volume held by 14 institutions.

$2,500 #8542 SOLD

14. [AFRICAN-AMERICANA] [RACISM] [RADICALS & REACTIONARIES] The Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Meaning and Scope of Operation by C. Lewis Fowler. Atlanta: [C. Lewis Fowler], 1922.

First Edition. Soft Cover. Complete with 55 pages. Sound binding. Pages have some light toning. Minor wear and soiling to cover.

Sections in the handbook discuss the Klan's origins, mysticism, the importance of separation of church and state, the importance of the right to organize, conflict between theories of government, the Roman Catholic hierarchy, and the possibility of achieving its goals.

This scarce handbook was written by Dr. C. Lewis Fowler at the height of Klan’s ascendancy when an estimated six million Americans were members. Fowler was the editor of the American Standard, which was described by H. L. Mencken as "the best Klan paper . . . well written and full of news that never goes into [mainstream] newspapers." Fowler was the President of Lexington and Cox College. In 1917 he founded Lanier University and eventually transferred its ownership to the Klan. In later years, he was a Klan organizer in St. Petersburg, Florida, and it has been recorded that he personally brought in over 1500 members during an anti-segregationist crusade following the Brown vs Board of Education decision in 1954.

$150 #8506 SOLD

15. [AGRICULTURE] [CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA] [MILITARY & WAR] [POLITICS] Planter’s Oath. Gonzales County, Texas: 1866.

Partially printed “Planter’s Oath” for Gonzales County, Texas. Approximately 8” x 12”. Blue paper watermarked with a federal shield and stars. The oath was signed by A. M. Vea (perhaps A. McVea or A. McVeos) before C. H. Wellborn, the county’s Chief Justice. In it Vea swears that 1) his 19 bales of cotton were never the property of the Confederacy, 2) he was unembraced by any of the exceptions of the Presidential proclamation of 29 May 1865, 3) he had already taken the Amnesty Oath, 4) his net worth was less than $20,000, and 5) there was no lien on the cotton for wages due to Freedmen. Light soiling and wear. Expected file folds. Very nice shape overall.

Early in the American Civil War, the U. S. Congress passed two “Confiscation Acts” that authorized Union commanders to seize the property of all those participating directly in rebellion. After the war ended and Union forces occupied the entire South, this placed an incredible hardship on Southern civilians whose property, including crops, were seized. So, on 2 May 1865, President Andrew Johnson proclaimed amnesty and the return of property to Southerners who would take an oath of allegiance to the United States. As a result, “military commanders during reconstruction were flooded with claims for the return of real estate, livestock and cotton. Cotton was at the forefront of all claims, having been seized by Federal troops upon occupation and sold at auction by Treasury agents. In Texas, owners filed “Planters’ Oaths” to establish private rather than government ownership of their cotton.” (See Parole, Pardon, Pass and Amnesty Documents of the Civil War by Davis and Tremmel). Extremely scarce. As of 2016, there are none in the trade. Although there are no auction records at ABPC or the Rare Book Hub, a manuscript oath sold on eBay in 2013, and a similar partially printed oath from Alabama was sold as part of a lot of Confederate militaria by Damon Mills Fine Antique Arms, date unknown. There are no institutional holdings per OCLC

$850 #8582 SOLD

16. [ALCOHOL & COCKTAILS] The Savoy Cocktail Book: Being in the main a complete compendium of the Cocktails, Rickeys, Daisies, Slings, Shrubs, Smashes, Fizzes, Juleps, Cobblers, Fixes, and other Drinks, known and greatly appreciated in the year of grace 1930, with sundry notes of amusement and interest concerning them, together with subtle Observations upon Wines and their special occasions compiled by Harry Craddock. Illustrated by Gilbert Rumbold. New York: Richard R. Smith. 1930. First American printing.

This first printing of the first American edition (issued simultaneously with the British edition) contains the errata slip attached at page 25 and lacks the Bacardi Cocktail recipe found in all later printings. Approximately 5” x 7.75”. Complete with 287 pages.

Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages with a little light toning; a previous owner’s seven favorite drinks listed on page 286. There is a narrow mixology stain to the fore-edge of the last several leaves. The classic art-deco foil cover is in nice shape with the usual wear along the edges. The spine has some minor wear, heaviest at the tail; with a slight loss to some of the gilt lettering. The book has a faint odor of tobacco.

Overall, a nice first printing example of the classic cocktail book compiled by Craddock, an ex-patriot American bartender, at the Savoy Hotel in London.

Much scarcer than the British edition (prohibition, don't you know!)

$1,250 #8569

17. [ANTI-SEMITISM] [ART] [CHILDREN’S] [ILLUSTRATED] [WOMEN & GIRLS] A Famous Work of Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art): En Ny Bilderbok. Rim och Bilder (Ein Neues Bilderbuch. Reime und Bilder) (A New Picture Book. Rhyme and Pictures) by Stora Max. [Illustrated by Tom (Marta Gertrud) Seidmann-Freud.] Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1919.

First Swedish edition of the German book, Ein Neues Bilderbuch. Cloth-backed Pictorial Cover. Complete. Sound binding; hinges pulling at the binding staples. Clean pages. Toned endpapers; front fly-leaf has a chip and closed tear. There is a ding to the top of the front board and a corresponding .5” tear on the rear board. The dust jacket has a faint dampstain, minor soiling, and chips at the spine ends and top of front panel.

Although uncredited, the book was illustrated by Sigmund Freud's niece, Tom Freud. Tom was named Marta Gertrud at birth but assumed a masculine first name as a teenager in hope that it would open doors in the art world. Tom became part of the avant-garde community in Berlin and was a member of the city's academic, artistic, and Zionist circles. In 1921, she married a journalist Jakob (Yankel) Seidmann and a year later gave birth to a daughter they named Angela. At about the same time the couple became friends with the poet Chaim Nachman Bialik and partnered with him to establish a publishing firm, Ophir, to produce Hebrew children's books. While Tom's book illustrations (usually folk-art style ink outlines filled in with watercolor) received critical praise, the firm never became financially successful, and in 1924 Bialik left Germany for Tel Aviv without completing several agreed upon books and refusing to reimburse the Seidmann-Freud's for his share of the partnership's liabilities. Ophir struggled on for several years before completely collapsing in 1929, leaving the Seidmann-Freuds destitute. Utterly ruined financially, Jakob committed suicide, and Tom became near catatonic. She was institutionalized and despite treatment from her famous uncle, Tom never recovered. She refused to eat and died of starvation (some say a drug overdose) the next year, after which Angela was adopted by an aunt.

When the Nazis came to power in the 1930s, Tom's illustrated books were declared to be Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art), and almost all copies were destroyed. This copy escaped, no doubt, only because it was a Swedish edition. Sweden maintained “official” neutrality throughout the World War II although it was a major supplier of iron to Nazi Germany and helped transport Wehrmacht divisions to fight the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front. In partial return, Sweden was allowed to become safe-haven for anti-fascist and Jewish refugees from throughout Scandinavia.

$2,250 #8519 SOLD

18. [ART] [ILLUSTRATED] 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship by Salvador Dali. Translated by Haakon M. Chevalier. New York: The Dial Press, 1948.

First Edition. Folio. Complete. 192 pages. B/w and color illustrations. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages. Light wear to cover. Dust jacket has some wear and minor chipping to edges.

This book is Dali's self-absorbed explanation of what he believed it took to make great paintings and how he did so. The essay is a mix of art history, painting techniques, and philosophical musings, all written in a somewhat tongue-in-cheek, humorous, egotistical, and vastly entertaining manner. Some revelations include

 the secret of five different movements of the five types of brushes,  the secret of the sea-urchin slumber,  the secret of carnal abstinence and indulgence,  the secret for constructing an arancarium,  the secret of the painter's pointed mustache,  the secret of Naples yellow,  the secret that a painting should dry naturally,  the secret of "wasp" medium (make sure not to remove the stinger), and many more.

Rather scarce with a nice dust jacket.

$400 #8518 19. [AVIATION] Prospectus for the Stanley Aerial Navigation Company. San Francisco: The Stanley Aerial Navigation Company, [1901].

16-page saddle-stapled pamphlet, approximately 6.75” x 4.5”. Contains text, schematic illustrations, and photographs. Minor wear and soiling with a hard-to-see, light vertical fold.

The Stanley Aerial Navigation Company was formed in San Francisco in 1900 by Charles Stanley to build 30-passenger, 228-foot, aluminum-skinned airships. The company, to include its “construction and exhibition yards,” was located in the “block bounded by Gaker, Fell, Lyon, and Hayes Streets.”

The public company, beset by financial problems and squabbles between shareholders, never got off the ground and was reorganized as the California Aerial Navigation Company in 1901. The reorganization was immediately stymied as Charles Stanley resigned his position and, along with several other workers, brought suit against the company over unpaid wages and material reimbursements. Stanley’s suit was apparently a deadly blow to the company as no additional records of it exist although anecdotal reports suggest it may have limped along until the factory was destroyed in the 1904 earthquake. The pamphlet includes information about the company’s organization, the aircraft, airship travel, aerial navigation, and the purchase of shares.

An unrelated California Aerial Navigation Company—also unsuccessful—was formed in Oakland in 1921 to manufacture airplane parachutes, i.e., parachutes for entire airplanes as opposed to parachutes for pilots or passengers.

$375 #8562 SOLD

20. [AVIATION] Photograph Album Documenting the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet of 1910. Unknown compiler. Boston: 1910.

54 3.5” x 4.5” photographs, each mounted on a separate leaf, in a 5.5” x 7” album with a maroon suede cover. All of the photographs are captioned. The photographs are in very nice shape. The album has some minor edge-wear, primarily at the head and tail of the spine.

The Harvard-Boston Aero Meet (3-13 September 1910) was the second aviation competition to be held in the United States and was the single most important event in stimulating the growth of early American aviation. The meet offered more than $40,000 in prize money for contests in speed, distance, duration, altitude, landing accuracy, and bomb dropping that drew aviators from around the world including Wilbur Wright, Glenn Curtiss, Claude Grahame-White, and A. V. Roe. Each day, thousands attended the event which was held on the recently created Harvard Aviation Field Squantum Peninsula. Numerous dignitaries were in attendance including President Taft and his family, Russian Ambassador Baron Rosen, Governor Draper, Mayor Fitzgerald, and tennis champion Eleanora Sears. In addition to the fixed wing aircraft and their pilots, eighteen-year-old Cromwell Dixon flew his dirigible which at one point lost power and almost floated out over the open sea and certain death. Grahame-White was the star of the meet. He won more contests than any other pilot and was a public relations sensation as well. He gave flights to Mayor Fitzgerald, Lieutenant Governor Frothingham, and anyone, including a number of society ladies, willing to pay $500 for a 15-minute trip.

This important collection of photographs includes images of Cromwell Dixon and his dirigible, Wilbur Wright and his flyer, Claude Grahame-White with both his Farman biplane and Bleriot monoplane, Glenn Curtiss and his biplane, Clifford Harmon, A. V. Roe, W. Starling Burgess, President Taft and his family, Walter Brookins flying his plane in a full circle, the Roe triplane, airplanes in flight, airplane wrecks, the “battleship” target for the bombing contest, planes under construction, the crowd, and more.

Exceptionally scarce. As of 2016, there is nothing similar in the trade and there are no auction records for any similar albums or collections listed at ABPC or the Rare Book Hub. OCLC shows no institutional holdings, however one similar album is located at Harvard’s Baker Library.

$7,500 #8571 SOLD 21. [AVIATION] [IMPERIALISM] [MILITARY & WAR] Photograph Album Documenting the U. S. Marine Corps Occupation of Haiti compiled by Private First Class Forest Paul Kraemer. Haiti: 1923-1925.

Almost 300 photographs on about 40 leaves contained in a 10” x 13” album. The photographs range in size from 1.5” x 4.5” to 6.5” x 8.5”. About 215 of the photographs document Private Kraemer’s duty in Haiti with the 2nd Marine Regiment between 1923 and 1925. Several have been reattached with tape. Almost all of the Haiti photographs are captioned. Everything is in nice shape, however the album has six holes in the cover where medallions have been removed. (An old auction photo shows one was for the Gendarmerie d’Haiti, a collaborationist police force led by “civilianized” marines. The other was likely a Marine Corps ‘Eagle, Globe, and Anchor’.) Several photographs have been removed and a clipped image of marines from the U.S.S. Rochester is taped to the first page. There are photographs of Haitians, Port au Prince, Cape Haitian, towns and villages, the countryside, victims of shark attacks, a man with elephantiasis, and most importantly the country’s occupation by the U. S. Marine Corps. The photographs include Marine Corps and Gendarmerie buildings and marines parading, training, playing sports, and relaxing. Several photos show identified U.S. Navy ships at anchor. Of special interest are images of Major General Lejeune (then the Commandant) and the Haitian High Commissioner John Russell (a Marine Corps Brigadier General who would later become Commandant). Kraemer apparently was friends with marines assigned to the Fourth Air Squadron as some photographs show aircraft (JN-4 land planes, an HS-2 seaplane, plane crashes, planes lined up for inspection, etc.) as well as birds- eye views of the country. A highlight is a group of three images showing a Marine Corps DH-4B airplane that set a then-new-long-distance record of 12,500 miles in late 1923, flying to San Francisco and back. Sergeant Peter P. Tolusciak, the plane’s co-pilot is shown in two of the photographs. In one of most despicable uses of the American military, President Woodrow Wilson sent the U.S. Marine Corps to Haiti to protect the financial interests of his political cronies and owners of the National Bank of New York City and the Haitian American Sugar Company. The Marine Corps’ subsequent occupation was one of its most inglorious “banana war” actions, and although it imposed strict censorship, after reports of its heavy-handed subjugation of the Haitians leaked out, James Weldon Johnson conducted a fact-finding mission that disclosed systematic atrocities. “Occupation . . . means merely the hunting of ragged Haitians in the hills with machine guns. . . . The Occupation seized men [to build roads] wherever it could find them, and no able-bodied Haitian was safe from such raids, which most closely resembled the African slave raids of past centuries. . . . Those who protested or resisted were beaten into submission . . . with boot or rifle butt, the victims were herded in compounds. Those attempting to escape were shot. . . . It is chiefly out of these methods that arose the need for ‘pacification’. Many men of the rural districts became panic-stricken and fled to the hills and mountains. Others rebelled and did likewise, preferring death to slavery. These refugees largely make up the ‘caco’ forces, to hunt down which has become the duty and the sport of American Marines, who were privileged to shoot a ‘caco’ on sight. . . . Brutalities and atrocities on the part of American marines have occurred with sufficient frequency. . . . Marines talk freely of what they ‘did’ to some Haitians in the outlying districts. . . . I learned from the lips of American Marines themselves of a number of cases of rape of Haitian women by marines. I often sat at tables in the hotels and cafes in company with marine officers and they talked . . . without restraint. I remember the description of a ‘caco’ hunt by one; he told how they finally came upon a crowd of natives engaged in the popular pastime of cock-fighting and how they ‘let them have it’ with machine guns and rifle fire. . . .” (Self-Determining Haiti, 1920) Johnson’s report prompted a superficial Congressional investigation in 1922 that Johnson accurately noted was “on the whole, a whitewash,” ignoring testimony of Haitian witnesses, covering up the role of National City Bank, and exonerating the marines, while concluding that the Occupation was all that stood between Haiti and “chronic revolution, anarchy, barbarism, and ruin.” As retired Marine General Smedley Butler summarized, “War is just a racket. . . . I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. . . . It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. . . . I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues . . . [and] I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints.” (Speech, 1933) $3,500 #8565 SOLD 22. [BIOGRAPHY] [CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA] [MILITARY & WAR] The Military Operations of General Beauregard in the War Between the States, 1861 to 1865, Including a Brief Personal Sketch and a Narrative of His Services in the War with Mexico, 1846-8 by Alfred Roman [and P. T. Beauregard]. New York: Harper Brothers, 1884. Two volumes. First edition.

Matching set of two volumes. Approximately 6” x 9”. Bound in the publisher’s original green cloth with gilt lettering. Complete. Vol 1 – [xx] introductory pages, 594 text pages; with tissue- guarded portrait frontispiece. Vol 2 – xvi introductory pages, 61 text pages, 12-page advertising section in rear; with tissue-guarded frontispiece. Clean pages. Sound bindings. Paper-tape repairs to front hinges of both volumes; rear hinges starting to open. Light wear to cover; tiny patch to spine of the first volume. Bright gilt lettering. Overall, an attractive set.

Beauregard was the uncredited co-author of this work, so it is, in effect, an autobiography, “highly laudatory of its subject and highly critical of Beauregard’s enemies.” (See Dornbush II p86.) Still, this is an important personal assessment of the Civil War from on the Confederacy’s leading generals.

$250 #8579 SOLD

23. [BIOGRAPHY] [MILITARY & WAR] Memoirs of General William T. Sherman. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1904.

Complete. Matched set of two volumes, each approximately 5.5” x 8.5”. Vol. I: 458 pages with portrait frontispiece and five maps. Vol. II: 604 pages with three plates, nine maps, and four pages of advertisements in the rear. Bound in the publisher’s original green cloth with gilt lettering. In very nice shape. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages (small 1” square ghost from a bookmark between pages 234-235 in Vol II). Tiny chip to the top margin of one map in Vol I. Light wear to cover.

This is the preferred edition: Appleton’s “Second Edition, Revised and Corrected.” It was published with the assistance of Sherman’s second son, Philemon Tecumseh Sherman, and contains Sherman’s revised 1886 text, improved maps, his two prefaces to earlier editions, and the additional materials found in the 1891 Blaine edition. Surprisingly, much less common than the earlier printings.

$250 #8574 SOLD

24. [BIOGRAPHY] [DISABILITIES] [RADICALS & REACTIONARIES] [WOMEN & GIRLS] Midstream: My Later Life by Helen Keller. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929.

Inscribed first edition with an additional typed letter signed, both in Keller’s distinctive pencil printing. Complete with dust jacket. The book is inscribed on the front free endpaper to “Mr. & Mrs. [John] Mayfield;” a one-page letter on personal stationery and addressed to “Mr. [John] Mayfield,” a noted Swinburne bibliographer and book collector, is laid down inside the front cover. Additional material from the American Foundation for the Blind (including two letters with secretarial, i.e. stenciled, Keller signatures in pencil) is laid in.

Sound binding with intact hinges. Very light wear to cover. Unclipped dust jacket with minor soiling, edge-wear, and toned spine. The autographed letter and ephemera are in excellent shape.

Keller was the first deafblind person to earn a college degree, and this second autobiography begins where her first book, The Story of My Life, left off. It describes the next twenty-five years of Keller’s life beginning with her studies at Radcliffe College and provides details about her writing, lectures, work on behalf of the blind, and friendships with Alexander Graham Bell, Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin, and the Carnegies among others.

While popular culture focuses upon Keller’s individual triumph in learning to communicate, she was actually a collectivist at heart. Although in writing Midstream, Keller—a member of the International Workers of the World and avowed Marxist revolutionary (“Revolution. . . . Let us try revolution and see what it will do now. . . . I don’t give a damn about semi-radicals.”)—was somewhat restrained by her employment with the American Foundation of the Blind, she still did not avoid waxing poetic upon one of her Communist heroes:

“The spirit of Lenin descended upon the weeping multitude . . . and they spoke . . . ‘Let us not follow him without cowering hearts. . . . Revolution and even disintegration . . . is the working of God’s undeviating Order.’ . . . I see the furrow Lenin left sown with the unshatterable seed of a new life for mankind, and cast deep below the rolling tides of storm and lightning, mighty crops for the ages to reap. . . . [T]he old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping away their time-honoured antiquities.”

No doubt, Keller’s radical politics could be surprising to those whose only familiarity comes from Patty Duke’s Oscar-winning performance in The Miracle Worker.

$2,250 #8538 SOLD

25. [CHILDREN’S] [ILLUSTRATED] The Children's Theatre: Rip Van Winkle as played By Scissors and Glue. Arranged By Clara Andrews Williams from the Work of Washington Irving. Illustrated by George Alfred Williams. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1909.

First Edition. Cloth-backed Pictorial Cover. Oblong 4to. Complete. Eight different scenes with scores of figures and props. Clean pages with bright coloring. All of the pages with figures and theatrical props are uncut and firmly attached to the sound binding. Minor soiling to the cover.

A scarce title in Stokes' Glue Series produced by Clara and George Williams, who also created the series of Jack and Betty cutout magazines and books.

$250 #8520 SOLD

26. [CHILDREN’S] [DOLLS] [ILLUSTRATED] Das Arme Mariechen (Poor Little Marie) by Hertha v. d. Knesebeck. Illustrated by Else Wenz-Vietor. Oldenburg, Germany: Verlag Gerhard Stalling, 1930.

First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Complete. Text in German (Sutterlin typeface). Striking color illustrations throughout; seven of them are full-page. Sound binding; front hinge starting to crack. No names or other writing. Clean pages with a few light finger smudges. Cover has some minor edge wear.

This is a children's tale about a doll's misadventures from the time she was taken outside by her owner's dog until she was found and returned by a kindly dwarf.

$225 #8503

27. [CHILDREN’S] [CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA] [MILITARY & WAR] [WOMEN’S ISSUES] On the Field of Honor by Annah Robinson Watson. Detroit: The Sprague Publishing Co., 1902. First edition.

Approximately 4” x 6”. Complete with 226 pages. Original publisher’s binding; light blue cloth with white decoration and gilt lettering. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages. Cover has some light soiling and minor wear; ding at the tail of the spine.

Watson, a member of an important Kentucky family and the grand-niece of President Zachary Taylor, was a prominent 19th century author whose essays, poetry, and reviews were published in journals and magazines anonymously and under her maiden name, Anna Walker Robinson. In the 1870s she began collecting traditional African-American tales and superstitions, and her lecture-paper on “Comparative Afro-American Folk-Lore" was apparently well-received at the International Folk-Lore Congress held in conjunction with the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.

Watson was a founding member of the Nineteenth Century Club, the largest women’s organization in the South, and an ardent—though low-keyed—suffragist. Together with Josephine Henry she published The New Woman of the New South and The Attitude of Southern Women on the Suffrage Question.

On the Field of Honor contains a series of heroic Civil War biographies and historical stories . . . with a decidedly Southern slant.

$75 #8575 Sold

28. [COLONIAL AMERICANA] [ILLUSTRATED] [MAPS] A Short Description of the American Colonies belonging to the Crown of Great Britain by George Bickham. Bickham’s folding map (A Map of the King of Great Britain’s Dominions in Europe, Africa, and America) and explanatory plate are laid in. London: George and John Bickham, 1749.

Includes engraved plates numbered [164] to 185, and 187-188 with no plate 186, as issued. Worn, blind-tooled, contemporary, leather-covered boards measuring 12” x 8”; marbled endpapers. Three chips to the title page. Bound plates have light soiling with significant foxing to the top half of plates 164 and 188. Split hinges. One-third of rear flyleaf missing and remainder is affixed to the reverse of plate 188. The map and its explanatory note are in nice shape.

Bickham was an important English writing master best known for his engraving work in The Universal Penman, a collection of writing exemplars that popularized English Round Hand.

This work is found both separately and appended to a larger publication titled The British Monarchy, which was issued in parts beginning in 1743. The title page of this volume is undated, but the map and colophon on plate 188 both are dated 1749. Sections include Acadia, New England, Pensilvania (sic), New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Carolina, Georgia, the American Islands, and the African and Indian Settlements. The plates consist of engraved calligraphic text; many contain vignettes showing colonists, Native Americans, towns, harbors, etc. The first 21 plates of the work focus on America. Plates 187 and 188 describe England's colonies in Africa and India.

Variously described with 21 to 34 plates; this copy has 25 including the laid in map and note. See ESTC N22616, Sabin 5222 and 80618, and Alden-Landis 749.28 and 743.27 which notes “Copies of this work are frequently made up of various edns.” The folding map was intended to be inserted after plate 7 in the larger work.

$2,000 #8563 SOLD

29. [CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA] [EXECUTIONS] [MILITARY & WAR] An Exceptional Archive of Material Documenting the Ordeal of a Conscripted Alabama Unionist, John Henning Woods, Who Was Sentenced to Death by a Confederate Court-Martial. 1857-1873.

There are approximately 625 manuscript pages in the two journals, three-volume memoir, and one daily diary that comprise this archive documenting the life of John Henning Woods from 1857 through 1865 with a short “post-script” added in 1873. The journal bindings are fragile and both covers are missing. The diary has no front cover; its binding is very loose and several leaves are missing. The memoir is in nice shape; one volume is missing a cover, and its end leaves are worn.

This is a detailed, first-person account of a rarely-encountered type of Civil War soldier, an ardent Southern Unionist imprisoned for mutiny and sentenced to death by firing squad. Woods, the son of a Missouri homesteader, attended law school at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. There he earned a degree and, in the process, married Mary Emma Caldwell, the daughter of a wealthy Alabama planter. He subsequently taught school not far from the family’s plantation near Choccolocco.

Woods was an ardent and outspoken Unionist who blamed the South’s “treason” upon “Slave-holders hold[ing] the reigns (sic) of power” and refused “to take part with the Slave-holders in this wicked rebellion.” He ignored his first draft summons in May of 1862. Eventually, a Confederate officer appeared at his schoolhouse in October and gave him a choice, report to the Conscript Camp at Talladega or be dragged off in chains. Reluctantly, Woods reported to Talladega and found a number of other like-minded, unwilling conscripts. Together, they sullenly boarded a steamship bound for the Drill Camp at Mobile, and “as she floated down the Alabama, she proudly played “Dixie’s Land,” . . . which possessed no charms . . . for we had but little music in our souls.”

At the Drill Camp, Woods was assigned to the 36th Alabama Infantry. There, he formed a secret Union League of soldiers who “are not interested for the perpetuation of Slavery and do not desire it [and] therefore will not fight with secessionists for it.” Instead, they pledged “to work against . . . this unprovoked rebellion.” His “Home Circle” became quite large and even attracted one officer, Lieutenant Silas Mosely. With time, camp leadership noticed a significant and “growing discontent among the Soldiers of the 36th, 38th, and 18th Ala Regts” that emanated from a series of parade-ground meetings held by ever-increasing numbers of soldiers. In fact, members of the Circle were planning to secretly report for a review parade with loaded weapons and, upon a signal, “rush forward closing up around the affrighted officers [and] demand their surrender.” However, before that occurred, Woods and a co-leader of the circle were lured from camp, away from the protection of their colleagues, where they were arrested, “stripped and searched . . . handcuffed and taken to . . . a room where there were a number of other prisoners in irons.”

While awaiting court-martial as a member of General Braxton Bragg’s Corps, Woods was dragged along in captivity through the Tullahoma, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga Campaigns, where he was held at Tullahoma, Wartrace, and Atlanta. There, he experienced and described the horror of Confederate prisons. His trial is described in full including the “surprise testimony” by Lieutenant Mosely, actually a loyal Confederate officer who had only posed as a Unionist to spy upon the conscripts at Mobile.

The tension created by the interminable wait for his execution to be carried out is palpable in Woods’ memoir as is his relief at the last minute pardon secured from Jefferson Davis by his father-in-law. Woods’ contemporary writings end with his parole to help build the Atlanta defenses in anticipation of General Sherman’s attack, however in the introduction to his memoir and the postscript to one of his journals, Woods reports that he eventually escaped from Atlanta, enlisted in the Union Army, and served as a clerk until the end of the war, after which he and his family moved from Alabama to Mt. Vernon, Missouri.

Woods goes to great lengths in his writings to explain why, as a Southerner, he opposed secession and at times becomes rather pedantic and overbearing in doing so. However, the descriptions of Woods’ actual travails are captivating. Highlights of the archive include

Riveting descriptions of his arrest, trial, prison life, and prisoner maltreatment.

A detailed eight-page description of his father-in-law’s plantation including the “miscegenistic indulgences with slave feminines which . . . would be too abominable to be allowed by high-minded Society were it not already so common as to be passed slightly or unnoticed.” An original drawing of the plantation’s main residence, outbuildings, and slave quarters accompany the description.

A detailed seven-page description of the Atlanta Barracks Prison—where he spent much of his captivity—with a similarly excellent original drawing of its grounds, buildings, and stockade.

This is a truly rare collection of exceptional historic import; detailed accounts of conscripted Southern soldiers who were Union sympathizers and narrowly escaped execution for treason simply don’t exist.

$12,500 #8591 ON HOLD 30. [CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA] [MILITARY & WAR] [MUSIC] You are Going to the Wars, Willie Boy! A Ballad. Words and music by John H. Hewitt. Macon and Savannah: John C. Schreiner & Son, 1863. First edition.

Complete. Title plus three pages. Approximately 10” x 13”. Light wear and soiling. Once bound so slightly rough along the left edge. Very nice shape.

Before the rise of Stephen Foster, John Hewitt was both the most popular American composer and the first to find international fame. Although he was born in New York, Hewitt lived most of his life in the South; at various times he lived in Augusta, Greenville, Richmond, Staunton, and Winchester. His output of patriotic songs during the American Civil War was considerable and as a result, he was often referred to as the Bard of the Stars and Bars or the Bard of the Confederacy. His most popular composition was All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight, a major hit on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line. You Are Going to the Wars, Willie Boy! was quite popular throughout the South as well. He dedicated the piece to Miss Fanny Waldron, one of the “Queen Sisters,” an immensely popular acting and singing group whose satire, King Linkum the First, characterized Abraham Lincoln as a henpecked husband.

Scarce. As of 2016, there are no examples in the trade. ABPC and the Rare Book Hub show only one example having ever been sold at auction. OCLC lists five institutional holdings; Parrish & Willingham (#7651) shows 18.

Much better condition than most extant Confederate sheet music.

$250 #8583 SOLD

31. [CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA] [MILITARY & WAR] Resolutions of the State of Texas Concerning Peace, Reconstruction and Independence. Issued by the Confederate House of Representatives. [Richmond]: January 19, 1865.

Approximately 6” x 9.5”. Complete. 4-page bi-folium, printed on pages 1-3. Nice shape. Lightly toned at margins. 1” split at tail of the centerfold. Minor edge-wear.

This Confederate imprint (See Parrish & Willingham 788) reproduced a resolution published by the Texas Secretary of State, Robert J. Townes, dated November 12, 1864, stating that Texas was committed to continuing the war despite Northern attempts to conclude a peace directly with the state. It contained eight resolutions: 1) Texas will not accept an offer from the United States to conclude a peace separate from other states of the Confederacy, 2) A Union proposal to “divide and conquer” through such a peace is “insidious,” 3) The people of the North should understand that the Southern States seceded to preserve their freedom and their sovereignty, not to preserve slavery, 4) Even if the horrors of the current war could be forgotten, antebellum Northern perfidy would warn Texas away from any re-union, 5) The North has “repudiated every principle of civilized warfare” by freeing felons from jails, employing poisoned weapons, murdering non-combatants, raping women, burning and plundering homes and villages, etc. 6) Southerners will never “walk in the way of the wicked,” 7) Peace will only be considered if it is coupled with the independence of the Confederate States, and 8) The resolutions will be transmitted to the President and Congress of the Confederacy.”

Scarce. As of 2016, only one other example is for sale in the trade. Only two recorded auction sales in the last 50 years. OCLC shows only eight institutions have examples in their collections.

$600 #8581 SOLD

32. [CONSTRUCTION] [ILLUSTRATED] [ORIGINAL ART] Three Sketchbooks of Original Art Documenting Construction Projects in Pennsylvania and Maryland by Robert Karsten. Maryland and Pennsylvania: 1959, 1960, 1968.

Three 8” x 11” standard-size spiral notebooks containing approximately 425 pages, almost all filled with detailed pencil sketches of construction sites. Photographs and clippings from magazines and newspapers are both laid in and attached to about ten pages. The sketches are all in nice shape. The clippings have tape stains. Among the many projects documented in the sketchbooks are work at the  Gifforf Pinchot State Park,  Expressway that would become Interstate 83,  Filtering basins for the P. H. Gatfelter Co.,  Quarryville Sr. High School,  U.S. 30 and 230,  Borg-Warner Corporation headquarters, and more

The vehicles and equipment in Karsten’s drawings are usually well-annotated with company, manufacturer, numbering, and/or license information. Often, he indicated the colors of the vehicles and equipment as well. Karsten was a talented artist from York, Pennsylvania whose works have appeared on national magazine covers, juried shows, and in public and private collections. At 22, he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore with a major in painting and a minor in sculpture and intaglio printmaking. He graduated cum laude, then earned a master’s degree at the Huffberger School of Painting, again majoring in painting and minoring in printmaking. He became an Associate Professor of Art at Louisiana Tech University and taught there from 1968 to 1984 when he relocated to Red Lion, Pennsylvania where he worked as a fine artist and illustrator. His life-long fascination with trucks, trains, and horse racing is evident in much of his work. Karsten released a popular series of truck lithographs based upon his original oil paintings, and he was even more successful with his studies of railroad trains. His works were used as the cover illustrations for two books about the Norfolk & Western Railway and one about the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. Additionally, Karsten was commissioned by a Montgomery, Alabama hobby shop to paint a number of famous trains that were turned into an even more successful lithograph series which are now highly sought after by model railroads, “rail fans,” and other train aficionados. Karsten never married, and in later years, he was devoted to caring for his elderly mother. Karsten became despondent when his mother died in 1996 and shortly thereafter committed suicide upon being diagnosed with macular degeneration. $1,250 #8564

33. [EXECUTIONS] [ILLUSTRATED] [MILITARY & WAR] [PHILATELY] Small Archive Relating to Private William Henry Johnson, the First Union Army Deserter Executed during the Civil War.

This collection contains three letters containing first-hand eyewitness accounts of the execution, four newspapers providing press coverage and illustrations of the event, and a cut signature of General William B. Franklin, the court-martial convening authority. The autograph and letters are in nice shape; the postally used envelopes are worn. The leaves of one newspaper are loose.

While many soldiers deserted from both sides during the American Civil War, only 147 Union deserters were executed. On 13 December 1861, William Henry Johnson, a Private in the First New York Cavalry became the first; he was executed by firing squad in a field just outside Alexandria near the Fairfax Seminary (now the Virginia Theological Seminary). On 4 December 1861, Johnson was on picket duty at the intersection of the Little River and Columbia turnpikes about seven miles west of Alexandria. After dinner, Johnson mounted his horse and began to ride along Braddock Road toward Centreville. He soon encountered several horsemen that he assumed to be a Confederate patrol. He hailed them, announced that he was a Union deserter and offered to provide them with the location of his unit’s pickets. To his surprise and subsequent horror, Johnson soon found that the horsemen were not rebels but a returning Union reconnaissance patrol. A court-martial was quickly convened at the camp of Brigadier General William B. Franklin’s Division, Johnson’s senior headquarters. There, Johnson’s excuse that he was only trying to visit his mother in New Orleans after which he planned to quickly return to his unit failed to sway court members, and he was sentenced to death. On the day of his execution, General McClellan directed that Franklin’s entire division witness the execution in hope that it was dissuade future desertions. The letters in this collection provide summaries of the desertion and personal reactions to the actual execution:

4-page letter from W. S. Milmime, Camp Newton, Virginia dated 15 December 1861 with its postally used envelope. “He was driven all around the lines in a wagon, his coffin going before him giving a warning to others who may be disposed to follow his course. Death to traitors is our motto.”

3-page letter from D. Trump, Alexandria, Virginia dated 23 December 1861 on patriotic letterhead with its postally used patriotic envelope. “I have seen . . . my fellow boys be shot down by my side. But my blood never run so cold as is it did . . . to see a man led out into the field to be shot down by his own friends. . . . I would rather see a man died in the field of battle by cold lead or steel from the enemy than to see him shot by his friends.”

4-page letter from Eli Hitchcock, Camp Arlington, Virginia dated 13 January 1862. “A man was shot 5 miles from here for desertion. . . . the damn traitor got himself all to hell because 8 men shot him . . . took aim at his head & blew his brains out. . . .”

The newspapers provide considerable details of the desertion, trial, and execution. Three of the four include large illustrations:

The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 14, 1861. Front-page article headlined, “The First Execution in the Army of the Potomac – A Deserter. . . . His execution took place . . . in the presence of 7000 soldiers. . . . A detachment of twelve men were detailed for the purpose, eight of them fired, when Johnson fell on his coffin but life not being extinct, the other four in reserve fired with the required effect.”

Harper’s Weekly, December 28, 1861. Page 827 contains a full-column article that includes an extract from Johnson’s confession and a lengthy and especially detailed account of his execution ending with “The troops then all marched round, and each man looked on the bloody corpse of his late comrade, who had proved a traitor to his country.” A full page illustration of the execution showing Johnson falling into his coffin is on page 828.

Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, January 4, 1862. Page 100 and 109 contain a detailed five-column article describing Johnson’s desertion, court-martial, and execution. Pages 104-105 contain a double-page illustration with four vignettes: “The Deserter Johnson,” “To the Execution,” the four reserve riflemen firing the coup de grace into Johnson’s bullet-riddled body, and “Troops Passing the Body.”

The Illustrated London News, January 11, 1862. A three-page article on page 40 recounts details of the execution. An accompanying half- page illustration shows Johnson falling into his coffin as the eight-man firing squad fires the initial volley.

As of 2016, one example of the Harper’s Weekly and one example of the London News are for sale in the trade; the other newspapers are not. ABPC and the Rare Book Hub show no records for single issue auction sales having ever occurred. OCLC records holdings for the newspapers only in complete bound, microform, or digital sets. No similar letters describing any Civil War execution are in the trade, and auction results show the sale of only one letter referencing a different execution. OCLC records show no similar execution letters held in institutional collections.

$7,500 #8584 SOLD 34. [EXPOSITIONS & FAIRS] [POPULAR CULTURE] [TRAVEL] Two Diaries Documenting the Life of an Upper Middle-Class Teenage Boy including a visit to the Columbian World’s Fair Exposition in Chicago. Kept by Errett McLeod Graham. Irvington, Indiana: 1892-1893.

Two complete diaries, each approximately 3.5” x 6”. Entries for every day in both. Legible handwriting. Minor wear and clean pages.

The diaries provide considerable detail about the daily life of an upper-middle class Indianapolis teenage boy. Graham’s entries address his chores (“earned a quarter”), activities (skating, gymnastics, bike riding), his first encounter with a phonograph, school (the Butler University Preparatory School), fruit picking, birding, church, significant events (the Street-Car Strike of 1892, the National Surgical Institute Fire of 1892), his extended family, favorite presents (a tool chest for Graham and his brother and a set of china dishes for his sister), and much more. Of special interest are the detailed entries for three weeks in June of 1893 when Graham and his family visited the Chicago World’s Fair. Information about the midway, state buildings, industrial demonstrations, historical exhibits, art and craft displays, and the catastrophic Cold Storage Building fire that killed a number of firemen and fair workers. Graham also describes an armed robbery of the boarding house where his family stayed during their visit. Graham’s father was William H. H. Graham, and attorney and former U.S. Consul to Canada.

$500 #8568a SOLD

35. [FOOD & COOKING] [ILLUSTRATED] [MILITARY & WAR] Soyer's Culinary Campaign. Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War. With the Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions, the Army, Navy, Public, Etc., Etc. by . London: G. Routledge & Co. 1857. Illustrated by H.G. Hine. First edition.

Approximately 5” x 7”. Complete with viii introductory pages, 57 text pages, and two-page advertisement in rear. Portrait frontispiece, extra illustrated title page, and other plates; all tissue- protected. In-text wood engravings. This is a true first with gilt decorations on the publisher’s red cloth cover (See Cagle 1008). Very good. Sound binding, minimal wear, very light toning, and bright gilding. In much better condition than usually found.

Soyer was a French chef and advocate of dietary reform who, after the July Revolution in 1830, left Paris for London where he became the chef of the Reform Club. In 1847, the British government commissioned Soyer to open soup kitchens (serving thousands of meals per hour) in Dublin during the Great Irish Famine. Subsequently, during the , he secured an appointment as the cooking adviser to the , which was suffering horribly from a poor diet. This book provides a thorough description of the miserable conditions he found in the and a detailed account of the improvements he implemented including improvement of the meals served at ’s hospitals, better sourcing of provisions, the use of sauces and condiments, the invention of field stoves, waste management techniques and more. A 54-page addenda provides numerous Soyer recipes for field and barracks cooking, hospital diets, and soup kitchens, as well as dishes suitable for “London suppers.” A two-page illustrated advertisement for Soyer’s Sultana’s Sauce, which is referenced in some of the recipes, is found at the end of the book.

Quite scarce in this condition. Also, although blue cover editions are regularly available, as of 2016 only one other first with the red cover specified by Cagle appears in the trade. ABPC and Rare Book Hub record only two sales in the last 60 years. Cagle notes that, together, the BMC and NUC identify 17 copies held by institutions.

$500 #8568 SOLD

36. [HUNTING] Hunting Photograph Album. Unknown compiler. Vicinity of Green Bay, Wisconsin, circa 1900.

72 photographs (2.5” x 4”) affixed to 18 thick cardboard leaves in a 5.25” x 7.25” album titled “The Kodak Book” in gilt. 71 of the photographs are 2.5” x 4”; one is approximately 3.5” x 4.5”. The photographs are all in nice shape, several with a little light scuffing. The album has some minor wear. One of the photographs clearly shows a sign for the Hagemeister Brewing Company, a pre-prohibition Green Bay brewery established in 1890. 27 of the photos show men and boys hunting with rifles and dogs. Three show two men logrolling. The other photographs show houses, a lake, children with deer, dogs, family members, flowering bushes, horse-drawn buggies or carts, and the building with the Hagemeister sign. $500 #8556

37. [ILLUSTRATED] [SHAKESPEARE] The Tragedie of Macbeth. Printed from the Folio of 1623. Introduction by Harley Granville-Barker. Illustrated by Charles Ricketts. London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1923. Limited edition.

Number 521 of a limited edition of 606. Original publisher’s cloth binding and dust jacket. Printed on rag paper. Untrimmed. Approximately 9.5” x 12.5 inches. Complete with lix introductory pages, 84 text pages, and 12 color plates. Almost no wear to the book; a little toning to the page edges; slight trace of tobacco odor. Light soiling to the dust jacket; taped on the reverse.

One of the Players’ Shakespeare editions “printed for literation from the First Folio of 1623 . . . and illustrated by artists interested in the modern stage, whose object has been to aid in creating for the reader the atmosphere of the ideal dramatic representation.”

$250 #8589 SOLD

38. [LABOR] [MINING] Fatal Coal Mine Accident – Letter and Death Certificate for John Phillips. Letter by J. Travis; Death Certificate by L. P. Leonard. Helena, Alabama: 1888.

This one-page letter forwards a death certificate and provides the details of Phillips’s death in a mine owned by the Eureka Coal Company.

The fatal accident occurred while Travis and Phillips were prepping an area to lay track. Rock fell upon both men, breaking Phillips’s neck and pinning Travis’s leg to the floor. The death certificate was prepared by L. P. Leonard, who apparently also was a local businessman as it was written on letterhead from his dry goods, groceries, hardware, and sewing machine store.

Helena played an important post-war role in the Birmingham steel industry and was major hub for coal mining and steel production. The Eureka Coal Company was owned by Henry Fairchild DeBardeleben, “The King of the Southern Iron World.” In 1888, Eureka had just begun enlarging its facilities, building new coke ovens, and opening up new mines. At the time, it employed about 150 men in mining and coking coal to keep up with the increasing demands of DeBardeleben’s iron furnaces at Oxmoor. Unions had not yet made much of an impact on working conditions in the Alabama coal mines. Although the Knights of Labor had been organizing in the region since 1878 and had at least two locals in Helena, it spent little effort campaigning for safer mines and instead led a number of strikes against wage cuts, the use of convict labor, and the hiring of immigrant Italian miners.

$200 #8527 SOLD

39. [LABOR] [MEDICINE] [MILITARY & WAR] [PHILATELY] [TRAVEL] 12-page Letter from Canon City, Colorado to North Adams, Massachusetts referencing the Colorado National Guard, the Battle of Ludlow, Mexican Border Service, a Strike in North Adams Massachusetts, Auto Touring, and Infantile Paralysis. Unidentified author. Canon City, Colorado: 1916.

The letter is written on United States Post Office stationery from a man named Allen, probably a post worker, and addressed to a friend named Lewis. Although no envelope accompanies the letter, its first page is postmarked, Canon City Colo. / M.O.B (Money Order Business) / Sep 16 1916. Letter content indicates it was sent to North Adams, Massachusetts. Clean and legible with light edge-wear.

This very informative letter addresses a number of interesting topics including the difficulty the Colorado National Guard was having reaching full strength so it could be deployed to protect the Southwest Border of the United States from attacks, raids, and incursions during the Mexican Revolution. The writer attributes this recruitment problem to continuing hostility toward the Guard as a result of its participation in the Battle of Ludlow (referred to as the Ludlow Massacre among union supporters) during Colorado's Coal Mine War. The writer also subtly chides his Massachusetts friend for not participating in a strike for the "8 hour day with time and a half for over time. . . . So here is to the union. May she win." There is some mention of Typhoid Fever and the then raging Infantile Paralysis epidemic, as well as considerable discussion about auto touring in Colorado and Massachusetts.

$150 #8551

40. [LABOR] [MUSIC] [PHILATELY] Letter Carrier’s Band Photograph with Four Other Postal Photographs. National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 385. Youngstown, Ohio: 1930.

The band photograph is approximately 8” x 10”. Four other letter carrier photos (approximately 3.5” x 5”) are also included. The photographs include portraits of father and son letter carriers (John and Nick Harber), the two men as tourists at the Yuma Federal Prison, and John Huber sorting mail. John Harber was a member of the band and his position in the group is identified on the reverse of the photograph.

One of the earliest manifestations of postal union solidarity was the creation of Letter Carrier bands, which first began in the 1890s shortly after the founding of the National Association of Letter Carriers. In their heyday, the bands (which all had their own distinctive uniforms and ranged from 18 to 50 members) were established by union branches in over 25 cities. They played at union meetings and conventions, events for supportive politicians, letter carrier balls and dances, and special occasions and ceremonies for individual members.

$150.00 #8529

41. [LABOR] [PHILATELY] Letter from a Disgruntled Official of the National Association of Letter Carriers Union. Written by V. B. Gonzales, Jr. New Orleans: 1891.

Two-page letter dated 20 May 1891 on the letterhead of the National Association of Letter Carriers together with its original 2-cent postal envelope (Scott #313) postmarked in New Orleans on the same day. Both the letter and envelope are in nice shape and feature illustrations of a letter carrier picking up mail at a post box. The envelope is slightly reduced along the right edge.

This early union letter from V. B. Gonzales, the Vice-President of the Louisiana chapter of the NAOLC, to "Comrade" John J. Goodwin, the Association's National President, expresses dismay about the national convention where he was expelled from an important Committee session "through the influence of a certain gent from the little picayune 'Tennessee' [delegation]" and that "New Orleans the only City of importance in the South had been shamefully treated." As a result, Gonzales declares his "candidacy for the next meeting."

The National Association of Letter Carriers (NAOLC) was the first public-sector union organized in the United States. Postal workers had tried and failed to organize a national union in 1870, 1877, and 1880 in an attempt to force postmasters to recognize a federal law mandating an eight-hour day for federal employees. In addition to opposition by local postmasters, the union organizers also faced the challenge of meeting the expenses necessarily to regularly convene enough carriers to sustain a national organization. In 1889 the efforts were finally successful when the local association at Milwaukee called for a national meeting to coincide with the annual reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), the fraternal organization of Union Civil War veterans, so carriers who were veterans could take advantage of reduced train fairs offered GAR members.

$275 #8550 SOLD

42. [LABOR] [RADICALS & REACTIONARIES] [PHILATELY] [POLITICS] An Impressive Collection of Assessment, Dues, Strike Fund, Boycott, and Poster Stamps from American Leftist Organizations and Labor Unions. 1890-1940.

This collection contains over 125 labels, assessment stamps, covers, sheets, panes, cards, and other ephemera issued by the  International Labor Defense (the American section of the Communist International Red Aid Network),  International Workers of the World,  International Workers Order (the Communist Party’s insurance, mutual benefit, and fraternal organization),  Continental Congress of Workers and Farmers,  League Against Yellow Journalism  Bonus Expeditionary Force, and  a variety of major and less-well-known labor organizations including the o American Federation of Musicians, o Bakery and Confection Workers International of America, o Brewery Workmen’s National Union, o Filling Station Employees Union, o International Hod Carriers, o Metal Polishers, Buffers, Platers and Brass Workers Union, o United Cloth and Hat Makers, o Western Federation of Miners

Highlights include:

• full panes of four different IWW Assessment and Drive stamps  three different large IWW poster stamps,  a 1907 postally used envelope with a large IWW L. U. No. 6 logo,  a full sheet of International Workers Order payment stamps,  a full sheet of Continental Congress of Workers and Farmers Economic Reconstruction fund raising stamps,  a large 25 cent Continental Congress of Workers and Farmers Economic Reconstruction fund stamp on a postally used cover postmarked the first day of the event,  International Labor Defense fund raising stamps (John & James McNamara, Father Cox, Otto Richter, Tom Mooney, and the Scottsboro Boys),  a full sheet of the “Save the Scottsboro Boys” fund raising stamp,  a 1902 postally used promotional envelope for the Brewery Workmen’s National Union, and  a postally used official Bonus Army envelope postmarked on August 8, 1932 (ten days after the riot and subsequent eviction of the marchers from the Anacostia flats camps).

There are a number of exceptionally scarce items in this collection, and it would take years to assemble one that is comparable. $2,500 #8526 SOLD

43. [MAPS] [RIVERS] [TRAVEL] The Western Pilot Containing Charts of the Ohio River, and of the Mississippi from the Mouth of the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico . . . . Also a Variety of Matter Interesting to Travellers, and All Concerned in the Navigation of those Rivers by Samuel Cummings. Cincinnati: N. and G Guilford, 1829.

Approximately 5” x 9”. Complete with [v] unnumbered introductory pages and 104 text pages with an illustrated half-title, five plates, and 44 maps (20 numbered maps of the Ohio River plus 1 unnumbered map of the “Falls of the Ohio” and 23 maps of the Mississippi River). Original quarter-leather with black paper-covered boards. Sound binding with cracked hinges. The untrimmed pages are soiled and foxed; several have marginal tears. There is a significant damp-stain to the front flyleaf and first five leaves. The cover is worn, most heavily along the spine. It would appear that this copy was used as intended.

Cummings’s Western Pilot, (published in more than 20 edition under various titles between 1822 until 1866), was the second, but most accurate and most important, guide book for the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. In addition to providing concise detailed description of twists, turns, channels, bars, and other assorted river hazards, Cummings also provided short descriptions of river cities and towns. Additionally, he included summary descriptions of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio Rivers from Flint’s Geography and History of the Western States as well as reprints of Mogan Neville’s Mike Fink biography, “The Last of the Boatmen,” and James Hall’s short story about life in a Mississippi Valley fur-trading town, “The French Village.” See Howes C-948 and Sabin 17904.

Despite its flaws, this book is complete in its original binding and, as such, it is quite scarce. As of 2016, no 1829 or earlier editions are for sale in the trade, and only two have come up for auction in the last 50 years per ABPC and the Rare Book Hub. OCLC shows many digital or microform holdings of this edition or earlier but only one real book, however Rink’s Technical Americana identifies copies at 15 institutions.

$900 #8576 SOLD

44. [MARITIME] [MEDICINE] [MILITARY & WAR] [PHILATELY] Naval Surgeon’s Letter from the USS Housatonic, the First Ship Ever Sunk by a Submarine. From R. L. Webber. Off Charleston: 25 March 1863.

2-page letter and envelope from the USS Housatonic’s Assistant Surgeon to H. F. McSherry, the Assistant Surgeon aboard the Union flagship, USS Wabash, Port Royal, South Carolina. The letter and envelope are in nice shape.

Although the Housatonic, a screw sloop-of-war, had captured several important Confederate blockage runners including the SS Georgiana, the iron steamer Princess Royal, the sloop Neptune, and the steamer Sheesh, Webber’s letter laments the prevailing boredom of daily life aboard a ship in the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the American Civil War.

“We are leading very dull and tedious lives blockading off Charleston and would much prefer being at Port Royal. . . . Lately we have been almost every night at quarters in consequence of alarms of vessels attempting to run the blockade, rockets, lights, signals, firing, etc which is not altogether very agreeable after one has just arrived in a comfortable bunk. During the day . . . we are comparatively quiet and have nothing more exciting than to gaze at Fort Sumter and Charleston or watch the movements of our vessels and thus the days pass with little variation and considerable monotony. . . .”

That would change significantly the evening of 4 February 1864 when the Housatonic became the first ship ever sunk by a submarine, the H. L. Hundley.

$500 #8585 SOLD

45. [MEDICINE] [MILITARY & WAR] [WOMEN & GIRLS] The United States Sanitary Commission. A sketch of its purposes and its work. Compiled from documents and private papers (by Katherine Prescott Wormeley). Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1863. Complete with 299 pages. Brown cloth cover with gilt spine title. Top edge gilt. Title page is neatly annotated in pencil, “By Miss Wormley (sic)” and includes owner’s information in ink, “William H. Preston’s Book Ruttland Mass.” Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages. Minor wear to cover. Wormeley was one of the best and most well-known French translators of her time. During the Civil War she served as a nurse, and this work provides a first-hand, detailed history and description of the U. S. Sanitary Commission from its organization in 1861 through 1863. The book was first sold at the Boston Sanitary Fair in December of 1863 to raise funds for the commission. It includes information about the commission’s relief work after the first Battle of Bull Run, during the Peninsular Campaign, and following the battles of Fair Oaks, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Gauley Bridge, Shiloh, Perryville, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Ship Island, Teche Island, Port Island, and in the Carolinas. Preston served as an officer in the 1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery until he was wounded in the left thigh at the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse in 1864. Following three months of hospitalization, he was discharged from the Army. $200 #8557 SOLD

46. [MEDICINE] Photograph Album Documenting a Stay at the Georgia State Tuberculosis Sanatorium. Unidentified compiler. Alto, Georgia, 1920s.

Over 290 photographs and real photo postcards are mounted on about 40 leaves within this 7” x 11” album titled, “Alto San” in hand-cut letters. Most of the images were mounted using photo corners, some were glued in place. The first leaf contains a hand-drawn map of the sanatorium. The pages and photographs are in nice shape; the album is moderately worn. Most all of the images are captioned in white. About 140 show scenes at the sanatorium; about 60 show scenes of the compiler recuperating at home; 8 are views of what appears to be the Atlantic Steel Company in Atlanta, and about 80 show scenes of a trip to the Southwest, presumably also part of recuperation regimen. Four photos from the Southwest trip show what appears to be the construction of Coolidge Dam on the Gila River near Globe, Arizona.

This album provides an important visual history of state-of-the-art medical treatment for tuberculosis—one of the most deadly and infectious diseases—in the pre-streptomycin, pre-BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) era. When Georgia opened this public sanatorium at Alto in 1911, it was the state’s most ambitious health project up until that time and ushered in a new interest in public health.

The images in this album show the sanatorium’s buildings, grounds, patients, nurses, wards, dining hall, African-American kitchen and housekeeping staff, recreational activities, holidays, entertainment, etc.

$850 #8559 SOLD

47. [MILITARY & WAR] [TRAVEL] Where and How the War Was Fought: An Armchair Tour of the American Revolution by William J. Casey. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1976

First printing with dust jacket. Inscribed “To Tommy Thompson / with best wishes / Bill Casey” on the front fly-leaf. Complete with 352 pages; maps. Almost no wear to the book; light edge-wear to the jacket. One of the best one-volume histories of the American Revolution; comprehensive, easy-to-follow, and surprisingly detailed. Casey was the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1981 to 1987. Inscribed to Tommy Thompson, perhaps the future governor of Wisconsin who would then have been a state representative. $100 #8558

48. [MILITARY & WAR] [SPORTS] Canoeing and Camping (No. 60R in Spalding’s Red Cover Series of Athletic Handbooks) by J. A. Cruikshank. New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 1915

Approximately 5” x 6.5”. Original publisher’s pictorial wrapper. Owned by Captain Oliver H. Dockery of the U. S. Army’s 15th Infantry Regiment in Tientsin, China. Complete. 118 pages of text and photographs including a portrait frontispiece; 20-page advertising section in the rear. Sound binding. Clean pages with moderate wear. Captain Dockery’s ownership information is on the front cover, title page, and edge of text block.

“Spalding’s Canoeing and Camping . . . deals with the subject in such a way that the most inexperienced camper and canoeist may become expert by following its precepts . . . it gives lucid and complete instructions for a camping or canoeing vacation, dealing with the details of camp life, various kinds of canoes and how to manipulate them . . . numerous illustrations from photographs, diagrams and detailed drawings.” (The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer, 1 Aug 1915, Vol 43, p. 115)

Dockery apparently took this book along when he was assigned to the 15th Infantry Regiment stationed in Tientsin as part of an international peace-keeping mission designed to protect civilians during the numerous revolutions and uprisings that afflicted China following the Boxer Rebellion.

Rather scarce. As of 2016, no examples are for sale in the trade. ABPC and Rare Book Hub show no auctions records. Examples are held by ten institutions per OCLC. $100 #8577

49. [MILITARY & WAR] [WOMEN & GIRLS] Collection of Letters and Ephemera from a Female YMCA Worker, Edith Phillips, in World War I France. Paris: 1918.

Three long letters from Phillips to her family describe her life in Paris while working at the YMCA’s Foyers du Soldat Headquarters. Several pieces of ephemera accompany the letters.

The Foyers provided rest and recreation services for French soldiers similar to those at American YMCA huts. Female YMCA workers were heavily outnumbered by their male counterparts and Phillips’ astute, detailed observations and unbridled opinions present a view of wartime Paris seldom seen in mail from the A.E.F. or the male service workers who accompanied it. Some highlights include her description of the trip across the Atlantic during which many soldiers died from influenza, her abysmal living conditions in Paris, a decidedly un-Christian description of Knights of Columbus service workers, the pomp and ceremony surrounding President Wilson’s visit to Paris after the war ended, and much more.

$350.00 #8525 SOLD

50. [MILITARY & WAR] Current Combat Leaflets (an official restricted notebook containing 16 Aerial Propaganda Leaflets). Hertz, Captain Martin F., Frank A. Kaufman, et al. Psychological Warfare Division, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, 1 November 1944.

24 unnumbered leaves with 17 tipped-in aerial propaganda leaflets contained in an 8” x 11” cord-bound red notebook. Apparently limited distribution; marked “Restricted” “No. 36”. Each leaflet is printed in German and attached to a page containing its identification number, short description, and instructions for use. English translations are provided for most of the leaflets. There is almost no wear to the leaflets, pages, and notebook. The leaflets have small glue stains where they have been attached to the pages. This notebook contains a collection of propaganda leaflets distributed to German forces in the five months following the allied D-Day landing at Normandy. The leaflets were “dropped in combat areas on the basis of available target and morale intelligence.” The first section contained then “current, more or less ‘timeless’ leaflets . . . available for dissemination by heavy or medium bombers. . . .” Some of the leaflets that had “been superseded by the changing military and moral picture” are mounted in the rear.

The collection includes: Two variations of the ZG45 leaflet which was “the most successful single . . . combat leaflet of the Western Campaign,” The ZG54 leaflet which numerous German prisoners identified as one of the most credible inducements to surrender, The ZG34 leaflet announcing the Hitler assassination attempt which reached many German soldiers in Normandy well before official Wehrmacht accounts, The ZG36 leaflet which emphasized the ineffectiveness of the Luftwaffe in Normandy, and The ZG57 leaflet which graphically described the annihilation of Army Group B, the 7th Army, and the Fifth Panzer Army at the Falaise Pocket in the decisive battle of the Normandy Campaign. Exceptionally scarce. As of 2016, no examples are available in the trade, no auction records listed in ABPC or the Rare Book Hub, and no institutional holdings per OCLC although one similar notebook is in General Walter Bedell Smith Collection at the Eisenhower Presidential Library. $750 #8555 SOLD

51. [MILITARY & WAR] Army Officer’s Archive including an Early Vietnam Photograph Album belonging to Lieutenant Colonel Carl L. Palmer. 1942-1973

This archive consists of official paperwork, certificates, letters, and a photograph album that belonged to Lieutenant Colonel Carl L. Palmer. The photograph album contains over 50 corner-mounted photographs ranging in size from 3.5” x 5” to 8” x 10”. About 25 additional photographs are laid-in. Most of this grouping is in nice shape, however the photograph album is missing its front cover and many of the images have significant humidity damage. The photographs appear to have be rearranged on the album pages several times. Palmer was commissioned as a cavalry officer in 1942 and commanded a company in the 7th Replacement Depot at Naples during World War II. His later assignments as an armor officer included the 7th Infantry Division in Korea, the Army Concept Team in Vietnam (ACTIV), and the 1st Armored Division at Fort Hood, Texas. After his military retirement, Palmer served in a civilian position as a Training Specialist at Fourth Army Headquarters at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The documents begin with Palmer’s initial physical exam in 1942 and end with a civilian “Reduction in Force” notification in 1976. In between are oaths of office, military school diplomas, promotion certificates, a Purple Heart award, several letters (including one notifying Palmer of a comrade’s death in a Vietnam firefight and two from an officer in the Korean Army), and more.

The collection of Vietnam combat photographs in the album is the highlight of this archive. They document Palmer’s assignment to ACTIV in 1963-1964. ACTIV, which consisted of civilian analysists and military advisors, was chartered in 1962 primarily to provide on-site evaluation and research to improve the operational effectiveness of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). Based upon the photograph content, Palmer worked with the ARVN 2nd and 3rd Armored Battalions providing advice and collecting data about the M113 Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) and Mechanized Rifle Troop operations. The photographs show

ARVN forces (including what appear to be Montagnard scouts),

M113s to conducting operations against the Viet Cong,

Captured Viet Cong being evacuated by American Huey helicopters,

Dead Viet Cong,

Damage to M113s by high caliber weapons and recoilless rifles,

A destroyed M113 (probably by a rocket propelled grenade, RPG),

What appears to be a Viet Cong Tiger Trap (a large concealed hole that could swallow half an APC),

A hasty river-wetgap crossing,

Recovery of stuck M113s, and more

The ACTIV album is an important visual record of the early American involvement in Vietnam during the administration of President Kennedy before President Johnson’s massive escalation of the war in 1964. As of 2016 no pre-1965 Vietnam War photograph albums are available within the trade. ABPC and the Rare Book Hub show no auction results for similar pre-1965 albums, and OCLC shows no pre-1965 Vietnam War albums held by institutions, however the U.S. Army Heritage and Education center has photograph collection documenting U.S. military involvement in Thailand in the early 1960s.

$1,500 #8587

52. [NATIVE AMERICANS] [WOMEN & GIRLS] Photograph Album Documenting Life on the Sac & Fox and Colville Indian Reservations. Compiled by Gladys M. Stephens. Oklahoma and Washington: 1910-1912

33 photographs mounted in a 16-page album that measures 7” x 10”. The cardboard album cover is stamped with a snakeskin design that Ms. Stephens has personalized with her name, monogram, and titled, “Photographic Miscellany.” The photographs measure 2.5” x 4.25”. All are captioned and protected by tissues inserted between the album’s leaves. An unaddressed letter from Ms. Stephens used to forward the album to a friend or family member is laid in. It is signed with her monogram and bears the return address of the U. S. Allotment Service, St. Mary’s Mission, via Omak, Washington. All in nice shape.

Four are images of the Sac and Fox Reservation in Oklahoma. Two photographs show boys and girls at the reservation school; one is of a windstorm at the school farm, and one is of Dolly Bigwater and two of her children.

The other 29 images are of the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington, which was home to a number of tribes including the Chief Joseph Band of the Nez Perce. Those photographs show the Almira-Nespelem Stage, the stagecoach aboard a Columbia River ferry, Siwash Indians including two named Klooch and Mak-It (at the time “Siwash” carried no derogatory connotation but was simply a “Chinook Jargon” term used to denote a member of a northwestern tribe), “Indian Camp Nespelem” including its Hee- Hee House, tepees, preparation for a dance, a war dance, a native herald mounted on horseback, rodeo contests, horseback racing, etc.

Although none of the photographs show Ms. Stephens, several show her Allotment Service colleagues, Faustus Hardesty and Lewsor Smaerts, at work and relaxing in and by their two tent home- offices at Camp Nespelem.

The Allotment Service was created by the now-discredited Dawes Act of 1887 to replace the failed reservation system, lift Native Americans out of poverty, and assimilate them into American society. After reservations were surveyed by the Allotment Service, adult male tribal members and married women were allotted 160 acres each for their own personal homestead. When the allotments had been completed, remaining reservation land was auctioned off to white homesteaders. From its inception, the act was decried by some as an attempt to steal tribal lands. Regardless of intent, over time it became clear that for many reasons, the program was more detrimental than the reservation system, and it was finally completely abandoned in 1948.

These images of Allotment Service workers living and working among Native Americans are exceptionally scarce. As of 2016, there are no similar collections in the trade and no auction records are listed at ABPC or the Rare Book Hub. OCLC shows only three similar albums are in institutional collections.

$3,000 #8567 SOLD

53. [NATIVE AMERICANS] [POLITICS] Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting Copies of all the Letters and Correspondence between the Secretary of War and Gen. Andrew Jackson, from the Commencement of the Creek War, to 1st March 1815. Doc. No. 146, 20th Congress, House of Representatives, 1st Session. Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1828.

Complete with 22 pages. Minor wear; previously bound so the left edge has binding holes and is a little rough.

This collection of correspondence between Andrew Jackson and Secretary of War John Armstrong was requested in 1828 by the Jacksonian majority in Congress to defend Jackson’s conduct during the Creek War of 1813-1814.

The presidential contest of 1828 between the incumbent John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson was without doubt the dirtiest election campaign in American history; it was filled personal attacks and allegations of adultery, corruption, murder, pimping, and bigamy.

As the election approached, Adams’s supporters began to once more raise questions about Jackson’s mistreatment of the Creek Indians which had plagued him for years. Although only a small fraction of the Creek Nation had rebelled, Jackson’s volunteer militia of 5,000 crushed the tribe, slaughtering over 800 men, imprisoning over 500 women and children and forcing the Creeks to cede over 23 million acres of their land (about 20% of Georgia and 60% of Alabama, where Jackson later established his personal Big Spring plantation).

Although this correspondence paints his treatment of the Creeks in a relatively favorable light, two years later the Democratic majority in Congress passed the Indian Relocation Act which Jackson quickly signed forcing the Creeks, Cherokees, Seminoles, Chickasaw, and Choctaw tribes to abandon their homeland and march along the Trail of Tears to resettlement in Oklahoma.

$500 #8560

54. [POLITICS] Song of the Shylock in a Greenback Party newspaper, Mason’s American Crusader. Sherman, Michigan: 1878.

Complete issue. Volume IX, No. 7, October 31, 1878. Four pages. Light printing but legible. Some minor edge-wear.

There isn’t much news in this “newspaper;” it is instead filled with political commentary, jokes, rumors, and classifieds (including a titillating ad for a new book, Runaway Girls and their Startling Adventures that “tells the truth” and reveals “real names”). The front-page features an image of a Greenback Dollar and the lyrics to Song of the Shylock (a parody of the then- popular hymn, I Want to Be an Angel) that satirically rails against the gold standard.

The Greenback Party (known at various times as the Independent Party, the National Independent Party, and the Greenback Labor Party) was active between 1874 and 1889, and fielded Presidential tickets in 1876, 1880, and 1884. It supported the continued use of non- gold-backed paper money, or ‘greenbacks,’ that had been issued in the North since the Civil War and opposed a return to bullion-based currency favored by the Republican Party.

The party’s position was especially appealing to farmers as a return to the gold standard would have a deflationary effect on the economy while the use of unbacked currency would continue inflating prices, making their farm debts easier to pay.

$100 #8528

55. [POTTERY & CERAMICS] [WOMEN & GIRLS] Pottery and Ceramics Scrapbook with Photographs of Stahl’s Pottery at Powder Valley, Pennsylvania. Compiled by Marguerite “Marge” M. Miller. [New York], 1942-1943.

50 pages contained in a black notebook. Approximately 8.5” x 11”. Contents include a 13-page handwritten ceramics and pottery-making instruction guide, a newspaper article and five photographs (approximately 2.5” x 4.5”) of Stahl’s Pottery at Powder Valley, one 8” x 10” photograph of Pennsylvania potter Jacob Medinger, and flyers, clippings, and brochures from and about the New York Society of Ceramic Arts, the National Arts Club Christmas Fair, the Ceramicenter on West 52nd, The Tile Club, Naaman Keyser of Plymouth Meeting Pennsylvania, California Ceramics, Innwood Pottery Studios, Ceramic Jewelry by Muriel Duncan, and B. F. Drakenfeld pottery supplies. Contents and pages are in nice shape. The album has some wear and a repaired spine; a label pasted/taped to the front cover reads, “Stalls (sic) at Powder Valley PA. Near Zionsville.”

A nice collection of mid-1940s pottery and ceramic ephemera with an informative set of instructions. The highlights of the scrapbook are the photographs.

Stahl’s Pottery was home to three generations of highly regarded redware potters, Charles, Thomas and Isaac, and Russell Stahl and artist Carrie Stahl Schultz. The photographs show Ms. Miller visiting with Isaac Stahl at his kilns and workshop. The large photograph shows Jacob Medinger, who had been making redware since the 1850s, at his potter’s wheel. He died in the 1930s, before the scrapbook was assembled, when his kiln exploded.

$400 #8588 SOLD

56. [RAILROADS] Letter about the Marietta & Cincinnati (M&C) Railroad and Hocking Valley (HV) Railway with a Hand-drawn Map of the M&C Shops in Chillicothe, Ohio. Written by E. B. Newcomb. Chillicothe, Ohio: 1877.

Four-page letter dated January 21, 1877. Clean with light wear. Legible.

In this letter Newcomb describes his job as a draftsman-mechanic at the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad and his hope to obtain a full-time draftsman job in Columbus with the Hocking Valley Railroad. While the information about his job is interesting, the highlight of the letter is his full-page hand-drawn map of the railroad's shops at Chillicothe. His map shows the roundhouse, turntable, drawing room, brass foundry, yards, mainline, and a variety of shops (blacksmith, machine, pattern, carpentry, and boiler). Founded in 1845 as the Belpre and Cincinnati Railroad, the Marietta and Cincinnati was one of five important east- west railroads of southern Ohio. Its original route ran from Marietta through Vincent, Athens, Hamden, Chillicothe, Greenfield, Blanchester, and Loveland. It was later absorbed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The Hocking Valley main line ran from Toledo to Athens and Pomeroy via Columbus. It also had several branches to the coal mines of the Hocking Valley near Athens. The company became part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway system in 1910,

$150 #8552 SOLD

57. [RAILROADS] [WATER WARS] Letter about the Basin Dam War at in Maine and the Cincinnati Southern Railroad by E. B. Newcomb. Chillicothe, Ohio: 1877.

Seven-page letter dated April 29, 1877. Clean with light wear. Legible. Partial transcript included.

In this letter Newcomb recounts some details of the now largely forgotten Basin Dam War in Maine over Sebago Lake and water rights. Newcomb's father, a Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad (later the Maine Central Railroad) employee had taken a temporary job with Columbia Mills (at the time the largest paper maker in the world) at Wescott, Maine. The mills were dependent upon water from Sebago Lake by way of the Presumpscot River, however another company, the Oriental Powder Company (at the time the fourth largest manufacturer in the United States), was located near the Sebago Lake Basin Dam and, although neither owner of the dam nor of the water rights, had traditionally controlled the flow of water. During the drought of the winter of 1876-1877, Oriental severely curtailed the flow of water downstream. After negotiations between the companies failed, Newcomb's father was one of the leaders of a force of Columbia men that drove off the Oriental employees and seized the dam. They then built a house above the dam's gates, and the Columbia men (sometimes Newcomb's father alone) lived there until the courts finally decided the issue in favor of Columbia. Newcomb also describes the then famous bridges built by Cincinnati Southern over the Kentucky and Ohio Rivers for its mainline to Chattanooga.

$175 #8553

58. [ROYCROFTERS] A Message to Garcia: Being a Preachment by Elbert Hubbard. East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1899. First edition in a permanent binding.

This is number 201 of a signed limited edition of 1000. Approximately 6” x 8.5”. 11 numbered pages. Bound in full suede “in de luxe Roycroft style” with a gilt title in a rectangular surround. A limitation statement signed by Hubbard is on the reverse of the title page. The text contains a single hand-tinted ornamental initial on page one. There were apparently several variants of this booklet produced. This one has yellow silk endpapers with a matching bookmark. The often-missing green woodcut portrait by St. Jerome of Captain Rowan (the officer who carried the message) is tipped in. Hubbard’s bookplate is affixed to the front flyleaf. (For more information, see Ogle’s description and illustration in On a High Shelf V1I on p115.) Clean, fresh pages. Light wear to the cover. The gilt lettering remains bright.

Ogle states that this version of the booklet is "the first permanent printing" of the inspirational essay--based on a true story of the Spanish-American War--that made Hubbard famous. It had been printed earlier in the year as an untitled article in the March 1899 issue of the Philistine magazine and as a very scarce 14-page paper-cover promotional pamphlet (which referred to the essay as a "homily" instead of a "preachment") for the New York Central Railroad.

The hand-painted ornamental initial on the first line of this printing features a ship designed by W. W. Denslow who was a Roycrofter before he illustrated The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Denslow's "seahorse" logo appears at the lower left corner of the ship initial and also in the center of the title page.

$375 #8572

59. [TRAVEL] Photograph Album Documenting Three Cross-County Automobile Trips. United States and Canada: 1930-[1933]

This album has over 275 photographs mounted on about 240 leaves contained in a 7” x 11.5” album. Most of the photographs measure 2.5” x 3.5”, some are 3.25” x 5”; all are mounted using photo corners. The photographs and album are in nice shape.

The album documents three separate lengthy automobile trips made by two young men, likely from Traverse City, Michigan, in the early 1930s.

The first trip begins on 1 July 1930 and follows their travel through Akron, the Allegheny Mountains, Pittsburgh, Washington DC, New York City, Plymouth, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Duluth, Montana, Glacier National Park, Idaho, Oregon, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Mojave Desert, Grand Canyon, Painted Desert, Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, Yellowstone National Park, Cody, and Deadwood.

The second group of photographs begins on 4 July 1931 and follows their travel through Kentucky, Nashville, St. Augustine, Daytona Beach, the Florida Keys, Clearwater, Ocala, New Orleans, San Antonio, Austin, Santa Fe, and Colorado.

The third group of photographs is undated, but presumably comes from the summer of 1933, and follows their travels throughout Michigan including the Mackinac Straits, Upper Peninsula (St. Ignace, Manistique, Sault Ste. Marie, Forest Lake, Gladstone), Bay City, Cadillac, Benton Harbor, Manistee, Chicago Illinois, Sand Dunes Indiana, Detroit, St. Clair, and Port Huron. In addition to the expected tourist pictures, there are many photos of their car, tents, campsites, picnicking, bridges, ferries, etc.

$2,000 #8590

60. [WOMEN & GIRLS] Anti-Suffrage Broadside – The Woman’s Bible / Elizabeth Cady Stanton / Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National Suffrage Association, one of the Revising Committee. Probably from North Carolina: No publisher identified, [1920].

Large (9.5” x 16.5”) broadside attacking women’s suffrage based upon the participation of some of the movement’s leaders in assisting Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the publication of her controversial Woman’s Bible. Very nice condition with only light edge-wear. Very good.

Although 26 women assisted Stanton in her revision of the Bible, it was rejected by even the most liberal Bible scholars and attacked by many Americans regardless of their position on a women’s right to vote. Much to the chagrin of many suffragists, the Woman’s Bible became a best-seller as a result of the controversy and greatly increased opposition to granting women voting rights. As a result of the fiasco, the National American Woman Suffrage Association officially disavowed any connection with the Woman’s Bible and effectively censured Stanton after which she no longer played any role in the suffrage movement.

The 19th Amendment was finally passed by Congress in June of 1919 after years of opposition by the Democratic Party and became law in August of 1920 after being ratified by the necessary 36 states. This broadside references a suffragist meeting in May of 1920, so it is likely published sometime between then and the following August in an effort to dissuade state politicians from voting for ratification. It was found in an accumulation of North Carolina political ephemera, and North Carolina did not ratify the amendment until 1971, over 50 years after it became the law of the land.

Quite scarce. As of 2016, OCLC shows examples held by only two institutions; an additional example is in the Ann Lewis Women’s Suffrage Collection. The Rare Book Hub shows only one auction result.

$400 #8533 SOLD