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BEST OF 2019 Yesterday’s Muse Books, ABAA 32 W Main St Webster NY 14580 585-265-9295 www.yesterdaysmuse.com [email protected] All items subject to prior sale. Orders can be placed by phone or e-mail, or directly through our website. Payment is expected at the time of your order and may be made by check, credit card, or PayPal direct transfer. Institutions, fellow booksellers, and repeat customers may request to pay on invoice, with payment due upon receipt unless other arrangements have been made prior to purchase. All items are guaranteed to be as described with respect to edition, condition, and authenticity. Returns will be accepted for any reason, though we ask that you provide notice within a reasonable timeframe. Our usual trade courtesies extended (please inquire). Shipping: All prices include free shipment with tracking by USPS Media Mail. Upgrades to USPS Priority Mail, FedEx Ground, etc., as well as international shipping, are available, and will be charged at cost (please inquire for quote). All orders are carefully wrapped and packaged in sturdy shipping boxes. Catalogs: To receive future catalogs by e-mail, please contact us to be added to our mailing list, or join directly on our website. Printed versions of all our catalogs are also available upon request. Previous catalogs are archived on our website. 3 1. [Adventure] Billings, Commodore [Joseph]; Sauer, M. [Martin]; Castera, J. Voyage Fait par Ordre de l’Imperatrice de Russie Catherine II, Dans le Nord de la Russia Asiatique, Dans la Mer Glaciale, Dans la Mer d’Anadyr, et sur les Cotes de l’Amerique, Depuis 1785 Jusqu’en 1794, in Two Volumes. Chez F. Buisson, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1802. First French translation of the work published in English the same year. Lacks the large atlas volume. xxiv, 385, [1]; 418 pp. 8vo. French text. An account of Commodore Joseph Billings’s expedition in search of a northeast passage on behalf of Catherine the Great $1,250 (1785-1794), which resulted in significant advances in maps of Siberia, Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, Prince William Sound, etc. Very good. Rebound with new end sheets. Bottom corner torn from last text page in first volume (no loss of text), faintly foxed. 2. [African American History] Cheney, John Vance Memorable American Speeches III: Slavery (The Lakeside Classics Volume 7) The Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1909. First thus. 309, [5] pp. Frontispiece of Wendell Phillips, from a photograph by J.W. Black. An early volume from the collectible Lakeside Classic series, collecting four important speeches regarding the discussion of slavery and abolition in 19th century America. Includes four speeches: On the Missouri Question by William Pinkney; On the Philosophy of the Abolition Movement by Wendell Phillips; On the Kansas-Nebraska Bill by Stephen A. $750 Douglas; The Crime against Kansas by Charles Sumner. Near fine. 3. [African American History] Dunbar, Alice Moore; Douglass, Frederick; Washington, Booker T.; Dubois, W.E.B. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence: The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the Days of Slavery to the Present Time The Bookery Publishing Company, 1914. First edition. 512 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Frederick Douglass. A collection of speeches by African Americans featuring contributions by Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, etc. (please visit our website for a full list of contents). Good. Hinges weakening, light $175 stain to top marginal corner of first few pages, boards a bit rubbed. 4. [African American History] Fitzhugh, George Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters A. Morris, Publisher, 1857. First edition. xxiii, [24]-379, [7] pp. 8vo. Howes F-164: “influenced profoundly southern belief in Negro inferiority.” Sabin 24617. “Cannibals All! got more attention in William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator than any other book in the history of that abolitionist journal. And Lincoln is said to have been more angered by George Fitzhugh than by any other pro-slavery writer, yet he unconsciously paraphrased Cannibals All! in his House Divided speech. Fitzhugh was provocative because of his stinging attack on free society, laissez-faire economy, and $500 wage slavery, along with their philosophical underpinnings. He used socialist doctrine to defend slavery and drew upon the same evidence Marx used in his indictment of capitalism. Socialism, he held, was only “the new fashionable name for slavery,” though slavery was far more humane and responsible, “the best and most common form of socialism.” His most effective testimony was furnished by the abolitionists themselves. He combed the diatribes of their friends, the reformers, transcendentalists, and utopians, against the social evils of the North. “Why all this,” he asked, “except that free society is a failure?” The trouble all started, according to Fitzhugh, with John Locke, “a presumptuous charlatan,” and with the heresies of the Enlightenment. In the great Lockean consensus that makes up American thought from Benjamin Franklin to Franklin Roosevelt, Fitzhugh therefore stands out as a lone dissenter who makes the conventional polarities between Jefferson and Hamilton, or Hoover and Roosevelt, seem insignificant. Beside him Taylor, Randolph, and Calhoun blend inconspicuously into the American consensus, all being apostles of John Locke in some degree. An intellectual tradition that suffers from uniformity--even if it is virtuous, liberal conformity--could stand a bit of contrast, and George Fitzhugh can supply more of it than any other American thinker.” Good. Rebound with new end sheets. Moderately foxed throughout. www.yesterdaysmuse.com 4 5. [African American History] King, Martin Luther, Jr. Strength to Love Harper & Row, 1963. First edition (stated, with $3.50 price on jacket). x, [2], 146, [2] pp. 8vo. King’s second book, a collection of sermons preaching the value of love and nonviolence, and urging the sort of mutual understanding and respect King spoke about during his speeches as a civil right activist. “”If there is one book Martin Luther King, Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives, it is Strength to Love.” So wrote Coretta Scott King. She continued: “I believe it is because this book best explains the central element of Martin Luther King, Jr.’ s philosophy $250 of nonviolence: His belief in a divine, loving presence that binds all life. By reaching into and beyond ourselves and tapping the transcendent moral ethic of love, we shall overcome these evils.” In these short meditative and sermonic pieces, some of them composed in jails and all of them crafted during the tumultuous years of the Civil Rights struggle, Dr. King articulated and espoused in a deeply personal compelling way his commitment to justice and to the intellectual, moral, and spiritual conversion that makes his work as much a blueprint today for Christian discipleship as it was then. Individual readers, as well as church groups and students will find in this work a challenging yet energizing vision of God and redemptive love.” Near fine in very good jacket. Owner bookplate remnant on front endpaper, reverse of jacket foxed, jacket a bit rubbed. 6. [Americana, Western] Lake, Stuart N. Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1931. First edition, later state (Howes L-27): p. 25: ‘senventy-five’; p. 54: ‘belly’. ix, [3], 392 pp. 8vo. The book credited with the elevation of Earp to his status as a hero of the American West, criticized by some for ignoring less glorious portions of Earp’s life and career. Very good. Spine faded, ink name on front endpaper. 7. [Americana, Western] Udell, John $150 Incidents of Travel to California, across the Great Plains; together with the Return Trips through Central America and Jamaica; to which are added Sketches of the Author’s Life. Printed for the Author at the Sentinel Office, 1856. First edition. viii, [9], 302, [6] pp. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of author. Howes U-3. Sabin 97663. Early accounts of California and the gold rush, Salt Lake City and the Mormons, the Pacific (i.e. transcontinental) railroad, Nicaragua, Panama, and Jamaica. Also included is the Declaration of $1,250 Independence in its entirety. Udell was a farmer and Baptist preacher who made the journey to California four times, returning by sea the first three times, and remaining there the fourth. Many dealers seem to think their copies of this work bear Udell’s handwritten name beneath the frontispiece portrait (‘Your Friend, John Udell’), but this is clearly printed. This appears to spring from some confusion about the enumeration of editions in Howes’s US-iana: he states ‘rptd. L A 1946. O [4, 9-20] 88 8pls 775 copies [25signed]’, which clearly refers to the 1946 reissue, not this 1856 original. They are correct to note, however, that some copies did not include the frontispiece (Howes notes: ‘302 errata 1. port [not issued in all copies; probably added after some had been distributed]’). The copy we offer here does. Very good. Rebound with new end sheets. Foxed throughout with some transfer, ink ownership stamp of Amos Weiss on a couple pages. 8. [Americana] [United States Congress] Journals of Congress: Containing Their Proceedings from January 1, 1781, to November 2, 1782. Published by Authority. Volume VII. From Folwell’s Press. Folwell’s Press, 1800. 1800 Folwell’s Press printing, preceded only by Claypoole and Patterson editions (see Evans 17767). One of 400 copies. 396, [38] pp. 8vo. A very early collection of congressional proceedings, recounting events that preceded the United States Constitution. At this time, the thirteen states were just completing the ratification of the Articles of Confederation, after which point the specifics of the country’s political structure needed to be decided upon and codified. These $750 proceedings provide an interesting glimpse into this formative time in American www.yesterdaysmuse.com 5 history.

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