Key to the City of New York by [Floyd Patterson] - August 23, 1974

New York: R. H. Russell, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. 4vo., xxxi, 298pp.; VG; bound in publishers paper boards with tan cloth spine, gilt lettering on spine; spine shows light bug flecking, paper split over one forecorner; front board has a large cover label pasted on, bright and unrubbed; protected with a plastic covering; pages are uncut along the fore edge; minor bumping to head and tail of spine, corners; bookplate of Collin Armstrong on ffep; ; interior clean; top edge of text block gilt, others uncut; with eight plates by Parrish, plus cover picture; in uncommonly nice condition; NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1336120. FP New Rockville Stock.

Elisha B. Perkins. Address Delivered Before the Peace Society of Windham County at Its Annual Meeting in Brooklyn. August 20th, 1828. 8vo. Brooklyn, Con. Advertiser Press - William H. Bigelow, 1828. Second Edition. 32 pages. Original self-cover, disbound.Some light foxing, o/w Very Nice.

Translated into French by Henri Robillot. Illustrated with original Frontispiece and full-page color lithographs by Garcia-Fons. 8vo. Padded faux leather, gilt design. André Sauret; de la Collection des Douze Meilleurs Romans Policiers. No. 11. Lithographs printed at Les Presses de Mourlot Frères, Paris 1969. First French Illustrated Edition. Limited to a small number on alfa paper, unnumbered. Fine.

Original 3-page typescript poem, signed by Nash. The poem begins, "HarK! Hark! The lark at Heaven's gate sings – / Shut up, lark! / "And Phoebus 'grins arise -" / Sit down, Phoebus, before I knock you down!" Fine.

Douglas visited Richmond on the invitation of the Central Democratic Association, and spoke in the African Church, "the most capacious building of the place . . . A vast audience collected to hear him – filling to overflow the entire hall and galleries, and blocking up the doors, windows, and aisles." (Richmond Examiner). Douglas spoke in support of the Democratic candidate Franklin Pierce against the Whig, Winfield Scott, in the Presidential Campaign. Douglas argued that a professional Army officer, such as Scott, should not be president of a free Republic and noted the Whigs' nativist policies. The southern Democrats were convinced that Franklin Pierce's administration would secure the future of slavery in the territories, while Northern Democrats were relieved to nominate a candidate that did not have any radical pro- or anti-slavery principles. The First African Baptist Church was founded in 1841. It's members initially included both slaves and freemen. At one point it was one of the largest… Read More

New York: R. H. Russell, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. 4vo., xxxi, 298pp.; VG; bound in publishers paper boards with tan cloth spine, gilt lettering on spine; spine shows light bug flecking, paper split over one forecorner; front board has a large cover label pasted on, bright and unrubbed; protected with a plastic covering; pages are uncut along the fore edge; minor bumping to head and tail of spine, corners; bookplate of Collin Armstrong on ffep; ; interior clean; top edge of text block gilt, others uncut; with eight plates by Parrish, plus cover picture; in uncommonly nice condition; NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1336120. FP New Rockville Stock.

Elisha B. Perkins. Address Delivered Before the Peace Society of Windham County at Its Annual Meeting in Brooklyn. August 20th, 1828. 8vo. Brooklyn, Con. Advertiser Press - William H. Bigelow, 1828. Second Edition. 32 pages. Original self-cover, disbound.Some light foxing, o/w Very Nice.

Translated into French by Henri Robillot. Illustrated with original Frontispiece and full-page color lithographs by Garcia-Fons. 8vo. Padded faux leather, gilt design. André Sauret; de la Collection des Douze Meilleurs Romans Policiers. No. 11. Lithographs printed at Les Presses de Mourlot Frères, Paris 1969. First French Illustrated Edition. Limited to a small number on alfa paper, unnumbered. Fine.

Original 3-page typescript poem, signed by Nash. The poem begins, "HarK! Hark! The lark at Heaven's gate sings – / Shut up, lark! / "And Phoebus 'grins arise -" / Sit down, Phoebus, before I knock you down!" Fine.

Douglas visited Richmond on the invitation of the Central Democratic Association, and spoke in the African Church, "the most capacious building of the place . . . A vast audience collected to hear him – filling to overflow the entire hall and galleries, and blocking up the doors, windows, and aisles." (Richmond Examiner). Douglas spoke in support of the Democratic candidate Franklin Pierce against the Whig, Winfield Scott, in the Presidential Campaign. Douglas argued that a professional Army officer, such as Scott, should not be president of a free Republic and noted the Whigs' nativist policies. The southern Democrats were convinced that Franklin Pierce's administration would secure the future of slavery in the territories, while Northern Democrats were relieved to nominate a candidate that did not have any radical pro- or anti-slavery principles. The First African Baptist Church was founded in 1841. It's members initially included both slaves and freemen. At one point it was one of the largest… Read More