POLITICAL HISTORY from Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC

Raleigh, N.C.: State Department of Archives and History, [printed by Winston Printing Co., Winston-Salem (vols. I-III) and Christian Printing Co., Durham (vols. IV-V)], 1950-1956. Five volumes. Original maroon cloth stamped in gilt. 24 x 17 cm. Fine, excepting a short (5 cm) closed tear to each of four leaves in vol. I (pp. 3-10) neatly repaired with transparent archival… Read more

London: Macmillan and Co., 1888. Two volumes. xix, [1], 750 and vii, [1], 743 pages, plus folding map in vol. I. Original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. 20.5 x 14.5 cm. Vol. I in very good condition and mostly unopened; vol. II, near very good. Vol. II shows sun-fading to the spine and rubbing and light soiling… Read more

N.Y.: Greely & McElrath, Tribune Office, [1844. Imprint at base of p. [1].] 12 pages. Self-wraps; stab-stitched (perhaps added). 22 x 13.5 cm. Removed from a bound volume. Small paper remnant on the gutter of the first page (from later plain wraps, removed and retained). Else good only. Short closed tear to first and final leaves, affecting one word… Read more

Washington, [D.C.]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961. 87th Congress, 1st Session. Senate Document No. 9. [2], 3 pages. Original printed self-wraps. 23 x 15 cm. Slight crease to lower corners, else fine. The first official printing of Kennedy's landmark speech.

Washington, [D.C.]: Foster and Cochran, 1853. 8vo. 63, [1-blank], 103, [1-blank], 48 pages, plus frontispiece and three portrait plates. Publisher's ad slip for the present work, with printed price and manuscript correction, laid-in. Original embossed black cloth with gilt spine lettering. [22.7 cm.] Front joint worn and with neat repair; corners worn. Name front pastedown… Read more

Philadelphia: John D. Avil & Co., 1883. 320, iii pages, plus [1] page errata. Portrait frontispiece and three plates (one view and two portraits). Original embossed purple cloth stamped in gold on the spine. [20.5 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference Library with light evidence of call number removal at base of spine, tasteful bookplate on front pastedown,… Read more

Greenville, S.C.: Shannon & Co., Printers, 1889. Printed at head of title page: "With Respects of Mrs. Governor B.F. Perry." [4], iii, [1], 397, [3] pages, plus frontispiece and one plate. Original black cloth stamped in gold on spine and in blind on covers. [23.4 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference Library with faint evidence of removed… Read more

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [1948-1950]. Two volumes. xv, [1], 607 and vii, [1], 608 pages, plus portrait frontispiece and plates in each volume. Original red cloth. 24 x 16 cm. Very good plus in good only dust jackets. Bookplate on each front pastedown, mild marginal foxing to plates and facing pages, still a nice… Read more

London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1863. xiii, [1], 57 pages. Original printed wraps bound into red library cloth with gilt spine title and gilt call number on front cover. [21 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference Library with bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamp on title and one other leaf, and small number stamp on verso of title… Read more

New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1899. [10], 472 pages. Original dark blue cloth, lettered in gold. Top edge gilt. [22.7 cm.] A bright, near fine copy with slightest rubbing to spine ends and corners, small, very faint spot to front cover, and some light offsetting, apparently from original dust jacket (not present)… Read more