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Scripturally Enslaved : Bible Politics, Slavery, and the American Renaissance 172 pages ; 24 cm. 2009. Investigates the ways in which the literature of the American Renaissance negotiates the ethical, theological, political, and aesthetic implications of the Bible's entanglement in the mid-nineteenth-century debts over slavery. In chapters on both nonfiction (sermons, ethnographies, and political rulings) and fiction (Edgar Allan Poe's… Read more about this item

Hello; Shipping will be more than stated. Please contact me for cost via media mail or priotrity mail Captain Blake, 1891, 1st Edition-- Very Good Condtion Under Fire, 1895, -Good condition; The Deserter and From the Ranks, 1889; Good A Trooper Galahad, 1899, First Edition ?, Very Good condtion Between the Lines, 1888 First Edition- Very Good A Wartime Wooing: 1888 First Edition- Very Good Laramie… Read more about this item

Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill, #75 of 775 of Limited SIGNED Edition, 1930,Hardcover Publisher: Horace Liveright, 1930 Used - an overall Very Good minus copy in the original rare dust jacket and rare slipcase. This copy is number 75 of 750 sold (775 total)with O'neill's signature. Dust jacket. Quarter black cloth over nicely batik covered boards with title and author to spine.… Read more about this item

Hare, J. I. Clark (John Innes Clark); Wallace, H. B. (Horace Binney) Publication date 1857: 4th Edition Enlarged… Read more about this item

Hagen, Johann G. Georgetown College Observatory-Observations of Variable Stars, 1901. Made in the years 1884-1890; Part 1 : The Observations. 147 pages. Washington D.C. 9 1/2 inches by 12 inches. Good Condition. Wear to hardcovers and spine. The interior text is Very Good" Hagen was… Read more about this item

Harvard University Printing Office, 1947,Very Rare Limited First Edition, First Printing of an Edition of 80 and as stated "at the request of the author, no copies are for sale." Actually the edition size was reduced from 80 to by the calling-in of copies, which were sent to Eliot for disposal. This is #75 out of the original 80. The… Read more about this item

New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with all points including the infamous "curved fly" on page 283. Published in 1884-1885. Publisher's half morocco, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, 173 text illustrations after E. W. Kemble. ******** Copies in the original half morocco binding with the "curved fly" illustration are the rarest of the Adventures… Read more about this item

* Note: Shipping charges will be adjusted after sale. If you want to know them, please write with your location zip code. The Death of the Gallant Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery at the Battle of Palo Alto, Texas), Who was Mortally Wounded During the Engagement of the 8th May, Historical > Mexican… Read more about this item

Plate CXIV1. Defenses of Nashville, Tenn. Fort at Hyde's Ferry;2. Defenses of Nashville, Tenn. Plan and Section of Redoubt;3. Defenses of Nashville, Tenn. Fort Harker;4. Trace of Interior Crest Fort Pickering, Memphis, Tenn.;5. Fort Donelson, Tenn.;6. Memphis and its Environs. Made by The War Records Office, 1893-color lithograph-about 19 inches by 29 inches

This is an original document printed by the U.S. Congress for the Congress, constituents, state governments, and other interested parties in 1862. Memorial (meaning petition) by the Military Board of Kentucky to the 37th Congress in 1862 on behalf of its soldiers fighting for the Union to receive the same compensation as they would have had while in actual duty before… Read more about this item

The Only One on the Internet. Will consider offers. An American Dictionary of the English language : exhibiting the origin, orthography, pronunciation, and definitions of words / by Noah Webster ; abridged from the quarto edition of the author, to which are added, a synopsis of words differently pronounced by different orthoëpists ; and Walker's Key to the classical pronunciation… Read more about this item

For consideration: These wall coverings could be framed for display.Newark, DE/ Scottsdale, AZ: Schumacher Co./ Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Frank Lloyd Wright: Wallcoverings (title from cover) (Wright). Trade catalogue.- Newark, DE/ Scottsdale, AZ. Schumacher Co./ Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. There are seventy pages that are numbered corresponding to listed samples. There are 17 unpaged samples… Read more about this item

Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1931 THE LAST HERO-A "Saint" novel. Leslie Charteris. Published by Doubleday, Doran and Company for The Crime Club, 1931. Garden City, New York. Stated FIRST EDITION. The book appears Unread because the book spine is not fully "cracked" open and the pages are still siff from being unused. Exceptionally clean inside with one… Read more about this item

Chicago: Volland, 1913 OH SKIN-NAY! The Days of Real Sport Illustrated by BRIGGS, Clare . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by BRIGGS, Clare. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A very scarce and unusual VOLLAND BOOK, every other page is illustrated with 3-color cartoon-like illustrations by [Clare] Briggs with verses by WILBUR NESBIT opposite. Text… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988 TO THE PLACE OF TRUMPETS by BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY. FOREWORD BY JAMES MERRILL. New Haven, Yale University Press. 1988. First Edition, first printing with the number line starting with 1 (one) on copyright page. This is the rare and highly-sought after First book of poetry by renowned American poet Brigit Pegeen Kelly. Kelly's poems… Read more about this item

London: Methuen, 1933 "The Widow and Other Poems" by Ada Jackson. Ex-library in Very Good condition. Publisher: London: Methuen, 1933, London; Hard Cover. First edition. The poet's FIRST book; published in Methuen's series The Gateway Poets'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.