1838 NEWSPAPER WITH LETTER DISCUSSING NAVY ANIMOSITY TO
MARINE CORPS
"The Intelligencer", Washington, D.C.
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Mayer, Henry,
ALL ON FIRE: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery.
NEW copy, trade PAPERBACK. (St Martin's Press). 707 pages.
~~~ William Lloyd Garrison, the most significant abolitionist in American history, is brought to life in this extensively researched and exquisitely nuanced biography. Long denied his well-deserved acknowledgment, Garrison finally appears in all his thunderous and prophetic brilliance in this inspiring work.
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Ackerman, Bruce,
THE FAILURE OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket.
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press: 2005). Documents,
extensive notes, index, 384 pages.
~~~
From Publishers Weekly: "Focusing on the electoral crisis of
1801, Yale constitutional scholar Ackerman advances a bold new
interpretation of early American history. The election is noted for the
electoral tie between two Republicans, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.
Jefferson won, of course, but Ackerman's focus is less on the tie than
on the sound Republican thrashing of Federalist John Adams. The fracas,
he says, revealed a serious flaw in the framework for presidential
elections: it couldn't easily accommodate party politics, which the
framers had abhorred. The tempestuous jockeying of 1801, the author
says, 'marks the birth-agony of the plebiscitarian presidency' -- that is,
having soundly defeated the Federalists, a president claimed for the
first time that the people had given him a mandate for broad change.
In sketching the consequences of Jefferson's ascendance, Ackerman also
rereads the history of the Supreme Court, suggesting that scholars have
erred in abstracting the famed Marbury v. Madison decision from the
larger political context, i.e., Federalist Chief Justice John Marshall
used judicial review to try to limit Jefferson's mandate. Ackerman
innovatively recasts the histories of parties, constitutional
interpretation and presidential politics. This is not an easy
read -- indeed, it's quite dense at times, and the argument is complex --
but the payoff is worth it. Rarely has a study of American history been
more timely."
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(Appleseed/Chapman), Lynda Durrant,
THE SUN, THE RAIN, AND THE APPLE SEED: A Novel of Johnny Appleseed's Life.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket. (FICTION: ages 10 to 14).
(Houghton Mifflin Company). Bibliography, afterword. 208 pages
~~~ From Publishers WeeklyDurrant's
(The Beaded Moccasins:
The Story of Mary Campbell) well-crafted
fictional account of Johnny Appleseed's life reads
like an adventure tale. "One for doubt under the hoe,
/ One to sprout, and one to grow." Johnny's father
might have been a drunk ("Nathaniel Chapman's very
soul stank of applejack") and an army deserter, but
with this homily he plants a seed of inspiration in
his son, who lights out for the wilderness to start
apple orchards for pioneers. As he crisscrosses the
Midwest, "Johnny Appleseed's" fervor about his
mission and his ascetic lifestyle (he owns only the
clothes upon his back, a saucepan that doubles as a
hat and cornmeal, and his seeds and a Bible given to
him as gifts) quickly makes him the stuff of legend.
"You're all the talk of the Ohio, upstream and down,"
says a settler near Cincinnati. Though his mystical
religious beliefs (he considered himself betrothed
to a pair of stars he called "spirit-wives") make
some folks nervous, they're won over by his
sincerity and bravery (during the War of 1812, he
ran for three days and nights to warn settlers of
impending native attacks). Durrant weaves history
and politics into her chronicle of Appleseed's
colorful life, along with generous helpings of
suspense, including a run-in with bears when Johnny
inadvertently tries to share their hollow log.
Lively, homespun descriptions ("Whenever he tried
to reason it out, his brain would get as muddled as
a corn-and-cranberry pudding") and an informative
afterword round out
the tale.
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(Appleseed/Chapman), Steven Kellogg (illustrated by author),
JOHNNY APPLESEED: A Tall Tale.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket. (FICTION: ages 10 to 14).
(Harper Collins). Bibliography, afterword. 208 pages
~~~ From Publishers Weekly: Johnny
Appleseed (his real last name was Chapman) is
reintroduced in this succinct rendition of the life
of a beloved American folk hero, from his birth
in Massachusetts in 1774 to his death in Indiana in
1845. Kellogg chronicles Johnny's travels throughout
the land, his legendary scattering of appleseeds
(originally culled from the orchards he frequented as
a child) and his storytelling of Bible and adventure
stories to the children and adults he meets along the
way, which were embroidered as they were passed
along by word-of-mouth). Kellogg's illustrations
illuminate a man that all schoolchildren
know, in a polished blend of fact and fiction. All
ages.
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Arner, Robert D.,
DOBSON'S ENCYLOPEDIA: THE
PUBLISHER, TEXT & PUBLICATION OF AMERICA'S FIRST BRITANNICA, 1789-1803.
University of Pennsylvania Press., 1991. NEW, still in shrinkwrap. "The only
study of the most prominent American printer, publisher and bookseller betrween
the years 1785 and 1822, and his most notable publications, a Hebrew Bible and
the first Americanized edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. The work traces
Dobson's important place in the intellectual and cultural history of the early
United States and also provides a full picture of the marketing, editing,
production and publication of the encyclopedia." 295 pages.
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(Boone), John Bakeless,
DANIEL BOONE: Master of the Wilderness.
VG/VG. Jacket, in mylar, slightly chipped at head of spine. Original price of "3.50" still intact on jacket flap.
Second printing before publication. Stated 'First Edition' on rear of title page, and "SECOND PRINTING"
on bottom of dust jacket. Book, in beige buckram with dark red
lettering & decorations, in very nice, unfaded condition. Pictorial map on endpages. Frontispiece portrait,
illustrations, bibliography, notes, index, xii, 480 pp.
~~~ Laid-in is a letter on William Morrow & Company letterhead, dated 27 Dec 1939 to a Mr Porter Welch, The Burrows Brothers Co., which reads in part: "...Immediately on receiving your letter of December 20, I searched high and low for two first editions of DANIEL BOONE and I am glad to say, by stooping to theft, I was able to get them for you and to send them along. One of the copies I stole from my own book case and the other I grabbed from Mr. Hobson when his back was turned!" The letter is signed "Polly Street", Director of Sales & Advertising at Wm Morrow & Co.
~~~ "Drawing upon much hitherto unpublished material, John Bakeless here provides the first authentic, detailed account of Boone's escape from his captivity as adopted son of Blackfish, the Shawnee chief; the first accurate story of Boone's departure in search of 'elbow-room', forced out ofthe lands he had charted for others; and the first systematic correlation of British documents with the dramatic events in Kentucky during those years when the frontier hung in the balance between the mother country and the new nation of the Thirteen Fires."
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(Boone), John Mack Faragher,
DANIEL BOONE: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer.
NEW copy. Trade PAPERBACK. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Maps, photographs, illustrations, Sources of Quoted Materials, Index, 429 pages.
~~~ In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian John Mack Faragher portrays America's famous frontier hero. Drawing from popular narrative, the public record, scraps of documentation from Boone's own hand, and a treasure of reminiscence gathered by nineteenth-century antiquarians, Faragher uses the methods of new social history to create a portrait of the man and the times he helped shape. Blending themes from a much vitalized Western and frontier history with the words and ideas of ordinary people, Faragher has produced a book that will stand as the definitive life of Daniel Boone for the next century.
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(Boone), Hartley, Cecil B.,
LIFE OF DANIEL BOONE, THE GREAT WESTERN HUNTER AND PIONEER, Comprising an Account of His Early History;
His Daring and Remarkable Career as the First Settler of Kentucky;
His thrilling Adventures with the Indians, and His Wonderful Skill, Coolnes and Sagacity under All the
Hazardous and Trying Circumstances of Western Border Life; To Which is Added: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
COMPLETE AS DICTATED BY HIMSELF, AND SHOWING HIS OWN BELIEF THAT HE WAS AN INSTRUMENT ORDAINED TO
SETTLE THE WILDERNESS.
~~~
VG-- Interior hinges cracked; book otherwise clean and sound. Maroon boards in very nice condition
with virtually no wear; slightly darkened gilt lettering on spine.
~~~ (NY: American Publishers Corporation, no date: circa 1900).
REPRINT edition. [Originally published in 1859 by Lovell, Coryell & Co, New York]. Illustrated. 351 pages.
Boone's autobiography, appended at the end, originally published in 1784.
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(Boone), Houston, Peter (edited by Ted Franklin Belue),
A SKETCH OF THE LIFE & CHARACTER OF DANIEL BOONE
NEW copy. Pictorial blue jacket over blue cloth &
tawny paper boards. (Stackpole Books, 1997). Illustrations, maps, photographs, appendices, notes,
bibliography, index, 81 pp. "Long ago Peter Houston's A SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND
CHARACTER OF DANIEL BOONE should have been properly annotated & published. Ted
Franklin Belue has done historians a genuinely useful service in transcribing
into a readily available & readable form this insightful contemporary view of
Daniel Boone & the times. This is an addition to the Daniel Boone--Frontier
America story, casting a new first-hand & contemporary light on the subject."
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(Boone), Maurice Manning,
A COMPANION FOR OWLS: Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman &c.
NEW copy. (Harcourt). POETRY. Hardcover with dust jacket. 128 pages.
~~~ Written in the voice of frontiersman Daniel Boone, A Companion
for Owls captures all the beauty and struggle of nascent America.
We follow the progression of Daniel Boone's life, a life led in war
and in the wilderness, and see the birthing of a new nation. We meet
the Cherokee, the Shawnee, and the Delaware peoples. We track the
bountiful animals and the great, undisturbed rivers. We stand aside
Boone as he buries his brother, then his wife, and finds comfort in
his friendship with a slave named Derry.
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(Boone), John James Van Noppen and Ina Woestemeyer Van Noppen,
DANIEL BOONE, BACKWOODSMAN: The Green Woods Were His Portion.
VG/VG. Jacket in mylar. (Boone, NC: The Appalachian Press, 1966).
Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index, 209 pages.
~~~ From the Authors' Note: "The Green Woods Were His Portion
deals chiefly with those members of the Boone Family who constantly moved on to form new counties and new states as long as America had land to be settled, but at the same time it depicts that integral part of American history, the ever-moving frontier.
~~~ For several years we, the authors, have sought in the British Isles the backgrounds of migrants to America during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and their motives for coming. We have asked such questions as these: to what extent were these migrants' characters influenced by their Old World backgrounds? did they achieve their aims in America? These studies were brought into focus by tracing one family with strong family ties -- the Boones, grandparents, parents, son Daniel, and his progeny.
In sociological terms this might be considered a case study of the Boones over a period of 170 years."
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(Boone), Gary J. Sweeney,
THE COLUMBUS OF THE WOODS: DANIEL BOONE AND THE TYPOLOGY OF MANIFEST DESTINY.
An Exhibition Commemorating the Columbian Quincentenary.
Washington University Gallery of Art, 1992., Fine, as new. Wraps.
Profusely illustrated, drawings, etchings, paintings, color plates, endnotes, bibliography,
checklist of the exhibition, 83 pp.
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(Boone), Steward Edward White,
DANIEL BOONE: Wilderness Scout. The Life Story and True Adventures of the Great Hunter Long Knife Who First Blazed the Wilderness Trail Through the Indian's Country to Kentucky.
VG/VG. Minor tears to head & heel of jacket spine, which is in a mylar protector.
(NY: Garden City Publishing Company, 1922). Illustrated by James Daugherty. 308 pages.
~~~ Written by author for the Boy Scouts of America: "If the Boy Scouts would know a man who in his attitude toward the life to which he was called most nearly embodied the precepts of their laws let them look on Daniel Boone. Gentle, kindly, modest, peace-loving, absolutely fearless, a master of Indian warfare, a mighty hunter, strong as a bear and active as a panther, his life was lived in daily danger, almost perpetual hardship and exposure; yet he died in his bed at nearly ninety years of age."
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Brigham, David R. .
PUBLIC CULTURE IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC: PEALE'S MUSEUM AND ITS AUDIENCE.
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. 40
illustrations distributed throughout text, notes, appendices, bibliography,
index, 218 pages. 8" x 10". Traces the unique development of Charles Willson
Peale's Philadelphia Museum as an educational institution, a business, and a
form of entertainment, exploring its place in early American cultural life, its
patrons and donors, its goal of establishing a universally educated public, and
its special audience. "His examination of both its projected and historical
audience makes an important and exciting critical move." Chandos Michael Brown,
College of William & Mary. OUT OF PRINT.
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Buker, George E.,
SWAMP SAILORS:
RIVERINE WARFARE IN THE EVERGLADES, 1835-1842.
University of Florida, 1975.
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Carpenter, Jesse T.,
THE SOUTH AS A CONSCIOUS MINORITY, 1789-1861: A Study in Political Thought.
University of South Carolina Press, 1991. NEW copy, PAPERBACK,
still in shrinkwrap. With a new introduction by John M. McCardell. "... a fine study in the
political thought of the Old South as a conscious minority seeking protection in the
American Union from the political power of a Northern majority."
~~~ Paperback edition
currently OUT OF PRINT. Hardcover in print at $89.
$20.00
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Chevalier, Michael,
SOCIETY, MANNERS, AND
POLITICS IN THE UNITED STATES: LETTERS ON NORTH AMERICA.
Gloucester, Mass., Peter Smith, 1967. Edited and with an introduction by John
William Ward. Translated after the T.G. Bradford Edition. NEW copy. Hardcover,
issued without dust jacket. OUT OF PRINT.
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Chickering & Sons,
THE JONAS CHICKERING CENTENNIAL
CELEBRATION.
Boston: Cheltenham, 1924. First Edition.
Cloth. book:Good. jacket:No Jacket. A brief biography of
Jonas Chickering, 1798-1853, piano-maker and founder of the
House of Chickering, Boston. Includes a history of the House
of Chickering, and of the centennial celebrations of the
business. Photographs, drawings, decorations, index,
55 pages.
$25.00
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Cole, Donald B. & John J. McDonough (eds).
WITNESS TO THE YOUNG REPUBLIC: A YANKEE'S JOURNAL, 1828-1870: BENJAMIN BROWN
FRENCH.
University Press of New England, 1990. NEW copy. First Edition. Maps,
genealogies, appendix, notes, index, 675 pages. Previously accessible only in
the original 11-volume journal at the Library of Congress, French's diary is a
splendid example of a 19th-century ``insider's account.'' Witnessing events in
the nation's capital from 1833 to 1870, French was acquainted personally with
every president from John Quincy Adams to Ulysses Grant. As a diarist, French
is superb; his writing style is not only clear and lucid but, with a flair for
the dramatic and the gossipy, entertaining as well. Personal accounts abound of
Jackson, Webster, and Douglas, and French, who observed Lincoln on a regular
basis, was present at the Gettysburg Address and in the room as Lincoln lay
dying; afterwards, he was in charge of the President's funeral arrangements.
The editors have culled about a third of the original 4000 pages, selecting
those passages that best depict the personalities, manners, and events of
French's time. An interesting account of the great men and events of an
important period (Library Journal). Currently in print at $60.
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Cress, Lawrence Delbert,
CITIZENS IN ARMS: The
Army & Militia in American Society to the War of 1812.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press., 1982. Fine/Fine.
NEW condition. 1st Edition. Extensive notes, bibliography, index.
238 pages. "Discusses the important ideological role of the military
in the early political life of the nation. It provides a sustained
examination of the relationship between revolutionary doctrine and the
practical considerations of military planning before and after the
American Revolution. Cress contends that the citizen-soldier occupied
a central place in the ideology of the Revolution. Changing military
needs and economic conditions, however, forced Americans to modify
classical republican perceptions of the citizen's responsibility to
bear arms in the common defense.
$35.00
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Derr, Mark,
THE FRONTIERSMAN: The Real Life and the Many Legends of Davy Crockett.
VG+. Trade PAPERBACK. (NY: Quill, William Morrow, 1993).
Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index, 304 pages.
~~~ Probably no figure in American history has been so frequently interpreted,
reinterpreted, and misinterpreted as Davy Crockett, most notably as the flawless
King of the Wild Frontier in the Disney TV series of the 1950s. Amazingly
enough, until this biography by Mark Derr, no one has sifted through the
surviving historical documents to find out the truth about a man who, for over a
century and a half, has been one of the most enduring of American symbols.
Lionized by his admirers for his humor and eccentricities and condemned by his
detractors as a drunkard, gambler, womanizer, and illiterate, Crockett
galvanized opinion from the moment he entered public life. Great bear hunter,
controversial politician, putative hero of the Alamo, Crockett was, in fact, the
quintessential product of the age of the Common Man and among the most famous
Americans of the late 1820s and early 1830s. Born into a relatively poor family,
forced at the age of twelve to begin working as a teamster, Crockett married at
nineteen and became a tenant farmer in his native Tennessee. After serving
without great distinction in the state militia during the War of 1812 and
following the death of his first wife, he remarried, this time to Elizabeth
Patton, a widow whose means and business acumen provided him with the financial
resources and family connections to enter public life. Crockett's rough grammar
and amusing anecdotes brought him victories in elections and notoriety in the
press. Sent to Congress in 1827, three years later he broke ranks with the
followers of Andrew Jackson over their failure to enact land reforms and their
program to remove the Indians living east of the Mississippi. Freakishly beaten
for reelection at the height of his national fame, he told his constituents,
"You can go to Hell, and I'll go to Texas." Author Mark Derr presents the
consequences of the fateful decision and offers his own resolution to the
controversy that has surrounded Crockett's final moments at the Alamo.
~~~ Originally published at $12, now OUT OF PRINT.
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Rourke, Constance,
DAVY CROCKETT.
VG/VG. Minor tears & scuffs to jacket, which is in mylar protector.
(NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1962). Book Club editon.
Reprint of original 1934 edition. Illustrated by Walter Seaton. 256 pages.
~~~ Blending myth and reality, Constance Rourke aimed to get at the heart of Davy
Crockett, whose hold on the American imagination was firm even before he died at
the Alamo. Davy Crockett, published in 1934, pioneered in showing the
backwoodsman's transformation into a folk hero. It remains a basic in the
Crockett literature.
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Cutler, Carl C.,
QUEENS OF THE WESTERN OCEAN:
THESTORY OF AMERICA'S MAIL AND PASSENGER SAILING LINES.
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Douglass, Frederick (John W. Blassingame, John R. McKivigan & Peter P. Hinks, eds),
THE FREDERICK DOUGLASS PAPERS: SERIES TWO: Autobiographical Writings: NARRATIVE, Volume 1.
NEW copy, still in shrinkwrap. Hardcover, issued without dust jacket. (Yale University Press, 1999). 288 pages.
~~~ This volume contains the first and most famous of Frederick Douglass's three
autobiographies, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. First published in
Boston in 1845, only seven years after Douglass's escape from bondage, the Narrative
provided the foundation for its author's antebellum reputation as a writer. Douglass
went on to write two more autobiographies, becoming one of a very small number of
nineteenth-century Americans to publish more than one account of their lives. His
books provide an unparalleled record not only of the events of his life but also of
his shifting perceptions of the complex worlds of slavery and freedom that he inhabited.
The autobiographies reflect the differences in his age (the first was written when he
was twenty-seven, the last when he was in his seventies), his memory, and his objectives
at the various times of his writing.
~~~ Currently in print at $60.
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