New York: Dix, Edwards & Co., 1856. First edition, 12mo, pp. [6], 345, [1], [8], Dix & Edwards ads dated Sept. 1, 1856; original blindstamped brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine; some cracking of the cloth along the fore-edge; all else very good and sound. A collection of contributions..... More

Springfield: Samuel Bowles and Company, 1865. First edition, 8vo, pp. 21, [3]; original printed paper wrappers; wrappers starting, text just starting to tone; else very good. Monaghan 541, citing 300 copies printed; Sabin 30091. More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1957. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxxvi, 241; frontispiece, special edition, signed by the editor; original blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket; jacket clipped, else fine. The diary begins on September 15, 1861 and ends in December 1865. More

Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, printers, Goldsmiths Hall, Library Street, 1863. First edition, 8vo, pp. 12; original printed wrappers; lower wrapper starting, shallow chipping on fore-edge, very good. The Loyal National League was a pro-Union organization that sought to bolster morale and champion the Union cause. More

[London]: Brian Todd Publishing House Ltd., [1990]. First edition, 4to, pp. 220; maps, badges of rank, illustrations by Codd and from contemporary sources throughout in color and black & white; fine copy in the dust jacket. More

Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co, 1865. First edition, pp. 28; original printed paper wrappers separated but present; light chipping to spine, text clean and sound. Armory Dwight Mayo spent the latter half of his career as a traveling teacher in the south, educating newly freed blacks and poor whites. Monaghan..... More

Philadelphia: March 25, 1862. An unrecorded Civil-War era broadside, approx. 12" x 9¼", generally fine condition. With two oramental woodcuts of sailing ships, and printed in wood and metal types. According to the Dictionary of American Fighting Ships, the USS Gemsbock was a 622-ton bark armed with four 8-inch guns..... More

Richmond, Va. May 12, 1865. Small printed pro-forma broadside approx. 5" square accomplished in ink in several hands. Issued shortly after the close of the Civil War when travel by civilians in formerly Confederate territory was still closely monitored by Union troops. This pass allows Schuyler "to pass from these..... More

V.p., v.d., as below. The Right of Secession. A review of the Message of Jefferson Davis to the Congress of the Confederate States, Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow, and Co., 1861, pp. 39, [1]; bound with: To the People of Massachusetts [drop title], n.p., 1862, pp. 12; bound with: Habeas Corpus and..... More

Mason City [IA]: 1862. Bifolium letter, 7.5" x 4.5", text on three pages, keeping a friend up to date on the conditions of the city. Prior folds, near fine. Phelps notes that a large number of refugees have arrived from Kanawha, the whites in order to avoid conscription into the..... More

Port Clinton, OH: BNR Press, 1995. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 5-551, [7]; illustrated throughout; fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. With little small coinage in circulation, Congress passed legislation to monetize postage stamps - a miserable failure until Gault's invention of small brass cases to house the..... More

Boston: printed by Warren Richardson, No. 11 Milk Street, 1869. 12mo, pp. 21, [3]; pictorial tan paper wrappers; wrappers toned with 1 sq. inch chip out at lower edge of upper cover, occasional spotting, good or better. "These sketches appeared originally in the 'Wide World' newspaper, published in this city"..... More

[Albuquerque, New Mexico]: The University of New Mexico Press, [1966]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 397; black & white illustrations; original green cloth decorated in black, pictorial dust jacket; occasional pencil notations, light soiling to bottom edge and dust jacket, else very good. More