![Item #002615 The Advocate of Peace for May and June [1861]. American Peace Society](https://classicbooksandephemera.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/002615.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1472082248)
Boston: American Peace Society, 1861. Paperback. [1], 230-260 p.; 23 cm. Brown wrappers printed in black. Wrapper title. Paginated continuously with previous issues. Disbound from a miscellaneous volume. Much of the issue addresses the effect of the secession of the Southern states on the nation, immediately prior to the First..... More
Boston: Whipple and Damrell, 1837. Paperback. [1], 98-144 p.; 23 cm. Brown wrappers printed in black. Wrapper title. Paginated continuously with previous issues. Disbound from a miscellaneous volume. Stamp of Dickinson Library Pamphlet Collection at head of front wrapper. Embossed stamp of Dickinson College Library on first leaf. Contents: Address..... More
Boston: Whipple and Damrell, 1839. Paperback. 24 p.; 23 cm. Blue wrappers printed in black. Wrapper title. Disbound from a miscellaneous volume. "Dickinson College Reading Room" in an old hand and stamp of Dickinson Library Pamphlet Collection at head of front wrapper. Embossed stamp of Dickinson College Library on first..... More
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1972. Hardcover. xi, [1], 376 p.; 23 cm. Blue cloth with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser was a newspaper published in Washington, D.C., from 1800 to 1870. The author examines the important roles played by the..... More
Boston: Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, 1821. 1-page printed letter from a committee of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, dated 14 April 1821, Boston. The members of the committee are: William H. Sumner, William Sullivan, H. A. S. Dearborn, Benjamin Loring, Thaddeus Page, Samuel H...... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. Paperback. Second printing. x, 389, [1] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback. "The Harlem of which Anderson writes was an outpost of American optimism, a gathering place for the avant-garde in music, dance, and democratic interracial relationships; and, as the site and symbol of America's..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Paperback. [24], 500, [16] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. "It began in 1960 with the Greensboro sit-ins. By 1973, when a few Native Americans rebelled at Wounded Knee and the U.S. Army came home from Vietnam, it was over. In between..... More
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. Hardcover. 256 p.: illustrations; 31 cm. Dark brown cloth with gilt spine title; blind-stamped title on front cover. Illustrated dust jacket. Appendices contain lists of orchestra members; world and U.S. premieres; discography and filmography; presidents or chairmen of the board of directors, volunteer commitees, and..... More
![Item #004736 A Record of the Opera in Philadelphia by W.G. Armstrong [provenance: Fry family]. W....](https://classicbooksandephemera.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/004736.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1472082381)
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1884. Hardcover. 274 p.; 26 cm. Dark brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; bevelled board edges. Top page edges gilt. Dark brown endpapers. Program from a lecture at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on Jan. 12, 1920, tipped on to front free endpaper. The lecture was..... More
Philadelphia, Pa. Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1853. First Edition. Hard Cover. First edition. 316, 20 p.; 18 cm. Contemporary black morocco spine with gilt-tooled spine title and blind-tooled spine decoration. Black cloth over boards. All page edges marbled. Part of the series Lippincott's Cabinet Histories of the States. Added engraved..... More
New York: Amistad, 1993. Hardcover. First published in 1988; this is the updated Amistad Press hardcover issued in May 1993. Vol. 1 only: xx, 194 pages, 32 pages of illustrations; 24 cm. Black cover with gilt spine title and publisher's emblem on front cover. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Includes..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Hardcover. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture. 376 p.: color illustrations, maps; 31 cm. Red cloth with silver spine title. Decorated endpaper. Illustrated dust jacket. Includes a timeline, a...... More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1994. Hardcover. Revised Edition. First Printing. ix, [1], 564 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Red cloth with white spine title. Dust jacket. Influential theater critic Books Atkinson (1894-1984) worked for the New York times from 1922 to 1960. "here is a lively, anecdotal history of the..... More
Harrisburg: Aurand Press, 1940. Paperback. Ninth printing. 24 p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Stapled grey wrapper printed in black; front wrapper illustration. Back wrapper contains list of books and pamphlets by the author. Wrapper title. "Historical" is misspelled on title page as "Historial." Former owner's name at head of front wrapper..... More
Boston: Rowe and Hooper, 1816. Hardcover. Title continued: "who was captured at sea by the British, in May, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and was confined first, at Melville island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England, and last, at Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed with observations, anecdotes and remarks, tending to illustrate the..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. [1], 408-417, [3] p., 2 leaves of engraved plates (containing 7 illustrations); 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. This article by Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was read before the Society on April 2, 1836. Bache was the great-grandson of Benjamin..... More
Philadelphia: Philadelphia City Planning Commission, 1963. Paperback. 31, [1] p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Paperback, stapled; orange cover printed with a map of the city of Philadelphia in white and cover title in black. The executive director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission was Edmund N. Bacon. Illustrations include: a chart..... More
Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1964. Hardcover. 228 p.; 21 cm. Light blue-grey cloth with gilt spine title. Dust jacket in lined cover. Southern Historical Publications #2. "A biography of alabama's first Senator, this book is also the fascinating story of southern frontier life as portrayed in contemporary letters..... More
Hamburg: Universitätspublikationen, 2001. Paperback. 515 p.: maps, tables; 22 cm. Paperback. This disseration examines the development, structure, and mobility of the white collar group in and around Philadelphia from 1900 to 1970 through an extended database. This reveals the differences in career paths of men and women, as well as..... More
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1917. 3, [1] p.; 33 cm. "Miscellaneous. No. 3 (1917)." Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930) had become foreign secretary in David Lloyd George' coalition the previous month. In response to the United States' desire for a peaceful resolution to the war, he argues here that Britain..... More
Boston: T. Bedlington, 1826. Hard Cover. 2 volumes: each with a frontispiece and an added engraved title page; 15 cm. Contemporary full calf with five spine compartments between double gilt rules; black spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title Life of Washington. Title page of vol. 1 is dated..... More
New York: Leonard Scott Publication Co., 1900. Paperback. 8, [1], 686-880, 9-12 p.: illustrated advertisements; 25 cm. Paperback. Contents include: Cabinet Government or Departmentalism? by J. A. R. Marriott -- The Lake-Dwellers by the Rev. Dr. Jessopp -- Extravagance in Dress by Lady Guendolen Ramsden -- Voice Culture by Mrs..... More
Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, 1926. Paperback. 233 p., frontispiece: illustrations, tables; 23 cm. Brown paper cover; cover tilte in dark brown. "Art Handbook of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art" -- at head of title page. Former owner's name at upper edge of front..... More
New Haven, Conn. J.W. Barber, 1832. Hardcover. Although the title page gives 1831 as the date of publication, this edition includes material added in 1832. 120 p.: hand-colored frontispiece map and 7 leaves of hand-colored plates; 19 cm. Modern calf with gilt-tooled spine and cover titles; yellow endpapers. Includes in-text..... More
Torino, IT: Otto Editore, 2003. Paperback. [6], 638 p.; 24 cm. Paperback. Part of the series Nova Americana in English. "This book is the result of a research network formed by historians and literary critics of the Unites States from different Italian universities, in cooperation with U.S. and European Americanists."..... More