New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1878. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with silver/black lettering and gilt/black rules. 216pp. Very good. Spine lightly, sloppily shellacked, with hand-lettered paper shelf label near foot; couple inoffensive chips to front flyleaf; occasional light dampstain to some text pages edges. A tight, fairly attractive first..... More
New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1969. Hardcover. Edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford. Small 4to. Blue cloth. xiv, 298pp; 281pp. 2 frontispieces, illustrations. Near fine. Facsimile of the 2-volume 1920 first edition, tight and handsome. More
N.p. N.p., n.y. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 8pp. Near fine. Minor binding traces, else clean and attractive. Eloquent speechifying by the son of John Quincy Adams, who predicts the downfall of slavery and the inevitable victory of the Union. "The [Confederate] experiment will ignominiously fail," he intones. Soon after this Adams..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. Hardcover. 8vo. Maroon cloth. 184pp. Good plus. Inconspicuous ex-library; newspaper review tipped to front flyleaf. Ralph G. Newman's copy, with his bookplate. Four lectures on Anglo-American relations during the Civil War. Newman's bookplate, designed by Bernhardt Wall in 1943, is quite striking. NEVINS I, 242. More