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Published by New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Simon & Schuster, November 2009., 2009
ISBN 10: 0743297431ISBN 13: 9780743297431
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
First edition, first printing with publisher's requisite number line upon copyright page) INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xiv, 576 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 16.25cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; light bumping at spine ends; two short creases at rear panel's center left; front flap is not price-clipped. Black spine bumped at heel with slight bumping at head of rear joint; dark purple boards. Deckle fore-edge. Author's four-line ink inscription "To Jack Turner - | With best wishes. | Robert W. Merry | November 15, 2009" on page iv; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. ISBN 9780743297431.
Published by Legare Street Press 2022-10, 2022
ISBN 10: 1015512631ISBN 13: 9781015512634
Seller: Chiron Media, Wallingford, United Kingdom
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PF. Condition: New.
Published by [Washington, DC]: NP, March 3, 1848 (read, ordered and to be printed)., 1848
Seller: OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994), West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.
Association Member: SNEAB
First Edition
First edition. Congress (30th, 1st session) Executive, No. 28. Stitched wraps. 8vo. pp. 133. Very Good+. Disbound (complete) copy with several corner chips, buckled. Correspondence (1845-48) from James Buchanan, Thomas H. Boyle, Thomas M. Cutter, John Graham, Hamilton Hamilton, Robert Hesketh, John Henry Kagel, Hugh Swinton Legare, Charles Nicholson, Gorham Parks, G. W. Slacum, Mr. Henry A. Wise with a Forbes, Forbes & Co. Circular No. LXXV "Postscript 24th January 1846", ship sales (schooner "Enterprise", barque "Pons"), Departures and Dispatches of American ships in Africa, Bahia, Bengal, Benguella, Cabinda, Cape Verd.
Published by [Washington, DC]: NP, June 6, 1846 (read, ordered and to be printed)., 1846
Seller: OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994), West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.
Association Member: SNEAB
First Edition
First edition. Congress (29th, 1st session ) Senate [377]. Stitched wraps. 8vo. pp. 248. Very Good. Disbound (complete) copy with toned text blocks, buckled. Indexed correspondence (1840-43) from James Buchanan, Lewis Cass, Edward Everett, John Forsyth, H. S. Fox, Hugh Swinton Legare, Nelson, Mr. A. Stevenson, Daniel Webster, Abel Upshur.
Published by [Washington, DC]: NP, April 20, 1846, (read, ordered and to be printed)., 1846
Seller: OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994), West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.
Association Member: SNEAB
First Edition
First edition. Congress (29th, 1st session ) Senate [300]. 3 volumes. Stitched wraps. 8vo. pp. 48. Very Good. Disbound (complete) copy with toned text blocks, buckled. Indexed correspondence (1843-45) from James Buchanan, Calhoun, Edward Everett, Hugh Swinton Legare, Nelson and incidents of American frigate "Cyrus", barque "Rhoderick Dhu", H.M. sloop "Spy", H.M. brig of war "Alert", French merchant barque "Guantimozin" with Captains Foote, Sims Bosanquet, and Dumas in the ports of Rio de Janeiro and Cabinda, Africa.
Published by The newspaper (edited by Theophilus Fiske and Jesse E. Dow), Washington, DC, 1845
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
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8vo. [353]-368 pp. [printed double-column]. Polk's first Annual Message to Congress covers pp. [353]-367 of this issue of the newspaper, preceded by short reports on the opening two days of the congressional session on the first page and followed, on the final page, by reports of congressional activities on two succeeding days and several news and commentary shorts. In his first "State of the Union" message, Polk gives an update on the annexation of Texas which he signed into law later in December, after all the remaining procedures outlined here had been fulfilled: "The terms of annexation which were offered by the United States having been accepted by Texas, the public faith of both parties is solemnly pledged to the compact of their union . questions deeply interesting to Texas, in common with the other states, the extension of our revenue laws and judicial system over her people and territory, as well as measures of a local character, will claim the early attention of Congress, and therefore upon every principle of republican government she ought to be represented in that body without unnecessary delay . if we consider the extent of the territory involved in the annexation, its prospective influence on America, the means by which it has been accomplished, springing purely from the choice of the people themselves to share the blessings of our union, the world may be challenged to furnish a parallel." Much of the rest of the first half of the message covers other situations that would lead to further expansion by the United States during Polk's term, as he related in detail problems with Mexico that would lead to war the following year and negotiations with Great Britain over the status of the Oregon Territory; in the second half, Polk addressed financial issues and other domestic policy, closing with a short eulogy for Andrew Jackson, his mentor who died the previous June. OCLC records 8 copies of this issue as part of runs (Stanford, Library of Congress, Newberry, American Antiquarian Society, New York Public, Dickinson College, Texas-Austin, Western Reserve Historical Society). Completely untrimmed and unopened, quite rare thus; accompanied by two other issues, Vol. 1, Nos. 17 and 23, the former with a celebratory poem on the prospect of Texas becoming a state, the latter with a note that Ex-Republic of Texas President Mirabeau Lamar and Gen. Thomas J. Rusk had been nominated to be the first U.S. Senators from that state (Rusk and Sam Houston were elected to fill the seats). Original self wrappers (a little soiled). (10775).
Published by Washington: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, 1847., 1847
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
8vo., (9 1/8 x 5 ¾ inches). (Light spotting and some browning throughout). 13 fine folding lithographed maps, including those of the major California and New Mexico battles; five folding tables (one or two short tears at mounts, some new folds). Contemporary half deer, marbled paper boards (front cover nearly detached, spine quite worn). Provenance: Original official address label in manuscript to Dudley Marvin (1786-1856), U.S. Representative from New York, tipped in before the title page. Bookseller's label to front pastedown: "Aldredge Book Store Fine Books Dallas." First edition. This is Executive Doc. No. 1, of the Thirtieth Congress, issued for the Senate, and it is a large document, consisting of 1369 pages, plus an appendix relating to the war with Mexico and other western affairs. In addition to the important maps, it contains diplomatic correspondence, military reports, statistical records, occupation records, and other papers relating to the conflict, as well as the reports of the Army's Chief Engineer, the Superintendent of West Point, and the Chief of the Topographical Engineers. The first 500 pages alone is "a detailed military history of the Mexican War, except the opening operations of 1846 . . . accompanied by the reports of the officers in the field covering the military operations from the battle of Buena Vista to the capture of the city of Mexico. An appendix of 249 pages supplies further military reports, chiefly from subordinate officers" (Lamed 2014). The maps include: a "Plan of the Battle of Buena Vista," "Battles of Mexico: Line of Operations of the U.S. Army under the Command of Major General Winfield Scott on the 19th and 20th of August 1847, Surveyed by Maj. Turnbull, Capt. McClellan and Lieut. Hardcastle Corps of Top Engineers, Drawn by Lieut. Hardcastle," a "Sketch of the Battle of Sacramento," and an untitled map showing Sierra Nevada and the Gulf of California. "One of America's most successful conflicts militarily, the Mexican War added vast territories to the national domain. It also, however, provoked anti-Americanism in Mexico and contributed to the sectional tension that culminated in the Civil War. The conflict was an outgrowth of U.S. expansionism (expressed in the popular slogan 'Manifest Destiny,' coined in 1845). In an immediate sense, warfare erupted because of a dispute over the boundary separating Mexico and Texas, exacerbated by Mexico's defaulting in 1844 on payments to satisfy American citizens' claims for losses sustained in Mexico. The U.S. government, after annexing the Republic of Texas in 1845, upheld Texas's claim to the Rio Grande River as its border with Mexico. Mexican authorities neither recognized Texas's independence from Mexico (achieved in 1836) nor its annexation by the United States; they also claimed that Texas extended only to the Nueces River. The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, signed by U.S. negotiator Nicholas P. Trist with Mexican officials on 2 February 1848 and ratified by the U.S. Senate on 10 March, ended the war. It ceded to the United States some 500,000 square miles--including the disputed boundary area and what would become today's states of California, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming--in return for $15 million and the U.S. government's assumption of up to $3.25 million in American claims against Mexico. The United States agreed to honor the property rights of current inhabitants of the ceded territories, though the process was unevenly applied, and most residents lost their land over time. The last U.S. forces evacuated Mexico in August 1848" (Robert E. May for ANB). Sabin 48113. Dudley Marvin was a lawyer and Representative from New York. In 1812 he served as lieutenant in the state militia and eventually became major general. He was elected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and reelected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses (1823-1829). He developed and patented.