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Condition: Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, June 1 (SALE item)* vol. 23#126 (contents page incorrectly identifies issue as #124) pp. 479-571, index & ads; portrait of C. G. Atherton, Senator from New Hampshire, as frontis, original paper wrappers, hand stamp to cover, else good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Condition: Fair. n.p., 1848. Volume 23. 8vo Hardcover. 572pp. B/W plates. Reading Copy. Front hinge cracked. Pages 135-138 detached, but present. Dampstained. Writing inside. Stamped on front pastedown. From the library of American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter William Safire. (US history, politics, periodicals) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very Good in quarter tan leather and marbled boards with black leather spine labels. 7 issues from 1848. Jan, April, May, June, July, August and December. 1130 total pages. 8vo.

Hardcover. Volume XXIX. Brown and black boards with four raised bands and gilt lettering on the spine (original wraps are not bound it); 672 pp.; illustrated with five steel engravings. The United States Magazine and Democratic Review "was a highly regarded journal meant to champion Jacksonian Democracy, a movement which had usually been disparaged in the more conservative 'North American Review.'" -- Wikipedia. This volume contains articles such as, "A Simile," by Charles Carroll Leeds; "Gossip," by Dudley Perkins, LL.D.; "Natural HIstory of Man," by W.F. Van Amringe; "Our Land Shall Never Wear a Crown," by Mrs. J.W. Mercur; "Reedyrill," by Reverly Lacy; "Some Irish Poets," by Charles Carroll Leeds; "The Hundred Days of Napoleon," by W.W.H. Davis; "The Source and Perfection of American Law"; "The Queen's Cup," by Caleb Lyon, of Lyonsdale; and "Vermont Democratic State Convention - Speech of Mr. Van Buren." Fair (Boards are heavily worn and barely holding on; spine strip is missing the bottom half and peeling at the top; textblock edges are toned/foxed/edgeworn; textblock is broken; pages are toned and foxed; tissue guards are loose.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very Good in quarter tan leather and marbles boards with black leather spine labels. 10 issues from 1851. Jan through April- June through September and November, December. 1144pp 8vo.

Original 1/2 leather with marbled boards. 572 pp. Light foxing, very good condition. Contains six issues of this periodical, for the last half of 1848. A general magazine with articles on current events inthe United States, reviews and serializations. Most notable are an unsigned review written by Edgar Allen Poe of a book of poetry by S. Anna Lewis, a notice of the publication of Poe's poem Eureka, and articles on the far west. These articles include one devoted to California, an excerpt from Edwin Bryant's What I Saw in California. Another deals with the establishment of territorial governments in Oregon, New Mexico and California.