Language: English
Published by Harper & Brothers, NY, 1872
Seller: Legacy Books II, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: VG. 18pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 10 engravings, including several portraits, top outer corners of pages chipped away, affecting page numbers, but NOT affecting text, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's Monthly, Volume XLIV, #262, March, 1872. The history and contemporary status of the Treasury Department. Illustrations include George Washington in consultation with Robert Morris and Alexander Hamilton, the Treasury building in 1804, a ground plan and two views of a cross-section and elevation, a full page view of the Treasury building in 1871, and portraits of Morris, Hamilton, Albert Gallatin, Robert J. Walker, George S. Boutwell, and Samuel P. Chase. Housed in protective mylar report cover.
Published by J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, PA, 1919
Seller: Stan Clark Military Books, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 168 pages, former USMA Library copy with usual markings. Not abused. Tightly bound and very good condition. Stiff covers. SCARCE!!!!!
Published by T.B. Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia, 1858
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Darley, F.O.C. (illustrator). First Thus. TITLE CONTINUES: Throughout"The Universal Yankee Nation" to whicj is added the Drama in Pokerville; A night in a Swamp". 203, 200pp, bw ills. Or green cloth with title and vignette to spine in gilt. From Peterson's Illustrated Uniform Edition of Humorous American Works. Slight flecking to boards, prev owners bookplate inside front cover, light even toning to page edges. Approx 2cm strip cut from fore-edge of front free endpaper and 1cm similarly cut from following blank page. A very nice copy. Size: 8vo.
Published by T.B. Peterson And Brothers, Philadelphia, 1858
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very good. The first edition of Colonel Thorpe's Scenes in Arkansaw by Thomas Bangs Thorpe and J.M. Field, with The Drama In Pokerville by F.O.C. Darley. (illustrator). First Edition. Octavo, [4], 203pp, [1]; 200pp, [16]. Brown cloth, title and illustration in gilt on the spine. Light sunning to the spine. Yellow endpapers, solid text block. Some fading and a few leaves with dampstaining to corners. Complete with frontispiece portraits and sixteen illustrated plates from original designs by Darley. A combined form of A Quarter Race in Kentucky, edited by William T. Porter, and Field's Drama in Pokerville, both originally issued separately but here printed from the original plates. A classic of Southern humor.