Junius Tracts, First Edition (10 results)

Paper. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 16 pages on mid-19th century public lands policies. Paper item with significant marks/soils. Paper.

Softcover. Condition: Good. First Separate Edition. 16pp. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. Light foxing. 8.25" x 5.5" [American Imprints 44-1568.].

Softcover. Condition: Good. First Separate Edition. 16pp. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. Light foxing. 8.25" x 5.5" [American Imprints 44-1570.].

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Separate Edition. 16pp. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. First and final pages toned. 8.25" x 5.5" Colton advocates making public lands affordable for settlers and farmers. [American Imprints 44-1573.].

Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 16pp. Very good. Mild soiling to outer wrappers, and binding traces along left edge, but overall tight and attractive. First edition of this single issue from a series of eight essays issued every other month (beginning in March 1843) on a variety of controversial political matters, this number titled "Life of Henry Clay.".

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, 16pp. Sewn. Foxed throughout. A little wrinkled. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 44-1567. MILES 168. SABIN 14775.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 16. Self wraps, sewn. Water stained on the first leaf, o/w good. Not in Afro-Americana. Colton, a clergyman and jounalist, was official biographer of Henry Clay. Here, he discusses slavery and abolition.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 16pp. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.25" x 5.5" [American Imprints 43-1189.].

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. _____One of a series of policy papers issued by the Whig Party during the 1844 Presidential election._____ They strenuously opposed allowing Texas into the Union. _____ "This tract on annexation was one of his ten Whig campaign documents." --Streeter/Tx 1489. _____.

Softcover. Condition: Good+. This is the first edition of the collected numbers of Calvin Colton's letters written with his "Junius" pseudonymn of and contains Tracts No. I - VIII; each tract paged separately at the top and about 16 pages each, but book is also continuously paged at bottom. These tracts explore Whig philosophy in relation to the political climate of the day: slavery, abolition, Texas annexation, public lands, tariffs, etc. Each tract about 16 pages and cover various topics: The Test, The Currency, The Tariff, Life of Henry clay, Political Abolition, Democracy, Labor and Captial, The Public Lands, etc. Colton began his career as a Presbyterian pastor in New York in the 1820's and became an accomplished writer, first writing on religious topics, but later on wrote a guide for immigrants, Great Lakes travel and Indians, politics, history and is still noted for his biographical works on Henry Clay. The original publisher's covers are salmon and printed on rather thin & fragile paper. Corners of cover chipped with some loss of text on rear cover and last two pages are chipped at lower corner with minor loss of text. Ref: see Sabin 14775 for individual tracts ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 128 pages.