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Editore: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1957
Da: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 12mo, vi+224pp, printed wrappers. An uncommon anthology of memoirs of college life by Harvard alumni, including John F. Kennedy and a host of other prominent contributors. Unmarked copy, a bit of reading wear. Not Signed.
Editore: The Century Company, New York, 1893
Da: Bluebird Books (RMABA, IOBA), Littleton, CO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Six months of the famed magazine bound together, from May 1893 to October 1893. --- Each issue of St. Nicholas includes stories, often by well-known authors, as well as dozens of charming illustrations, photos, riddles, poems, letters, and non-fiction articles written for young people. These issues include guides to Washington, D. C. by Frances Hodgson Burnett and Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts. Also with offerings by Peter Newell, Eustace B. Rogers, G. R. O'Reilly and many others; "conducted" (edited) by noted author Mary Mapes Dodge. This delightful collection of magazines provides an insight into the way of life in the US early in the latter half of the 19th Century. --- Monthly issues of the magazine bound into this volume, without their original monthly covers/wraps. In bevel-edged maroon cloth with titling and decorations in black and gilt. --- The binding is generally sound but with loosened rear hinge, tear to cloth at head of spine and foxing to textblock edges, else a sound copy. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested for any shipment other than by USPS Media Mail in the US.) ; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; viii, (2), 483-960 pages.
Editore: J. H. Moore & Co. Chicago 1899, Chicago, 1899
Da: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Photo Illustrations (illustratore). Very Good condition,light shelfwear Salesman's Sample Book with Agent's Guide to United States History and 2 sample spines laid in.
Editore: P. F. Collier & Son Company, New York, 1928
Da: Pages Past--Used & Rare Books, Greensboro, NC, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Octavos. Variously paginated. Hardcovers bound in navy blue cloth with spine titles and designs in gilt. Most of the bindings show light to moderate rubbing and wear. Inner hinges secure. Volume 25 (the Index Volume) has a 3 inch tear in the cloth on the rear hinge, running down from the headcap. Otherwise a sound set with text that tis a bit toned but generally clean. Contains several illustrations per volume.
Editore: AMHERST MASSACHUSETTS, 1861
Da: Katz Fine Manuscripts Inc., Cochrane, AB, Canada
Condizione: Very Good. On offer is a super, large archive of circa 1861 - 1896 historical manuscript letters, documents and ephemera all providing an interesting and intimate look into the work, life and academic affairs of Francis Amasa Walker (1840-1897) noted Civil War general, Yale economist, Superintendent of the 1880 census, and President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]. He was the son of renowned economist Amasa Walker. (A brief biography is at the end of this listing.) The archive is comprised 76 autograph letters signed [ALSs] received and 14 Civil War documents, most signed as follows: A) His correspondence encompasses academics, politicians, military leaders, and literary figures. Some of the many prominent correspondents included in this archive are: Schuyler Colfax (2 letters as Vice President), John Tyndall, Henry Fawcett, Henry Cabot Lodge, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, poet Thomas B. Aldrich (3 letters), Nelson Miles, John Hay, William Dean Howells, Harvard president Charles W. Eliot (2), sculptor Daniel Chester French, historian Francis Parkman, Henry Adams sent two substantial letters, including a detailed 1878 commentary on the silver question, his brother Charles Francis Adams Jr. began his 1883 note "I am one of those fools who use yachts," and invited Walker along for a long cruise, Samuel Chapman Armstrong, who wrote in 1888 on his efforts to hire a carpentry instructor at his Hampton Institute to provide marketable skills to his students, British historian George O. Trevelyan, in response to one of Walker's Civil War histories, wrote "I never before appreciated the appalling dangers and efforts," adding that the battles "tell a story that stands alone and makes me really proud of what is, after all, my race." B) 14 documents from Walker's Civil War service as Adjutant General to Generals Couch and Hancock. C) The Walker family autograph collection: 30 items including clipped signatures of James A. Garfield and Booker T. Washington. All are sleeved in massive 3-ring binder; generally well-preserved, small mount remnants on verso of many items. BIO NOTES: From one online source: Francis Amasa Walker was a statistician, journalist, educator, academic administrator, and military officer in the Union Army. Walker was born into a prominent Boston family, the son of the economist and politician Amasa Walker, and he graduated from Amherst College at the age of 20. He received a commission to join the 15th Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteers and quickly rose through the ranks as an assistant adjutant general. Walker fought in the Peninsula Campaign and was injured at the Battle of Chancellorsville but subsequently participated in the Bristoe, Overland, and Richmond-Petersburg Campaigns before being captured by Confederate forces and held at the infamous Libby Prison. In July 1866, he was nominated by President Andrew Johnson and confirmed by the United States Senate for the award of the honorary grade of brevet brigadier general United States Volunteers, to rank from March 13, 1865, when he was age 24. Following the war, Walker served on the editorial staff of the Springfield Republican before using his family and military connections to gain appointment as the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics from 1869 to 1870 and Superintendent of the 1870 census where he published an award-winning Statistical Atlas visualizing the data for the first time. He joined Yale University's Sheffield Scientific School as a professor of political economy in 1872 and rose to international prominence serving as a chief member of the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition, American representative to the 1878 International Monetary Conference, President of the American Statistical Association in 1882, and inaugural President of the American Economic Association in 1886, and vice president of the National Academy of Sciences in 1890. Walker also led the 1880 census which resulted in a twenty-two volume census, cementing Walker's reputation as the nation.