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Galveston, Texas: Geo. Mason Jr. Editor and Publisher, August 26, 1894. Small 4to. 215 x 145 mm., (81/2 x 5 ½ inches). 4 pp. Drop title. Folded. Excellent copy of a rare printing of an amateur newspaper, printed in Galveston, Texas on a tabletop printing press. These cheap presses, called..... More
Chicago: Root and Cady, Publishers, August, 1868. Single issue. 335 x 260 mm. (13 x 10 inches). 8 pp. folded and unopened, some light soiling to the paper, otherwise very good. Rare musical newspaper published by Ebenezer Toner Root and Chauncy Marvin Cady, the leading music publisher's in Chicago before the..... More
Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Morning Leader, April 28, 1865. Large Folio. 610 x 500 mm. ( 24 x 20 inches). 4 pp. Illustrated on page 2 with a Funeral Monument in Memory of Abraham Lincoln. Folded with minor breaks at folds, otherwise very good copy. Volume XIX, No. 102, of the..... More
Cleveland: G. F. Lewis Publisher, Nov. 6, 1861. Single Issue. Broadside. 440 x 300 mm. ( 17 1/4/ x 11 1/2 inches). Printed in four columns. Folded, some minor separation at folds, edges folded and chipped, some discoloration from tape at top margin, otherwise good and sound. Old Soldier's Advocate was..... More
Lancaster, PA: 1856. Folio broadside. 495 x 330 mm. (19 1/2 x 13 inches). Text printed in five columns. Matted. Several tiny holes, affecting a few words. Substantial reportage, with text printed in six point type, of an anti-Fremont, pro-Buchanan rally, held at the home of James Buchanan. This was..... More
Buffalo, N.Y. Gedruckt von H. Bender, [1857]. 8vo. 215 x 150 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ¾ inches]. pp. 1-160, 241-478, [1] pp., missing pp. 161-240. Contemporary leather spine and tips, marbled paper boards; rubbed at edges and spine, sound. Volume 6, nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, & 6..... More
(Washington, D.C.): Published by the Union Republican Congressional Committee, 1872. 8vo. 240 x 150 mm., [12 pp. 9 ¼ by 6 inches]. Illustrated with two woodcut illustrations by Thomas Nast. Unopened copy as issued, folded into thirds to make it pocket size.; paper showing some soiling and title-page with minor..... More
Boston, August 21, 1816. 4to broadside. 255 x 200 mm., [10 x 8 inches]. neatly printed on laid paper. 4 pp. (pp. 2-4 blank), with integral blank leaf addressed on verso in manuscript to "Isaac Goodman Esq./ Sterling". Folded for mailing, sheets toned, part of address leaf torn away without..... More
Salem: Wm. Ives and Geo. W. Pease Printers, 1856. 8vo. 223 x 145 mm. (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches). 33 pp. Stitched with new sewing; lightly soiled, with lower corner of two leaves missing, otherwise a good copy. A register of 50 newspaper and periodicals printed in Salem, with extensive..... More
