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Nickelson, B. C. A Brief Sketch of the Life of a Confederate Soldier and the Ups and Downs during Pioneer and Indian Warfare in Texas [Rare Variant]
$199.00
Dallas, TX: Stellmacher & Clark [Printers], 1928. Half-Morocco. Scarce survival of this sole edition, the far less common variant with “Ex-Confederate” in title. Copyright date is 1928 but author portrait is dated 1929. Crown 8vo (192 x 130mm): 16pp, with portrait frontispiece. Original grey paper wrappers lettered in black and bound in later red half morocco over rose-pink cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Book label of Charles B. Sanders, Jr. to rear paste-down. An excellent example with variant title, original wrappers preserved, tightly bound and clean throughout. Worldcat Discovery notes only two copies, both in the United States. Dornbusch II, 3025. Fine.
Nickleson served in the 28th Missouri Cavalry during the Civil War and saw action at Wilson’s Creek, Antioch Church, Fayetteville, Devil’s Backbone, Fort Smith, Shiloh, and Franklin. He also fought in the Mexican-American War under Winfield Scott, Sam Houston, and others. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
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Count A. Hamilton Memoirs of Count Grammont
$300.00Under The Covers Antique And Vintage Books
London; S. and E. Harding, [no date, circa 1790s]. A new translation, with notes and illustrations. Embellished with Seventy-six portraits, of the principal characters mentioned in the work. 4to. Full brown leather covered boards with gilt title and decoration to spine. Five raised bands to spine. Gilt emblem and borders to both boards. Minor bumping and rubbing to edges and hinges. Small chip to leather at foot of spine. Light rubbing to spine. Gilt to edges of boards, though some has been rubbed off. Gilt dentiles. Marbled end pages slightly faded and browned at edges. Original owner’s book plate laid in and four small areas of browning to front paste down where it was once attached. Minor browning and foxing throughout. Many pages are nearly perfect Though some on either side of certain illustrations are more browned or foxed. See pictures. Text and illustrations remain bright. THIS IS A HEAVY BOOK AND MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGES. 363 pages + 84 pages “Notes and Illustrations” + index of names.
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Signed #1 of 130: Enola Gay tail gunner memoir
Caron, George R. FIRE OF A THOUSAND SUNS The George R. “Bob” Caron Story – Tail Gunner of the Enola Gay
$500.00Edition: Limited, signed first edition. Westminister, Colorado: Web Publishing Company. (1995). Technical Sergeant George Robert “Bob” Caron was the tail gunner, the only defender of the twelve crewmen, aboard the B-29 Enola Gay during the historic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. Facing the rear of the B-29, his vantage point made him the first man to witness the cataclysmic growth of the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima. He was also the only photographer aboard, and took photographs as the mushroom cloud ascended. Of the four 509th Composite Group aircraft assigned to the Hiroshima bombing, Caron’s camera and two others captured the explosion on film. (Wikipedia). This copy is #1 of only 130 copies SIGNED by Caron on the half title page. Caron died less than six weeks after this publication came from the printer. Includes a foreword by Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets (Ret.) Illustrated with photographs. Brief biographies of the crew. References. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-963901486. Condition: Fine (as new) in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine, top edge tinted blue. Book ID: 92719
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SCARCE HARLEM RENAISSANCE IN DUST JACKET
Taylor, Gordon (1893-1971) , Carl Van Vechten, foreword. BORN TO BE
$1,500.00New York: Covici Friede, 1929. First printing. An eloquent book in which this African-American singer, one of the foremost spiritual / blues singers of his day, recounts his childhood in the ‘sporting world’ in Sulfur Springs, Montana (where his family was the only black family), his experiences as a Pullman porter, working as a driver for John Ringling, being in New York during the years now called the ‘Harlem Renaissance’ and traveling to Europe to sing. Written at the peak of his singing career, during which he partnered with Rosalind Johnson (sister of James Weldon Johnson), this ends with his comments on “what a lucky bird I am to have been laid on the top of the Rocky Mountains.” Long after the events in this book, he returned to Sulfer Springs for the remainder of his life. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and 9 black and white plates by Covarrubias; includes an introduction by Muriel Draper, who talks about editing the original handwritten manuscript, and a foreword by Carl Van Vechten. An important book of the Harlem Renaissance era which is scarce in the first edition and rare in dust jacket. Glossary. 235 pp. Very good in brown cloth with orange lettering – slight spine slant, some wear to the top of the spine – in a good only example of the Covarrubias illustrated dust jacket, with shallow chipping to the edges, sunning to the spine, but complete.
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rare 1901 Oklahoma Native American reference
Gideon, D. C. INDIAN TERRITORY Descriptive Biographical and Genealogical including the Landed Estates, County Seats Etc., Etc. with a General History of the Territory in One Volume
$1,996.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
NYC and Chicago: Lewis, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Item #2206028 1st printing. Beautifully rebound in three-quarter leather and cloth with gilt titles (slightly flaked) on spine and with new endpapers. 956pp. 100 photogravure portraits plus several other photos. A. E. G. (all edges gilt). Originally owned by and with the signature (three times) of “H. S. Suggs, Berwyn I. T.” The second Suggs signature was on a chipped sheet & in rebinding the binder affixed it to a sheet of matching tone and bound it in. The third signature of Mr. Suggs is written along the inner margin of where he is in the book (pps. 580-581). Suggs “… came to Berwyn in the Indian Territory, where he continued in the lumber business [from Texas] and also ran a cotton gin until 1901, when he sold his gin and is now engaged in the hardware and lumber business . . . he is interested [also] in the cattle business, and firm being known as Suggs and Brother.” The brother, Sidney Suggs, has an even longer entry in the volume and a portrait. A glossy photo of him and his family is laid in. It is printed from the archives of the Okla Hist Soc. One leaf (pps 931-932) was once detached but has been tipped back in. It has tears radiating out from the gutter and has 3 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ inch loss of text in the middle of the page. Title page has two edge chips. One index sheet has old cloth tape edge repairs. Throughout there are some edge tears that have not been repaired, but we have discovered none of a serious nature. Many tissue guards are missing. There is some browning/foxing on some pages, but not extensively. Some page corners are rounded from use. We have conservatively graded this copy “good,” but in our view with experience in these kinds of volumes, if it were in our personal collection we would have no issue grading it very good. Adams (Six-guns 1107) says, “Has a long section on all the outlaws of the Indian Territory, including the Dalton gang and the Cook gang …” [but Adams adds the author is mistaken about Belle Starr’s brother & repeats false information about her]. In this section there is glowing information on the famous Black Man, Deputy. U. S. Marshal Bass Reeves, and an account of one of his captures of outlaws involving gunplay. An Oklahoma rarity. Howes G158.
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