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Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Gene W. Baade Books on the West
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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
$1,996.00
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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Very Scarce Report of the Second Klonvokation
Foreword by H.K. Ramsey, Imperial Kligrapp Proceedings of the Second Imperial Klonvokation Held in Kansas City, Missouri Sept. 23, 24, 25 and 26, 1924
$800.00Atlanta: Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1924. Softcover. 8vo. Very scarce report of the second Klonvokation, which was held every two years. Very Good in lightly soiled wraps and with covers slightly pulled away from staples. Item #39236  It was reported that there were 2,000 men and 3,000 concomitants present at the Kansas City meeting recorded here, which was held at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri. This Klan meeting was held behind closed doors and a card and a password were necessary to gain admittance. Only Klansmen with courtesy cards were allowed to view the proceedings. What was published about the proceedings came through the Klan publicity office.  The meeting was opened by the Grand Dragon of Nebraska. The Imperial Wizard, Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans of Atlanta delivered a message to the Klonvocation on the state of the Empire:  ‘This Klonvocation, held here in the great Middle West, is assembled on the battlefield of the immediate future…some of the Eastern states are today lost to true Americanism and must be rewon; but the great American population of the Middle West, of the South and of the Southwest are left to do valiant battle…you are leaders in the only movement in the world, at present, which exists solely to establish a civilization that will insure these things…history has proved, and is proving daily that only Nordic and Anglo-Saxon peoples have reached a high level of intelligence.’  Rare record of an early 20th century KKK gathering. OCLC list 20 copies held exclusively at major U.S. research university libraries.Â
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RARE FIRST EDITION OF FUGITIVE SLAVE NARRATIVE
Ball, Charles. SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man, Who lived forty years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a Slave, under various masters, and was one year in the Navy, with Commodore Barney, during the late war.
$1,200.00Lewistown, PA: Printed and Published by John W. Shugert, 1836. First edition. The subtitle continues “Containing an account of the manners and usages of the Planters and Slaveholders of the South, a description of the condition and treatment of the Slaves, with observations upon the state of morals amongst the cotton planters, and the perils and sufferings of a fugitive slave, who twice escaped from the cotton country.” Rare first edition of this important slavery narrative by Ball, one which covers forty years of his life as a slave and his several escapes, an account reprinted many times through the 1850s under various titles. Born into slavery in Maryland around 1780, separated from his mother when he was four, he was owned by several different masters and lived in three states. Attempting escape on numerous occasions, he eventually succeeded and lived on a small farm until he was recaptured in 1830. However, he escaped again, and moved to Philadelphia, where he wrote this autobiography with the assistance of Isaac Fisher, a white lawyer. Fisher’s preface in which he acknowledges omitting or ‘carefully suppressing’ Ball’s opinions on slavery, cast some doubt upon the authenticity of this work, but the second edition, just one year later, included a statement from two prominent Pennsylvanians “that we know the black man whose narrative is given in this book, and have heard him relate the principal matters contained in the book concerning himself, long before the book was published.” Two page preface by Isaac Fisher. Errata list on verso of title page. 400 pp, Fair condition only in original boards, resewn and rebacked with dark brown goatskin, endpapers replaced. Significant rubbing and wear to the edges of the boards, tidemarks and foxing throughout. Â Loss of approximately half an inch to the bottom edge of the first leaf after the title (the preface).
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Brought "revolutionary matters to a crisis"
[Israel Mauduit], ed. The Letters of Governor Hutchinson, and Lieut. Governor Oliver, &c. … And Remarks Thereon with The Assembly’s Address …
$1,500.00London: Printed for J. Wilkie, at Number 71, in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1774. Edition Unstated. Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth). Book Condition: Very Good- Condition. Size: Octavo (8-9″). 134 pages. Sabin 34072. Howes H-851 (Howes 1994 837). The full title is “The letters of Governor Hutchinson, and Lieut. Governor Oliver, &c. printed at Boston and remarks thereon : with the Assembly’s Address and the Proceedings of the Lords Committee of Council : together with the substance of Mr. Wedderburn’s speech relating to those letters.” This English edition, believed to be edited by Hutchinson’s friend Israel Mauduit, was issued following the investigation into the 1773 publication of Hutchinson and Oliver’s letters in Boston. No edition is stated but the Library of Congress’ “Revolutionary America 1763-1789” describes it as the “second London edition” [#31610]. What appears to be an earlier printing held by the Library of Congress (E211 .M445 [Copy 1 RBSCD]) only goes to signature T and ends with p. 126, including double-numbered pages ([75]-80). This copy matches the collation of that copy but adds an additional signature (S) and ends with p. 134. The additional signature provides the report from the Committee of Council for Plantation Affairs read in the presence of King George, 7 February 1774. The letters were provided to Thomas Cushing, Speaker of the Massachusetts Assembly in December 1772, by Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania’s agent in London. His letter admitting his role appears on pp 72-73. Although he requested they not be printed, that request was ignored. The letters were written in 1767-1769, but were used (largely out of context) to fan the pre-Revolutionary flames. The way they were presented was expressed in a part of the lengthy title the Boston printers provided: “The Judicious Reader will Discover the Fatal Source of the Confusion and Bloodshed in which this Province especially has been involved, and Which Threatned [sic] Total Destruction to the Liberties of all America.” Sabin notes the publication of the letters “did more, perhaps, to bring revolutionary matters to a crisis than any previous publication.” In his note, Howes is less tentative: “Publication of these letters … fanned revolutionary sentiments in America more than any other book of the period.” A Very Good-minus hardcover copy that has been rebound in red silk over boards. The silk has been coated in some way. The reason for the “minus” is because it is lacking its spine. The corners are sharp though worn through to the boards. The text block is tight and bright, in near fine condition. The only marking is on the title page where two previous owners have marked the pages on which the various parts of the collection of documents begin. The page edges have been stained red, probably when the book was rebound. Â
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Rare 1841 frontier narrative, last sold in 1920
Pritts, Joseph Incidents of Border Life Illustrative of the Times and Condition of the First Settlements in Parts of the Middle and Western States Comprising Narratives of Strange and Thrilling Adventure – Accounts of Battles – Skirmishes and Personal Encounters with the Indians – Descriptions of Their Manners, Customs, Modes of Warfare, Treatment of Prisoners, etc. etc.
$1,000.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Lancaster: G. Hills, 1841. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good. Item #2401049 2nd edition, 1841 title page, with 1839 first edition pagination. Original boards, but rebound with new spine and leather-looking material extending past the joints and on the board fore edges covering the entire fore edges. Title stamped in gilt on spine. New endpapers. 507pp. The 1841 edition calls for 511pp, so I don’t know why the 1839 pagination is in this volume. Howes P619 lists variant issues. This copy has seven engravings. The double page foldout of Braddock’s defeat is bound in upside down & is missing about 1/5 of the lower right of the image. Two of the illustrations are full page and we believe include the essential visual information, but in each case there may have been a foldout extension with additional visual material or border. Engravings include portraits of Brant and Danial Boone. One interesting fold out engraving shows three Indian women bathing a white man in a river or pool of some sort. It is quite fetching. Title page near gutter was previously repaired with what may be thin archival tape and a minor loss of paper at the bottom edge. General foxing/browning. Tidelines (water stains) on many pages but not very dark in my opinion. The publisher essentially compiled dozens of reports and narratives from military and civilian sources from the western border of western New York, eastern Pennsylvania, and adjacent areas from the War of the Revolution. Sample chapters: “Devastation of Wyoming Settlements” (Penn.), “Singular Prowess of a Woman,” Incidents attending a Desertion,” “The Lost Sister,” Trial of Mamachtagea,” “War in the North-West — Gen. Harmar, St. Clair, Wayne,” “The Widow Scraggs.” The last recorded copy for sale of this book was in 1920. Several copies of this book appear in world libraries, mainly in the UK. Only a couple in US libraries. Overall good condition and nicely rebound. Rare.
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