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Stapled softcover. Zustand: Fair. Pages 442-496, volume IX, number 10. News from the field of education, meetings, classroom ideas, world events, agriculture, poetry, projects, etc. Covers quite worn and torn.

Zustand: Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial pink & black wraps. The magazine is disbound with several loose signatures. The head & the lower half of the spine are torn with pieces out and the lower half of each wrap is detached. The wraps are chipped & lightly soiled with creasing & tears to the bottom inside corner of the rear wrap. Pages [97]-144 with ads on the inside wraps. There is occasional staining & soiling & the front edges of a few leaves are chipped. Black-and-white illustrations. The contents are good. The contents of this monthly include fiction, poetry and brief items of interest. Among the illustrations are an illustrated rebus, cartoons accompany a humorous poem and depictions of a girl with her pet thrush and of a peacock with its tail fully spread.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 22cm, 112p., ads including endpapers & rear cover, rose printed wraps, cover edges & spine chipped, former owner's plate on front cover,very good. (Atl) A scarce copy of a quarterly literary periodical that existed from 1867 to 1872. Editor and proprietor, George Stewart(1848-1905) significantly on accepted Canadian authors. Included are: The North-West Territory. (Aeneas Dawson); Sporting Sketches in Maine and New Brunswick. ("An Old Angler"); A Geological Discovery in Newfoundland.(Moses Harvey); The Heroine of Vercheres. (LeMoine); Charles Heavysege and the New Edition of "Saul". (Charles Sangster).

Paper, 16 x 6.5cm, fold mark, good condition. Subscription only as follows: "Lombard St. City | I am | Your obed[ien]t serv[an]t | Charles Reade" Image on request.

1p., 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. The letter begins: 'It would afford me very great pleasure to help you in the matter of "The Scientific Roll" This is not a Literary or Scientific locality! and we have given up our Booksellers' Shop'. If Ramsay will send 'a copy of the numbers printed', he will 'give a notice in the "Hertfordshire Mercury" and perhaps that will make it known and induce people to take it.' The Austin family continued to run the Hertfordshire Mercury until the 1980s. Their printing firm, founded at the beginning of the nineteenth century, still operates, with a royal warrant.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. First Edition. Title pages and contents pages (with accurate contents) say that these are volumes 24 and 25; however, the individual issues are numbered as vols. 25 & 26. I can't explain this. A good plus copy in a fine new binding by Milagro of Corrales, of green cloth with beautiful marbled endpapers. Some foxing on plates, very little elsewhere. Contributions to this remarkable magazine include: The Lady's Yes, Pain in Pleasure and Loved Once by Elizabeth B. Barrett (Elizabeth Barrett Browning); Terpsichore by Oliver Wendell Holmes; John Shaw and 2 Sketches of Naval Men: John Barry and John Templer Shubrick by James Fenimore Cooper; New York Fountains and Astor Baths by Catharine M. Sedgwick; Review of Orion, Our Contributors: Robert T. Conrad (unattributed) and the poem Dreamland by Edgar Allan Poe, plus several other unattributed reviews (Poe no longer was editor in this year but still an important contributor); Childhood, Nuremberg, Annie of Tharaw and The Arsenal at Springfield by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Earth's Holocaust by Nathaniel Hawthorne; A Mystical Ballad and New Year's Eve, 1844 by James Russell Lowell; The Waning Moon and The Paradise of Tears by William Cullen Bryant. In the later volume would probably have been the 1st appearance of 'The Raven' if the editors had not foolishly turned it down. (It was published by Nathaniel Parker Willis in his New York Mirror in 1845.) Includes also "Our Contributors nos. 10-16 (Joseph C. Neal, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Robert T. Conrad, James Fenimore Cooper, Joseph R. Chandler, Ann S. Stephens, and Walter Colton), with an engraved portrait of each author, and a number of the famous 'fashion plates', 2 of which are hand-colored. There is also an extraordinary hand-colored plate of a peacock at the end.

1p, 12mo. On bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. Addressed on reverse of second leaf, with minuting and broken seal in red wax, 'To / John Sainsbury Esqre / 35 Red Lion Square'. Reads: 'Dear Sir, / It occurs to me that I left my black cane at your house when I was with you yesterday. If so, would you give it to the bearer of this note / Yr's thankfully / A Egerton Brydges'.

3pp., 8vo. Autograph postscript of nine lines on otherwise-blank reverse of second leaf. On aged and worn paper, with holing to one corner from stud which attached the leaves together. He was pleased to hear from Mansel, and understands from his letter that 'notwithstanding your disabilities you manage to put in a deal of work'. He continues: 'I shall be particularly interested in your plays, which are more in my line than music. He quotes Mansel's 'notes on the print of my hand', which he finds 'particularly interesting, in view of the fact that they were made more than 11 years ago'. The notes predict 'great misfortune, danger between the ages of 40-45, perhaps illness connected with the heart'. He recalls that in 1898, when 'crossing from New York to Liverpool, two or three American ladies, who affected a knowledge of palmistry, regarding which I was a pronounced sceptic, made practically the same prediction of a great trouble, "worse than death," one of them said, which would probably overtake me before I reached 50 years of age'. He 'reached 50 years without serious trouble or illness of any account, had heart trouble in 1914, which was practically cured by a sea voyage. | In 1917, I suffered the great nervous collapse, which for months, made life a blank to me.' On the question of 'the other notes', he feels that 'when lines are read by a friend, there is a predisposition to flatter'. He would like to spend a weekend with Mansel, but his diary is full in the period preceding a planned 'holiday to St. Malo'. The postscript concerns the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.

Emerson's novels have undergone a re-evaluation in recent years. The first six were republished by Quartet Books as 'Rediscovered Classics' in 2017, and in 2021 by Quadrant Books. 'Books and Bookmen' was one of a stable of seven London arts magazines owned by Philip Dosse (1925-1980) of Hansom Books. Emerson, who was the editor of the magazine at the time of Dosse's suicide, has published an account of her time there: 'Death of a Bookman', Standpoint, October 2018. The present three items date from an earlier period, when Emerson was working as an assistant in the interim period between school and college. The three items are in good condition, lightly aged and folded for postage, and all signed 'Sally C. Emerson'. ONE: ALS, 22 January [1975]. 2pp, landscape 12mo. She gives a list of four books, with full and half price, which she has kept for herself, and asks to be paid for reviews, minus the total. She discusses the 'system of my receiving and returning the books', which she feels works well. She is finding the writing of reviews 'less difficult to do, but must admit I'd find it a strain to do more than two pages a month'. The letter carries calculations by Dosse. TWO: TLS, 11 May 1975. 1p, 4to. 'I quite understand about having to cut b&b it's a wonder it's remained so fat for so long in these lean times. I was of course disappointed to hear of the exodus of books noticed but not heartbroken because it was an enormous amount of work to do on top of a full-time job. Now perhaps I shall have the time to do an occasional interview for b & b as well as reviews.' After discussing a move 'to a flat in Canonbury' and a reference to 'Tony' she writes: 'I have very much enjoyed doing books noticed. It's taught me much about reviewing as well as educating me in a motley collection of subjects.' THREE: TLS, 21 August 1975. 1p, 4to. She is writing, at the instigation of 'Cis', regarding money owed for reviews, and discusses this matter, including an autograph note on books 'from the plain children's book reviews'. 'I see Bron Waugh is advertising b&b as ardently as ever in his diary in Private Eye with every justification for b&b is plump with interest if not with pages.' She ends with the news that she is 'still working at The Illustrated London News, and enjoying it, but Hansom books has only to beckon. . .'.

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. He begins: 'You would see that we found room for an extract from the Camden Society report in last week's Chronicle'. He asks Nichol to 'find space for the enclosed letter in the Gentleman's Magazine'. He is 'acquainted with the pedigree in question', but does not think that 'Sir Bernard Burke's statements are in all cases to bee relied upon'. The letter continues: 'I do not know whether you are in Mr Potter's secrets. His first volume, so long looked for, seems no nearer publication now than it was when first announced.' Thompson has 'received applications to undertake the republication' of Nichols's 'grandfather's work' [John Nichols (1745-1826)], but has 'several times declined to do so'. He concludes: 'It would be well if Mr Potter brought out a volume or part, if he wishes to retain the good wishes of his subscribers'.

The front and back covers of the newspaper are present, forming a bifolium. A frail and scarce survival. Heavily-aged newsprint, chipped and worn, with the top and bottom halves of the front page separated along a horizontal fold line. The article on Synge's play covers the first two of the six columns on the front page, with a further quarter-column on the back page. The headlines indicate the tone: 'NEW YORK'S PROTEST AGAINST A VILE PLAY | Hostile Demonstration Unparalleled In The History Of The City Greets "The Playboy" - Actors Hooted Off The Stage In First Act, The Police Reserves Called Out And More Than A Hundred Citizens Ejected - Supporters Were Largely English - Barefooted Women Act Like Prostitutes in Dublin Slums Capturing Drunken Soldiers And Sailors - Disgraceful And Disgusting Spectacle. To the right of the article at the centre of the front page is a caricature of W. B. Yeats ('Willie') and Lady Gregory, captioned 'The "Playboy" and his Protectors', and subtitled 'The Latest Emanation of "The Mind of Ireland."' Beneath the cartoon, taking up the remains of the third column and a small part of the fourth is a similarly-hysterical article on G. B. Shaw's play 'The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet', under the headline: 'SHAW RELIEVES HIS MIND. | Angry at American Criticism of His Grotesque Play, He Hurls Gross Abuse at the American People, Accuses the Clan-na-Gael of Being the Ally of Dublin Castle and the Editor of "The Gaelic American"'.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The present item was enclosed in a letter from Serjeant Shee (the future Sir William Shee), offered separately, sent from the House of Commons on 17 February 1854, in which he writes: 'I enclose Mr. Cobdens own handwriting to send to the Papers -'. Attached to a corner at the head of the first page of the present item is a cutting from the Morning Herald newspaper, 18 February 1854, reproducing the details in the manuscript. That circumstance, taken with certain references in the Shee letter, suggest that the recipient of both was either James Johnstone, proprietor of the Morning Herald, or his editor Robert Knox. 2pp, 12mo. On the rectos of the two leaves of a bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged and worn, with a few pin holes at top inner corner, and slight damage at the foot of the gutter, unobtrusively repaired with archival tape. In pencil in contemporary hand on front page, 'Cobdens writing / see accompg letter'. Text reads: 'Pet[ition]s Mr Cobden / Cropton Yorkshire. / for the repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge / Wm. Woods Mitchell of Arundel, printer & publisher of the "West Sussex Advertiser", for the repeal of the compulsory stamp on newspapers. - / Passengers in Emigrant ship Maidstone proceeding to the Colony of New South Wales for Ocean penny postage / Mechanics Institution Kingley Yorkshire for Decimal Coinage'.

4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. The letter begins: 'Dear George, | The idea contained in your letter is very interesting, and I am honoured to be thought of in connection with it. I am now reading Stevenson's letters, (admirable they are,) and I know from his dealings with American magazines and publishers that the terms offered by the Review are extremely handsome. But I am very late in the day, - in my day, - to be a writing a history; [i.e. his history of the American War of Independence, which appeared in six volumes between 1899 and 1914] and all my time and thought must be given to it, if I am to have any hope of completing it.' He concludes by stating that this will be his answer not only to Harvey's 'kind letter', but to 'all proposals, - political and literary - that are made'.

2pp., on both sides of the lower half of a 4to leaf. The recto is numbered by Reade '2', indicating that the two pages constitute the second leaf of a letter. The text reads: '[.] therefore you will consent to do me a bare act of justice viz not to let that gentleman be my public critic in "the World." Of course I should be still more pleased if you would do me the honor to see the play yourself and pronounce upon it. However half a loaf is better than no bread. - If you will secure me the silence of that unfair detractor of mine in your columns I will be content: because in that case I shall have a chance of fair play. | Yrs vy trly | Charles Reade'.

8vo: 4 pp. Good. Difficult handwriting. He wants him to keep the cheque, which he considers 'only a compromise between our different expectations'. 'I know that you deserve the larger sum that you spoke of - but it is a tight squeeze to make the & expenses for the year of the New Englander come out even, and I do the best I can.' With seven-line postscript.

1p., 12mo. 21 lines. On aged paper, with remains of grey paper mount adhering to the reverse, and short closed tears to top and bottom right-hand corners, the latter through the signature. Nichols writes that he 'forgot the Principal Thing' he meant to say on putting 'the hasty Letter [.] in Mr Parcel', which is to thank him 'for the Offer of Mr Carte's Letters'. He will 'certainly make an opportunity of introducing from them any Extracts' that his recipient will 'point out', or, if he will lend him the volume, it will be 'carefully returned'. The number of pages the extracts may take up, 'more or less, is of no Consquence'. He ends by asking him to 'Pardon this Postscript to my former Letter'.

12mo, 1 p. Nine lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Docketed in pencil on reverse 'R. A. Bennett re T. P. O'Connor'. He is enclosing 'the promised note to "T. P". I see that he is ailing and going to the Riviera at an early date, so you had better try and catch him at once.' Bennett had to get the recipient's address from his publishers, as O'Connor left without passing it on.

Folded Paper. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Hartford: Burr, 1857. Atlas Folio. A rare copy of the 4 pp Atlas Folio Christian Secretary for June 5, 1857, published weekly on Fridays. One 2" x 1" chip that goes through all 4 pp. in first column, otherwise complete. Wear at folds and edges. Good. Scarce.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. From the archives of Philip Dosse, proprietor of Hansom Books, publisher of the 'Seven Arts' group of magazines, including 'Books and Bookmen' and 'Plays and Players'. See 'Death of a Bookman' by the novelist Sally Emerson (editor of 'Books and Bookmen' at the time of Dosse's suicide), in Standpoint magazine, October 2018. 2pp, 4to. The letterhead, on both leaves, is topped by a pleasing 10 x 6 cm woodcut of Combe Florey House. The paper is creased, otherwise in good condition, and entirely legible. Signed 'Auberon Waugh' with a handful of minor autograph corrections. Folded twice for postage. He begins with reference to his review work for Dosse's 'Books and Bookmen': 'I begin to regret not asking for 'Mitchell Beazley's JOYS OF KNOWLEDGE, about which I am growing extremely suspicious. [.] The extracts previously shown in the Sunday Times Colour Supplement struck me as a load of rubbish. [.] I wonder if Thomson Newspapers or, even worse, someone on their staff, has a stake in the Mitchell Beazley enterprise.' A piece of casual racism follows: 'I am not sure that your new policy of sucking up to your black neighbours is necessarily the wisest one. The great thing, in my experience, is not to let them guess you are frightened of them. They are like horses and can tell when someone is frightened of them and play up accordingly.' He is 'studying with incredulous amazement' the 'booklet on OAP's rights' which Dosse has sent him. 'My health has temporarily taken a turn for the better but I am searching for a surgeon who can sort the matter out. Unlike you I have a principled objection to paying for medicine on top of the prodigious sums I pay in income tax. As my injuries are the result of a war wound, [see his ODNB entry] I should have absolute priority in the National Health service, if only I can find where the National Health service exists.' He has written John Carey 'a long, abusive letter' about his article on 'Children of the Sun' in New Review. The second half of the letter continues in the same vein, with reference to his 'invoice for the June B. and B.', the 'new titles from Gales' (which 'look pretty rubbishy to me'), a letter from Dosse to Robert Skidelsky, sent to Waugh in error, and Dosse's 'Union difficulties'. See Image of first page.

Folio, [i] + 49 pp. Text clear and complete. A mimeographed typescript, with text and manuscript annotations. Clear and complete, on aged and creased paper. Typed in bottom right-hand corner of covering title: 'Director of Public Prosecutions.' Anwarudding was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1913, and between that year and 1918 his marital difficulties caused him to appear before thirteen different High Court Judges in eight different courts. The various legal actions in which he was involved (the subject of eight reports in The Times) are of great importance in the history of the relations between western and islamic law, as set out in Gail Savage's 'More than One Mrs. Mir Anwaruddin: Islamic Divorce and Christian Marriage in Early Twentieth-Century London' (Journal of British Studies, Vol.47, No.2, 2 April 2008). Although Savage does refer to this case (for which see The Times, 3 July 1918; with Anwaruddin's unsuccessful appeal against his conviction reported on 27 July 1918), her article does not make use of the present item, which contains depositions from nineteen individuals. The present action, in which Anwaruddin was accused of perjury, arose out of his testimony in an unsuccessful libel action by him against Bottomley, John Bull and Odhams Press. The deposing parties in the present document include members of Anwaruddin's wife's family the Hudd's; the woman he attempted to make his second wife, Violet Louisa Ling; police officers, two shorthand reporters and a handwriting expert. The document ends with the 'Prisoner's Statement': 'I plead an emphatic "Not Guilty".' It is annotated throughout in two hands, possibly those of the lawyers representing him in his appeal against conviction, 'Mr. Abinger and Mr. Abdul Majid' (Times, 27 July 1918).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Two volumes. Containing a continuous run of 52 weekly issues (16 pages each): Vol. 19 (August 22, 1868 February 13, 1869); Vol. 20 (February 20, 1869 August 14, 1869). Folios (11" x 16"). Bound in modern black cloth over boards, leather spine labels lettered in gold, wove endpapers, with an 1894 "Jockey Club" bookplate on each of the front pastedowns. A scarce, handsomely bound set of 52 issues of this important sporting newspaper containing accounts of horse races, billiards, cricket matches, hunting and fishing, boxing, and baseball: it was the first periodical to regularly cover baseball. This run contains 36 issues that feature a weekly column covering the ongoing baseball seasons of 1868 and 1869. The articles provide detailed accounts of the games, including printed box scores, and of the rivalries between the New York Mutuals, Brooklyn Atlantics, Philadelphia Athletics and other popular teams throughout the country, including the Cincinnati Red Stockings: baseball's first all-professional team in 1869, with ten salaried players. The Red Stockings went on to post a 570 record that year, the only perfect season in professional baseball history. Here are but a few short examples of the excitement generated by the Red Stockings in 1869: a full page of baseball coverage from the June 19, 1869 issue opens with a long, detailed account of all nine innings of a game played between the Mutuals and Cincinnati: "An Unprecedented Game. On Tuesday the 'Red Stockings' as they are familiarly called, representing Cincinnati and champions of the West, met the Mutual Club, of New York, and champions of the United States, at Williamsburg Never in the annals of the game was such a performance, and never such a score " Another long report reflecting on the passions aroused by the Red Stockings was published in the June 26, 1869 issue: "The Red Stockings This marvelous club and their repeated successes have been themes for newspaper-men. Some journals have eulogized the players, and others have spoken unkindly of them. It was reserved for Philadelphia, however, to make the meanest attack on them, wherein it was sought to belittle them, and all their great victories set down as mere chance work " This is how the *Spirit of the Times* summed up the Red Stockings perfect season in its July 24, 1869 issue: "Reconstruction. The march of General Sherman through the Southern States was fraught with no more disorganizing elements to the Southern army than the march of the 'Red Stockings' through the base-ball districts of the East demoralized the camps here " Both volumes provide entertaining and informative accounts of professional, amateur, college, and all notable games played in 1868 and 1869, providing a contemporary glimpse into the early days of America's national game. Minor toning, old light dampstaining at the top edge of each volume, a very good set overall with three partly damaged and mended leaves in Vol. 19: pp. 3-4 has some loss at the fore-edge margin and minor shaving to the letterpress; pp. 169-70 and 181-82 each have a six-inch mended horizontal tear (legible across the tear); pp. 181-82 also has a small rectangular piece (1 ½" x 4") excised from the fore-edge; two or three other leaves have a small rectangular piece of letterpress neatly excised at the bottom corner or fore-edge. (There are no references to baseball on those pages). A detailed list of 36 issues featuring a weekly column reporting on baseball is available.

1p., 4to. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly-aged. Addressed on reverse of second leaf to 'Mr. Cathrall | Times Office | Manchester'. In reply to a letter 'requesting from me "an account of the origin and progress of the Manchester Agricultural Society"', he states that 'any information I possess is quite at Mr. Everett's service'. He suggests two times when Everett can call on him, and he will 'endeavour to promote his views in any way in my power'.

1p., 12mo. Bifolium. Seventeen lines, closely written. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with thin strip of stub adhering to margin. Addressed, on reverse of second leaf, to 'J. Perry Esqre | Tavistock Square'. He will dine with Perry with pleasure, 'after a five weeks confinement with the Gout, a disorder of which I never before had any personal acquaintance, but which, I suppose, I must, in some unguarded moment, have treated with contempt. I cannot otherwise account for so severe an attack having been made upon me who have very little funded property, no land, & holding no high official station - It is in vain therefore that my friends congratulate me, & vainer still that they assure me that whoever has the gout will have no other disorder. A man must be very unreasonable who wants any other.' He hopes to meet 'those experienced gentlemen' at Perry's table, 'who may instruct mee how to behave on a first appearance'.

Publishing history does not get more vivid than this. See Flower's obituary in The Times, and Wells's in the New York Times. The three items in good condition, lightly aged. All three folded once and signed 'Newman Flower'. First TLS (3 January 1928): 1p, 12mo. He writes that although 'a very apologetic letter from Mr. Wells of Harpers' has 'cleared the air entirely', 'a reply from Holt' received at the same time is not very satisfactory', and 'in view of the fact that Cassell's and Harpers will be coming together again, it would, perhaps, be as well not to do anything at present'. Second TLS (11 December 1928): Headed 'CONFIDENTIAL'. He regrets to inform Marchant, that he 'had a very aggressive interview with Mr. Wells, of Harper's, in my Club this afternoon [.] he as good as called me a liar, and was so abominably rude that I have decided that I will have no further dealings whatever with Harper's'. Deleted sentence follows: 'I have, to-day written and cancelled the arrangement with them over "The Real Hell"'. There are no books 'coming along in which Harper's and ourselves are sharing, but, if so, I want to make it clear that I am not prepared to proceed with them'. He does not think this will 'hamper' Marchant, but asks him not to bring Cassell's 'any books in which we must be associated with Harper's, and that you will not offer Harper's any book of Cassell's'. He concludes: 'It takes a great deal really to put me out of temper, but I will not be subjected again to such rudeness as I had to put up with from Mr. Wells this afternoon, in my own Club.' ALS (18 December 1928): Begins: 'Dear Sir James / Have sent you a brace of birds from the chase. Shot on Saturday.' He wishes the Marchants 'better health in 1929', hoping that it will be one of Marchant's 'Years of good fortune'. He ends by stating that he appreciates 'more than I can say all you have done to help things along this year'.

Zustand: Good binding. Broadsheet; approximately 22 x 16" , printed on both sides; as one would expect it is chock full of war news; folded, with minor loss at the folds and the beginning of separation.~~The Weekly Catawba was printed between 1859 and 1865, only in Charlotte.~~With news from the Northern papers: "The Northern papers are filled with Stonewall Jackson's victory. The whole North was wild with excitement and panic" (which must have gladdened the hearts of Charlotte residents). ~~News of a more local nature as well: "A party of thieves from the Yankee fleet yesterday made a visit to the plantation of Messrs. Brown and Johnston, on the Louisiana shore, committing all manner of depredations killing hogs and cattle, destroying whatever came in their way, and finally approached the dwelling of Mr. George W. Johnston, with the intention of plundering it of whatever valuables they might find. Mr. Johnston contronted them and warned them off -- telling them that they had killed his cattle and hogs, and destroyed his property, but that they must not enter his house; that he should defend it at all hazards . he killed one of their party, . but they fired upon him killing him instantly."~~From the Richmond Whig: "President Davis, with the heads of the different departments, was in the field on Sunday. They probably expected that the Yankees, with their superior numerical force, would make some efforts to retrieve their losses of the previous day, by advancing upon the Confederate lines, but the enemy remained under cover all day except when driven from it by the "rebels".~~The immediacy of these reports convey a vividness not found in later narratives and memoirs. Good binding.

26" x 18", folded in half horizontally. G. Bailey, Jr., Editor and Proprietor; John G. Whittier, Corresponding Editor. This abolitionist newspaper was edited by Gameliel Bailey, the editor of the earlier Cincinnati abolitionist paper, The Philanthropist. Influential in part for its persuasive emotional writing from the noted abolitionist John G. Whittier and others, as well as publishing the first serialized Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1851. ~~These issues contain interesting articles describing a kidnapping written by a former slave in Virginia named C.M. Howard, ads for Free Labor Produce, excerpts from Margaret Smith's diary, free soil movements in different states, election coverage, poetry written by the formerly enslaved, an entire speech to Congress by James K. Polk, efforts to deport freedman from slave states, and the question of slavery in new territories. Other content include typical business notices, classifieds, international news, etc. ~~Issues are from October 12, 1848, 8 weekly issues from November 9, 1848 December 28, 1848, and February 10 and 17th, 1853. The 1853 issues are each 2pp only. The last issue is backed with a stiff reinforcement page but the binding is lost; the November 16, 1848 issue has an article cut out of the back page; November 30 has a classified cut out. All other issues are in similar good condition with wear to binding, edges and folds; some discoloration or minor tears. 3 issues contain annotations at the top, "Westin Citizen Chicago".

12 octavo issues in wrappers; there is some chipping and loss to the spines, but the issues are complete.~~One of the more important agricultural magazines in the South, The Southern Planter was begun in 1841 and ran until 1867 until it merged with The Farmer. With many pages of farming advertisements --mowers, pigs, guano, and the like. Single issues are uncommon -- to get an entire year's run in the original wrappers is especially nice. A revealing picture of agrarian life in the South at the end of the Reconstruction period. With frontispiece portraits. (Haynes S17367).

12 octavo issues in wrappers; there is some chipping and loss to the spines, but the issues are complete.~~One of the more important agricultural magazines in the South, The Southern Planter was begun in 1841 and ran until 1867 until it merged with The Farmer. With many pages of farming advertisements --mowers, pigs, guano, and the like. Single issues are uncommon -- to get an entire year's run in the original wrappers is especially nice. A revealing picture of agrarian life in the South at the end of the Reconstruction period. With frontispiece portraits.~~~~ (Haynes 17367).

Unbound. Zustand: Good. Vol. 12, No. 4. Single sheet folded to make four folio pages (12" x 17¾"), printed in four columns. Moderate soiling and some old dampstaining above the fold, light horizontal and vertical creases where folded for mailing, a good copy overall of this fragile publication. Printed in Liberia by the American Colonization Society, which was founded in 1817 with the goal of returning freed slaves to Africa. In 1822, the society established the colony of Liberia, and by 1867 more than 13,000 of the formerly enslaved had emigrated to Liberia. An important issue, with much of it devoted to the Governor's Message dated January 9, 1843 and addressed to The Members of the Legislative Council, the message gives a detailed account of the colony and its future aspirations, with many references to the American Colonization Society. This issue also prints the Constitution of The Commonwealth of Liberia, complete in 29 articles, together with two newly voted Amendments to the Constitution. All issues of the *Liberia Herald* are uncommon in the marketplace.

Newspaper. Zustand: Fair. Weekly Edition. A rare newspaper, The National Era, dated September 2, 1852 and published by G. Bailey. Four pages, large bi-fold folio. Separation along bottom seam, some loss of text. Delicate condition. Includes speech by Charles Sumner on the motion "To Repeal The Fugitive Slave Bill - August 26, 1852." The Fugitive Slave Act mandated that former slaves caught in the north would be extradited back to the south. It was nicknamed "The Bloodhound Law" by abolitionists. It was passed along with the Missouri Compromise and was the most controversial part of the bill. Enforcement of the law ended with the outbreak of the Civil War.