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Item #3978 [GUN VIOLENCE / THE BEATLES]. "Happiness is a Warm Gun" -- ALL 12 ISSUES OF THE 1968...
"I just thought it was a fantastic, insane thing to say. A warm gun means you just shot something." - John Lennon

[GUN VIOLENCE / THE BEATLES]. "Happiness is a Warm Gun" -- ALL 12 ISSUES OF THE 1968 AMERICAN RIFLEMAN, including the infamous May issue which was the inspiration for John Lennon's song of the same name

Washington DC: National Rifle Association of America, 1968 (entire year, Jan. - Dec.). Complete run of 12 issues (binder size: 315 x 230 mm), each profusely illustrated with photographs and preserved in original color-printed wrappers, stapled as issued, housed in original NRA-issued binder with working metal catches (SEE IMAGES): maroon..... More

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Item #3964 [1864 CIVIL WAR NOVEL BY A WOMAN AUTHOR]. Rival Volunteers; or, The Black Plume...
Forgotten Civil War novel by a Massachusetts (?) woman

[1864 CIVIL WAR NOVEL BY A WOMAN AUTHOR]. Rival Volunteers; or, The Black Plume Rifles

New York: John Bradburn, 1864. First Edition. 8vo. 377 pp. Original publisher's green cloth (extremities worn, spine dulled; inner hinged repaired; front binder's blank creased and with faint ink inscription, now crossed out; fore-edge of first blank with two short tears; pp. [7]-10 with blind stamp "SOLD FROM" (sic); pp..... More

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Item #3952 [IMPORTANT WESTERN AMERICANA]. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky...
“Changed the entire picture of the West” (Wheat); “The vade mecum of Manifest Destiny” (Kurutz)

[IMPORTANT WESTERN AMERICANA]. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44 [Senate 174, 28th Congress, 2nd Session]

Washington DC: Gales and Seaton, 1845. First Edition. Thick 8vo (23.5 x 16 cm). 693 [1 blank] pp., 5 lithographic maps (list below), 22 lithographed plates (views, fossils, botany), 3 of the maps and 12 of the plates are attributed to Weber in image. Original blindstamped dark brown cloth, spine..... More

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Item #3950 [1805 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WRITTEN BY A WOMAN HISTORIAN]. History of...
First edition of the "first important historical work by an American Woman" (Howes)

[1805 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WRITTEN BY A WOMAN HISTORIAN]. History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations

Boston: Printed by Manning and Loring, for E. Larkin, 1805. First Edition. 3 vols., 8vo. xii, 447; vii, [1], 412; vi pp., 1 f. (blank), 475 pp., browning and foxing throughout. Nineteenth-century quarter buckram over marbled boards, WORN, front board of vol. 1 reattached, some binder's blanks detached or starting..... More

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Item #3813 [AFRICAN AMERICANA]. [WHITE SUPREMACY]. [COMMUNISM]. "The Red-Tagging of Negro...
Alarmingly prescient

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. [WHITE SUPREMACY]. [COMMUNISM]. "The Red-Tagging of Negro Protest" (offprint from "The American Scholar" vol. 26, no. 3)

New York: NAACP, 1957. 8vo. [2], 325-333, [1] pp. Original self-wrappers, stapled as issued. Some toning around the edges but the paper stock is strong and crisp. Written 65 years ago, this little-known article is just as thought-provoking today, as Americans respond to the Black Lives Matter movement and related..... More

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Item #3812 [AFRICAN-AMERICANA / EBONICS / SONG SHEET]. Bob-Tailed Nag (a.k.a. Camptown Races)....
Well known Ebonics immortalized by Foghorn Leghorn

[AFRICAN-AMERICANA / EBONICS / SONG SHEET]. Bob-Tailed Nag (a.k.a. Camptown Races)

Philadelphia: T.M. Scroggy, 1853-1857. 8vo. leaflet (9.5" x 5.25"). Type surrounded by typographical border (paper toned). One of the best known American minstrel songs, "Camptown Races" (a.k.a. "Bob-Tailed Nag") has for us been memorialized by the cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn, who sang portions of it many of his Looney Tunes..... More

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Item #3560 [MAPPING THE WEST - COMPLETE SET IN PERFECT CONDITION]. Mapping the Transmississippi...
In Perfect Condition

[MAPPING THE WEST - COMPLETE SET IN PERFECT CONDITION]. Mapping the Transmississippi West, 1540-1861

San Francisco: Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957-1963. First Edition. Together five vols. in six. Large folios (355 x 260 mm). Original publisher's dark green buckram over gray linen, spines gilt-stamped; standard offsetting inside boards from publisher's brown dust-wrappers, now no longer present. Unread copy. ONE OF THE GREAT WORKS OF..... More

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