Results for: Jacksonian Era (US)
Passionate Liberator: Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform.
Abzug, Robert H.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and minor rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with small torn strip at head of spine and a closed tear on lower edge of front cover and some scuffing to covers. 370 pages with illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, and index. An interesting biography of the abolitionist, Theodore Dwight Weld.
Price: $20.00
The Letters of Daniel Webster from Documents Owned Principally by the New Hampshire Historical Society.
Daniel Webster. Edited by C. H. Van Tyne.
New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1968.
Octavo hardcover in blue cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to lower corners of both covers, especially the front cover. Light scuffing to covers. 769 pages with index. Reprint of 1902 edition featuring letters from the noted American statesman, Daniel Webster (d. 1852).
Price: $45.00
The Transformation of Political Culture: Massachusetts Parties, 1790s-1840s.
Formisano, Ronald P.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with some minor tears located mainly on heel of spine and some scuffing to covers. 496 pages with figures, tables, 12 appendices, endnotes, and index. An examination of the rise and acceptance of political parties in Massachusetts during the late eighteenth and early ninteenth centuries and the relationships among parties and various social movements of the time.
Price: $60.00
Prelude to Civil War : the Nullification Controversy in South Carolina 1816 - 1836.
Freehling, William W.
New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1966.
Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. Slight soiling to edges of textblock. Former owner's name on endpaper in ink. 395 p. w/appendices, bibliographic essay, index. The well-respected historian's first book, and the winner of a 1967 Bancroft Prize for history.
Price: $30.00
Best Companions : Letters of Eliza Middleton Fisher and Her Mother, Mary Hering Middleton, from Charleston, Philadelphia, and Newport, 1839-1846.
Harrison, Eliza Cope, editor.
Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2001.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and minor rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and slight scuffing to covers. 532 pages with notes, illustrations, family charts, list of characters, selected bibliography, and index. A look at life in antebellum America through the letters of Mary Hering Middleton and her daughter.
Price: $25.00
A Fighter from Way Back : The Mexican War Diary of Lt. Daniel Harvey Hill, 4th Artillery, USA.
Hill, Lt. Daniel Harvey. Edited by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. and Timothy D. Johnson.
Kent: The Kent State University Press, 2002.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. Faint brown mark on lower edges of pages. 231 pages with maps, illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, and index. A detailed memoir of Daniel Hill's experiences during the Mexican-American War, 1846-1848.
Price: $25.00
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers, Volume I.
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe.
Boston: IndyPublish.com.
Very good octavo hardcover in blue cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to corners of covers and slight scuffing. 302 pages. Reprint of 1851 edition. Volume I only.
Price: $45.00
Daniel Webster : the Expounder of the Constitution.
Wheeler, Everett Pepperell.
New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1905.
Quarto (slightly oversized). Green cloth. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Corners bumped, though less so at top. Small dent in front boardnear top right corner. Slight scuffing to covers. Gilt at top edge of textblock rubbed. Light foxing o a few pages. 188 p. w/table of cases, index, frontis, and 4 additional pages listing other books by the publisher. A quite favorable biogaphy of Webster, with extensive extracts from his writings and speeches.
Price: $50.00
