Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1958. First Edition. 350, illus., bibliography, index, tape stains inside flyleaves, sticker inside rear board, some wear to top & bottom DJ edges. More

Gaithersburg, Maryland: Old Soldier Books, Inc., c1987. reprint edition, presumed first printing thus. Pamphlet. [3], 17 pages, plus covers. Illustrated cover. Two other illustrations. Topics covered include his standing as a famous Confederate Cavalry Leader, and his unusual and important uses of cavalry in war. Both Stuart and Lee knew that it was a far more important work than most supposed, and that its results were infinitely greater than prisoners taken, wagon trains destroyed, the enemy's communications cut, and the like. Mosby's warfare was encouraged and his exploits praised by General Stuart and General Lee for the best of reasons. They know well that it was a far more important work than most supposed, and that its results were infinitely greater than prisoners taken, wagon trains destroyed, the enemy's communications cut, and the like. A reprint of an essay written about 1915 by a member of the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment. Collins, highlights Mosby's wartime exploits. This appears to have been based on an essay, reprinted from The New Haven Register, Nov. 6, 1910 and "Circulated in Hartford, at the time of Col. Mosby's lecture, Dec. 10, 1910. More

Springfield, IL: n.p., 1913. 5" x 7.75", 1 sheet, 1 sheet of heavy stock, design in left margin, some darkening to edges, small pieces missing in right margin. More

New York: Harper & Brothers, c1925. Memorial Edition stated on DJ. Hardcover. [12], 180, [2] pages. Occasional footnotes. Illustrations. Corners of some pages bumped. Red cloth. DJ, in pieces, with flaps separated, and states Memorial Edition. Conwell was the founder of Temple University, Philadelphia. Russell Herman Conwell (February 15, 1843 – December 6, 1925) was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, author, lawyer, and writer. He is best remembered as the founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphia, as the Pastor of The Baptist Temple, and for his inspirational lecture, "Acres of Diamonds". The original inspiration for "Acres of Diamonds", his most famous essay, occurred in 1869 when Conwell was traveling in the Middle East. The work began as a speech, "at first given," wrote Conwell in 1913, "before a reunion of my old comrades of the Forty-sixth Massachusetts Regiment" It was delivered as a lecture on the Chautauqua circuit prior to 1882 and was first published in book form in 1890 by the John Y. Huber Company. Conwell would deliver it over 6,152. The central idea is that one need not look elsewhere for opportunity, achievement, or fortune; the resources to achieve all good things are present in one's own community. This theme is developed by an introductory anecdote about a man who wanted to find diamonds so badly that he sold his property and went off in search for them. The new owner of his home discovered that a diamond mine was located right on the property. Conwell elaborates on the theme through examples of success, genius, service, or other virtues involving ordinary Americans contemporary to his audience. More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. xix, [3], 596, [2] pages. Illustrations. Index. Slightly cocked. Ex-library with usual library markings. This is volume XXXII of The American Statesmen series. This series ultimately comprised of 39 text volumes and a 40th, General Index, volume. The times were chaotic beyond comparison. Into this sea of troubles President Grant was thrust. A friend of the South, he yet did not know how to stay the hand of rapacity and bitter race hatred; an enemy of corruption, he could not keep the skirts of his own household clean. General Grant, the hero of Appomattox, will ever be a figure of commanding interest; President Grant was in a more difficult situation, and his life at this period compels attention if not approval. Mr. Coolidge's biography sets before us clearly the issues and complexities of the presidential term of 1869-77. Perhaps its chief interest and value lie in its illuminating chapters on a troubled epoch. More

Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Pub. Company, c1991. Second Revised Edition. 24 cm, 305, illus., maps. More

Wilmington, NC: Corbett Publications, 1961. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 42, wraps, illus., some soiling to covers, bottom corner of pages curled, covers creased. More

New York: G. Howard Watt, 1930. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 479, [1] pages. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Sources Cites. Notes. Index. No DJ present. Scuff inside the front cover. Ink notation on fep. Louis C. Fraina (October 7, 1892 – September 15, 1953) was a founding member of the Communist Party USA in 1919. After running afoul of the Communist International in 1921 over the alleged misappropriation of funds, Fraina left the organized radical movement, emerging in 1926 as a left wing public intellectual by the name of Lewis Corey. During the McCarthy era, deportation proceedings were initiated against Fraina-Corey. After a protracted legal battle, Corey died of a cerebral hemorrhage before the action against him was formally abandoned. In 1918 Fraina was responsible for the first post-revolutionary collection of the writings of V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky to be published in the United States.] The book, entitled The Proletarian Revolution in Russia, gave English-speaking readers their first glimpse at the ideas of the Russian Communist Party. Disillusioned with the incessant factionalism that seemed to render the fledgling communist movement impotent, Fraina and family returned to the United States from Mexico in 1923. The allure of writing again began to call Fraina, however, and in May 1926 he published the first of a handful of articles in the liberal news weekly, The New Republic. Fraina marked his comeback with the adoption of a new pen name — Lewis Corey — a name formed by adapting his first name and middle initial. This pseudonym was made permanent through a legal name change. In the film Reds, Fraina was portrayed by Paul Sorvino. More

Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1987. Third Printing stated. Trade paperback. xviii, 342 pages. Includes a new Forward by Herman Hattaway, Preface, Acknowledgments, Notes on Sources, Critical Bibliography, Bibliographic Update, and Index. Some edge soiling noted. This work was originally published in 1956. Eight years after President Harry S. Truman ordered an end to racial discrimination in the United States armed forces in 1948, Dudley Taylor Cornish, a thirty-year-old veteran of World War II, who had acquired a Ph.D. degree in history from the University of Colorado and begun his teaching career at Pittsburg State University in Kansas. He moved on to Pittsburg State University from which he retired and became a Professor Emeritus. More

[S.l.]: B.W. Corson, c1982. First? Printing. 24 cm, 151, illus., DJ soiled and frayed at edges. More

Washington, DC: GPO, 1979. First? Edition. First? Printing. 27 cm, 75, wraps, illus., footnotes, appendix, bibliography, some wear and soiling to covers, corner of front cover creased, bookplate. More

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, c1994. First Printing. 24 cm, 515, illus., maps, DJ torn and folded at front. More