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JOURNAL OF ANN BRANSON: A Minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Near fine in embossed brown cloth, with gilt lettering on the spine.
Book ID: 35600More details Price: $85.00 -
BRAVE REBELS.
Edition: First printing.
Newberg, OR: Barclay Press, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - Short biographies of heroic Quakers through the years from George Fox and Margaret Askew Fell Fox to the Penningtons, William Penn, Levi Coffman (president of the Underground Railroad) and more. Illustrated. Bibliography. xiii, 160 pp. ISBN: 0-913342-025.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61729More details Price: $18.50 -
A QUAKER LOVE STORY and Other Poems.
Edition: First edition.
Chicago: J. L. Regan & Co., Printers, 1885. Hardcover first edition - The title poem retells in verse a story first told by the 'heroine' sixty years ago - that is, it was a story of travel over 400 miles of rough mountains by two young women, courting and love, set on the Virginia - Ohio border in the 1820s. The other poems had been published in such magazines as Scribner's, The Century, etc. Engraved frontispiece, one other illustration of Prospect Hill (by Baker), a few decorative tailpieces. 79 pp.
Condition: Near fine in gray cloth with black lettering and illustration on the front cover, beveled edges to the boards, decorative endpapers. Gift inscription to "Miss Bigelow from Laura April 15th, 1886" and small bookplate of Oakella Bigelow (1857-1916, Toledo, Ohio.)
Book ID: 41044More details Price: $45.00 -
'Luke Decker and Slavery' in INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY, VOLUME LXXXV, Number 1, March 1989.
Edition: First appearance in print of these works.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 1989. First edition - Also 'Governor James P. Goodrich and Russia' by Benjamin Rhodes and 'Civil War Letters of Daniel Wooten, the Metamorphosis of a Quaker Soldier' by Jacquelyn S. Nelson. Book reviews. 100 pages.
Condition: Near fine in stiff red wrappers.
Book ID: 19101More details Price: $12.00 -
PEGGY OWEN AND LIBERTY.
Edition: First edition.
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1912. Hardcover first edition - The fourth and final book in Madison's Peggy Owen series, the story of a young Quaker girl in Philadelphia and its environs during the American Revolution. Because of her religion, Peggy is at first neutral about the War for Independence, but gradually becomes more and more involved in the fight for freedom. This book focuses on the unrest after the surrender of Cornwallis. Illustrated with a frontispiece with tissue guard and six glossy inserted plates by H. J. Peck. A rather uncommon interesting historical novel, especially in the first edition and in this condition. 456 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated blue cloth covers (slight spine slant).
Book ID: 83946More details Price: $45.00 -
NANTUCKET REBEL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ives Washburn, (1963) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set among the Quaker whalers living on Nantucket Island when the Revolutionary war began. As Stackpole notes in his introduction, due to its location 30 miles off the coast of Massachusetts, when "war came, with a suddenness for which the islanders were unprepared, it brought a time of strain and sorrow in which a peaceful community was split by conflicting loyalties." INSCRIBED on the frontispiece and underneath Stackpole's signature is the notation "Curator of the Nantucket Folger Museum." Double page map. 306 pp. Jacket and map by Charles Greer.
Condition: Near fine in blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine (a bit of fading to the edges of the boards) in a very good dust jacket with one short closed tear, light edgewear. Original price of 4.95 still present on dj flap.
Book ID: 88401More details Price: $60.00