AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
Supporting
Liberia, 1832
(Liberia). Address of the managers of the American Colonization Society, to the people of the United States. Washington: James C. Dunn, 1832. 8vo (20.8 cm, 8.2"). 16 pp.; 1 map.
A map of the colony is provided.
• Sabin 81763. Sewn, removed from a nonce volume, now in a Mylar folder. Mild foxing, confined mostly to title-page.
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IN COLOR! Life of General Scott. [New York?, 1852?]. 8vo. 32 pp. 
• Sabin 78417. Stitched as issued. Little dusty. Five-digit number faintly stamped near the cut. Margin of first leaf slightly torn. (1012)
IN THE ORIGINAL
BLACK & WHITE Life of General Scott. [New York?: , 1852?]. 8vo. 32 pp. 
• Sabin 78417. Stitched as issued. Little dusty. Five-digit number faintly stamped near the cut. Lower margin of first leaf slightly torn; some foxing/staining. (2322)
Still Thoughtful — Still Thought-ProvokingLippman, Walter. The scholar in a troubled world. An address delivered as the Phi Beta Kappa oration at the commencement exercises of Columbia University May 31, 1932. New York: Press of the Wooly Whale, 1932. 8vo. [40] pp.
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• Metallic marbled paper-covered boards, front cover with printed paper label; clean and pleasant, in original glassine dustwrapper a little chipped at edges. (22940)
New Tech — High Tech — THE TELEPHONE!Lockwood, Thomas Dixon. Practical information for telephonists. New York: W.J. Johnston Co., 1893. 12mo (17.9 cm, 7"). 192 pp. 
Lockwood, a patent lawyer for the American Bell Company, held his own patents for automated call switching — technology that helped bring about the end of the very operators for whom he wrote Practical Information. The work was first printed in 1882, with the present example being the fifth edition.
• Publisher’s dark green cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding very slightly cocked, with cloth a bit worn at corners and spine extremities. Pages faintly age-toned, else clean.
Lavish Harper & Bros. Binding &
HUNDREDS! of EngravingsLossing, Benson J. The pictorial field-book of the Revolution; or, illustrations, by pen and pencil, of the history, biography, scenery, relics, and traditions of the War for Independence. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. 8vo. 2 vols. I: Col. frontis., add. engr. t.-p., 576, [843]–880, 16, 35, [1 (blank)] pp.; illus. II: Frontis., add. engr. t.-p., x, [xiii]–xvi, [9]–842 pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. The work is illustrated with “several hundred” wood engravings done primarily from sketches by the author. This copy has the appendix that should close vol. II bound in at the end of vol. I.
• Howes L-477. Bindings as above, joints and board edges refurbished; vol. I with hinges (inside) unobtrusively reinforced. Moderate offsetting and spotting to endpapers; a few scattered light spots to pages. (22430)
Love, Treachery, Devotion & Desperation (Love Gone Wrong). The
double suicide. The true history of the lives of the twin sisters, Sarah and Maria Williams.... New York: H.H. Randall, [1855]. 8vo. 64 pp. (pp. 63–64 wanting); illus.
Click either image for an enlargement. • Wright, American Fiction, II, 781. Ex-Library: Quarter faux pebbled leather over marbled paper: spine rebacked with masking tape partially covering library label on front cover; edges of covers chipped. Title-page detached and chipped with paper repairs on edges of verso; interior generally spotted and stained with some dog-earing and shallow chipping—all with no apparent loss or obscuring of impression. Final leaf (pp. 63–64) lacking. Charge pocket on rear pastedown. (9500)
Lovely Condition — An Owned Copy Lowry, Robert; W.
Howard Doane; & Ira Sankey. Welcome tidings: a new collection
of sacred songs for the Sunday school. New York: Biglow & Main; Cincinnati:
J. Church Co., (copyright 1877). Oblong 12mo. 160 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. Provenance: With the handsome Victorian-era book label and comments of Frank Parson, who has
rated each hymn “fair, very good, etc.”
• Publisher's quarter cloth with illustrated and printed paper sides. Ownership label of Frank Parson on front cover and his signature on front pastedown. (3193)
So, Then. 
Are You Loyal?
Loyal National League. The Sumter anniversary, 1863. Opinions of loyalists concerning the great questions of the times; expressed in the speeches and letters from prominent citizens of all sections and parties, on occasion of the inauguration of the Loyal National League, in mass meeting on Union Square, New York on the 11th of April, 1863, the anniversary of the attack on Fort Sumter. New York: Pr. by C. S. Westcott & Co., 1863. 8vo. 144 pp.
From Philadelphia's
“Literary Curiosity Shop”
Lukens, Henry Clay [a.k.a., Heinrich Yalc Snekul]. Lean 'Nora. A supernatural, though sub-pathetic ballad. A good long way (almost ninety-seven years) after the German of Gottfried August Burger by Heinrich
Yalc Snekul. Philadelphia: P.E. Abel's Literary Curiosity Shop, 1870. 4to. 11, [73] pp. 
Click the image to the left • 19th-century textured cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title; spine reinforced with tape and covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct institution. Title-page stamped. (9808)
Harrisburg Luther-CatechismusLuther, Martin. Der kleine Catechismus des seligen D. Martin Luthers.... Harrisburg: Gedruckt und zu haben bey Jacob Baab, 1831. 12mo (14.5 cm, 5.625"). 125, [1] pp., [1 (blank)] f.
• Quarter sheep over marbled paper: chipped and rubbed; remnants of a paper title label on spine. Lightly browned with foxing/spotting as in common; dog-eared with some shallowly chipped corners resulting in no loss of text. Inked ownership inscription on recto of front free endpaper and of front fly-leaf.
Savory Matzo Kugel — Freedom Fruit Cake Lyons Bar-David, Molly. The Israeli Cookbook. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1964. 8vo. 422 pp.
• Tan publisher's cloth over boards, title stamped on spine. In dust jacket (chipped and slightly soiled). A clean, good copy. (22691)
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