WASHINGTON, D.C. [This "shelf" offers 20th-Century General Reading & Reference — as well as Rarities]
WASHINGTON, D.C. 
A National Trust Publication
(Decatur House). Beale, Marie. Decatur House and its inhabitants. [Washington, D.C.: National Trust for Historic Preservation,] 1954. Small 4to. [4] ff., 156 pp., illus.
• Publisher's cloth.
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Literary “Washington'ianum”Dinmore, Richard. Select and fugitive poetry. A compilation. With notes biographical and historical. Washington City: Pr. at the Franklin Press [by James Lyon & Richard Dinmore], 1802. 12mo (16.3 cm, 6.4"). 288 pp. 
Click any image where the hand appears on • Wegelin 932; Shaw & Shoemaker 2148. Period-style quarter tan cloth over light blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Title-page torn, with outer corner chipped, resulting in loss of four letters from end of title; now mounted. One contents leaf with edge tear extending into text; last leaf with short edge tears. Some light to moderate foxing, with pages age-toned; final page with shadow of pencilled “Finis” and p. 80 with pencilled comment as above.
Printed D.C. 1901
— Purchased Y.T. 1907 Dunham, Samuel C. Goldsmith of Nome and other verse. Washington: Neale Publishing Co., 1901. 8vo. 80 pp.
• Publisher's cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and landscape vignette, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding worn over extremities, with gilt showing some rubbing. Pages clean. (5701)
“Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, & Free Men” Gardiner, Oliver Cromwell. The great issue: or, The three presidential candidates; being a brief historical sketch of the Free Soil question in the United States, from the Congress of 1774 and '87 to the present time. New York: William C. Bryant; Boston: B. B. Mussey & Co., 1848. 8vo. 176 pp.
A great snapshot of a great political moment.
• Sabin 26626. Original printed wrappers, with much paper loss on spine and (only) very shallow chipping along cover edgess. Faint traces of a librarian's mark in colored pencil on front cover. Chip to lower right corner of one leaf. Occasional light spots of foxing. A good copy. (24789)
Wonderful to Leaf Through
Gill, Brendan. John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. New York: Harry N. Abrams, ©1981. 4to. 160 pp., illus.
• Publisher's cloth and original dust jacket.
A Dry Dock for Washington?Jefferson,
Thomas (President, 1801–1809). Message from the President of the United States, transmitting plans and estimates of a dry dock, for the preservation of our ships of war. 28th December, 1802. Referred to the Committee appointed on the 17th instant, on so much of the Message of the President of the United States, as relates to our navy yards, and the building of docks. Washington City: Pr. by William Duane & Son, 1802. 8vo (21.2 cm, 8.4"). 25 pp.
Benjamin Henry Latrobe on the subject of constructing a dry dock in the city of Washington, and two
additional letters. P. 19 is a folding table (verso blank).
Click the image for an enlargement. • Shaw & Shoemaker 3361. Recent paper wrappers. Title-page darkened, with small chip at upper margin, two short tears at lower margin, and an early inked annotation. Short edge tears to some outer margins, not touching text. Outer edge untrimmed, bottom edge unevenly trimmed.
Maggs AMERICANA!
(Library of Congress). Maggs Bros., London. An illustrated catalogue raisonné of one hundred and six original manuscripts, autographs, maps, and printed books illustrating the discovery & history of America from 1492 to 1814. Loaned by Maggs Bros., of London. 
Exhibited at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Spring, 1929. Folio. 233 pp., [1] p.; illus.
The Trent Affair
Rush, Benjamin. Letter on the rebellion, to a citizen of Washington from a citizen of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: John Campbell, 1862. 8vo. 23, [1 (blank)] pp.
• Sewn as issued. Once folded in six parts. Long 2 1/2 inch tears extending from fore-edges, to first three leaves. Two dog-eared corners, a few short tears to final leaf, two small holes with loss of a few words of text. (557)
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Capital
Crimes Mystery Novel
Truman, Margaret. Murder at the National Cathedral. New York: Random House, 1990. 8vo.
• Publisher's cloth. Very good condition, in a very good dust jacket.
Convention Constitution Membership United States Railway Mail Service Mutual Benefit Association. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Convention of the United States Railway Mail Service Mutual Benefit Association, held at Washington, D. C., September 4th and 5th, 1878, with the constitution and by-laws as amended thereat, and list of members of the association. Washington: Pr. by J. F. Sheiry, 1878. 16mo. 175 pp.
• Original printed wrappers, chipped at spine and edges and corners without loss of printing; darkened. A shallow chip or two to title and following page, shallow dog-earing and faint waterstaining to initial leaves including title-page; otherwise, clean and free of chips or tears. (21257)
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