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[AMERICANA]. Group of 12 Books Regarding 19th and 20th Cent...

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[AMERICANA]. Group of 12 Books Regarding 19th and 20th Century American History, Politics, Literature, and Society. [V.p., 1840s?1920s]. Includes: [BELDEN, Ezekiel Porter]. Sketches of Yale College. New York: Saxton & Miles, 1843. Woodcuts including frontispiece. Rebacked, pale foxing throughout. FIRST EDITION. ? CARVALHO, S.N. Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1860. ? KIRKLAND, Mary. Our New Home in the Old West. New York: James Miller, 1872. ? SHERWOOD, John. The Comic History of the United States. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. With original illustrations by Harry Scratchly. Brown cloth with pictorial gilt design. Some rubbing and fading to the cover. Toning to paper; interior is clean. Good. ? HOWELLS, W.D. A Previous Engagement. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. First edition. Illustrated. Red wrapper. ? AMES, Fisher. Works of Fisher Ames compiled by a number of his friends. Boston: T.B. Wait & Co., 1809. Full leather with gilt letter spine. Some separation. Toning, foxing, dampening marks. Scuffing and some rubbing. Provenance: Minor Myers, Wesleyan University. ? RIDGE, John Rollin. A Trumpet of Our Own, Yellow Bird?s Essays on the North American Indian. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1981. ? MCHENRY, James. Meredith; or the Mystery of the Meschianza. A Tale of the American Revolution. Philadelphia, 1831. ? MACKAY, Charles. Life and Liberty in America. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859. With ten illustrations. Rebacked. ? WALDMAN, Milton. Americana: The Literature of American History. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1925. With the dust jacket. Illustrated, including the frontispiece. Deckle edge paper. ? STODDARD, Lothrop. The Rising Tide of Color: Against White World-Supremacy. New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1920. With the dust jacket. ? LIPPMANN, Walter. H.L. Mencken. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1926. ?Mostly 8vo and 12mo. Leather and cloth boards. VARIOUS EDITIONS. Condition varies. Worn with soiling, toning, light foxing, and ownership marks. Generally fair/good.