“Yes, reader, if any one feels that the tocsin of alarm, or the anti-slavery trump, must sound a louder note before they can hear it, one would think they must be very hard of hearing – yea, that they belong to that class, of whom...
“A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building to make it stand.” – Mark Twain The Central Pacific Railroad: A Trip Across the… New York: T. Nelson and sons, 1870 F594 C46 This is one in a series of pictorial guide-books published by T. Nelson and...
"The fire of the American troops, delivered at short range, was so overwhelming, that Pigot was forced to order a retreat. The same fate attended Howe's attack on the left, where the same tactics were pursued by the Americans, with like success." Rare Books celebrates...
“At two P.M we set sail, and the men voluntarily launched out to make a traverse of fifteen miles across Melville Sound, before a strong wind and heavy sea. The privation of food, under which our voyagers were then laboring, absorbed every other terror; otherwise...
Title Page, U.S. First Edition, March 1852 Title Page, Early Great Britain Edition, May 1852 Title: Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly (United States) / Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Negro Life in the Slave States of America (Great Britain) Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe First Edition (U.S.) /...