[Washington, D.C.]: Republican Executive Congressional Committee, 1860. 7 pp., [1]. 8vo. Disbound. First edition. List of speeches and documents available from the Republican Executive Congressional Committee on last page. An attack on the south and the sessionists. Removed from a larger volume else a very good copy with tear on... More about The Republican Party a Necessity. Speech of Charles Francis Adams, of Massachusetts. Delivered in...

n.p. [Boston]: [1805]. 24 pp. 8vo. Stitched blank paper wrappers. First edition. Bidwell supported Sullivan, a Jeffersonian, against Strong, a Federalist, and governor since 1800. A few corner creases, small marginal stain, faint dampstain to one corner of a few rear leaves, one leaf with marginal tear, overall still about... More about An Address to the People of Massachusetts. February, 1805

Washington, D.C. National Silver Committee, 1896. 14, [2] pp. 8vo. Stapled self wrappers. First edition. In support of bimetallism and private property. "We do not propose to transfer the rewards of industry to the lap of indulgence. Property is and will remain the stimulus to endeavor and the compensation for... More about Speech of Hon. William J. Bryan, Democratic Nominee for President, delivered at Notification...

[Boston]: [E.B. Foster & Co.?], 1856. 8 pp. 8vo. Removed. Reprint. From the "Boston Courier," August 14, 1856. Choate could not attend this meeting of The Whigs of Maine, so sent in his speech which declared the first duty of the Whigs was "to defeat and dissolve the new geographical... More about Hon. Rufus Choate on the Presidential Question

n.p. n.p., 1894. 4 pp. Sm. 8vo. Self wrappers. First edition. "'The best campaign document furnished the Republican party, of which we will not hear the last until the approaching canvass is ended, will be the letter of the President denouncing the Senate without exception for having framed a bill... More about Cleveland's Letter to Hon. William L. Wilson, July 2, 1894

[mid-1920s]. 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 sheet on 12 1/4 x 16 1/2 mat. 11.5 x 14 inches. Matted. Ink portrait on brown paper, inscribed: "To Emmanuel Cohen, With Regards/ Calvin Coolidge."John Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) was the 30th President of the United States (1923–1929 ). A Republican, former Governor of... More about Engraved Portrait of Calvin Coolidge Inscribed by Coolidge in Pencil to a News Film Editor

n.p. n.p., [1896]. [1 sheet]. Illus. with 1 b/w drawing. 5 3/8 x 3 1/2 inches. An early and important political cartoon, reproduced without attribution (though everyone would have been familiar with the source) as an anti-McKinley political piece, by "the most famous cartoonist of 1896," Homer Davenport (1867-1912), which... More about Political Cartoon] A Few Really Pertinent Questions. Viceroy Li Hung Chang to Viceroy Hanna

New York: Clarke & Co., Printers, (1884). 40 pp. 8vo. Illustrated paper wrappers. First edition. One of two variants. Also published in German and in an abbreviated version of four pages. Cleveland beat Blaine, breaking the Republican monopoly on the Presidency since Lincoln. About very good with several chips, small... More about Grover Cleveland. the Open Record of an Honest Man. Document No. 1

New York: Printed at the Daily News Job Office, 1856. 80 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. An examination of the twist and turns of the history of the two major factions of the New York Democrats along the fault line of the slavery issue from the convention of 1843 to... More about New York Hards and Softs: Which is the True Democracy? A Brief Statement of Facts for the...

n.p. n.p., n.d. [circa 1888]. 4 pp. 8vo. Self wrappers. First edition. First section title reads "Exorbitant Charge of Special Counsel in Bell Telephone Case - $75 per day - $100 while Sleeping en Route to Cincinnati." Goes on to accuse the Department of Justice of rights violations and cronyism... More about "The Temple of Justice a Sink of Injustice."

Boston: Printed by Munroe and Francis, 1810. 24 pp. 8vo. Disbound. First edition. A long political sermon (that with minor changes could be preached today) analyzing the current European situation with a strong anti-French pro-British view, "I consider all of our political misfortunes and all of our political blunders as... More about A Sermon, Preached at Trinity Church, April 6, 1810, being the Day of Publick Fast

Richmond, VA: Richmond Enquirer, 1828. 57 pp. Sm. 4to. Paper-covered boards, red morocco spine label, gilt title. First edition thus. Published as a series of twelve pieces critical of Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams in the Richmond Enquirer of 1828. Though the author of first eight pieces was given... More about Plain Matters of Fact, Undenied and Undeniable. One at a Time - "Constructive Journies."

[Washington, D.C.]: n.p., [1860]. 15, [1] pp. 8vo. Self wrappers. First edition. List of speeches and documents available from the Republican Executive Congressional Committee on last page. Daniel R. Goodloe (1814-1902) was an abolitionist, journalist, Republican politician from North Carolina, and the author of the 1846 "Inquiry into the causes... More about Federalism Unmasked: Or the Rights of the States, the Congress, the Executive, and the People,...