Brush Daniel Harmon Edited Milo (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A very good copy of the first hard cover edition {Christmas, 1944), lacking a dust-jacket, as issued. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding bright and fresh in appearance. A sharp copy.

Hardcover. Condition: near fine. no jacket. NOT an ex library book. Dark red cloth covered book has gold print on spine. Cover has publisher's crest and lines on edge in gold. Gilt on top edge. Clean pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. some wear to corners, portions spine title flaked off, some spotting to spine, age discoloration to end papers along hinges, otherwise a clean, sound copy, 12mo, 265 pages, maroon cloth with gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket as issued, endpapers slightly age-toned ; Red cloth hardcover, TEG, portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, map, index. Publisher's "compliments" card laid in. ; 12mo; xxxii + 265 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 16mo, (approx. 4 3/8' wide by 6 3/4" tall / 17.25 cm) maroon cloth covers with gilt titles and rules, top edge gilt, xxxii + 265 pages. Includes index, map. Frontis. portrait of Daniel Harmon Brush. Fine condition.

Octavo, burgundy cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to upper cover, top edge gilt, tissue-protected frontis., xxxii, 265 pp. Fine. From Publishers' Preface: For the first time an unpublished manuscript furnishes the subject matter. The manuscript is the memoir of Daniel Harmon Brush who, at the age of 8, migrated from New York state to southern Illinois in 1820. The memoir was apparently written during his old age for the younger members of the family and their descendants, and not for publication. There is no information as to how the manuscript drifted out of the possession of of Brush's descendants. All that is known is the statement of the dealer in rare books from whom it was purchased that it had been in their stock for the past dozen or more years. The manuscript is far too long for our format, and many deletions have been necessary. The method followed in deleting was to preserve all portions that told of the activities of Brush personally, and what influence he had upon the economic and cultural developments of southern Illinois. Starting from zero at the age of twelve, he became a prosperous business man, interested in public affairs. Today he would be known as one of our "leading citizens" -- leading in business ability, holding the confidence of the public, and leading in public undertakings to which he contributed generously in time and money. His story is not exciting, but it gives a good picture of how the enterprise and character of a pioneer were reflected in the growth and character of the community as they both grew up together. The majority of the deletions were family letters and intimate incidents that would be of little interest to the general reader. There is a portion, however, that would have been amusing had it not been so prolific. That covered the political controversies between Brush, a Whig almost alone in the district, and the democrats with their southern sympathies. The leaders of the opposition were Alexander M. Jenkins, Brush's brother-in-law, and John A. Logan, Sr., at that time active in returning runaway slaves to their "rightful" owners. Mr. Logan's son John at the outbreak of the Civil War, joined the federal army and was in time appointed a Major General, the only one so honored who was not a West Pointer. After the war he returned to politics and eventually was one of the senators from Illinois. In his memoir Brush included all the handbills of defamation circulated by his enemies and his own replying handbills and speeches. In most of the elections Brush won, but his care in saving all documents relating to his campaigns suggests that he felt keenly his enemies' accusations and included them all in his memoir to establish his innocence. As a sample of rough and ready campaigning, it is a masterpiece and establishes a precedent for the smearing technique in fashion during some of our recent national campaigns. Illinois, American Biography, Americana, U.S.-iana, U. S. History, American History. yalic.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine+. First Limited Edition. Volume itself has sharp gilt top edge. In the front of the work there is a portrait of David Harmon Bruch that is tissue guarded; tissue is fine with no tears. Emblem on the front cover and lettering and lines are sharp and bright on the cover and spine. No underlining, no highlighting, no bookplates, no owner names, no remainder marks, not ex libris, no folded or dogeared pages, no foxing, no smudges. A quite nice copy of an increasing scarce work to find in high quality condition to augument someone's effort to collect a set of Lakeside Classics.