Hawke David Freeman Editor (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Cover is in good condition, save for minimal rubbing and corner/edge wear. Text is otherwise tight in binding. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout. No other markings or indications of note. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Orange cloth with silver lettering on the spine. 171 historical and informative pages! "A danger confronts the enthusiast who wants to persuade friends to read Robert Beverley's History of Virginia. The urge persists to talk about the book as a significant historical document, a classic of American literature, or a pioneering study for anthropologists and naturalists. it is all these things, but such labels make the History something less than it is. Out of a blend of love and wrath - love for Virginia, wrath for the lies perpetrated about it in England - Beverley produced one of the liveliest, wittiest, and best written accounts we have of life in colonial America. He south, so he said, to give readers 'a tolerable entertainment.' Contemporaries on the receiving end of his barbs may have questioned the entertaining quality of the book, but modern readers never have. It remains as readable today as in 1705 when it was published.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing, stated. A fine copy with some light dust staining to the top edge. The mylar protected DJ is near fine with some light sunfading to the spine but the front and back covers are bright. Not price clipped-- a great copy. See my photos. All books are in my possession and ship in well packed cardboard boxes. #25.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears and generalized rubbing. "William Henry Herndon (December 25, 1818 March 18, 1891) was a law partner and biographer of President Abraham Lincoln. He was an early member of the new Republican Party and was elected mayor of Springfield, Illinois.In the fall of 1844, Lincoln was tired of being a junior partner. He had worked for senior partners with political ambitions, and Lincoln wanted a younger partner to whom he could relate. Surprising both his wife and Herndon, in October Lincoln invited his friend to form a partnership. Lincoln appreciated Herndon's friendship, loyalty, shared political beliefs and conscientious study. Lincoln said that Herndon "was my man always above all other men on the globe." Herndon did not disappoint his friend. He contributed to the practice by performing research for his older and more experienced partner, building the firm's law library, and overseeing young men who came to study law (read the law) at their office.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Printing. Near Fine in VG+ dust jacket. Account of the American west written in 1841 by a young man from the East who joined a wagon train in 1831 headinf for Santa Fe. Memoir, American West.

Condition: FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J. 1ST THUS. THIS BOOK WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1705 / A TITLE IN "AMERICAN HISTORY LANDMARKS" SERIES (GEN EDITOR DAVID F. HAWKE) "After John Smith, the first account of this colony, the first one penned by a native and the best contemporary record of its aboriginal tribes and the life of the early settlers." (HOWES #410) BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS ABOUT FINE WITH A COUPLE SHORT TEARS AND MODEST CORNER RUB, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK.…