Otis Samuel A (4 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. Boards rubbed and lightly soiled, edges exposed, a few internal holes to cloth spine, pages toned, binding a bit shaken but holding, publisher's advertising insert entitled Best Books for Boys and Girls laid in. 1899 Hard Cover. Color frontispiece, color pictorial boards, engraved illustrations throughout. An illustrated collection of stories and poems for young readers by various authors, including: The Mysterious Choir Boy; Fluffy's Easter Joke; Phillip de Valogne; The Sea-Serpent; The American Coracle; The Ah-Goo Tongue; Arithmetic Among the Greeks; How the News Came; The Squeaking Fern; A Boy's Ideal; The Diver; An Iconoclast; The Doll-Lady; Chin Chin, Huang Ta-Ta!; Kevin the Fisher; Australian Tree-Climbing; An Old Stager; Boston's Girl-Sculptor; An Evening at Home; How Easter Came to the Little Nuremberg Maids; Egg-Rolling at the White House (A Bit of Washington Folk-Lore); A Primitive Form of Vise; Upper Nine (A Sleeping-Car Story); High Tea at Low Tide; A Pet Seal; How Jack Sailed with Leif Ericsson; The Pessimist; Almost a Deserter; Frog Music; A Masquerade; On the Shores of the Dead Sea; A Boy Editor and How He Runs the Sunny Hour; A Woodland Custom; The Child's Treasure; Raglan's Substitute; The Elf's Thanksgiving; The Legend of the Rhode Island Greening; Dandelion's Time; The Babies of the Zoo; The Narration of Irish Will of Galway; Somebody.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Verh good with light crease to front, short surface tear at fold of front page (affecting one line), fading and light wear to edges. Complete and original issue. Article completely covers the first page.

[4] pp, disbound, very light foxing. Very Good. Evans 38809. NAIP w025661 [5].

Approx. 10" x 12" containing 2 columns of purchases showing debts and credits from Joseph Shirtleff, from Nov. 1770 to Dec., 1772. From 2 sacks of flour and 15½ pounds of chocolate to a dozen candlesticks, a barrel for rum, and three thousand 10-penny nails. Also the return of an undersized kettle. Nearly 50 items in all, with prices, and with payments made against the purchases with cash. Otis (1740-1814), son of James Otis and father of Harrison Gray Otis, graduated from Harvard in 1759; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Boston; was a member of the state House of Representatives in 1776; member of the Board of War in 1776; collector of clothing for the Continental Army in 1777; member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention; again a member of the state House of Representatives 1784-1787 and elected Speaker of the House in 1784; he was a member of the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788; and was elected Secretary of the United States Senate on April 8, 1789, and served until his death in Washington, D.C. Joseph Shirtleff Quarter Master, Col. Thomas Marshall's (10th) regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1777, to Sept. 1, 1777; reported promoted to Commissary General's department Sept. 1, 1777; also, same regt.; return of men who were in service subsequent to Jan. 1, 1777; reported transferred to Quartermaster General's department. …