LARGE ENGRAVED MILITARY COMMISSION, 1866,
WITH STAMPED SIGNATURES OF JOHNSON AND STANTON
JOHNSON, Andrew and STANTON, Edwin. Document signed (stamped signatures). Washington, D.C. July 17, 1866.
Fine military commission, fully engraved on vellum and finished in manuscript, with stamped signatures of President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. $1800.
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“THERE IS NO QUESTION TODAY MORE UNSETTLED IN AMERICAN POLITICS THAN THE NEGRO QUESTION”
FORTUNE, T. Thomas. Black and White. New York, 1885.
Second edition of this treatise on the future of labor and interracial relations in the South by a major African American journalist and public intellectual. $650.
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“THAT WHICH WAS NEVER REALLY HIDDEN, BUT RARELY IS NOTICED”
DICORCIA, Philip-Lorca. Storybook Life. Santa Fe, 2003.
First trade edition of this “epic view” of stark everyday life, with 75 full-page color plates, signed on the title page by DiCorcia. A beautiful volume. $300.
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