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[Norman Kane]

ADAMS, F. COLBURN.   HIGH OLD SALTS. STORIES INTENDED FOR THE MARINES, BUT TOLD BEFORE AN ENLIGHTENED COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS.  Washington: All booksellers, [1876]. First edition.  Original printed wrappers, very good, [2], 138 pages.  SIGNED inscription by Adams. ( On the efficiency of the navy and some naval operations of the Civil War. A criticism of Admiral Porter.)
$90.00

EBERSTADT, CHARLES.  LINCOLN'S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.
N,Y.: Duschnes Crawford, cop. 1950. First separate edition, original boards, with title label, [2], 50 pages, illustrations (1 folding). Very good. #63 OF 200 COPIES SIGNED BY  EBERSTADT. TYPED LETTER SIGNED BY EBERSTADT LAID IN PRESENTING THE BOOK TO PHILA. LIBRARY COMPANY LIBRARIAN, BARNEY CHESNICK. 
$175.00

CATALOGUE OF THE CONFEDERATE MUSEUM, OF THE CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL LITERARY SOCIETY . . . Richmond: Ware & Duke, 1905.  Original printed wrappers with Confederate flags in color, very good. Fronts. Several lines inked out in the front matter, 300 pages. $75.00

CARPENTER, JOHN R.  HISTOIRE DE LA LITTERARURE FRANCAISE SUR LA LOUISIANE DE 1673 JUSQU'A 1766.  Paris: Nizet, 1966. 352, [1] pages, very good. 
Double-page map, bibliography, largely unopened. 3 copies only in OCLC (all in 
France.)  $90.00

HIGHLEY, GEO. N. ET AL, Compilers.   HISTORY OF MALVERN, CHESTER COUNTY, PENNA.  Downingtown: Chester Valley Press, 1964.  First printing, limited 
to 500 copies.  Original cloth, very good, in just lightly worn dust wrapper. Illustrated. 175 pages. SIGNED inscription by Highley on title page. (Site of the nighttime Paoli 
Massacre that befell General Anthony Wayne's Pennsylvania Brigade  following the Battle of the Brandywine.)  $75.00

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