421 pages including an index, bibliography, supplement of letters, text and illustrated with reproductions of period art works. A small quarto of 9 by 6 inches with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine rubbed and worn through and with the name of its prior owner written in ink at the upper corner of the first free end page and with what appears to be a narrow strip of white paint at the heel of the spine and at the lower edge of the boards. Very good- in blue cloth covered boards with dark blue text on the spine and decorations on the front board and with illustrated end sheets.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, c 1921 & c1941. Morison, Samuel Eliot: The Maritime History of Massachusetts 1783-1860. (Not listed in Marshall, but very close to #69.) An extremely uncommon early Christmas title. The verso of the rear cover shows 14 ads for "New Picture Books for Little Children" one of which announces the issuance of a title in "late fall of 1869" which is a strong suggestion that is the printing date for this title. 12 printed pages counting the verso of the front cover and the recto of the rear cover including 6 printed in black and white and 6 chromolithographs by Thomas Nast. Of note: Santa's costume is in brown and apparently in brown fur to parallel the text of the poem.
A small quarto of 10 1/2 by 9 1/8 inches with light soiling to the front cover and light soiling throughout and with occasional finger soiling to the margins of the pages. Near fine in heavy printed paper wraps over a sewn binding. The full title reads: "The People The Sovereigns Being A Comparison Of The Government Of The United States With Those Of The Republics Which Have Existed Before, With The Cause Of Their Decadence And Fall." Written by the late President sometime between his retirement from the Presidency (1825) and the time of his death (1831).
A number of the first signatures are loose due to fractured sewing thread. A small octavo measuring 7 1/2 by 4 5/8 inches with brown clay coated end sheets, with an early prior owner's name and date of "1869" at the upper edge of the title page, a blind embossed library seal on the title page, a library plate on the front paste down and call numbers in pencil on the first page of the table of contents, and the typical library pocket and date due slip on the rear end sheets. An ex-library copy in very good condition which has been rudely rebacked with heavy brown cloth and marked with the title and library call numbers in white on the spine. Monroe, James: The People The Sovereigns.
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