[West/Slavery/Civil War]. 5 Titles. ++ DRAGOON CAMPAIGNS TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, Being a History of the Enlistment, Organization, and first Campaigns of the Regiment of United States Dragoons; Together with Incidents of a Soldier’s Life, and Sketches of Scenery and Indian Character. By a Dragoon. New-York: Wiley & Long… 1836. D. Fanshaw, Printer. 12mo. [5], 6-288pp. Contemp coarse brown cloth. Spine lacking. Stains to eps, title, and upper portion of front cover, loss to ffep. Minor foxing and occasional dampstains to interior. Dark pencil bookseller’s notation on front pastedown, “G. Hildreth” on title page. 1st edition. Sabin 31769, Field 692. “This work recounts the first prairie campaign of the Regiment of Dragoons after its organization in 1833… the regiment visited Fort Gibson, Arkansas Territory, in 1833 and the Pawnee villages in 1834…” -Wagner-Camp 59. “…the real author was an Englishman, William L. Gordon-Miller, Hildreth being merely the man who arranged publication.” –Howes H471. Also desirable for those interested in gambling. Page 128: “…It was about half an hour after tattoo… gave me the wink to follow them... “ …Not so,” said Benson. “The M- lost some cool hundreds last night at poker,* in camp, and is to meet some brother officers at Rodger’s to night. So that won’t do.” The term “poker” was still an unusual enough word to require an asterisk and a gloss in the lower margin: “*A favorite game of cards at the south and west.” ++ William Jay. AN INQUIRY INTO THE CHARACTER AND TENDENCY OF THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION, AND AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETIES. NY: Leavitt, Lord & Co., 1835, Third Edition. 12mo. Orig cloth. Loss to spine, dampstain to right margin of front cover and a larger region of the rear cover at upper right. Foxing to beginning and end of book, mostly milder foxing in between. Toning to last text leaf and ads. Rubber stamp on ffep (“Warren Public Library/ Chartered Jan, 17 1876”), 1 stamp on rep, old call number sticker at spine base. Bookplate at upper left corner of front ep: “Samuel P. Robbins. Bangkok, Siam.” Robbins' ownership signature at upper corner of ffep. The author was the son of the Supreme Court justice John Jay. Sabin 35864. ++ THE TRIBUNE WAR TRACTS. No. 4. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. HISTORY OF ITS CAMPAIGNS, THE PENINSULA, MARYLAND, FREDERICKSBURG. TESTIMONY OF ITS THREE COMMANDERS, Maj.-Gen. G. B. McClellan, Maj.-Gen. A. E. Burnside, and Maj.-Gen. Joseph Hooker, Before the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War… NY: Tribune Association, 1863. [2], 3-32pp. Thin 8vo, lacking wraps or removed from bound volume, marks from stitcholes visible at outer edge, last leaf has narrow upper margin. (Possibly as issued. Page number “31” is there, but not with any margin above it.) Title and last leaf separated, last leaf has edge chipping. Last leaves foxed, other leaves very good. Sabin 15212, 69949 (citing Part No. 1.). ++ Personal Forgiveness And Public Justice. A SERMON PREACHED IN THE MERCER STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NEW YORK, APRIL 23, 1865. By the Pastor, Robert Russell Booth, D. D… NY: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1865. Thin 8vo. [3], 4-23pp. Printed wraps. Rear wrap tattered. Chipping to edges of front wrap, edge of title, and upper edge of last leaves. 3 pencil notations to margins of front wrap. Pencil check mark to upper margin of title. Rubber stamp to title. Marginal tears to first couple leaves. ++ Roger P. Bristol. SUPPLEMENT TO CHARLES EVANS’ AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bibliographical Society of America/University Press of Virginia, (1970), (“73- “ Library of Congress card number). Thick 4to. Orig red cloth; a little dust soiling to rear cover, very good.