Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1948 - 1953. First Thus. Red cloth with titling in gilt, boxed in black on the spine, similar style author autograph on front cover. Attractive set with bright, red-black-ivory spines. Often found faded with chipped DJ's this is a superlative set, bright and vibrant. Christmas gift.....
c. May 1834. Autograph Sonnet to Miss Margaret L. Gamble in Adams tight, legible, identifiable script. 14-line poem with 3-line introduction. Written in remembrance of an excursion in company with her and a numerous party to Harper's Ferry, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal--May 1834. Single page. written in ink.....
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1867. Brown textured leather with five raised bands, titling in gilt on the spine, decorative border blind stamped on the cover, gilt tooled decorative border on the edges of inside cover and yellow endpapers. Cracked gutters on inside covers, but integrity of the book is.....
5.25" x 1.75", signed in ink on clipped letter. Strong clear, light fade at corners, attractively matted beneath an etching of Taney signed in pencil by the artist Alfred Rosenthal Roger Brooke Taney, a graduate of Dickinson College, might well be the most controversial Supreme Court justice in American history.....
