Washington DC: 1812 - 1961. 5.25" x 8,5", most disbound from larger compilations, binding remnants including string and glue, 1 pamphlet bound with staples. All are in G+ to VG condition, older ones with some age toning and foxing, several with uncut edges, Collectively a broad range of conduct at... More
Washington City: E. A. Cohen & Co., 1834. Period brown leather with gilt border on front and back, Directory 1834 on spine in gilt with four bands. 4.5" x 7.25", Missing first blank end page and last two pages of advertisement, top corner of pp. 25-32 have been torn off... More
Canton, OH: Especially Arranged and Executed by Chasmar-Winchell Press, 1907. Illustrated with 2 tipped-in plates, embossed steel-engraved portrait on cover. (8vo), 5 leaves with decorative borders, illustrated wrappers, uncut edges. Light edgewear to wraps, corners mildly bumped; faint library markings in pen at top corner of front cover; gift inscription... More
[Gascoigne, George]: 1576. Excerpt from Second Edition. Paperback blue paper wrappers. 5.25" x 6.75", table of contents and pp 175-192; 20 page excerpt from 'The Poesies of George Gascoigne Esquire', 1576, in which 'Weedes' is published in its entirety. Blue paper are worn, Edward Sandford Burgess bookplate adhered to verso... More
Washington DC: Congressional Globe, 1840 / 1856. Blue cloth chemise tri-fold with protective center flap. Clipped SIGNATURE of the fifteenth U.S. President, ¾x4" affixed on the front inside cover of a modern folding blue cloth chemise, which contains two Buchanan related pamphlets including: Remarks of Messrs. Buchanan, King and Brown... More
New York: William Morrow, 1999. First Edition. SIGNED by author and US President George W. Bush on a tipped-in presidential bookplate. 6.5" x 9,5" pp. 8vo; xviii, 1-253. Soon to be President George W. Bush puts the country on notice that he will be running for president and uses his... More
New York: Times Books, 1995. First Edition. Bound in 1/4 white buckram over white paper covered boards, lettering silver. SIGNED by the author "J. Carter" on FFE. 5.75" x 8.25" pp. [vii] viii-xi [2] 3-130. Illustrated by Sarah Elizabeth Chuldenko. This prolific U.S. President turns his skills from prose to... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003. Advance Uncorrected Reader's Proof. Cardboard pictorial covers of a buckskin wearing Revolutionary War soldier taking aim at the redcoats, titling in black on a white spine. SIGNED "J Carter" on blank title page. Famous for being the only historical fiction novel ever published by... More
INSCRIBED "Best Wishes to Anne and Sean Robbins, Rosalynn Carter", SIGNED "Jimmy Carter", and " Amy Carter" 5" x 7" color photograph matted in frame. Photo taken in front of a painting of Rosalynn lovingly hugging her young daughter Amy. Sean Robbins was the godson of President Jimmy Carter. More
Northhampton, MA: March 27, 1929. Two pages with first page having printed letterhead of, 21 Massasoit Street / Northhampton, Massachusetts, 6" x 9.5" fully in the former First Lady's hand. Two usual fold lines from mailing, otherwise an excellent quality communication in strong, clear, blue fountain pen. Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge... More
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1896. "Twenty copies on large paper; and ninety copies on small paper, of which this is No. 41 of small paper." Hardcover, flexi-boards, bound in vellum, gilt titles, encased in a red cloth, two piece.vertical slipcase. 7.75" x 10", not paginated, illustrated with lithographic reproductions of illuminated... More
Memphis: Towery Publishing, 1998. First Edition. Urban Tapestry Series bookplate affixed to front end paper and SIGNED "Gerald R. Ford". Extolling the virtues of his hometown on Lake Michigan, President Ford writes a delightful preface and script to this picturesque photographic tour. Coffee table book in coffee table condition. The... More
np: November 2, 1880. SIGNED "J A Garfield / Nov 2, 1880" with authentication note on verso, "written on his day of election - & very first rate for President / C. Hines" The uniqueness of this card is that it was signed on Garfield's election day to the position... More
Antique Lot of 6 President and Presidential Family Photographs mounted on cards. They include [1] President J.A. Garfield with his signature beneath 3/4 photo, top right and bottom right corner clipped 4.25" x 6.5" . [2] President Garfiled looking younger, earlier in his career 2.5" x 4.18" very good [3]... More
New York: Vanguard Press, 1931. First Edition. Black cloth over boards with titling on spine and cover on orange paper label. INSCRIBED "to Jim Abrahamson / with affectionate regards / of the author / Ernest Gruening / Portland, November 4, 1931". 5.5" x 8", pp. ix 3-273. Fore edge uncut... More
1952 - 1975. SIGNED, 3 TLS and 1 B&W Photograph all in VG to Fine condition. Straub letter has small circular spot in the center, letters have usual mailing folds, a few dog-ears, photo in fine, INSCRIBED state. Charles A. Sprague (1887 - 1969), 22nd Governer; Douglas McKay (1893 -... More
New York: Aventine Press, 1931. Limited Edition. Cloth green covers with author and title in gold on spine. SIGNED in ink opposite Limitation Page on a tipped in picture of Hoover's White House card. 4.62 x 7.75 (2) 3- 50. Copy #10 of 1000 Very Uncommon edition seldom seen signed... More
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New York: October 2, 1952. Autograph signature of the 31st President, great value item for any collection. SIGNED "Herbert Hoover", 7.25" x 10.5", on Hoover's personal letterhead, 1 p., off white stationary with 2 mailing folds, light ink smudge over "v". Note of sympathy, addressed to Mrs. Marcus Joffe. Addressed... More
Wales, U. K. Neil Young Appreciation Society, 1982 - 1999. All First Edition / Printing, Except first eight (8) which are machine copied. Semi-gloss paper covers all graced with photos of NY mostly in performance. 6.75" x 9", 28-68 pp. depending on issue. All editions printed in B&W with the... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. First Edition. Blue cloth with gold highlights, title and publisher in gold on spine and editor in red. INSCRIBED on front free end paper, "To Gareth L. Pawlkowski / Best Wishes / Lyndon B. Johnson". 7" X 9.25", pp. [i-v] xiv 1-506 with B&W photos throughout... More
Oct 7, 1965. INSCRIBED by the First Lady and SIGNED by the President. 9.25" x 7.25" color photograph, professsionally matted and framed (16" x 16"). Photo of the Johnson family with daughters Luci Baines and Lynda Bird seated in front of a fire place in the White House. Several tiny... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955. First Edition. Light Blue with black spine and gold text on spine. INSCRIBED "For Mathilda Westbrook Sinclair - / With the very best wishes / John F. Kennedy", Quality copy of one of the most important Presidential books of the 20th Century, certainly the... More
London: Hutchinson & Co, n.d. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Red cloth stamped in black. 16mo 5" x 7." pp. [xii] xxxiii 37-25 plus 16 pp. ads. JFK's Harvard thesis as it was adroitly published through connections of his father, Joseph P. Kennedy who was serving as Ambassador to Great... More
New York: Avon, 1960. First Edition. Soft cover, 120 pp. by the master originator of poetic prose. Pages are vaguely yellowed, first eight pages in tact but slightly loose at binding with half inch tear at bottom right of spine. "My poems stolen, my money stolen, my Tristessa dying, Mexican... More
January 13, 1899. Wonderful, rare archive of multiple items including Manuscript on parchment and associated Ephemera led by a document SIGNED by president "William McKinley" and COUNTERSIGNED by the Secretary of War "R.A. Alger", and RECORDED by "H. C. Corbin" Adjutant General. 15.5" x 19.25" document engraved, printed and then... More