Venice: Ferd. Ongania, 1906. One of 500 copies. Original red velvet, embossed gilt medallion on front cover, top edge gauffered, uncut pages. 7.25" x 9.5", irregular pagination, 6 color plates and 100 numbered black and white numbered plates. Gilt dulled, 1.5" smudge to velvet of front cover, re-hinged. Ivor A.B...... More
Palm Beach County, FL: 2000. 16” x 13” plastic platform with 5.5” x 7.5”,2 pp. ballot. Includes 10 Ballots and the chad stylus. Printed on the "Butterfly Ballot' are the names of the ten Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates with Bush / Chaney at the top followed by Gore /..... More
Washington DC: Gaither & Addison, 1846. Printed by John T. Towers. Brown leather with tooled design around cover edges and title impressed on cover. Sixth published Directory of D.C., Rare. 4.5" x 7", pp. x, 1-76, 44 pp. of Advertisements on yellowed paper in the center of the book. An..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. Manuscript Edition, Limited Number 554 / 1000. One quarter dark blue cloth with light blue paper over boards and titling in gilt on blue label applied to spine. 10" x 6.5", pp. xxvi, 2-297, leading off with facsimile of author manuscript note, with untrimmed edges, Frontispiece..... More
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1959. First Printing. Half black boards with half black cloth and spine with gold lettering. 16mo 5.25: x 8" pp. (i-iv) x-v (xvi) (1) 2-255 This is one of the foundational troika of Beat Literature along with "On The Road" and "Howl". The book survived..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. 2nd Printing. SIGNED "George Bush / Brent Scowcroft" on publisher's bookplate affixed to half title page. 8vo 6.3" x 9.5" pp. [ix] xiv [3] 4-590 including 8 p. of B&W photos. Previous bookseller notation in pencil on FFE and Presidential Library and Museum sticker..... More
New York: Viking Penguin, 1992. First Edition. Black boards with 1/4 black cloth on spine and red metallic print on spine. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by the original Beats, SIGNED "Allen Ginsberg / Naropa 7/8/93", INSCRIBED "Michael McClure / Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination / for Keith Naropa..... More
New York: Warner Books, January 1993. First Edition First Printing. SIGNED "Bill Clinton" in blue felt tip pen on half title page. 8vo 9.25" x 11" pp. [8] 9-127 with B&W photos chronicling the 1992 campaign. "Autographed Copy" silver oval sticker on back cover, else a pristine copy. "We're all..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. First Edition. Green board with 1/4 blue cloth, author, title, publisher on spine in gilt. SIGNED "Hillary R Clinton" in firm black felt pen. Soon to be first woman President of the United States. 16mo. 5.5" x 7.25" pp. [7] 8- 319. This book..... More
Personal Typed Letter SIGNED and INITIALED "Dwight D. Eisenhower / D.E." More
Gettysburg, PA: June 14, 1971. [1] INSCRIBED "6.25" x 9", note card folded horizontally on note card, largely and boldly signed. [2] Autograph manuscript Post Card of the Place of Meditation at the Eisenhower Center in Abilene, KS. Written in black ink, addressed to Mrs. Charles Carol, Philadelphia PA. with..... More
SIGNED "Gerald R. Ford". 8" x 10" full color photograph with Presidential flag in the background signed across center of picture in gold felt tip pen. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. First Edition, Second Printing. Red cloth over boards with titling in gilt on the spine and black trim. SIGNED "Gerald R. Ford / 1/17/97" on title page in blue ink with Ford's upward sloping signature. 5.5" x 8.25", pp. 7-508 with blue'd top edge..... More
New York: Regan Books, 2004. First Edition. INSCRIBED "Ken - Tom Franks 8-6-04", 16mo. pp. [xi] xvii [3] 4-590 with 32 pages of color photographs. The Commander in Chief of CENTCOM during the early years of the Iraq / Afghanistan War gives his insight and assessment from the inside out..... More
New York: D. Appleton, 1890. First Edition, Rebound in Three Volumes. Quarter black leather with matching outside corners and textured black leather over boards with gilt titling on the spine with six gilt bands. 12.5" x 16.25", pp. iv, 2-162, rebound into 3 volumes from the one original, which not..... More
Comprises: 1.) Image of an ornate miniature oval plaque on mount imprinted "The People's Choice'." Text on image relates "In God We Trust / The Union Must and Shall be Preserved / The Peoples Choice...Let Us Have Peace." Verso boldly imprinted "...The Norris Engraving and Publishing Co. ...Agents Wanted For..... More
New York: June 1st, 1895. SIGNED "Benjamin Harrison". 4.75" x 1.5" adhered to cardboard backing. Typed "Very sincerely yours", followed by signature. In a different hand beneath the signature is the provenance, "written to C. Ellis Stevens from Fifth Ave. Hotel NY. June 1st 1895" Benjamin Harrison (Aug 20, 1833 –..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. Third and Enlarged English Edition. Green cloth over boards with gilt titling on the spine and a discernibly eastern design impressed on both font and back. From the library of Ulysses S. Grant, bestowed to him by the Citizens of Boston on January 1, 1866..... More
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1951, 1952. Stated First Printing. Blue cloth over boards with titling in gilt on the spine and a facsimile of Hoover's signature on the cover. Vols 1 and 2 INSCRIBED "To J. H. Gipson / With the Kind Regards of Herbert Hoover" and Volume..... More
Framed photograph SIGNED "The Good Wishes / of / Herbert Hoover, 13 x 15 in. in frame. Boldly signed in blue pen in the lower margin of a forward looking President. Very Good Condition. More
New York: Press of Styles & Cash, 1893. First Edition, Printed for Private Distribution. Tan light weight cardboard cover with titling in black and framed on front. Housed inside folded, open cardboard sleeve. 5.75" x 9", pp. 4-128 with frontispiece of Dodge and tissue guard and two additional B&W photos..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. First Edition, Second Printing. 2/3 light green cloth and beige linen spine. SIGNED "Lady Bird Johnson" on bookplate on free front. 24mo 6.25" x 9.35 [viii] x [2] 3-806 with 36 pp. of B&W photographs. Previous owner name "Anne Maloney Robbins, Huntingdon Valley..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. First Edition. Bright red cloth with titling blocked in blue on spine and a blue rectangle with LBJ's signature impressed on cover. ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED "For Bob & Helen / Not as good as you could have done but my best - /..... More
San Francisco: City of Lights Books, 1961. First Edition. Cardboard covers. 5.5" x 8" pp. [4] 5-184, Only a diagonal corner bend at the top and bottom of front cover, rub down right side of spine, in all this is a fine condition copy of this well preserved, delicate and..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, 1966. First Edition. 5 3/4 in. x 8 3/8 in., [i-ix] x-xxviii [1-3] 4-366 pp., 3 blank leaves. Yellow end papers with orange cloth with JK's name printed in gold on the front cover and title in gold on spine. Two smudges on front cover, small hole..... More