Springfield, IL: Printed by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., The Lakeside Press, Chicago, 1924 - 1940. First Edition. Light blue paper with 1/8 linen spine and paper labels for each year. 1924: Introduction: Logan Hay; The House of the House Divided: Henry A. Converse; Lincoln as a World Figure... More
Fomento Cultural Banamex, A.C., 2005. First Edition. 9.5" x 12.5". This book is still in the publisher's shrink wrap, so more detailed descripton of inside is not provided. Spain was the country of greatest explorations in the Western Hemisphere. The stories and descriptions of the Natives of this New World... More
INSCRIBED "To...Spiro T. Agnew" and hand signed in black ink. 8" x10" black and white photo. More
Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, 1977. First Edition. SIGNED " Allen Ginsberg, 1984 Seattle", 5.75" x 8.5" pp. vi 1-227. Rarely found signed title, this diary of the correspondence between two of the founders of the Beat Generation, who shared letters, Ginsberg signing his "As Ever". Cardboard wrap in fine... More
New York: Scribner's, 1999. First Edition. Full leather in blue with author, title publisher in gilt on the spine. In original shrink protection. SIGNED "George Bush" on publisher numbered page. 6.5" x 9.5" pp. [6] 7-640 with 16 pages of B&W photos, gilt edges and gold string bookmark. This is... 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: Doubleday, 1987. First Edition. SIGNED, "George Bush" on a book plate which was preprinted "To Cecilia Gao with Best Wishes / George Bush". 6' x9.25" pp. xi 4-270 with 16 pp. of black and white photos. This book is as new in all respects. George Herbert Walker Bush (June... 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. First Edition. Blue-green boards with 1/4 black cloth, author, title and publisher in gilt on spine. SIGNED by Author and President of the U.S., Jimmy Carter as "J Carter" on Title Page. Famous for being the only historical fiction novel ever published by a.... More
New York: Times Books, 1995. Amy Carter. First Edition. Glossy pictorial cover. SIGNED by BOTH President "J Carter" and his daughter "Amy Carter" with felt tip pen on title page. 12mo 10.25" x 8.25" [24]. This unread, unblemished copy in a bright, beautiful jacket. "One day Jeremy returned home and... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1901. First Edition, First Printing. Maroon cloth over boards with titling impressed in gilt on the spine and cover. This was the best selling novel of 1901. The association of author to recipient, along with the personal letters is significant. Churchill consulted heavily with Hitt... More
Photo copyrighted by the Knapp Co., N. Y., 1887. SIGNED "Frances F. Cleveland" on Executive Mansion, Washington calling card dated 1887. 4.25" x 2.5" calling card. Signature is vivid, clean and nearly 4" long. Near mint condtion Frances Folsom Cleveland (July 21, 1864 – Oct 29, 1947) was was the First... More
Princeton: March 14, 1901. Autograph Letter SIGNED “Grover Cleveland”, 4.5” x 6.75”, 2 pages. Choice letter in Cleveland's recognizable, minute, precise hand. Written to John J. Ramey, Esq. Cleveland pens, in full. small tear on right side of verso not visible from the front, a small toning mark on opposite... 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 Rodham Clinton" in firm true pen. Soon to be first woman President of the United States. 16mo. 5.5" x 7.25" pp. [7] 8- 319. This book in... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003. First Edition. SIGNED on title page, "Hillary R Clinton". 6.5" x 9.5" [i-vi] vii-xi 1-562, 32 pages of B&W photos. Hillary's C.V. in book form chronicling her life from birth through the end of Bill Clinton's second administration which laid the ground work for... More
New Haven: Yale University, 1935. First Edition. Light purple cloth over boards with titling in red on the spine and front cover. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED WITH CARTOON " For Henshaw Ward from Clarence Day" with an original free form carton of Day climbing a hill and once oh his creatures... 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
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
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1956. Second Edition. 5" x 6.13" pp. 44, One of the foundational troika of Beat Literature along with "On The Road" and "Naked Lunch". This Poem has survived a First Amendment challenge in court paving the way for a new generation of artists. This Second... More
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885. First Edition. Publishers green cloth with embossed U.S. Grant medal on front and back with gilt titling on spine. 5.75" x 9" 8vo. Vol. I frontispiece of Grant as a young 2LT (A. H. Ritchie Daguerreotype, 1843), pp. 8-584 with 2 facsimiles and 15... 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: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. First Stated. Black cloth over boards with titling on spine in gilt and red. INSCRIBED "To Leonard B. Jordan / With kind regards / J. Edgar Hoover 9/62". 6.5" x 9.25", pp. xi, 2-212 with a handful of charts and maps. A very... More
Circa early 1964. Autographed, personalized, hand written note card with black border and gold seal of the Department of Justice above the masthead, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL / WASHINGTON. 5.13" x 3.5" quality stock card with small plastic tape stain, 3/8" x 1/4" on front top center left. These cards were... More
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1950. First Edition. Red cloth with gold JK on front cover and gold text on spine. 16mo 5.5" x 8" pp. [2] 3-499. Only the faintest of wear at top corners, all else in Fine/Fine copy of the Beat master's first book. A collector's... More
