London: Printed for the Proprietor, by C. Stower Hackney, 1812. Reprint. Hardcover. 5.25" x 9", 74 pp, two vibrant hand colored plates, red cloth backed in red leather. Boards edge worn, names of two previous owners written on front paste down, one being E.S. Burgess. Subtitle: Transcribed, verbatim, from the..... More
London: Printed for J. Hamilton and Co. at the Shakespeare Library, 1794. First Edition. Green calf with gilt titling on spine, no raised bands, trimmed in gilt around inside and outside edges. Uncommon volume. 8" x 6", pp. [6], 2-440, with eight elegant plates, designed by A.[ngelica] Kauffman, and H...... More
Stanford University Press, August 1, 1940. Second Printing with minor corrections. Green weave cloth with titling in gilt on spine and cover, all still bright. 10.5" x 7", each volume 550 - 824 pp. Text block of all volumes is clean and tight, only V. 1 has a small light..... More
Washington DC: March 25, 1825. SIGNED by "J. Q. Adams" as President of the United States, "H. Clay" as Secretary of State and "William Wirt" as Attorney General. Clean, affirmative signatures. 11.5" x 15" Vellum document. Small corner tear on bottom right and top left not close to any script..... 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
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
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
Clinton Foundation. First Edtion. Coloroful monotone cloth over boards. 2013 SIGNED "Bill Clinton" on personal bookplate, 2017 INSCRIBED "To Anne and Michael / with thanks / Bill Clinton 6/30/18". 9" x 6", each volume approximately 60 pp. These annual collections of Clinton's remarks were assembled and published in book form..... More
U. S. A. 1987. Original. All letters are in sleeves and bound in a black 3-ring zipper binder. The Collection comprises 72 pages of letters signed by 46 governors (all but the governors of California, Delaware, Michigan and Oregon), including Bill Clinton, Mario Cuomo, Michael Dukakis, John Ashcroft, John Sununu..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, 1986. Stated First Edition. Quarter bright red cloth with blue paper over boards and titling on spine in brilliant silver. SIGNED "Curtis E. Lemay" on title page. 8.87" x 5.87", pp. 3-474, with 16 pp. of B&W photographs. Excellent copy signed by the subject of this..... More
February 10, 1928. SIGENED "Cordially Calvin Coolidge" A Harris & Ewing portrait measuring 7.5" x 11", mounted alongside a letter transmitting same to Leon Mott of the Boy Scouts of America Council. TLS presenting the photo by "Everett Sanders", Secretary to the President. Both pieces mounted to an overall size..... More
Greensboro, N. C. Self Created, 1920's. 8" x 10.5" blank page notebook with brown card cover and four staple binding. An eclectic combination of Autographs assembled by an earnest young man. Initial pages include his commentary notes on receipt of the autographs and period photos, Henry Goodwin (per SASE). The..... More
Washington DC: June 22, 1962. 8.5" x 11", 4 pp. folded dinner program signed by both the 34th U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), and by First Lady Mamie Eisenhower (1896 - 1979) along the bottom edge of front . The program is from a Republican Congressional..... More
London: Ro. L'Estrange, Sept 1587. Reprinted Sept. 18, 1686. Contemporary deep blue leather binding with matching marbled endpapers and titling on label on spine. This book was once in the personal library of John Kitto. The title page has signatures of four historical owners: T. Hull - 1763, J. Kitto..... More
Seattle, WA: Dogwood Press, 1940. First and Limited Edition. White floral cloth pattern on black background, over boards with titling in brick red on the cover. 11.75" x 14.75", 28 pp. unnumbered, uncut bottom edge. This edition is limited to 250 copies. It includes a broadside, with quarter fold lines..... 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: Harper & Row, 1986. First Edition. Light brown cloth with gold emboss on spine and Eastern imprint on the cover including the all seeing eye. SIGNED and INSCRIBED with DOODLE "for Kathryn Stewart / Portland Oregon / Allen Ginsberg" on Author Bibliography page with a drawing of a...... More
New York: The American Bible Society, 1955. Pictorial boards. Presentation Copy "Presented to Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN. / Chief of Naval Operations, / by the Aviation Commanders / Naval Center of the United States, April 17th 1956". Signed by 14 high level Commanders including [1] "W. H. Halsey" -..... More
Washington DC: December 13, 1865. A four page folded sheet (two integral pages blank), on the letterhead of the Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. Single page of text in a clerical hand, signed by Harlan as Secretary of the Dept. of Interior. Single page of text in a clerical..... More
Washington DC: February 9th, 1880. SIGNED "R B Hayes", Partially printed Presidential Commission, February 9th, 1880 for Edward A. Howell of Reading, Berks Co., Pennsylvania. "Hereby this document he was nominated and appointed by and with the Advice and Consent of the US Senate - to be Supervisor of Census..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, October 5, 1934. First Edition, A on copyright page. Publisher's blue striated cloth with gilt title on cover and title, author, publisher on spine. INSCRIBED, "To Mrs. E. H. Woodward With the sincere regards of Herbert Hoover". Also included is a typed letter signed, on..... More
Palo Alto: Berton Crandall (Photographer), c. 1958. SIGNED "Herbert Hoover" at the bottom of a 4.75" x 7.75" photograph of a 1933 Clarence R. Mattei charcoal. Photograph attach on bottom rear to a 1.5" matte. Herbert Hoover (1874 -1964) was 31st President of the United States, Secretary of Commerce, Administrator..... More
New York: August 28, 1961. SIGNED "Herbert Hoover" on Boy's Club of America letterhead stationary black ink. 8.5" x 11", 1 pp. addressed to Mr. F. Byron Tomlinson of the Newtown, CT chapter. The letterhead lists over 80 officers and members of the Board of Directors, of which Hoover's name..... More
February 22nd, 1837. 19" x 27", partially printed document on vellum with two attractive engravings: one of a menacing eagle at the top with "E Pluribus Unum" scroll and a variation of the military landscape of weapons, flags and military imagery. This is an appoint of Albemarle Cady to First..... More
Washington DC: General Land Office, July 1, 1868. Secretarial SIGNED by James Cowan. Attractive Land Grant, 16" x 10", with an imprint of a Harvest in the top left corner and General Seal of the United States affixed to the lower left. Printed and completed with strong calligraphic details. Two..... More