New York: Doubleday and Company, 1948. Deluxe Bound Edition. Blue Leather with five raised bands, 5-stars on each band and, ruling in gilt, Great Seal on front and back cover. SIGNED "Dwight D. Eisenhower" on tipped in blank page. Large (4+"), firm, handsome signature. Brilliant gilt on edges, light fade..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, 2014. First Edition / First Printing. Quarter grey cloth with white paper over boards, titling on spine in gilt. SIGNED "George Bush" on specially designed bookplate affixed to blank title page. 5.25" x 8.25", pp. x, 1 - 294. Colored frontispiece of Bush Sr., painted by..... More
Washington DC: Christie's, for The Fine Arts Committee For Presidential Inaugural, December 12, 1980. First Edition. Rose paper over boards with titling in black on spine and cover with profile of James Christie on the cover. 7" x 9.5", pp. 3 - 175, printed on glossy paper, with frontispiece and..... More
Washington DC: October 10, 1840. SIGNED "Martin Van Buren", by his son and private presidential secretary Abraham Van Buren. 16" x 9.75", 1 pp. partially printed Land Grant for 160 acres in Quincy, Illinois. Document retains its United States Seal in the lower left (red has faded and all teeth..... More
Berlin: October 16, 1931. A Birthday greetings note, entirely in the hand of Adolph Hitler. 5.5" x 3.75", in black ink on a note card bordered in black. Previously mounted on a blank card engraved with Hitler's name and the Reich's monogram (eagle and swastika). This birthday greeting is likely..... More
Rome: March 28,1935. SIGNED "Mussolini" and "Vittorio Emmanuele" in dark ink and firm hand on partially printed document. 9.75" x 14.5", 1 p., small folio. in Italian, 13 filing pinholes on left margin, tiny, insignificant chip on bottom right, light fade along fore edge, several administrative notes in pencil and..... More
Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1961 - 1965. First English Language Edition. Off white card covers with titling in brown on spine and brown / red on the cover. DJ with half facing bust of the Chairman in a circle. 6" x 8.75", each volume approximately 350 pages with gold silk..... More
Kennedy, John F. Profiles In Courage; Decisive Moments In The Lives of Celebrated Americans. New York: Harper and Brothers, January 1958 (A-G). Later printing. SIGNED "John Kennedy" on ffe. 5.5" X 8.38", pp. xix, 1 - 266. The book is well bound and clean, only the slightest edge wear along..... More
SIGNED engraved note card "Harry S Truman". 6" x 4" engraved note card, matted adjacent to a 5.5" x 8.25" engraved photo of Truman in an oval, from the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. Both items mounted at top edge to a grey matte. All enclosed in a silver frame..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1862/3. Green cloth cover boards with still brilliant gilt titling and cover graphics. 6.75" x 8.75", Vol. 1 pp. vii, 2 - 800, other volumes similar size with more than half the pages having detailed engravings by the Brothers Dalziel. Previous owner book plate on..... More
Columbus, OH: Follett, Foster and Company, 1860. Third Edition, Third State, Variant B. Blue cloth over boards featuring an eight pointed star blind stamped oncenter of front cover, titling in gilt, heavily rubbed. 6" x 9.25", pp. 2-269, preceded by four pages of advertisements for coming Follett publications, rule above..... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, April 30, 1974. Light blue wraps. 8" x 10.5", pp. 2 - 1309. Clean and well bound, despite its thickness, a few curled corners and some smudging at fore edge. Sun fade to cover and spine, shadow of adjacent book. This is a memorial from..... More
July 1976. Presidential blue wraps with titling and seal on front cover in gilt, two staple binding. 6" x 9.25", pp. ix, 1-28 with a handful of B&W photographs. Light fade to wraps, mostly along spine edge, previous owner name in ink, red X stamp on p i and partially..... More
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1888. Deluxe Edition. Dark brown moroccan leather with five bands on spine, titling in gilt on spine and gilt pattern on binding turn in. Blind stamped design on front and back, including a galloping horseback Sheridan waving his campaign hat. Light green marbled endpapers. 5.75"..... More
Atlanta, GA: The Carter Center, 1994. First, Limited Edition. Red-brown cloth over boards with titling on spine and cover in gilt with grey endpapers. SIGNED, "J. Carter" on LBJ Library Bookplate. 5.5" x 7.5". pp. II - XII. Rare, from a limited edition of 50 copies, all signed by President..... More
London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1834. First Edition. Green cloth over boards with new spine. 5.5" x 9", pp. xxiv, 26 - 734. Frontispiece of Watts with shadowing on title page. Contemporary rebacked spine with original boards, ripple on board cloth, remaining portion of original cloth spine applied. Periodic foxing and..... More
Norwich, CT: The Henry Bill Publishing Company, 1884. First. Brown leather with titling in gilt on spine and front cover. Four raised bands, symmetric pattern blind stamped. SIGNED "James G. Blaine" with flourish on title page. 7.25" x 10", pp. xiii, 1-646 with frontispiece of Blaine, and six steel plate..... More
Sparks, NV: Western Printing and Publishing, 1969. First Limited, Numbered, Autographed Edition. Speckled beige cloth over boards with titling in gilt on spine and cover. SIGNED by all three authors, Volume #321. 6.5" x 9.75", pp. xiii, 3 - 702 with scores of B&W photographs, many full page. Tight square..... More
New York: Underwood & Underwood Publishers, 1903. 7" x 3.5", sepia toned sterocards. Slight bow to all four depicting three of Roosevelt on horseback at Yellowstone and one of him giving a speech N.W. University in Evanston, IL. Yellowstone was just one of the stops Roosevelt made in 1903 on..... More
New York: The Grolier Club, 1895. One of four hundred copies on hand-made paper. Quarter tan calf with title in gilt and beige linen cloth over boards, slides into a brown cardboard sleeve. 7.5" x 12", pp. 7 - 77, with 20 facsimiles of historical printers from John Gutenberg, all..... More
Dachau, Germany: Judge Advocate General Department, U. S. 3rd Army, Oct. 30th - Dec 13th 1945. 8" x 13", with heavy weight brown paper front cover, two hole punch, metal slide binding. All are in fine condition minus some chips to the front paper covers, no cover on Vol. VIII..... More
Pacific Theater: Dec. 23, 1943 - Jan. 15, 1946. WW II Airmail Correspondence from Lt. J.G. Smith to his wife Bobbie (Barbara, nee McKay) in Rahway, NJ and St. Johnsbury, VT. Included with their original red and blue trimmed envelopes, mostly with 6-cent Airmail stamps and appropriately stamped, "Passed by..... More
Washington DC: September 11, 1893. 19.5" x 15", SIGNED as Grover Cleveland and counter signed by Secretary of the Treasury, "J G. Carlisle". Uniformly toned with stain across lower edge, small closed tear at top right corner, 1/2" chip at center top, none affecting printed or signed portion of the..... More
Washington DC: December 15, 1909. 19" x 15", SIGNED on parchment by the President as "Wm. H. Taft". Counter signed by "Franklin MacVeagh" as Secretary of the Treasury. This appointment nominates "Daniel Patrick Foley" to "Senior Captain" in the Revenue-Cutter Service. Bright and clean with red-line highlights and intact presidential..... More
