Washington DC: March 29 1907. SIGNED "Theodore Roosevelt" in firm, 5+" autograph. Counter signed by Postmaster General, George B. Cortelyou. 21" x 17", 5 teeth missing from gold embossed Postal Service seal with pony-express rider. Aging to the perimeter edges where mounted beneath the matte, 1" tear at bottom, light..... More
Los Angeles, CA: Kennedy For President Committee, 1968. An archive of twenty-five (25) items of original ephemera from Robert F Kennedy's Campaign in Los Angeles, CA. The items include: A "Comprehensive Position Paper", 21 pp., from RFK's competitor, Eugene McCarthy For President, an S.R.O Committee soliciting donations for an event..... More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1856. First Edition. Brown paper wraps. INSCRIBED from the author: "President Fillmore / With the best respects of Edward Everett" at top of title page. 5.75" x 9", pp. 6 - 50. Incidental fox dots, wrinkle at bottom right corner, separation at paper spine..... More
London: Andre Deutsch, 1965. Fourth Impression. Black cloth over boards with titling in gilt and red on the spine with "K" blind stamped on the cover, blue endpapers. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED "To Lord Michael Fraser / With my sincere thanks for his help in the General Election of 1966 /..... More
Washington DC: c. 1983. Attractively mounted and framed. 13.5 x 10.5 in. color, a matte-finish photo of the Burger Court affixed to a slightly larger mount, signed on the mount in ink by all nine justices: "Warren E. Burger", "Thurgood Marshall", "William J. Brennan", "Byron White", "Lewis F. Powell Jr."..... More
Cairo: Hilal, 1912. First Edition. Quarter black cloth with mottled paper over boards, no external titling, 3-staple binding. 6.25" x 9.25", with B&W illustrations throughout. This book is in Arabic script. Early cracking at gutters, glue bleed through to endpapers and a few pages in on both sides, fading to..... More
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960. 23rd Impression book / 13th Impression jacket. Quarter green cloth with brown paper over boards, titling in matching brown on the spine. INSCRIBED by both the author and the Academy Award winning screenplay adapter, Horton Foote. "To Margaret: With my love and best..... More
Portland, OR: Self-Published, 1964. First Edition. 8.5" x 11", 174 pp. of green ribbon typed manuscript. Includes 200+ pp. of research, letters of verification as well as several rejection letters for the publication of the book. Also included are 70 photos and negatives of the island's flora intended to be..... More
Poolesville, MD: Feb 8th, 1863. 5" x 8", 4 pp., folded lined correspondence written in pencil. Includes stamped mailing envelope to Miss Abbie Grafford, Springfield, VT. Eagle embossed in top right corner of stationary. Light aging at centerfold and tiny chip on edge of p. 3/4, not touching script. An..... More
Washington DC: Susan Conway Galleries, December 3, 1991. 24" x 18" poster in a black metal frame, under glass, no matte, in Fine condition. The illustration is of the front and rear of a sculpture of Senator Jesse Helms, done by Oliphant. The poster is inscribed, "For John Frohnmayer another..... More
1981. 10.5" x 13" Sepia toned photograph of a seated Vargas, legs crossed, eyes uplifted, burning cigarette poised between his fingers, appearing too cool for the universe. Attractive metallic frame, double matted 24" x 25", not inspected outside of the frame. Fine condition, attractive presentation, shippable without frame. While signed..... More
Oahu, HI: August 18th, 1937. Books have card wraps with illustrations of Shirley Temple on the cover and still scene from the move on the rear. Shirley's First Dinner Party: 7" x 5", Bi-folded menu on Hilton Hawaiian letterhead. Signed by guests of honor on rear in pencil, including 9..... More
1928 - 1931. Hand made, two hole punch with string bindings, one book reinforced with a tape spine. 8" x 10.5". approximately 170 pp. per volume. Two (2) handmade scrapbooks of early aviation history, cut and pasted onto blank pages. Most are B&W photos excised from Battle Aces and Battle..... More
July 2, 1846 - 1894. A modest archive items from the mid-to-late 19th Century. They are assembled by chance and not design, spanning across a breadth of America and variety of subjects: [A] Cotillion Party invitation, addressed to Mr. H. Fowler an Miss May E. Field, Monroeton, PA July 2d..... More
Warren, CT: 1829 - 1833. Two items from the elections of 1829 and 1833 tabulating and certifying the city's votes for state and federal office. 7.75" x 13", folded 1 pp. docketed on the rear from April 6, 1829. Votes for the State slate of political leaders: Governor, Lt. Gov...... More
Various States and Territories: c. 1874-78. 10" x 15" broadsides with margins cross-hatched in blue and red. Incidental aging at the edges, a few tiny edge chips on several. All seals are gilt, except Kansas in red, mostly very good with some rubbing, remarkably almost all with all teeth present..... More
Sussex County, England: January 17, 1783. 29.75" x 21" vellum document with scalloped top edge, folded bottom edge secured with red wax seal, two vertical and three horizontal folds. In addition to the wax seal, there is an embossed blue revenue stamp and two ink stamps, one on the front..... More
Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, c. 1864. Mauchline wood covers of lacquered leave with brown morocco spine. Five raised bands with title in the first and tooled gilt emblems in the rest of the panels and gilt rule highlighting the bands. There is also an edging of gilt on the inside..... More
Europe: May 22nd - Aug 1st 1950. Cardboard covers with black cloth spine, hand drawn checker board on the front cover. 60 pp of Manuscript journal in neat, clean, readable printed looping font and 80 B&W photographs / postcards tipped or backed on mostly the verso of pages. The detailed..... More
Fairfax, VA: Dec 28, 1862. 10" x 7.75", 4 pp., center fold with two mailing folds. Three pages have writing in pencil, legible and colloquial. While the envelope is no longer present, this letter is known to be from Hiram Spoffard to his siter, Abbie L. Spafford of Jaffrey, NH..... More
Marion County, MS: August 20, 1856. 7.5" x 9.75", folio sheet folded. Manuscript on first and final pages, interior pages blank. Docketed on final page with certification of Joshua Stanford, Justice of the Peace, filed and recorded January, 1859. Old folds, light tanning with a few small spots. Very Good..... More
Washington DC: March 14, 1844. 8" x 10", light blue lined paper, 4 pp., folded, neat ink manuscript on first page followed by three blank pages, docketed on rear page. Titled "Ho: of Reps:" at masthead. Hamilton Fish (1808 - 1893) was a native New Yorker who graduated from Columbia, became..... More
n.p. 1871 - c.1920. A modest and entertaining archive of eighteen manuscript poems from approximately the same number of different authors, based solely on handwriting style. Seventy-plus pages of original verse ranging from Victorian love, Love lost and found, and several with quite dark and gothic themes. Very few are..... More
London: Orient Line, Aug 22 - Sep 8, 1960. Nine (9) original dinner menus from a Pacific Cruise on board the S. S. Orsova. Four have a pin-hole at the top where it may have once been displayed, three with light foxing or dinner residue. 6.5" x 10", folded with..... More
Boston, MA: January 11, 1894. 5" x 3", off-white postal. one-cent note card, canceled at Back Bay, Boston, accompanied by a Carte-de-visite portrait of Howe by "Warren's" of Boston, backmark. In this note she politely apologies for being unavailable for a previously scheduled appointment. Julia Ward Howe (1819 – 1910) is..... More