Philadelphia: George W. Mentz, 1824. Paper cover wrapper with string binding. 7.75" x 4.75", pp. [16] 17-36, with age toning and spotting, chipping and dogears at the corners and front edge, front and rear pages loose from string binding. "The rising, setting places, and Eclipses of the Sun and moon...carefully... More about The New St. Tammany Almanac, for the Year 1824; Beign Bissextile, or Leap Year
New York: Greeley and McElrath, 1848. Paper wraps with contents on front, advertisement on rear, string binding. 7.5" x 4.75", pp. [13], 14-64, with monthly tables and Whig oriented issues. Crease on front corner, small chip on front, aged cover, much cleaner inside text block, ex-libris Western Reserve Historical Society... More about The Whig Almanac; And United States Register
New York: Greeley and McElrath, 1853. Blue paper wraps printed with Contents and significant information, string binding. 7.25" x 5", pp. [16] 17-65, with 7 pp. of advertisements as well as on rear cover. Toning and finger smudging to the front cover with tide mark on first 8 pp., chipped... More about The Whig Almanac; And United States Register
New York: H. A. Thomas, Lithographer, 1881. Single sided printing. 14" x 11", 1 p., sunning line, insignificant chip top right line, Print shows cameo portraits of the U.S. presidents from George Washington to James A. Garfield; includes a black memorial border and additional text. This prescient text foretold the... More about Presidential Inauguration 1881
Rock Island, IL: L. E. West Publishing Co., 1896. Paper wrap with the illustration of the dinner pail to the right of a facsimile copy letter from McKinley dated April 20, 1894 to Mr. Bruner thanking him for the beautiful poem. 14: x 11", nn, four stanzas, words to the... More about The Little Dinner Bucket"; Song and Chorus
Chicago: Lyon & Healy, 1892. Paper wraps with pages laid in, titling in black with border. 14" x 11", pp. 3-7, with musical staff and notes, buy no verse. One brown spot through all pages, light aging, previous bookseller price in pencil. In spite of this triumphal march, Pres. Benjamin... More about General Harrison's Second Term March Triumphal
Boston: F. Trifet, July 8, 1896. Wraps printed in orage with advertisements on inside cover and on rear. 14" x 11", 3 pp., one laid into cover, staves and notes without verse. Light edge wear, tiny closed tear at bottom, a couple small spots on rear, otherwise very good. Although... More about McKinley and Hobart Grand March
Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 1880. Paper wraps with a portrait of Hancock on the cover. 14" x 11", pp 4-5, with staves and notes, no verse. On page inserted in cover folder, foxing, edge wear, closed tear at bottom of spine. Septimus Winner is best known for his popular songs... More about Gen. Hancock's Campaign March
Boston: White, Smith & Company, 1872. 14" x 11", nn, 3 pages of staves, notes and verse extolling the virtues of Greeley's campaign for president. One page inserted in paper cover, small closed tear at top / bottom of spine, otherwise very clean. Horace Greeley (1811 – 1872) was the... More about Oh Horace; Campaign Song and Chorus for 1872
Boston: Henry Prentiss, 1845. Paper cover with titling in black and illustration of memorial arch on the cover. 14" x 11", with two pages of staves and notes. Uniform foxing, tide mark top right corner, chipping at left margin, pages are not joined. William Henry Harrison (1773 – 1841) was... More about Funeral March; In Memory of William H. Harrison, Late President of the United States
Boston: J. P. Ordway, 1855. One page loosely sewn into paper covers. 14" x 11", pp 3-5, with three pages of staves and notes, no verse. Tide mark at top right corner, spotting and aging, closed separation at top / bottom of spine, dog ear corner crease. Henry J. Gardner... More about Know Nothing Polka; As Danced by Pike & Pell of Ordways Aeolian's
Maynard, MA: C. H. Persons Music House, 1902. One page laid into a coated page cover with a striking photo of TR on the cover framed in blue, highlighted in gold. "The American Workman" is published on rear panel. 14" x 11", pp 3-5, with musical staves and notes, no... More about Strenuous Life March & Two Step
Cleveland: S. Brainard's Sons, 1884. First Edition. Gray paper wraps with titling in blue and borders in red, internal string binding. Advertisements on inside covers and for the Brainard organ on the rear. 7" x 4.75, pp. 4-47, include the verses of 65 songs as well as the Constitutional and... More about Blain and Logan Song Book; A Collection of Republican CAmpaign Songs, National Songs, War Songs,...
Chicago: The S. Brainard's Sons, 1896. First Edition. Blue paper wraps with titling in dark blue, photo of McKinley on cover adorned by flags, two staples, price 10-cents. 7" x 5.5", pp 2-32, with 17 songs and verse. Aged pages, horizontal fold, closed tear at bottom of spine and several... More about True Blue Republican Campaign Songs from 1896
Independence, MO: July 8, 1966. SIGNED, "Harry Truman" on Truman's own letterhead, 10.5" x 7.25", off-white stationary includes franked envelope. Harry S. Truman (May 1884 – Dec 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving... More about Typed Note Signed
Washington DC: Sept 15, 1966. Off white stationary from The People's House. SIGNED "Lyndon B. Johnson", on The White House calling card, 2.5" x 4", accompanied by a note from the president's personal secretary, Juanita D. Roberts, includes mailing envelope. Lyndon Baines Johnson (Aug 1908 – Jan 1973) was the 36th... More about Signed White House CArd
Gettysburg, PA: August 31, 1966. SIGNED "Dwight Eisenhower" on 4.5" x 3.75" note card with DDE and 5-Star General logo on letterhead, includes franked envelope. Dwight D Eisenhower, (1890 - 1969), was the two term, 34th President of the United States (1953-61), one of only five, 5-Star General of the... More about Typed Note Signed
Austin, TX: April 9, 1970. Off white stationary with gold embossed Presidential seal. 3.75" x 5.5", printed note card with Presidential seal, TNS from Johnson's secretarial assistand, Mrs. Willie Day Taylor and includes franked envelope. Lyndon Baines Johnson (Aug 1908 – Jan 1973) was the 36th President of the United States... More about Autopen Note Signed
London: Bernard Quaritch, LTD, 1931. First Edition. Cardboard covers, with paper spine and title printed in black on spine and cover. 12" x 9.5", pp. 2-157, with 161 B&W facsimiles on coated paper and color frontispiece and a fold-out of Biblia Sacra Latina. A number of prices are crossed out... More about A Catalogue Of Illuminated And Other Manuscripts; Together With Some Works on Palaeography
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1928. First Edition. Quarter vellum with light blue paper over boards, titling on spine in gilt. 12" x 9.5", pp. 7-220, with 128 plates and a color frontispiece and several color illustrations tipped onto page. Gilt top edge, uncut fore and bottom edge, small... More about The Book In Italy; During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Shown in Facsimile Reproductions...
New York: Grolier Club, 1895. Unnumbered printing of 400. One quarter tan calf with tan cloth over boards and titling on spine. 11.75" x 7.75", pp. 7075, followed by Index of printers, with 25 facsimile illustrations on rag paper with uncut fore and bottom edge. Of text block, only a.... More about Description of Early Printed Books; Owned by the The Grolier Club With a Brief Account of Their...
Limited Editions Club, 1930. #1445 / 1500. Tan calf leather over boards with titling in gilt on spine and blind impressed on the front cover. 9" x 7.25", pp. xvii, 3-67, SIGNED by C. B. Falls on the colophon page, with eight wood cut illustrations and multiple, colorful first paragraph... More about Two Mediaeval Tales
Topeka, KS: Arthur Capper, c. 1909. Housed in poly sleeves with 8 per sleeve. 5.5" x 3.5", 72 brightly colored postcards, five (5) with writing and stamps 1910-1912, 67 of the postcards are from the African adventure, 5 are from his home at Sagamore Hill. These postcards are reproductions of... More about 72 Postcards From Roosevelt's Travels To Africa
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1898. First Edition. Cardboard covers with green tape spine and titling on label on front. 9.25" x 5.75", pp 3-307 with 18 B&W photographs of the destruction of the Maine and two fold-out diagrams of the ship. Sewn registers, unbound. laid into a four-leaf folding... More about Message From The President Of The United States; The Report of the Naval Court of Inquiry Upon...
New York: D. Appleton, 1894. Second Edition. Half leather. 9" x 6.25". pp. xxiii, 1-1043, [4] advertisements, 1-8 Bibliography of other medical journals available. Still tight and well bound, light fade along margins, tide mark on lower front edge, but barely on pages, clean with no writing. Cover has wear... More about A Text-Book Of Medicine; For Students and Practitioners