New York: Random House, 1989. First Edition. 1/2 black cloth and orange paper over boards with titling on spine and cover in gilt. INSCRIBED "Pat Schroeder" with signature doodle on bookplate applied to ffep. 6" x 9.12", pp. 4-194. Apparently unread copy of book in a superb DJ with a...... More
New York: The Heritage Press, 1951. The Limited Editions Club. Brown cloth overboards with title in gilt stamped on spine and front cover. 6.5" x 10", pp 7 - 64, six full color illustrations. Red tinted edges. A very nice copy, no defects of note. "Let the damsel be placed..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892. First Edition. Quarter brown leather with maroon cloth over boards, titling on spine on label and on cover in gilt. 8.75" x 5.75", pp. xi, 2-674 with gilt top edge with scores of maps and illustrations. Bookplate of Edward Sandford Burgess on fe, text block clean..... More
New York: D. Appleton, 1873. First Edition. Maroon pebbled cloth with titling in gilt on spine and cover with large crest. 9.25" x 6.25", pp. 4-788, with 8 pp. of advertisements for Appleton publications includes more than 200 illustrations as well as a steel engraved frontispiece of Seward and fold-out..... More
c. 1944. 24" x 36", 1 pp. broadside, hand drawn with heavy pencil or charcoal, training material for WWII island invasions. Signed: "Landing Team-2 / Intelligence Section / Drawings By John G. Ward Jr. Fold-3 database identifies a soldier of the same name from Philadelphia PA, b. 1917, who was..... More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1953. Stated First Edition. Aqual blue faux leather over boards with titling in black on the spine. INSCRIBED "To Bradley Lewis / hope you enjoy this bit of 'Dubuquiana /s/ Dick Bissell Bubuque August 1953". 5 1/2" x 8", 3 - 245 pp. Nice..... More
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1849 - 1854. Letters addressed to the Surveyor General of Iowa and Wisconsin, Caleb Booth. Reporting the surveyors work in the field, laying out what was then the near West. Blue stationery, 15" x 9" folded in half, with flattened mailing folds. All letters are docketed on the rear with..... More
New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934. 5.65" x 8.5", 49 un-numbered pages of typed poems. four [4] sets of poems stapled in top left corner, cover page detached from staple. This anthology of poems from world renown poets was typed as a submission to Harcourt and published in..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Bradley-Garretson, c. 1903. Deep Blue cloth over boards with folding snap cover and leather carrying handle. 7" x 9.75", contains four preliminary salesmen samples of books to be order pre-publication. Seven lines of ordering page filled out with examples of sample orders. Interior weakness to some spines, 3-of-4..... More
March 23, 1976. 8.5" x 14", 1 pp., photocopy of Form No. 2-0 [Ohio] with original signature from Ronald Reagan and countersigned as a witness by his campaign manager John P. Sears. This "Consent for use of name as second choice for the Presidency" was produced in great haste as..... More
Washington DC: May 6, 1991. 8.5" x 11", 1 pp Fine, SIGNED in blue felt tip pen, with her iconic smiley face in the loop of the "P" in her name. Includes autograph note, "Fight on - Hope to see you soon!" Pat Scott Schroeder was the first female Representative..... More
Washington DC: c. 1859. Strong, bold signature nearly 4" long on a note from the President to his Secretary of State, Lewis Cass, in the year leading up to the Civil War. 9.75" x 8", 1 pp. An ink spot touching one word at top third, two small, closed tears..... More
Georgetown, VA: Feb 27 1832. 10" x 16.25", folded, 1 pp., brown ink on woven period paper. Docketed on the rear, "To The President & Directors of the Bank U. S. Washington". Well written and nicely penned letter is addressed and written to the leadership of the Bank of U.S...... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. First Edition / First Printing. Light brown paper covered boards with quarter blue and spine with author, title and publisher in gilt on spine. SIGNED "J Carter" on title page. 8vo 6.5" x 9.5" pp [1-12] 13-184 [185-186], with black and white photos throughout..... More
5.25" x 1.75", signed in ink on clipped letter. Strong clear, light fade at corners, attractively matted beneath an etching of Taney signed in pencil by the artist Alfred Rosenthal Roger Brooke Taney, a graduate of Dickinson College, might well be the most controversial Supreme Court justice in American history..... More
Houston, TX and Washington D. C. 1987 / 1999. Two letters signed by the 41st President. George H. W. Bush, and his always popular wife Barbara Bush. 1P, 6.5" x 8.5", December 31, 1999, Houston , TX. TLS on official George Bush letterhead written to a Mr. Harold Wiesenthal. Bush..... More
Washington DC: Republican National, Congressional & Senatorial Committees, 1956. Paper cover with colorful illustrations on front and back. 6.63" x 10.25" pp [14 not numbered], with a comic book story line, no panels or dialogue bubbles, of how Eisenhower will continue to make America better for four different citizens of..... More
A 5-page and 6-page letters from Private John Johonot of the Sixt Battalion, Light Artillery of the 16th Maine Regiment written in 1862 only months before his death on December 20th in Baltimore. Transmittal envelopes are included as well as an especially poignant 2-page letter from his wife to her..... More
Before Vicksburg: March 21, 1863. The Siege of Vicksburg began with a failed Union assault on 19 March 1863, two days before General Grant issued this order in preparation for a second assault. One division of McPherson’s corps moved rightward, to join Sherman’s XV Corps, in a desperate, unsuccessful attack..... More
Chicago, IL: 1888. 9.25" x 5.5", irregular left edge where excised from a book, a horizontal and vertical fold through the center,light toning along some edges, previous owner note on bottom right, "Formerly Mrs. Stephen A Douglas + a famous beauty." Offered with an autograph letter signed, from Adele's husband..... More
Wilcox County, AL: February 16, 1859. Folio, 15.5" x 12.5" folded horizontally through the center. Completely in manuscript with ink on blue paper with lined columns. A full accounting: credits on the left side of the ledger sheet, debits on the right. Docketed on verso; "Estate of Levi H. Seltzer..... More
Hinds Co., MS: 1860. Three sheets attached end-to-end, 31" x 7.75". These documents are an accounting of a sale of the balance of the Estate of Wm. B. Mower pursuant to an order of probate court of Hinds County, MS, made during the April term of 1860. Includes articles sold..... More
c. May 1834. Autograph Sonnet to Miss Margaret L. Gamble in Adams tight, legible, identifiable script. 14-line poem with 3-line introduction. Written in remembrance of an excursion in company with her and a numerous party to Harper's Ferry, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal--May 1834. Single page. written in ink..... More
Superlative, collector developed, assemblage of a diverse recollection of American Heroes. These autographs represent two wars: WWII (21), Korea (2). The signed media includes: First Day Issues (7), Signature / Post Cards (11), Medal of Honor designed cards (4), 1-page bios (1). Four branches of the U. S. Military are..... More
New York, NY: The Book Table, April 1940. First Edition. Green cloth binding wih paper title label on the cover and spine. Water spot on title label, sund fade to spine, spot on front cover. 7.25" x 5.25", 3 - 52 pp. with articles by Knopf close circle of friends..... More