London: MacMillan, 1866. Third Edition. Green cloth over boards with titling and cover illustrations of an Arab and camel in the desert in gilt. Two Volumes, 13.5 x 22, wear at the spine extremities, Vol 1. has rubbing to front cover and 1 cm tear on spine, typical light foxing..... More
The Rectory, Cossington. 7" x 4.5", 2 pp. bordered in black (mourning stationary following her husband's death in 1842), dated 8 Oct 1846, with mail folds. Content: Making arrangements and appointments, "Mr. Moxon begs you will send him a line – he has appointed me to meet hi at Doctors..... More
Maisone Blanche: c. March 1943. Only known copy. Brown leatherette binding, with an internal, plastic comb binding. This work appears to be unique, and is in unrecorded in Worldcat. It is a presentation copy for First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, printed by her son Elliott Roosevelt while on active service, with..... More
London, U.K. Taschen, 2001. Limited Edition No. 07685 / 10,000. White silk boards, cover and spine in pink leather (pink being the color of Ali's first Cadillac), contained in photo-pictorial silk clamshell case (Neil Leifer’s iconic 1966 photo Ali vs. Williams.). SIGNED "Muhammad Ali" and "Jeff Koons" on stamped colophon..... 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
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
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
New York: Press of the McWilliams Printing Co., 1889. First Edition. Gray stippled covers with sewn in pages, now top bound by tape at the top into a library cover. 5.75" x 9', 15 pp. Ex-Long Island Historical Society with associated stamp and embossment. Bound into cardboard covers, Washington and..... 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
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..... 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
Salem, OR: c. 1939. SIGNED by two mid-twentieth century governors of Oregon. 8" x 6.25", with the gold embossed Seal of Oregon in the center above its description. Seals are rubbed and have some fading. Seal with Sprague's signature is has smudges and pin hole in bottom right corner. "...shall..... More
Washington DC: August 20, 1942. 5.75" x 9", 8vo, Good content on Supreme Court of the United States letterhead. Ink smudge near closing, but not on signature, two small dots at top margin and two small remnants of adhesive on rear. A polite, apolitical reply to a young woman who..... More
Kansas City, MO: February 7, 1929. Original. 8.5" x 13", 2 pp. typed Quit-Claim deed between future President Harry Truman as Special Agent and Commissioner of the County of Jackson, and George Levin. Other signature include those of Notary Public and Clerk of the County Court. His name "Harry S...... More
House of Representatives: July 1, 1870. 8"x 20", folded, 4 pp., with manuscript on two pages. Fade to 1/4" of right margin, one fox spot on p1, two mail folds, otherwise a fine document. Included is an unresearched name and address insert. Four Congressman from Wisconsin sign a letter to..... More
Frankfurt: October 9, 1945. SIGNED "Melvin Purvis" in his tight, dark, cursive. 8" x 10.75", 1 pp., fade to edges, most noticeable at the bottom, two symmetric mailing folds, previous dog ear to corner. Melvin Purvis (1903 - 1960) This letter was written when Purvis, as a LTC in Provost..... More
SIGNED "Henry A. Kissinger" in his long scrawl penmanship, blue ink on a 3" x 5" card typed Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Dr. Kissinger was born in Fuerth, Germany, came to the United States in 1938, and was naturalized a United States citizen in 1943. He..... More
np: June 1, 1797. 12.75" x 7.75", 2 pp. docketed on the folded rear panel to: Evans Whorry, Esq, at or near Little Falls / To the care of Wm Porteous. Age toned, usual mail folds, hole along left margin where wax was removed, not affecting front page, interrupting two..... More
Providence, RI: September 15, 1846. 10" x 8", 1 p, folded stationary, docketed on verso to Zachariah Allen, Esq, North Main St. Content: Letter of reccomendation for John Hyde, "...an honest industrious man conversant with manufacturing as a mill wright," Tristam Burges (Feb 1770 – Oct 1853) was a U.S...... More
Boston, MA: July 18, 1845. 9.75" x 7.75", 1 pp., Signed as the 19th Governor of Massachusetts. Mailing folds, ink smudge in last line, previous note in pencil at top. Content: Gov. Briggs apologies that his daughter, Harriet, is sick in bed and unable to spend a few days away..... More
Albany, NY: August 29, 1964. 9.125" x 5.5", 3 pp. ALS on folded stationary, docketed on rear. Usual mail folds, two ink spots on rear bottom right away from any text. Content: Senator Harris expresses extreme displeasure to the Secretary of the Treasury reference the dismissal of one of his..... More
1952 - 1975. SIGNED, 3 TLS and 1 B&W Photograph all in VG to Fine condition. Straub letter has small circular spot in the center, letters have usual mailing folds, a few dog-ears, photo in fine, INSCRIBED state. Charles A. Sprague (1887 - 1969), 22nd Governer; Douglas McKay (1893 -..... 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
Balt. & Ohio Railroad, Sept. 14, ?8. SIGNED "Benj. F. Butler" as Manager, R.A.D.V. (Railroad Authority for Disabled Veteran Soldiers), 4.25" x 2.25", on franked ticket for "John White from Washington to Columbus via Balt. + Ohio R.R.", in another hand. Circular, blue stamp in lower right, punched by conductor..... More