np: 1914 - 1918. Brown wraps with title in blue. 6"x 9", 31 unnumbered pages, with no publisher or date identified. 30 B&W photographs, one on each page, below some pictures: U.S. Official; on some pictures: U.S.A. Signal Corps. The pictures display the horrible, graphic atrocities and death as a...... More
Washington City: E. A. Cohen & Co., 1834. Period brown leather with gilt border on front and back, Directory 1834 on spine in gilt with four bands. 4.5" x 7.25", Missing first blank end page and last two pages of advertisement, top corner of pp. 25-32 have been torn off..... More
Information and Education Section Headquarters Commandant, 1945. Cardboard cover with HQ emblem (shield and sword) in color on the cover. 6 3/4" x 4 3/8", 37 pp. Following the capitulation of Germany in WWII, The Military Governor for the United States Zone (1945–1949) and the United States High Commissioner for..... More
Superlative, collector developed, assemblage of a diverse recollection of American Heroes. These autographs represent four wars: WWII (107), Korea (7), Vietnam (17), The War on Terror (2). The signed media includes: First Day Issues (46), Signature / Post Cards (44), Medal of Honor designed cards (30), Letters or 1-page bios..... 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
The Japanese Center of I.T.I., 7-8 Augutst, 1954. First Edition. Card cover with Japanese styled fan in red, green, silver on the covers with title in Black. Light wear to edges, small tide marke at top left front corner. 8" x 5.5", 46 pp. The Venice Biennale is an international..... More
Grand rue [Paris]: A Besancon, De l'impririe de la V Bogillot, c. 1775. Silk cover, near fine, minus less than 10, small wear holes through the silk. Tarnished silver wire filigree loops around the entire perimeter of the book, as well as the spine. Both the front and back cover..... More
Washington DC: Gaither & Addison, 1846. Printed by John T. Towers. Brown leather with tooled design around cover edges and title impressed on cover. Sixth published Directory of D.C., Rare. 4.5" x 7", pp. x, 1-76, 44 pp. of Advertisements on yellowed paper in the center of the book. An..... 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
Houston, TX: Standard Rice Company, Inc, c. 1930. Two staple wraps. 6.75" x 5", pp. 2-47, die cut, graphic cover on yellow background. Wisp of ink fade at cover left margin and some light blue bleed on rear, inside clean and tight. Corporate cookbook promoting the company's grains and how..... More
Farmington, ME: February 22, 1879. 8" x 5", 4 pp., in Abbot's small and precise handwriting, two mail folds, includes envelope addresed to Oliver Johnson, Orange NJ. Content: Abbott sends a long and sympathetic letter to the Johnson family expressing his concern and encouragement for their current life situation. "What..... More
INSCRIBED "To...Best Wishes / Spiro T. Agnew" in black ink. 8" x10" black and white photo. Copyright Karl Schumancher, The White House. Spiro Agnew (1918 - 1996) served as the 39th Vice President of the United States, from 1969 to 1973, under President Richard Nixon. Born in Baltimore to Greek..... More
Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, October 1, 1968. First Edition. B&W card wraps with two staple binding, illustration of space walk reproduced four times on the cover. 8" x 10.25", pp. 1 - 30, with frontispiece of an astronaut in space walk and B&W photos and illustrations throughout..... More
Paris: Gilles Corrozet, 1555. Third Edition. Contemporary black half leather binding with brown variegated alligator skin over boards, five raised bands on the spine, title label in gilt on the spine with date blind stamped at the bottom. 6.25" x 9.0", Epistle, Preface and Table of Contents, 22 unnumbered pages..... More
Rome, Italy: Bibliografia delle Scienze Matematiche e Fisiche, 1868 - 1887. First Edition. Half parchment with mottled brown paper over boards. Editor's name, Bullettino with abbreviated title, Volume number and year on the spine, separated with four printed bands and punctuated with three fleur-de-lis like devices. 18 of 20 Volumes..... More
Washington DC / Los Angeles: 1950 - 1954. SIGNED "Omar Bradley" [1] and the very familiar "Brad" [2]. Letters are addressed to the editor of his book, Theodore S. Amussen. 7" x 10.75", Two letters are on Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff letterhead with flag colors in the..... 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
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
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Savannah / Atlanta / Denver: c. 1972 - 1980. Four densely written letters, two-sided, three are full manuscript and one is typed with a manuscript closing. Includes four Air Mail envelopes, two with legible dates. Flattened, very good with mailing folds and some edge tear where extricated from original wiriting..... More
np: nd. 4" x 4.75", 2pp clipped. Content: A clipped letter from Burton to a source which is publishing about him. Burton writes of his biography in his own hand, "Frederic Wm Burton. 3rd son of the Sml. Burton Esqu. & grandson of Edwa. Wm Burton of Clifden House Inchquin..... 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
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First American Edition. Tan cloth over boads with brown titling on the spine. 5" x 7.25", pp. 2 - 154. This is Camus' first published novel. It was broadly critiqued and holds a canonical place in French philosophical existentialism. "I laid my heart..... More
Washington DC: C. M. Bell, 1886. Sepia toned, oversized CDV [4" x 6.5"] of the 22-year old First Lady, youngest ever to hold that role. This is the first photograph made since her marriage to President Cleveland on June 2, '86. Small puncture whole in bottom right corner. Includes full..... More
Washington DC: nd. SIGNED "Frances F. Clevelend in fountain pen on Executive Mansion Card Signed. 4.5" x2.75", 1p. 16mo. Fine signature is full breadth of the card. Grover Cleveland first met Frances when she was an infant and doted on her, even buying her a baby carriage. After her father..... More
Washington DC: nd. SIGNED "Frances F. Clevelend in fountain pen on Executive Mansion Card Signed. 4.5" x2.75", 1p. 16mo. Fine signature is full breadth of the card dated 1887 in bottom left corner. Grover Cleveland first met Frances when she was an infant and doted on her, even buying her..... More