New York: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Allen Lewis. Hardcover. Two octavo volumes (6-3/8" x 9-1/2") in silver pyroxylin cloth embossed to resemble chain mail and stamped in red. Designed and illustrated with linoleum cuts by Allen Lewis. Copy #573 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.
Boston: 16 August 1850. Letter. One-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER on a 6-1/4" x 9" sheet SIGNED as "R. H. Dana Jr." to a law firm. In full: "We have made inquiries as to Mr. Carlton. He has a clerkship, with a limited salary, & a large family, his means are small.....
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New York: W. Guthrie, 1945. First Edition. Softcover. Mimeographed illustrated pamphlet of 15 pages including the cover (8-1/2" x 10-3/4"), containing 10 of Guthrie's songs including this country's unofficial national anthem, "This Land Is Your Land." Using an original typed manuscript with drawings by the author, Guthrie mimeographed copies himself.....
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. First Regularly Published Edition. Hardcover. Six 7" x 11" volumes bound in five in modern buckram retaining early marbled endpapers, complete with the Atlas volume bound with the last text volume. Illustrated with 64 engraved plates with tissue guards, 9 double-page maps, and over 250.....
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1866. George Catlin. Tenth Edition. Hardcover. First published in 1841, this is the Deluxe Issue of the Tenth Edition of this classic with illustrations colored by hand. Two volumes (6-1/4" x 9-3/4") bound in the publisher's half red morocco over marbled boards with gilt lettering and.....
New York: G. & C. Carvill, 1828. First American Edition. Manuscript. Three volumes (6" x 9-1/4") in original linen-backed boards with printed paper labels to spines, each housed in a folding case in later morocco-backed slipcase. Complete with folding map and half-titles. Laid in is an excellent single page manuscript.....
[New York]: [DISC Co. of America], [1947]. First Edition. Softcover. Stiff blue illustrated wrappers, staple-bound as issued (7-1/2" x 10"); 48 pages; housed in a blue morocco-backed cloth clamshell box with chemise. First edition of "the most extensive piece of Guthrie’s writing actually to see print in the postwar years".....
[1975]. Manuscript. Four legal-sized (8-1/2" x 13") lined yellow sheets written on one side only comprising notes for a pivotal campaign speech given on 3 August 1976 with a focus on the American family. The notes are what Carter's main speechwriter, Patrick Anderson, used to craft Carter's first major speech.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Two 5" x 8" volumes in the publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt-titled spines, housed in a cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels. Illustrated with 5 plates and a large folding map of Texas. This edition is the scarcest.....
Columbus, OH: Follett, Foster and Company, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Early issue. Publisher's brown blindstamped cloth; [iv - ads], [iv], 268 pages. These public debates over slavery are perhaps the most consequential campaign debates in American history. The first speech in the volume is Lincoln's famous "House Divided" speech of.....
1898-1927. Letters. A collection of correspondence and ephemera comprised of 14 SIGNED handwritten letters, 3 SIGNED typed letters, and a SIGNED printed Christmas poem, along with two hand-addressed envelopes by Bates and a copy of “In Memoriam” from Bates's memorial at Wellesley, dated June 1929. The letters, dating mostly from.....
Venice: Chez Formaleoni, 1788. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards (5-1/4" x 8") backed with binder's tape; 168 pages (lacking the errata page); spine title reads "Before Columbus." French translation of SAGGIO SULLA NAUTICA ANTICA de' VENEZIANI, published in 1783. Illustrated with three folding maps and a plate. In this rather sensational.....
[New York]: George Washington Memorial Association, Inc., n.d. [1932]. First Edition. Print. Title from one of the two printed inserts included with the etchings. Variant titles we have seen include TWENTY MASTERPIECES IN ETCHING [SET OF ORIGINAL ETCHINGS CHRONICLING THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON]. A collection of 20 large folio.....
London: Printed for David Henry; and sold by Francis Newbery, 1769. First Complete Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (6-3/4" x 9") bound in new calf leather boards retaining the original gilt-decorated spine with a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label; [iv], iv, 113, 112-472, 465-496 (with two different consecutive pages numbered 111-112; page.....
New York: Hewett, [ca 1830]. Hardcover. Contemporary leather-backed marbled boards with leather corners, neatly rebacked at some point (10-1/4" x 13-1/2"). Bound with a number of other pieces, some with pictorial covers. An early appearance of what is known as "The President's Anthem," a song written by James Sanderson around.....
Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1856. Hardcover. Contemporary black morocco-backed boards with leather corners and a gilt-lettered black morocco label on the front cover with the owner's name: "Lottie B. Almy" (10-1/4" x 13-3/4"). Bound with a number of other pieces including a Longfellow poem set to music, "The Curfew," and a......
[London]: Longman and Broderip, [ca 1782]. First Edition. Hardcover. Sheep-backed marbled boards with leather corners and a gilt-lettered black morocco label on the front cover with the owner's name: "Mrs. Davis" (9-1/4" x 12-1/2"). Bound with a number of other pieces including "God Save the King" and "The Indians Complaint.....
New York: Printed for C. Smith, 1797. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary calf (5" x 8-1/4") recently and professionally rebacked with a new gilt-lettered red morocco spine label; [ii], 183 pages with 5 folding plans (of 7) and 2 plates, including portrait frontispiece of Gen. Washington. Lacking “Plan of the Siege.....
The Hague: Les Freres L'Honoré, 1703. First Edition. Hardcover. Third issue with the title pages all in black and the globe vignette, the maps re-engraved and improved from previous issues. Two volumes bound in one in contemporary calf leather with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine (4" x 6-7/8");.....
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, (1911). First Edition. Hardcover. Gilt-lettered olive cloth containing her famous poem among others.
Philadelphia: D. Rice & A. N. Hart, 1858. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Three royal octavo volumes (7" x 10-3/4") of this magnificent set in publisher's full blind-stamped brown morocco leather with gilt-lettered spines. Illustrated with 120 beautiful hand-colored lithographs of Native Americans based on original oil portraits painted from life in.....
New York: Ensign & Thayer, [1849]. First Edition. Framed Print. Attractive and uncommon hand-colored lithograph broadside (21-1/4" x 27-1/2", framed to overall size of 23-1/2" x 29-1/2") depicting medallions for each of the 31 states with statistical information for that state. At the top center are both sides of the.....
New York: V. G. Audubon/Roe Lockwood & Son, 1860. Fourth Octavo Edition. Hardcover. Seven royal octavo volumes (6-3/4" x 10-3/8") uniformly bound in full publisher's blind-stamped brown morocco leather and illustrated with 500 hand-colored lithographed plates with tissue guards. This edition differs most from the original edition in the plates.....
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Printing. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front pastedown and front endpaper by several of the luminaries of the Civil Rights movement including "Best Wishes/Martin Luther King, Jr."; "Freedom Now!!/Rosa Parks"; "Sincerely,/James Farmer"; "Best wishes/Ralph David Abernathy"; "Aaron E. Henry".....
London: Joseph Downing, 1730. First Edition. Hardcover. Later three-quarter brown morocco leather and marbled paper sides with gilt-lettered spine, marbled endpapers (5" x 8"); xxxi, [i], 356 pages with two folding engraved maps by Herman Moll: Province of Carolina and New England, New York, New Jersey and Pensilvania. An important.....
