NIAGARA COUNTRY
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, (1949). First Edition. Part of the American Folkways series. SIGNED by Graham on 30 June 1949. Dampstain at rear top of dustwrapper mostly visible on the verso and with minor effect on the book.
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LIFE OF COL. FREMONT
New York: Greeley and M'Elrath, 1856. First Edition. Pamphlet. Pamphlet in self wraps; 32 pages. Illustrated with a portrait of Fremont taking more than the first half of the front page and two full-page engravings. A short life of Fremont from his early childhood to his presidential nomination in 1856.....
THE CLASSICAL READER; A selection of lessons in prose and verse. From the most esteemed English and American writers. Intended for the use of the higher classes in public and private seminaries
Boston: Lincoln, Edmands & Co., 1833. Third Edition. Hardcover. Octavo in contemporary sheep leather with a gilt-lettered morocco spine label, 408 pages. Frontispiece illustration of George Washington taking leave of his comrades. The contributions are mostly from English authors but included are examples by Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Webster, John Quincy.....
KLONDIKE. THE CHICAGO RECORD'S BOOK FOR GOLD SEEKERS
Boston: Desmond Publishing Company, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick octavo in publisher's decorated cloth; 555, [5] pages. A detailed guide for gold seekers in the Yukon describing how to get there and what to do once you are there. Profusely illustrated.
THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. Edward Wilson. Hardcover. Octavo (7" x 10") bound in full terra-cotta leather with a blind embossed design of North America without the United States on the front cover and gold-stamped on the spine. Printed on hand-made paper. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Illustrated with.....
OUTLINES OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY
Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1794. First Isaiah Thomas Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (5" x 8-1/8") bound in recent full calf leather with gilt decoration to the boards and spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers; 302 pages. Complete with the original endpapers. First published in Edinburgh in 1784 and in America in Philadelphia.....
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
26 August 1880. Letter. One-page letter of introduction by Abraham Lincoln's Vice President, dated 26 August 1880. The letter is addressed to the Honorable Horace Davis, and the subject is Major S. W. Knowles who "did good service in the war." SIGNED "H. Hamlin." While Hamlin admired Lincoln, he didn't.....
REMARKS OF PRESIDENT HAYES, AT THE CELEBRATION OF GENERAL GARFIELD'S ELECTION, CLEVELAND, OHIO, NOVEMBER 4, 1880
n.p. [1880]. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps; 4 pages, the last blank. SIGNED on the top margin of the front page "With Compliments/R. B. Hayes" by the President. Prints Hayes's speech celebrating the election of James Garfield to succeed him as President. "You all remember how four years ago the.....
OUR NATIONAL BANE; OR, THE DRY ROT IN AMERICAN POLITICS. A TRACT FOR THE TIMES TOUCHING CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, 1877. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps; 118 pages. SIGNED at the top of the title page "R. B. Hayes/26 May 1877," while Hayes was the governor of Ohio.
LIFE OF HENRY CLAY
Philadelphia: R. G. Berford, 1844. Cheap Edition. Wraps. Green printed wraps with 15 double-column text pages.
OLDPORT DAYS
Boston: Osgood, 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Original cloth. Illustrated with 10 heliotypes views of Newport, RI. BAL 8282.
BOOKS, PAMPHLETS AND NEWSPAPERS PRINTED AT NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 1776-1900
n.p. 1902. First Edition. Limited to 300 copies.
SPEECHES
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-lettered white cloth. We have handled several copies of this title over the years and all have been bound in printed boards. This is the first time we have seen this binding which is fancier and likely produced in a......
THE CHALLENGE TO LIBERTY
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to ----- "With the kind regards of/Herbert Hoover" on the front free endpaper.
HOOVER AFTER DINNER. ADDRESSES DELIVERED BY HERBERT HOOVER BEFORE THE GRIDIRON CLUB OF WASHINGTON, D. C...
New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes eight speeches before the Gridiron Club, the first time the speeches of a U.S. President to the club were printed, as well as four other addresses by Hoover: "A Remedy for Disappearing Game Fishes"; a speech celebrating the.....
A COMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
New York: American Book Exchange, 1880. Early Edition. Hardcover. Decorated cloth. Illustrated with silhouettes and engravings.
MATHEW BRADY: HISTORIAN WITH A CAMERA
New York: Crown, (1955). Over 500 photos. Reprint. Folio.
A REPORT OF THE DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THE OPINIONS OF THE JUDGES THEREOF, IN THE CASE OF DRED SCOTT VS. JOHN F. A. SANDFORD. DECEMBER TERM 1856
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1857. First Edition. Softcover. Printed wraps lacking the front cover; complete, pages 393-633 [240 pages]. Grolier American 68; Howes S218; Sabin 33240. One of two simultaneous printings, the other in Washington D.C., for which no precedence has been established. The opinion of the court.....
VACATION RAMBLES
London & New York: MacMillan & Co., 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth. Travels in America and Europe recounted in the form of letters by the author of TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS.
COMBINATION ATLAS MAP OF CASS COUNTY INDIANA
Chicago: Kingman Brothers, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Large folio (15" x 17-1/2") bound in publisher's leather-backed cloth; 100 pages. Compiled, drawn, and published from personal examinations and surveys. Illustrated with hand-colored maps of the United States, the state of Indiana, and Cass County as well as its individual townships. Lacking.....
WOLFERT'S ROOST
New York: Putnam's, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. The first printing in the primary cloth binding. Illustrated with an engraved title page and frontispiece. BAL 10188. Chapters on Bermuda, France, various Native American tribes, Malta, the Mississippi Bubble scheme, etc.
REPORT UPON THE COLORADO RIVER OF THE WEST, EXPLORED IN 1857 AND 1858...
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (8-3/4" x 11-3/4") in original gilt-decorated cloth, rebacked with the original spine and a new spine label; 131, 154, 30, 32 pages. Illustrated with 12 (of 14) views, 8 color plates, 8 folding panoramas, 3 paleontology plates, 2 large folding.....
THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON
Lunenberg: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Lynd Ward. Hardcover. Small quarto (7-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in blue vellum cloth and harmonizing hand-marbled paper; 384 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 16 full-page two-color lithographs drawn on the stone and 36 part-page drawings by Lynd Ward, the lithographs printed in.....
THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON
Lunenberg: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Lynd Ward. Hardcover. Small quarto (7-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in blue vellum cloth and harmonizing hand-marbled paper; 384 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 16 full-page two-color lithographs drawn on the stone and 36 part-page drawings by Lynd Ward, the lithographs printed in.....
THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON
Lunenberg: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Lynd Ward. Hardcover. Small quarto (7-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in blue vellum cloth and harmonizing hand-marbled paper; 384 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 16 full-page two-color lithographs drawn on the stone and 36 part-page drawings by Lynd Ward, the lithographs printed in.....