THE CONFEDERATE PRIVATEERS
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth; xvi, 372 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title page illustration, and 7 plates.
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AUTOGRAPH LIMERICK SIGNED
7 August 1930. A four-line poem, a limerick, completely in Eleanor Roosevelt's hand on 6" x 3-1/2" Executive Mansion stationery, dated and SIGNED by her. Apparently given to an employee. "There was a young fellow called Joe,/Who thought he was coming too slow,/But he made up his mind to be.....
THIS I REMEMBER
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1949). First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs. Copy #653 of 1000 numbered copies SIGNED by the author. This copy with both the original glassine, which has roughly an inch on one side lacking, and the slipcase which is lightly soiled.
THIS I REMEMBER
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1949). First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs. Copy #678 of 1000 numbered copies SIGNED by the author. This copy with both the original glassine and the slipcase.
"OLD GLORY" ... THE FLAG OF OUR COUNTRY. A SUPPLEMENTARY READER CONTAINING PRACTICAL LESSONS IN PATRIOTISM FOR USE IN PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SCHOOLS. From the Library of Franklin D. Roosevelt with His Inscription
Slippery Rock, PA: Printed by the Author, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated white cloth with a full-color American flag and gilt title on the front cover. Illustrated with plates and drawings. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper completely in the hand of Franklin Roosevelt: "Given me by James J......
THE PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY PARTY BROADCAST
[1939]. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") bound in full gilt-lettered red morocco leather; 12 pages. An ORIGINAL typed Andy Hardy radio script by Carey Wilson that followed the birthday broadcast for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1939. This copy is INSCRIBED to Wilson and SIGNED by Roosevelt on.....
ON OUR WAY
New York: The John Day Company, (1934). First Edition. Hardcover. A dummy copy with half-title, title page with copyright on verso, a printed explanatory page, an excerpt from Chapter 7, a printed statement of upcoming publication, and several pages of order forms. The bulk of the full-sized book is composed.....
I SAW FRANCE FALL
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author filling up the front free endpaper to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.: "For Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr./a colleague at law/a friend/and let us both/hope a companion in a/lovely ladies' heart!!/with the sincere/regards of one of.....
AMERICAN IDEALS AND OTHER ESSAYS SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
New York & London: G. P. Putnam's & Sons, 1902. Hardcover. Olive-gray cloth lettered in black. Biographical sketch by Gen. Francis Vinton Greene. Originally published in 1897, this is an early copy printed in 1902. SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper: "with the fraternal/regards of/Theodore Roosevelt."
ADMINISTRATION. CIVIL SERVICE. "AMERICAN IDEALS" Part II
New York: G. P. Putnam's & Sons, 1900. Hardcover. Half polished calf with calf corners and a gilt-decorated spine with gilt-lettered contrasting morocco spine labels. Originally published in 1897, this is an early edition that was part of a set of Roosevelt's works. SIGNED by the author on the front.....
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated blue cloth. Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper "To James W. Barrett/in memory of the suit!/from/Theodore Roosevelt/May 3d 1915." Roosevelt originally wrote April and crossed it out. Most signed copies of this.....
HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF BERKS AND LEBANON: CONTAINING A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE INDIANS WHO INHABITED THIS REGION OF COUNTRY, AND THE NUMEROUS MURDERS BY THEM : NOTICES OF THE FIRST SWEDISH, WELSH, FRENCH, GERMAN, IRISH, AND ENGLISH SETTLERS, GIVING THE NAMES OF NEARLY FIVE THOUSAND OF THEM...
Lancaster, PA: G. Hills, 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/4") bound in contemporary speckled calf with red morocco spine label; 519 pages. Howes R-512. Illustrated with three plates: the Reading Court House, a view of Reading, and the Lebanon Post Office. Brief genealogical information in ink on the.....
THE LIFE OF HARMAN BLENNERHASSETT. COMPRISING AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE BURR EXPEDITION: AND CONTAINING MANY ADDITIONAL FACTS NOT HERETOFORE PUBLISHED
Chillicothe, OH: Ely, Allen & Looker, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-decorated cloth; duodecimo (4-3/4" x 7-1/2"), 239 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece view of Blennerhassett's mansion. Howes S-12; New Howes S-13 "b". The first attempt by this early expert to unravel the Burr-Wilkinson Conspiracy. General James Wilkinson, the Commanding.....
THE AMERICAN GUIDE SERIES: WORKS BY THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT
Pittsburgh: Arthur Scharf Bookseller & Schoyer's Books, [1990]. First Edition. Softcover. Pictorial wraps; xii, 176 pages. Very useful for identifcation and bibliographic data on the WPA guides and related books.
O BEULAH LAND
New York: The Viking Press, 1956. First Edition. hardcover. Attractive copy of her third book, a novel about the French & Indian War.
TYPEFOUNDING IN AMERICA, 1787-1825
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, (1965). Facsimiles. First Edition. xiii, 139 pages. Fine guide to early American printing & production of type.
ORIGINAL DRAWING used on page 80 of THE SECOND BARREL
[1969]. Drawing. An 11" x 15" pen-and-ink drawing by Sloane used in his book THE SECOND BARREL. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the artist in green ink at the bottom to Howard Wolf and dated 1971. The subject of the drawing is "When Corn Was King" and depicts a corn crib.....
CITY OF INDEPENDENCE: VIEWS OF PHILADELPHIA BEFORE 1800
New York: Praeger, (1975). Plates. First Edition. Folio. Useful reference.
TOUCHDOWN!
New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. Illustrated with photographs. SIGNED on the front endpaper "Sincerely,/Amos Alonzo Stagg/December, 1927." A scarce early inscription before his writing became shaky by one of the most important figures in American sports. Stagg, the first to be elected to the.....
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
New York: 24 September 1867. Letter. One-page letter, 5" x 8", by Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of War addressed to Edward Haight, former member of Congress from New York during the Civil War. Stanton mentions that he is in New York for a few days with his wife and child and.....
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
Boston: 19 October 1853. Letter. A witty one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Sumner responding to an invitation to appear at the Horse Fair in Springfield. In part: "The age of Chivalry has passed. The age of Humanity has come. The Horse, which gave its name to the first, now yields.....
ON A MEXICAN MUSTANG, THROUGH TEXAS, FROM THE GULF TO THE RIO GRANDE
Hartford: S. S. Scranton & Company, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated mustard cloth with fancy gilt designs on the front cover and spine; 672 pages. Illustrated with many plates and facsimiles. Sixguns 2174; Adams HERD 2217: "Scarce"; Jenkins BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 201: "the best volume of 19th century Texas humor.".....
RECOLLECTIONS OF FULL YEARS
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Original decorated red cloth, rebacked with most of the original spine and new endpapers; illustrated with photographs. This copy is SIGNED by Taft on the original front endpaper: "Sincerely yours/Wm H Taft/New Haven/Nov. 14th 1914."
COLLECTION OF 23 ORIGINAL ISSUES OF THE NILES’ WEEKLY REGISTER, 1836, DESCRIBING THE DRAMATIC AND HEROIC STRUGGLE FOR TEXAN INDEPENDENCE, with the text of the Texas Declaration of Independence
Baltimore: Printed by the Editor at the Franklin Press, March 5 to August 27, 1836. First Edition. Softcover. A collection of 23 consecutive individual issues (5-3/4" x 9-1/2"; without the March 12, June 18, and July 9 issues) now housed in individual sleeves with typed descriptions in a hard 3-hole.....
THE EMIGRANT, OR REFLECTIONS WHILE DESCENDING THE OHIO. A POEM
Cincinnati: J. Drake, 1872. First Edition. Softcover. Printed green wraps; 48 pages. Reprint of the 1833 edition with an added memoir of the author.