Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts

Welcome to our shop, where we've been serving book lovers, collectors and institutions since 1991. Our stock of quality out-of-print books includes first editions, signed books and limited editions. We are also autograph dealers, with a vast inventory of letters, manuscripts and signed photos representing every field of human endeavor. You'll also find a selection of maps, pre-1900 newspapers and interesting ephemera.

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American sculptor. IPS, 10" X 8", n.p., 1942 n.d. Very good. Scene depicting Davidson and actress Madeleine Carroll viewing a small model of Davidson's sculpture "Lest We Forget," boldly signed and inscribed.

Inscribed Photograph Sgned.
DAVIDSON, Jo (1883-1952).
American sculptor. IPS, 10" X 8", n.p., 1942 n.d. Very good. Scene depicting Davidson and actress Madeleine Carroll viewing a.. more
Price: $100.00

Small 4to. Grey paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 301pp. Illustrations, decorated endpapers. Very good/very good. Scarce Argentinian edition of "Storm over the Land."

Tormenta Sobre la Tierra: Lincoln y la Guerra Civil Estadounidense.
SANDBURG, Carl.
Buenos Aires: Editorial Futuro, 1945. Small 4to. Grey paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 301pp. Illustrations, decorated endpapers. Very good/very good. Scarce Argentinian edition.. more
Price: $65.00

Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt medallion, compartments, gilt rules and spine lettering. 584pp, 647pp. Frontispieces, illustrations (2 foldouts), decorative endpapers. Near fined. Slightest bit of faint edgewear only.

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant.
GRANT, Ulysses S.
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt medallion, compartments, gilt rules and spine lettering. 584pp, 647pp. Frontispieces, illustrations.. more
Price: $475.00

The author of the travel classic "Travels in the Trans-Caucasian Provinces of Russia, and Along the Southern Shore of the Lakes Van and Urumiah, in the Autumn and Winter of 1837" (London, 1839) was recounting a military mission through Persia, Turkey and Russia; he was an English soldier, a captain in the Seventh Royal Fusiliers. ALS, 1p, 7 3/4" X 12 3/4" (lettersheet), "Major Transport Tagus," 1810 October 1. Addressed to Captain Richard Poulden (1765-1845). Near fine. Intriguing and cryptic: "Impelled by a sense of my duty, I beg leave to state, that the delinquent belonging to the British Hero Transport of my Division, whom you was pleased to order on board H.M. Ship Melpomene, was sent thither yesterday; upon which, the Commander of that Ship sent an Officer on board the British Hero & took therefrom the Chest & bedding belonging to the Man in question, which, with the whole of his Pay, are (by his neglect of duty & reprehensible conduct) forfeited by the just & relative Law of England...." Fine example of the procedures that followed neglect of duty -- and certainly worthy of further research, as it would be interesting to know this sailor's offense and subsequent punishment. A most unusual document.

Autograph Letter Signed.
WILBRAHAM, Richard (?-?).
The author of the travel classic "Travels in the Trans-Caucasian Provinces of Russia, and Along the Southern Shore of the.. more
Price: $395.00

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