This silent film actor turned screenwriter in the 1920s, and his credits include W.S. Van Dyke's "Half-a-Dollar Bill" (1924) and Hoot Gibson's "The Phantom Bullet" (1926). Bold and nice "Stay away from all the / 'Eves' --.-- they are full / of apple-sauce / Curtis Benton / K.N.X." on a...... More
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1900. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green blind-embossed cloth with gilt lettering. 140pp. Two heavy stock tissue-guarded steel engravings. Very good. Faintest of binding edgewear, else tight and internally fine. Handsome, bright first edition of these celebratory speeches by noted senators and representatives of the day that..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. Hardcover. 12mo. Brown heavily blind-embossed cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration. xiii, 227pp, (2pp). Very good. Bit of wear at head and tail of spine, else tight, clean and nice; 1863 nonauthorial ownership signature on front flyleaf (brown ink on brown endpaper, thus barely..... More
New York: The Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 1946. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. 19pp. Very good. Outer wrappers a bit worn and faintly age toned, else tight and nice. First and likely sole printing of this "Broadcast over the American Broadcasting System at 10:00 p.m., E.S.T., Saturday, December 28, 1946, under the sponsorship..... More
College Station: Texas A & M University Press, [1996]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 193pp. Frontispiece, illustration. Fine/fine. A pristine and tight first edition. More