On the Outside Looking In.
New York: Kensington Publishing Corp. 1988. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine and blue paper over boards, dust jacket. 286pp. Illustrations. Very good/near fine. Handsome, tight first edition. More
New York: Kensington Publishing Corp. 1988. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine and blue paper over boards, dust jacket. 286pp. Illustrations. Very good/near fine. Handsome, tight first edition. More
N.p. [Los Angeles]: N.p., Spring 1944. 4to. 16pp. Line drawings. Very good. Single inoffensive staple hole at upper left of each recto (staple removed, with no staining); mild bit of edgewear only. A superb, clean and attractive issue of this short-lived quarterly publication of "The Only Official Ronald Reagan Club,"..... More
N.p. Friends of the LBJ Library, 1990. Paperback. 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 24pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine. Issue #XLVII, celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of Lyndon B. Johnson's inauguration as president. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1975]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth spine with red and blue lettering and blue paper over boards, dust jacket. xi, 212pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. A tight and nice first edition of this chronicle of Gerald R. Ford's first 100 days in the..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1949]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. x, 387pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/good plus. Jacket edge chipped and spine sunned; front flyleaf a contemporary expert replacement, fairly undetectable. More
[New York]: Time-Life Books, [1981]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Frederic Remington. 8vo. Full brown blind-embossed calf with gilt lettering. 186pp. All edges gilt. Frontispiece, line drawings, marbled endpapers, sewn-in yellow silk page marker. Fine. Tight, handsome facsimile of the 1888 Century Co. first edition. Part of this publisher's "Classics of the..... More
New York: P.F. Collier & Son, n.y. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown blind-ruled cloth with gilt spine lettering. 336pp. Frontispiece, illustration. Very good. A wonderfully tight and handsome reprint edition of this 1899 account account of TR’s Spanish-American War exploits -- undated, but turn-of-the-century. More
Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 2003. Hardcover. Edited by Marifeli Perez-Stable. 16mo. Teal green cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration. lxxvii, 317pp. Top edge gilt. Color frontispiece, illustrations (many color), decorative endpapers. Fine. Pristine, tight volume in the noted "Lakeside Classics" series -- the future president's account of..... More
Chicago: Beach, Barnard & Co., 1876. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. 8pp. Very good. Slight soiling to wrappers. Probable sole edition. Concerns the retallying of electoral votes in Louisiana for the disputed 1887 presidential election results. Louisiana, South Carolina, Oregon and -- you guessed it -- Florida were those states on whose..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. Black buckram, pictorial dust jacket. 374pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/near fine. First edition. More
Boston: Beacon Press, [1957]. Hardcover. Foreword by Erwin D. Canham. Small 4to. Tan cloth with red spine lettering, pictorial corner (NOT price) clipped dust jacket. (6pp), 139pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn and lightly age toned. Handsome first edition. Notes front jacket panel, "How is a reader to..... More
Hartford: A.D. Worthington, 1896. Hardcover. 8vo. Black blind-embossed cloth. 546pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, engravings. Very good. Minor tears at head and foot of spine. First edition. More
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, [1968]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pale orange cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 355pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Tight and handsome first edition of this unsanctioned bio -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is a 4" X 4" printed..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1963]. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 253pp. Illustrations. Fine/very good. Quite minor jacket edgewear. A bright and nice first edition -- a young adult biography published shortly before the assassination. More
Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, [2001]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Glazed pictorial paper over boards. xxii, 377pp. Near fine. Tight and lovely first edition of this unusual dictionary-style approach to the 17th president's life, with alphabetical entries on the persons and events surrounding his life. More
[Madison]: The Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, 1984. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed wrappers. 16pp. Illustrations. Fine. Historical Bulletin No. 39, being Simon's speech delivered on 17 April 1983 at this group's annual meeting. More
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with blue spine lettering, dust jacket. xx, 339pp. Near fine/fine. Handsome and super tight later printing. More
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with blue spine lettering, dust jacket. xx, 339pp. Near fine/fine. A tight and attractive later printing. More
New York: Stein and Day, [1973]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 248pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, maps. Near fine/near fine. A tight and quite lovely first edition. More
N.p. J. & G.S. Gideon, 1848. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 8pp. Very good. Slightest of age toning. Political intrigue in which this Connecticut representative (1791-1884) defends his actions at the Whig presidential convention against attacks made by another delegate (Blunt), maintaining that he was not a Henry Clay puppet. Indeed not..... More
N.p. Xlibris Corporation, 2002. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth, dust jacket. 438pp. Fine/near fine. Tight, nice first edition of this author's first book, a "Novel of a President, a Crime Lord and AIDS" (to quote the jacket's front panel), bearing a fine author signature and inscription in black fineline on the..... More
Woodstock: The Overlook Press, [2000]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxiv, 359pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. A tight and lovely first edition. More
Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, [1988]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy wrappers. 450pp. Charts. Near fine. Sharp and tight second revised edition of this classic by the influential economist and advisor to presidents Nixon and Ford (1916-99. This presentation copy has been handsomely inscribed and signed by..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1968. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, dust jacket. 871pp. Near fine/near fine. Handsome first edition. Tipped to the half-title page is a clipped initialed Johnson signature ("LBJ") in blue fountain pen, and above this is tipped the clipped letterhead portion (the gold presidential seal and..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1953]. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. 298pp. Very good. Mild binding edgewear, with spine lightly sunned. First edition of this volume in the "Makers of the American Tradition" series. From the library of Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III (born 1930) and his father before..... More