Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers, [1942]. Hardcover. 16mo. Red, white and blue paper over boards. 336pp. Numerous full-page glossy illustrations (many color), line drawings, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Mild edgewear and rubbing as usual. A tight and sharp first edition of this heavily humorous anthology intended to entertain American G.I.s. Features..... More about The Kitbook for Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines: Favorite stories, verse, and cartoons for the...

Evanston: Northwesterm University Press, 1951. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. xii, 178pp. Illustrations, map. Near fine. A tight, handsome and scarce first edition of this volume in series editor Virgil B. Heltzel's "Northwestern University Studies" series, #7 in their "Social Sciences Series." Choice author inscription and signature... More about An Alaskan Gold Mine: The Story of No. 9 Above

St. Louis: Imperial Publishing Co., [1891]. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth rebind with gilt spine lettering. 592pp. Frontispiece, numerous full-page illustrations. Very good. Text block moderately age toned as usual, and largely free of the tiny edge chips to which this delicate, low-grade paper is prone; inoffensive stain to power page... More about Wild Life on the Plains and Horrors of Indian Warfare

This "historian's historian" was by day the long-time editor of "The Richmond News Leader" and a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Southern historian during his free time (!), producing among others the highly-regarded 4-volume "R.E. Lee: A Biography" (1935), "The South to Posterity: An Introduction to the Writing of Confederate History" (1939)... More about Typed Note Signed

Prolific dime novelist, often of lurid tales with a Texas setting; titles include "The Snow Trail; or, The Boy Hunters of Fur-Land" and "Dandy Jack; or, The Outlaw of the Oregon Trail." ANS (pencil), 1p, heavy stock 5½" X 3¼" postal card, n.p., n.y. [postal cancellation Casstown, Ohio, 1922 February..... More about Autograph Note Signed

This sugar refining mogul served as Democratic mayor of New York City (1845, 1848); elected reform mayor in 1872 after helping uncover the "Tweed Ring." ALS, 1p, 7 3/4" X 9 3/4", New York, NY, 1845 August 5. Addressed to Cornelius W. Lawrence (1791-1861), collector of customs at the port... More about Autograph Letter Signed

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1941]. Hardcover. Edited by Raoul de Roussy de Sales. Introduction by Raymond Gram Swing. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xv, 1008pp. Very good/very good. Mild page edge smudges to otherwise near fine binding and text block; jacket rather edgeworn with several... More about My New Order

This American leading man of crime noirs and Westerns starred in many films of the 1940s and '509s, including "This Gun for Hire" (1942), "The Blue Dahlia" (1946) and "Shane" (1953). Bold large signature in blue ink on a heavy stock 5" X 3" card, n.p., n.y. [ca. 1944]. Very... More about Signature / Unsigned Photograph

This Mexican Revolution general lost his right arm fighting Pancho Villa's rebels in 1915, but went on to serve as president of Mexico from 1920 to 1924; he was assassinated on the eve of his return to office. Bold signature in brown ink on a heavy stock linen-finish 5" X.... More about Signature

New York: Horizon Press, 1959. Hardcover. Introduction by Harold Rosenberg. Folio. Black cloth with silver stamping, pictorial dust jacket. (Ca. 150pp). Numerous illustrations. Very good/good plus. Jacket edgeworn and a bit rubbed, with several archivally closed (on verso) edge tears and one wide chip running along the bottom edge of... More about Aaron Siskind Photographs

Popular and versatile American actress of numerous films ("Double Indemnity" and "Stella Dallas" earned her two of her four Oscar nominations) and early television. Color PS, 14" X 11", n.p., n.d. Very good. Tiny pinhole at each corner. Original lobby card for Stanwyck's 1952 film "Clash by Night," co-starring Robert... More about Photograph Signed

Glendale, CA: The Franklin D. Roosevelt Collectors' Association, 1948-55. Paperback. Near-inclusive 11-issue run for this 8-year span, lacking 3 issues (November 1953, November 1954 and November 1955). Small 4to. Stiff tan wrappers. Various paginations (most issues ca. 25-42pp). Frontispieces (excepting May 1953 issue), occasional illustrations. Good plus to near fine... More about The Franklin D. Roosevelt Collector: November 1948 (Volume I, Number 1) through May 1955 (Volume...