New York: Lincoln History Society, 1902. Hardcover. Complete 4-volume set. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering and decorations. xiv, 206pp; pp. 207-426; 204pp; pp. 205-475. Top edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispieces (first two volumes only), numerous illustrations. Very good. Faint edgewear, with spines very lightly sunned; bit of light flecking... 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: Time, Inc. 1956. Circular diecut glossy card stock wheel with riveted center. Near fine. Faintest of mild edgewear. Printed in red and black on white glossy stock, recto is subtitled "The 48 States" and notes, "This wheel gives you 818 useful facts about U.S. Presidents and election campaigns... More

Phoenix, AZ: Rampart Press, January 1963. Broadside. Folio (12½" X 16"). Titled in red. Limited to 250 copies printed on German mouldmade paper. Fine. First separate printing. Although Beecher didn't graduate from Harvard, he did attend Harvard Graduate School for language and literature in 1926 -- hence his opening declaration... More

Phoenix, AZ: Rampart Press, January 1963. Broadside. 4to (9" X 12½"). Titled in blue. Edition limited to 200 copies. Fine. First separate printing. Dedicated to Father M. Louis, O.C.S.O. -- better known as Thomas Merton (1915-68), the celebrated Trappist monk with the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance. Ruminations on... More

Scottsdale, AZ: Rampart Press, 1961. Leaflet. Small 4to (6¼" X 9¼"). Near fine. Single horizontal fold, else pristine. First separate printing, a handsome production handset and pulled by the Beechers on their own press. One of Beecher's most famous poems, a tribute to Henry David Thoreau on the occasion of... More

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, [1899]. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set (Volumes XIX and XX). Small 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and decorations. xi, 384pp, (4pp ads); 424pp. Top edges gilt. Very good. Mild bit of edgewear. A tight, clean, attractive first edition of these volumes in editor John T.... More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1912]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Yellow cloth with green and red lettering and pictorial stamping, pictorial dust jacket. iv, 218pp, (2pp ads). Frontispiece. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear with couple of archivally closed (on verso) edge tears; bit of flecking to board bottom edges. A... More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1939]. Hardcover. Illustrations by F.E. Warren. Small 8vo. Orange pebble-grained cloth with blue lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 213pp. Frontispiece, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and faint rubbing, with spine ever-so-slightly sunned. Superbly tight, quite handsome first edition of the third... More

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1987. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and grey paper over boards, dust jacket. 208pp. Fine/fine. A tight and handsome first edition of this author's first book, "A Novel of Murder & Passion" set in the Sacramento Valley of northern California. More

Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1859. Hardcover. 16mo. Original brown blind-embossed cloth with gilt spine lettering. 274pp, (2pp ads). Tissue-guarded frontispiece and engraved title page. Very good. Binding mildly edgeworn and spine faintly sunned. A tight and decent penultimate title in the 6-volume "Boat Club" series begin in 1854. An... More

Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd. 1942. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown pebble-grained cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. 506pp. Frontispiece. Near fine. Endpapers a tad age toned. A tight, attractive first edition of this scarce study. Tipped to inner flyleaf is a 6" X 12" promotional handbill for this title... More

This Austrian painter, sculptor and printmaker was a surrealist who has been described as "the first psychoanalytical painter," but it is for co-founding the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism in the late 1950s together with Ernst Fuchs, Holfgang Hutter and several others that he's best remembered. Color PS, 5 3/4"... More