Plymouth, VT: The Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, 1987. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff green wrappers. 18pp. Illustration. Fine. Sole printing, no doubt! Financial reports, committee reports, trustee lists, etc. -- thrilling reading all -- made even more exciting by the bold signature of JOHN COOLIDGE (1906-2000), Calvin Coolidge's son, on the front..... More
N.p. N.p., n.y. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. 40pp. Very good. Moderate, even age toning throughout; minor binding traces; lacks outer title page. First edition. Interesting, detailed comparison and contrast of the views of Whig candidate Winfield Scott and Democratic candidate Franklin Pierce on issues of the day -- slavery, of course..... More
N.p. Cowles Magazines and Broadcasting, 1963. Paperback. Folio. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. (Ca. 50pp). Numerous illustrations (many color). Near fine. Full issue of this special focus issue of "Look" magazine, in unusually bright, clean, crisp condition. More
Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1973. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth. xxxi, 285pp. Frontispiece. Near fine. Compilation of addresses, tributes, texts of eulogies and scriptural selections. More
N.p. N.p., n.y., [ca. 1972]. 4to. Stiff pictorial sleeve with album. Fine/near fine. CP-1 in this record producer's "Current Personalities" series, with The Grand Old Party Partygoers singing such songs as "The Ballad of Dicky and Nicky," "When Dick Is Chancellor," "Platform, Pap and Platitudes," The Keynote Address at the..... More
New York: Theodore Roosevelt Association, 1957. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. 48pp. Single foldout illustration laid in. Fine. Probable sole edition. More
N.p. [Washington, DC]: The District of Columbia Public Library, n.y. Paperback. Oblong 24mo. Stiff blue and white pictorial wrappers. (12pp). Illustrations. Very good. Probable sole edition. Humorous political quiz of the people involved in the Watergate scandal. More
N.p. N.p., [1888]. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. 15pp. Very good. Faint age toning only; strong single vertical fold (not weakened). A tight and nice first edition of this surprisingly neutral review of the main candidates -- incumbent Democrat Grover Cleveland and Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison -- and the major issues of..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1956. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, dust jacket. 329pp. Frontispiece. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. First edition. Tells why many Senators on both side of the aisles thought that a thorough house cleaning was necessary in the early fifties. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine with copper lettering and brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 752pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Superb and tight second printing of the first volume of this biography. More
Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1996. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown and tan paper over boards, dust jacket. 176pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. First edition. More
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1948. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 372pp. Illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with chip at head of somewhat sunned spine; ownership signature on inner flyleaf. First edition, quite tight and attractive..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. Hardcover. Two-volume set in slipcase. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jackets, slipcase with paper wraparound label. xxxiv, 335pp; ix, 373pp. Top edges gilt. Frontispieces, illustrations. Fine/very good/very good. Both volumes are pristine, with superb jackets showing age toning to..... More
Chicago: S. Stone, [1901]. Hardcover. 8vo. Green blind-embossed cloth with gilt spine lettering. 413pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Tight, clean, attractive first edition of this biography, featuring introductions by General Joseph Wheeler and Opie Read. Lovely title page printed in black, blue, green, red and gilt. More
Alexandria: Time-Life Books, 1983. Hardcover. 8vo. Black blind-embossed full leatherette with gilt lettering. viii, 401pp. All edges gilt, decorative endpapers, sewn-in silk page marker. Fine. Tight. handsome facsimile of the 1879 Wilstach, Baldwin & Co. (Cincinnati) first edition, which James I. Robertson Jr. reviewed as "Highly readable observations on military..... More
Alexandria: Time-Life Books, 1983. Hardcover. 8vo. Black blind-embossed full leatherette with gilt lettering. viii, 401pp. All edges gilt, decorative endpapers, sewn-in silk page marker. Near fine. Tight. handsome facsimile of the 1879 Wilstach, Baldwin & Co. (Cincinnati) first edition, which James I. Robertson Jr. reviewed as "Highly readable observations on..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 305pp. Very good/very good. First edition. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, n.y. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. viii, 216pp. Near fine. A tight and handsome later (5th) printing of this 1973 study, a volume in editor Harold M. Hyman's "Nort Essays in American History" series. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1975]. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 251pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Nonauthorial gift inscription on front flyleaf. A tight and handsome first edition of this memoir by the noted "Washington Post" chief. More
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, [1896]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth with ornate red, white and blue lettering and pictorial stamping and blind-embossed profile portrait. 239pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations and full-page plates. Very good. Mild edgewear and faint soiling to binding; contemporary non-authorial gift inscription on front flyleaf. A tight, attractive..... More
Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, [1885]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. 384pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Tight and internally nice, though spine is rather age toned and board a bit unevenly tanned. First edition of this uncommon biography. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1952. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. xii, 280pp. Frontispiece. Near fine/very good.Some jacket edgewear. Tight, clean, attractive first edition. More
Pittsburgh: Reliance Life Insurance Company, n.y., [1928]. Paperback. Smal 4to. Stiff blue wrappers. (26pp). 2 tipped-in illustrations. Near fine. Probable sole printing of the text of a radio address heralding the president-elect by the general counsel of the Republlican National Committee. Tight, clean, handsome. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1984]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with silver lettering and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 288pp. Near fine/near fine. Handsome first edition, with choice autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is an outstanding-content Typed Letter Signed from Burns, 1p, 8½" X 11"..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, [2003]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black and green paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 465pp. Map. Fine/fine. Pristine first edition of this first-ever fiction penned by a U.S. president. More