Price: $225.00

The noted genealogist of Nancy Hanks teamed with famed Lincoln illustrator Lloyd Ostendorf to create for young readers the story of young Abraham Lincoln and his little-known sister. A scarce piece of Lincolniana. Inscribed by both author & illustrator. A scarce collectible.

Edgewear & lt. overall wear, else v.g.; v. bright d.j., w/ color Ostendorf illustration.

One of the few works available on the women in Lincoln’s life; a classic. Lt. wear, else v.g., w/ uncut edges; in scarce, (bright) dust jacket.

	Price: $150.00

One of the few works available on the women in Lincoln’s life; a classic.

Lt. wear, else v.g., w/ uncut edges; in scarce, (bright) dust jacket.

	Price: SOLD

This is probably the finest rendition of Lincoln’s Illinois years. This special collector’s edition was issued after Beveridge’s death.

Light chipping of extremities; else very good. Clean and handsome!

	Price: $425.00

One of the truly classic Lincoln biographies, and perhaps the best chronicle of the pre-presidential years.  Unfortunately, the author died before he could get Lincoln to the White House, and the account ends with the last debate with Douglas. 

Presentation copy from historian Worthington Chauncey Ford  (The Writings of George Washington) to noted Lincoln collector Oliver R. Barrett; w/ ANS, on Union League Club of Chicago correspondent card, w/ envelope, from Ford to Barrett; lt. rub., bump.; scuff., & mottling, more so on vol. II; lt. shaken hngs., more so, vol. II; else v.g., bright.   

	Price: $2,500.00

Bok, long-time editor of the Ladies Home Journal and Pulitzer Prize-winner for The Americanization of Edward Bok, was also a prominent philanthropist and peace advocate. This book, created a month before his death, was hand -made as a New Year's gift to friends, and was probably his last writing. In the wake of Woodrow Wilson's death, Bok provides, in a philosophical essay written in dialogue and with World War One memories still fresh, an earnest reflection on presidential courage and the futility of war, with a surprise twist ending comparing Wilson's trials to those of Abraham Lincoln. [As an item of interest, note that the Hindu "swastika" symbol used by the small press in Pennsylvania predates its adoption by Germany's Nazi Party.]

A virtually unknown and unrecorded Lincoln book, in an elaborate, hand-produced wheel binding, with only a handful of copies printed! In over 40 years, we've seen only 6 copies!

With a signed sentiment on the author's greeting card (water stained, but quite legible). lt. shaken hngs.; lt. ch. edges; else v.g.

	Price: $425.00

A popular way for citizens to "get to know the candidates" these pamphlets are usually printed on thin paper and were not intended to last past the election. Consequently, campaign biographies can be difficult to find. Verso shows Andrew Johnson.

Chip lower right, smaller chip at upper right, creased, edge and spine wear, soiling; minor creasing and water-staining to a few interior pages.

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	Price: $525.00

A popular way for citizens to "get to know the candidates" these pamphletsare usually printed on thin paper and were not intended to last past the election. Consequently, campaign biographies can be difficult to find.

Large chip lower right, edge and spine wear, soiling; some creasing to interior pages.

	Price: $250.00

An account of Lincoln’s 1856 speech to the Bloomington Convention, which vaulted him into leadership of the young Republicans of Illinois, a fiery anti-slavery speech so captivating that nobody  took full notes on it, and thus was “lost” to posterity except in fragments.  Includes color illustrations by Lloyd Ostendorf. 

In beautiful custom red leather binding, w/ raised bands and gilt dentelles; bookplate remains, ft. fly, else excellent; includes invitation to the books’ publication party, November 18, 1967, at The Lincoln Room in the Illinois House, Bloomington.

Take a look at a vignette of the featured illustration.

	Price: $5,500.00

Herndon seemingly never signed this set, and very seldom by co-author Jesse Weik. Book plate of Ex Libris of Frank C. Deering.

Each enclosed in protective wrapper, within a half leather, marble slipcase. Some wear and soiling; rubbing; start of sep. from spine; otherwise good.

	Price: $150.00

An account of a trip taken to the grave of Nancy Hanks by the Indiana Editors' Association. An attractive piece, evocative of the period, handsome both inside and out!

V.g. ex-lib.; A scarce variant in different type, burlap binding, & cardboard boards.

	Price: $75.00

This beautiful book, containing more than 300 illustrations, tells the moving story of twenty fateful days in America’s history: from the night of April 14, 1865, when Abraham Lincoln was shot, to the afternoon of his burial in Springfield. This is a truly great book, one at least partially responsible for the creation of many Civil War enthusiasts.

Dj has soiling, price clipped and poorly trimmed, yellowing (as usual), scratch, small tear on front and back, else good, book has spine foxing, front hinge starting, else very good. In mylar. Much better than it sounds!

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	Price: $4,850.00

Bound in full leather; raised bands and handsome devices; leather gilded dentelles; marbled endsheets. Inscribed on an added blank page: “Hon. Robert T. Lincoln / Compliments of / James H. Eckels / Dec. 25, 1904.”

Lawyer Eckels in Illinois, became comptroller of the currency under President Cleveland; he improved the national currency system and helped stave off a national bank disaster, when 181 of them went into receivership.  Staying on into McKinley’s administration, he left to become president of the Commercial National Bank of Chicago, becoming a prominent financier.  It was most probable that he and Robert became friends, and Eckels gave this book as a Christmas gift (one of a number over the years).  One can only wonder at the warmth it must have brought RTL that holiday. 

Some scuffing and soiling of wrappers; sm. repaired hole ft. wrap.; minor water stains at bottom edges; else clean and supple. One of the least common of the contemporary accounts – to say the least.

	Price: $575.00

The scarce paper edition of this far-fetched yet intriguing and entertaining account of Booth's escape from Garrett's farm and subsequent friendship with the author.

Essentially fine; wrappers intact(!); usual browning of pages, but no chipping; lt. soil; in archival cloth boards.

	Price: $1,350.00

An account by a Confederate sympathizer. Quite scarce and collectable.

Pages brittle, as usual, with a loose flyleaf & frontispiece; chipped wraps repaired withclear tape and some loss, including about 1" at bottom of spine; about 2: from front right corner; plus 4"-6" from top and bottom of rear.

Protected by leather clamshell box.

	Price: $3,500.00

This scarce edition appears in rich burgundy cloth. Unique sans serif spine gilding makes this stand out. The classic life by Lincoln’s secretaries.

Minimal wear; near fine.

	Price: SOLD

Very light shelf wear; spine letter bright; very good.

	Price: $475.00

A history of political cartoons during Lincoln’s lifetime; the second volume deals with the 1860 presidential campaign.  Profusely illustrated with examples. 

Lt. fox. edges, else v.g.+, w/ t.e.g.; v.g. d.j.s; orig. slipcase; overall, in uncommonly good condition

	Price: $350.00

Includes program for banquet held on the 102nd anniversary of Lincoln’s birth (February 1911). Several additional photographs of attendees and speakers, including William Howard Taft.

Half leather/half marble; rubbing; some soiling on outer pages; usual wear; minor start of separation from spine.

	Price: $2,850.00

A detailed and scholarly study of an almost entirely overlooked aspect of the Civil War.  The first two volumes explain the source and extent of Indian support for the Confederacy; while the third concentrates on the general situation in the Indian Territory and its relationship to Texas and Arkansas.

Lt. sun; It. wear; t.e.g. Quite scarce and almost impossible to find.

	Price: $125.00

Hard to find first edition biography of one of Sheridan’s “fair haired boys”, a great cavalry officer whose career spanned the Civil through Spanish-American Wars. 

Excellent.; v.g. d.j.

	Price: $885.00

Entirely intact; slight extremity roughness; the rag paper being as supple as when printed.

	Price: $500.00

This serialization, in English, of Hugo's masterpiece was issued in five parts, the first three of which are included in this bound volume: Part I. Fantine; Part II. Cosette; Part III. Marius.

Wrps., w/ orig. title pages, bound in 3/4 leath. w/ raised bands & gilt lettering; lt. soil. bds.; fox., yellow., & bleeding throughout; lt. shaken hngs.; else v.g .

	Price: $450.00

Cox (1820-1900) served under McClellan with the Kanawha Brigade of the Department of the Ohio. After Antietam, he was appointed Major General, commanding Schofield’s 3rd Division of the XXIII Corps of the Army of the Ohio. After the war, he served as governor of Ohio and then Grant’s Interior Secretary. "This detailed account . . . provides a broader picture than the usual description of battle." –Nevins et al, II-48. 

V.g.; clean; t.e.g.; lt. scuff, spotting, bump; rear hngs wk.  A scarce, desirable, readable set of memoirs.

	Price: $650.00

First published in 1908, this unsurpassed and essential classic is the essential reference on organization and operations of the Union Army, including mortality tables, departmental organization, unit histories and commanders, and more. With introduction by Bell Wiley.

Set #35; full blue oasis leather, t.e.g., gold dentelles, raised bands Excellent; slipcase.

	Price: $55.00

If Porter's case was America's Dreyfuss affair, Eisenschiml was the American Zola. A fierce defense against the charge that earned Porter a court martial conviction, that he treasonously failed to support Pope at Second Bull Run.

Ch. d.j.; else v.g.

	Price: $300.00

Historian and editor, Freeman was one of our nation's leading authorities on the history of the Confederacy. His Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Lee was the result of nineteen years of devotion to the subject; the work is one of the most important and enduring works in American biography. Historian Liddell Hart said of it, “As a work of military history, I have no hesitation in ranking it almost in a class by itself.”

Mixed set; vol. I water-damaged with stains, shaken hinge and soiled and lightly torn spine, vols. III & IV have slightly torn spines, vol IV has severe mottling on the rear board and light foxing.

	Price: $4,500.00

An elaborate memorial published in Boston by Richard Briggs and William Allen, the proprietors of the U.S. Instantaneous Photographic Company. '

Images depict family members, Grant's house, the train carrying the coffin from Mount McGregor to New York, the procession in Albany, the temporary tomb in Riverside Park, various regiments marching to New York (including a view of State Street, Boston), the laying in state, army camps in Riverside Park, navy ships in the Hudson River, several views of the funeral procession in New York City including Fifth Avenue, floral tributes at the tomb, and crowds gathered there.

The firm produced several versions of the present album, with varying numbers of prints, for display in hotel lobbies on nouveau, custom-made cast iron display stands (not presen

	Price: $450.00

The classic study of Jackson, which has appeared in over 18 editions. 

Presentation set from historian Allan Nevins, signed by him in both vols.; handsome contemporary rbd., in 3/4 calf., with raised bands & t.e.g.; lt. worn extrems.; lt. fox. throughout; lt. soil. exteriors; else v.g; w/ custom slipcase.

	Price: $30.00

Twenty years on, still the finest work on Second Manassas, and also one of the finest battle narratives in modern literary history. Often treated as little more than a bloody interlude between the Seven Days and Antietam, Second Manassas has never inspired a comprehensive strategic and tactical study. Hennessy closes this gap with a superb work, combining narrative and analysis and placing the battle in the larger context of events in 1862.

V.g.;d.j.

	Price: $1,250.00

[Howes L-451, ITC #114, Eicher #277] "Old Pete's" memoirs, a vital source for the study of the Army of Northern Virginia, and a truly important work in Confederate literature.

In red cloth w/ gold & silver stamp.; lt. sun.; sp. ch. at head & foot; hngs. starting; lt. exterior fox.; else v.g.;

	Price: $675.00

A genuine classic! The fascinating recollections of the famed Confederate naval officer, Captain of the Alabama. The scare "Baltimore Edition", with beautiful hand-colored plates.

Fray. & ch. extrems.; v. lt. fox. & wear; else v.g., tight, w/ bright gilt sp. inlay

	Price: $275.00

The Archive Society reprinting of the fourteen monographs originally published by Scribner's under the series title "Campaigns of the Civil War" and the three monographs published by Scribner's under the series title "The Navy in the Civil War."   Four monographs originally published by Houghton Mifflin are here included as "Studies on the Civil War."  As well, one volume originally published by Lippincott in 1862 - Henry Coppee's The Field Manual for Battalion Drill – is here included as "Documents of the Civil War."

All excellent (no dust jackets as published).

	Price: $75.00

As one of the most critical figures of Civil War diplomacy, as well as politics in the nineteenth-century, William Henry Seward holds an important role in the period.  Befitting his subject's importance, Glyndon Van Deusen's large biography tries to examine the many facets and contradictions of the man's character.  In particular, Van Deusen looks at Seward's foreign policy directives during the War, and shows a figure whose passion and energy created a legacy that far outlasted his time in office.

At times, it is difficult to understand Seward the man. Where possible, the author is critical of Seward's decision-making and reasoning.  In the end, though, Van Deusen cannot help but be overwhelmed by Seward's expert handling of Civil War diplomacy and his many other traits.  He campaigns for the Secretary's preeminent place in the course of American foreign relations long after Seward left the State Department.  Beyond that, Seward defies characterization, and Van Deusen has written a lengthy yet readable analysis of the man's life.

dj has minor spine darkening, minor edge wear and soiling, small tear, else excellent; book is tight and clean, with only a small brown spot on the top edge of the last few pages.

	Price: $775.00

This is the so-called "official report" authorized and paid for by the Soldier's National Cemetery Association, publisehd in Boston by Little Brown and Company, copyrighted by them on January 25, 1864 and sold for the benefit of the "Cemetery Monument Fund". Lincoln's speech is printed on page 84.

evenly toned, minor chipping, shadowing on one page opposite map, missing back cover.

	Price: $675.00

Though quite defensive, still a convincing justification for Longstreet’s conduct at Gettysburg. 

Very good; lt. soil.

	Price: $350.00

Uncommon; taken from the LIFE AND LETTERS OF GEORGE GORDON MEADE. 

Maps excellent; light mottling on top of boards and spine; slight chipping of extremities; G.A.R. library book plate, but very little of the wear associated with ex-library titles; else very good.

	Price: $225.00

“This compendium of material includes oftentimes valuable speeches delivered by participants.”
--Allan Nevins.

Some maps missing; a mixed set (Volumes 1 and 2 match, but Volume 3 appears to be from a different set); rub; sun; light chipping of extremities; Volume 3 cracked rear hinge with severe mottling on spine and rear board & light foxing; a presentation copy inscribed by Gettysburg veteran 1st Sergeant Andrew J. Sutton of the 6 h New York Cavalry, Buford’s Brigade, on the 52nd anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1915.

	Price: $275.00

history of the 14th Brooklyn (84th N.Y.), which helped charge the Railroad Cut at Gettysburg; features contributions from veterans, portraits, and wartime service record summaries.  

Light foxing of endpages; light chipping of extremities; else clean and tight (unusual for a book of tis size and age), with brilliant gilt lettering and device in front board. 

	Price: $175.00

An unusual criticism, privately printed; interesting in its attempt to rewrite Lincoln according to the rules of good rhetoric. 

V.g., t.e.g. & uncut edges.  

	Price: $200.00

Cobbett was a British journalist, reformer, and acid-penned pamphleteer who attacked subjects on both sides of the Atlantic. But in this scare piece he praises the success of American frigates in the War of 1812.

Ex-lib., in reinforced orig. bds.; lt. overall wear, else v.g.; in custom slipcase w/ raised bands, protective wraps.

	Price: $39.95

Offering an impressive array of images, some rarely before seen, this is an engagingly told and richly illustrated new history.

As new, signed on bookplate.

	Price: $450.00

The only American general every condemned to death attempts to justify his conduct in his campaign around Detroit during the War of 1812.

Very Scarce!

Ex-lib. w/ no external markings; rbd. w/ orig. bds., new rear eps.; lt. ch. extrems.; lt. fox throughout; else very good.

	Price: $65.00

Important study of the Army's early days, from the end of the Revolution to the eve of another war with Britain.

V.g; d.j.

	Price: $25.95

The story of a ship and a battle in the struggle for the Great Lakes.

As new; d.j., bookplate signed by Robert

	Price: SOLD

A virtually unmatched source on the War in the Old Northwest, the Creek War, and the Battle of New Orleans, based not only on the author’s personal papers and journals (he was a Kentucky militiaman), but also Gen. William Henry Harrison’s and Kentucky Governor Isaac Shelby’s “many valuable documents [‘that] they furnished, particularly their correspondence with the war department and with each other.”  One of the first books published in Kentucky and one of the indispensable books written on the War of 1812. 

Orig. calf; lt. toning throughout; sm. ch. top of spine; lt. rub. slight warping of boards.  Else very good; tight; ink name on title pg.

	Price: $65.00

A title from Lippincott's 'Great Battles of History' series, this one on the campaign which led to the burning of the White House and produced our national anthem. Difficult to find in first edition and in this condition!

V.g.; bright d.j.

	Price: $25.00

A fine history of the various designs of the national standard, with a chapter on Francis Scott Key: "The Rocket's Red Glare". Colorfully illustrated with the various and evolving versions of "Old Glory".

Lt. sun; lt. ch. extrems.; else v.g.

	Price: $1,250.00

Based on primary sources and interviews with the subject, this quite scarce early biography was began by Reid, Jackson’s aide and military secretary. After Reid’s sudden death, the book, which would form the basis of later campaign biographies, was completed by Eaton, a young Tennessean who would become a political ally and member of Jackson’s cabinet.

In orig. calf bind., w/ all maps intact; lt. bump.edgewear; yellow.lt. fox. throughout; else v.g.

	Price: $175.00

A study of U.S. Creek Indian, Spanish and British military operations between 1813-15.

V. lt. rub. & bump.; owner's inscription on ft. fly; else v.g., bright.

	Price: $35.00

The adventures of an impressed American seaman who somehow escapes the Royal Navy to fight at both Bladensburg and Plattsburgh, and save President Madison to boot.

V.g.; lt. ch., but bright, d.j.

	Price: $65.0'

The story of Sam Smith, an unheralded hero of the War of 1812 who saved Baltimore from the British. Excellent illustrations.

Lt. overall wear, else v.g.; lt. ch., but bright & mylar-protected, illustrated d.j.

	Price: $65.00

A superb portrayal of the man who dominated the American frontier in the War of 1812.

Scarce!

Lt. damp., else v.g.; lt. worn, but bright, d.j.

	Price: $750.00

The fine WWII memoir of the commander of Utah and Omaha beaches at Normandy, and who helped lead the Allied advance across Europe. Also shares a birthday with Abraham Lincoln.

Signed copy #747; v. lt. soil. bds., else v.g., w/ t.e.g.

	Price: $225.00

Selected correspondence of the 41st President.

Very good; dust jacket. Signed on the president’s personal book plate.

	Price: SOLD

In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life.

	Price: $275.00

Light wear of dust jacket; else very good. Signed.

Easton Press edition also available for $200.00

	Price: $1,500.00

If Clay's life did not occur exactly as he remembered, it should have. From Bowie Knife fights at political rallies to imprisonment in Mexico and the ambassadorship to Russia, this life of a wealthy southern abolitionist (a rare bird, indeed) is a real page-turner. Seven chapters have much on his relationship and ambassadorship to Russia, commenting on people ("My estimate of the Emperor, Alexander II"), places ("High Life in Russia. Infant Asylums and the Ballet. Actors and Singers…."), and more ("Prince Gorthacow Entertains the Diplomatic Corps", "Invited, I visit the Princess Dalgorouki" and more).

Very good, being above average; weak ft. hng. as usual; lt. rub; lt. ch. sp. ends; pencil owner's name dated "May 19th, 1900."

	Price: $375.00

Included is the original buyer’s ticket to the book shop event where Clinton was signing. 

Excellent

	Price: $1,650.00

Vice President Coolidge succeeded to the presidency on the death of President Harding. Coolidge was born in the forests and hills of Killington, Vermont and spent a relatively simple rural existence for most of his life.  But he rose to prominence in the law and served as a state legislator and governor, each in Massachusetts. 

There is much here about protecting the privileges of the executive branch of government and how the administration of the presidency should work.

	Price: $1,250.00

Fillmore had one of the most extensive libraries of any president. The author wished to illustrate some of the horrors war had brought to his state of Missouri – “No state has suffered more.…”

Withdrawn from Buffalo Hist. Soc. (inside stamp); minor scrapping to front wrap; minor fold through middle; else v.g., even a bit fresh. Fillmore's writing is bold and large. The “255” is his library shelf number.

	Price: $3,250.00

First edition in English of this lavishly illustrated landmark scientific work, "one of the first technological books of modern times;" translated, with annotations, by the 31st President of the United States, Herbert Clark Hoover, and his wife, Lou Henry. Hoover , a mining engineer before entering politics, annotated this edition; Lou, a former Latin teacher, was responsible for the bulk of the translation.

Includes a life of Agricola, and an appendix of his works. One of an estimated 1476 copies printed ( Norman 21), the number 1220 stamped on title-page. With reproductions of all 270 woodcut diagrams and illustrations included in the 1556 first Latin edition. [Honneyman I, 36. Hoover 28. See Dibner, Heralds of Science 88 (1556 first edition).]

Interior clean. Light wear to spine; 3.5” tear along joint; but an extremely good inscribed copy.

	Price: $575.00

Future President Herbert Hoover was an engineer who specialized in mining, and he took both great pride in his profession as well as an acute interest in its history and antecedents.  De Re Metallica was, as he wrote in his Autobiography, "the first important attempt to assemble systematically in print the world-knowledge on mining, metallurgy, and industrial chemistry.  It was the great textbook of those industries for two centuries and had dominated thought and practice all that time…No one had ever succeeded in translating it into English, although several had tried... The problem of the "untranslatable" Agricola fascinated us both and finally in 1907 we resolved to translate it jointly [Mrs. Hoover was an excellent Latinist].

But more than simply a translation and reproduction, Hoover also added his own knowledge to the book, "In addition to the translation, I wrote an introduction covering the times and circumstances under which Agricola lived and worked, with a brief biography of him.  We included full statements of all the known editions. I prepared extensive footnotes describing previous processes so far as knowledge of them is preserved -including those in Roman and Greek times. The footnotes also explained the processes and methods described by Agricola in relation to our modern practice." 

An unusual book to find signed by Hoover.

	Price: $450.00

Hoover wrote this on the eve of Dwight Eisenhower’s presidential campaign.  Hoover thought that the Republican Party might have saved America from the Depression.  'But the New Deal violated their every election promise and attempted to mix fascism and socialism into the American System….(The Republicans are) a constructive party of probity, courage, ideals and vision, worthy to be intrusted (sic) with the administration of our country.' 

Lt. soil; else very good.  A scarce Hoover item.

	Price: $675.00

Inscribed and signed in vol. 1: “The good wishes of Herbert Hoover to Kathleen Dailey.”

V.g.; d.j.s. w/ lt. wear.

	Price: $1,350.00

“(Fishing) is a discipline in the equality of man – for all men are equal before fish.”

	Price: $1,350.00

An avid fisherman, Hoover was also a conservationist. Herein he extols the virtues of fishing, but concludes with a protest against over-fishing (“We must have more fish in proportion to water”) and gives a proposed solution.

Excellent, in its original glassine covering. More scarce than its numbers would imply, especially signed!

	Price: $75.00

Book excellent; slipcase v.g, with some slight foxing and rubbing.

	Price: $295.00

A bookplate with an embossed presidential seal imprinted “The White House Library / Gift of_____” is pasted onto a blank page following the Foreword:  “The White House library is a reference and recreational library for the use of the President, his family, and official staff.  It is intended to contain books which best represent the history and culture of the United States, works most essential for an understanding of our national experience.” 

Signed copy #281; bound in ½ lea.; excellent; w/ orig. slipcase.

	Price:$950.00

Written to his congressional secretary: "To Grace Burke / Whose loyalty and dedication to my family has meant so much to all of us these many years / With lasting friendship / Ted / Dec. 1968."

Excellent; marbled endsheets; t.e.g

	Price:$750.00

Eulogies and tributes from Ted Kennedy, Art Buchwald, Joseph Alsop, newspaper columns, John Glenn and other senators, the inmates of San Quentin, Norman Cousins, and many others.

Full black leather; tight and clean. Spine (some) and original black slipcase (more) has rubbing.

	Price:$1,250.00

Caroline was the sister and helper of famed astronomer William Hershel.  Books from the library of “The Grey Ghost” are quite uncommon. 

Rubbed; almost loose signature; else v.g

	Price: SOLD

Includes a New Introduction, as well as his Keynote Address to the Democratic National Convention on July 27, 2004. 

Excellent and clean.

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	Price: $4,750.00

"For William Klein / from Franklin D. Roosevelt' on front flyleaf, first volume. Additionally Inscribed: "To my friend Billy Klein / with kind regards from / Samuel I. Rosenman."

Here are the collected works, through 1936, of our longest running president, F.D.R., in a wonderful collector’s set. Rosenman was the compiler and collator for these papers, being previously FDR’s counsel while Governor of New York. Tight, clean; some rubbing as is common with these volumes.

	Price: SOLD

A Democratic convention souvenir; but honchos received this bound copy, containing possibly one of the finest of signed presidential items: A full FDR signature beneath a handsome colored portrait of the White House.  Besides the sepia portraits of administration members and histories of various government agencies, the 1930s advertising is terrific.

This publication became controversial, as it was seen as a way to contribute to the Democratic Party, while bypassing the corporate donation rules of the time.

Rub/wear at extrem.; sp. ends ch.; but clean & bright throughout.  Embossed for “United States Envelope Company.”

	Price: $575.00

Considered some of Sandburg’s greatest poetry (including Hog Butcher to the World), his vigorous free verse was controversial at the time, but solidified Sandburg as a major poet.  This was his first trade book. 

Very good; lt. rub.; lt. scuffs; small cloth rub on spine; bookplate of Barton’s son.

	Price: SOLD

As governor of the host state, Stevenson delivered the opening remarks.  This volume was published by this shop under Ralph Newman (who signs the colophon), for “his friend”. 

Excellent; boldly signed on the half-title page.

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	Price: $2,850.00

The former president, his brother, his former Attorney General (Wickersham), and the President of Harvard (Lowell) each wrote a series of articles, printed in various newspapers across the country, in support of the Senate approving the Treaty of Versailles, and thereby having the United States joining Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations. The brainchild of Lowell, a progressive and internationalist, and modeled after The Federalist Papers, these pieces were each originally published anonymously in May and June of 1919, under the title “The Covenanter” (referring to the League Covenant); then published here in book form shortly thereafter, “In order that the reader may be enabled to judge readily for himself how far the meaning of the provisions has been correctly understood, and the conclusions rightly drawn” (p.vi). 

There were 27 such “letters” in all, each examining a specific article or aspect of joining the League: 13 by Lowell, 5 by Henry Taft, 5 by Wickersham, and 4 by William H. Taft.  Even though penned by members from the opposition party, these essays, unlike the The Federalist Papers, didn’t do the job. 

Insect damage along ft. hng. approx. ½ down ft. cov. & at foot of sp.; ch. at head of sp.; ft. hng. shaken; lt. soil. exteriors; lt. fox. throughout; else v.g. In a sturdy blue, custom-made clamshell box.  Not only an uncommon title, but the scarcest of Taft’s books to find signed.

	Price: $1,200.00

Chapter titles include, “Should a Former President Speak His Mind?” and “What to Do with Former Presidents.” 

Excellent.

	Price: $895.00

It reads as Truman speaks, with directness and openness. 

Very good; very lt. d.j. extremity roughness; lt. toned edges.

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	Price: $725.00

History meets Hollywood!  This book sold more than 300,000 copiesin ten years, helped popularize the historical novel as a literary form, and was twice made into spectacular films.   A true classic by this Renaissance man, who might have saved Washington, D.C. from capture at the battle of Monocacy, and who was a judge at the trial of the Lincoln murder conspirators (while drawing portraits of the criminals).  This edition has stills of scenes and charactersfrom the play.

Wallace's inscription reads "I beg you to believe me most truly and always your sincere friend" Lew Wallace/New York/Dec. 14 1903.

(See below for another edition, signed by the actor who played Messala in the 1925 production).

Minor edge wear, minor head and tailband wear, blistering on back board, small tear on blank flysheet, minor water staining on some pages, does not interfere with text. Very pretty and bright!

	Price: $350.00

History meets Hollywood!  This book sold more than 300,000 copies in ten years, helped popularize the historical novel as a literary form, and was twice made into spectacular films.   A true classic by this Renaissance man, who might have saved Washington, D.C. from capture at the battle of Monocacy, and who was a judge at the trial of the Lincoln murder conspirators (while drawing portraits of the criminals).  This edition features stills from the 1925 silent film.

Inscribed “From Francis X. Bushman/ ‘Messala’/…Christmas 1927/Also wish/you happy/New Year.” Bushman was one of the few silent film stars to make the move to to "talkies." When Ben Hur was remade in 1959, Charlton Heston had to learn the skill and quipped, "The only man in Hollywood who can drive a chariot is Francis X. Bushman — and he's too old!" Bushman passed away in 1966.

sp. lt. soil., sun., & fray. at ends; lt. overall wear, else v.g.; w/ colorful illus. d.j., depicting the famous chariot race. 

	Price: SOLD

Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles’ copy, signed with ink on the front flyleaf. McPherson wrote numerous political tracts and histories during the Reconstruction era.  Perhaps best known for his political manuals for 1864 and this one for 1866, there is much here on the end of the war and the beginning of the reconstruction of the nation.  Few books from Welles’ library are extant, though he was a true collector of historical artifacts, even during the Civil War years. 

Very good; clean throughout; lt. bump. 

	Price: $750.00

This fascinating compilation contains twelve complete issues of the Record, to which have been appended 24 pages of news items and other material originally found on the printed wrappers. Published for the Society by R.G. Williams. Contributors include John Greenleaf Whittier.

Quite scarce, with a nice association.

	Price: $975.00

Edited by Allan Nevins, this difficult-to-find complete series produced some of the finest biographies of political heavyweights of the latter 19th century.  The first two volumes of J.G. Randall’s Lincoln the President are also technically part of this series, but were not published in the distinct red cloth like the rest of the above; otherwise complete.

First eds., save Dennett and Nevins; varying degrees of lt. wear & sun on all vols., overall v.g. and clean.

	Price: $5,500.00

One of the most learned of the French Jesuits. In 1721, he canoed south from Michililmackinac along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan to Fort St. Joseph. Although he intended to cross the southern part of the lake and reach the Illinois River by way of the Chicago portage, he was forced to return to Ft. St, Joseph, reaching the Illinois by the Theakiki, or Kankakee, portage. He reached Pimitiouy (Peoria) and then Kaskasquias. He describes the village of Caoquias and Tamarouas, where there was a Jesuit Mission, as well as other missions, Ft. Chartes, and the "Colony of Illinois." He traveled down the Mississippi to Natchez and thence to New Orleans and Biloxi, giving excellent descriptions of the land and the inhabitants.

(Housed in a handsome, custom display case; additional shipping charges apply)

	Price: $2,250.00

Being published at a later date than most captivities, this book has been largely unknown to collectors.

The written notes of Dixon were found at Santa Fe in the possession of a descendant of Castro Urego, in whose employ Dixon died after his escape from captivity. After parting ways with the Hudson Bay Fur Company in Oregon in 1802, Trappers John Dixon, Jack Moulton, and William Tjhornton ventured out on their own, but were soon taken captive by the Blackfeet.

Includes an account of Roxana Wakeman's, captured near Vancouver by the Pischaus Indians, a people ranked low even amongst the other "savages" of this wild region. After six months, she was sold to a warrior of the Walla Walla Indians and then traded to the Flathead Indians, though in seven months she was taken by the Crows after their successful battle against the Flatheads. After enduring two months of severe hardship, Roxana was taken from them by the Black-Feet, who had attacked the Crow village.

Very good with usual foxing; housed in a ½ leather clamshell box.

(Housed in a handsome, custom display case; additional shipping charges apply)

	Price: $75.00

Excellent narrative, by a fine popular historian, of the training ground for  the greater conflict to follow.  

Inscribed; excellent; lt. edgewear on  d.j., else v.g., bright..

	Price: $425.00

A highly factual early history, based on soldiers’ narratives, government documents, and military reports.  Jenkins wrote from a patriotic, anti-slavery, and anti-war viewpoint.  Contains “Supplementary Note Containing An Account of the Gold Discoveries in California”, not found in other eds. 

All leather bds. w/ attractive devices & mbld. eps.; lt. ch. extrems.; v. lt. sun. sp.; lt. fox.; else v.g., w/ nice bright gilt sp

	Price: $8,500.00

Vol. 1 ends with what seems an incomplete index (through "T"); frontis map locating the Savages Villages, a folding map of New France, a Folding Plate, map of New Found Land and nine other plates. Vol. 11 Lacks the frontis plate, as not issued; ten plates, one folding; 13p index. Has the scarce advertisement leaf placed before the index. The maps were produced under LaHonton's direction, engraved by H. Moll. The Duke of Devonshire backed the English publication and it is, in some ways, preferable to the French first edition. Rebound in leather spines with gilt titles (lt. rubbing along edges) and cloth (lt. rub).

The Baron went to Canada in 1683, when only sixteen, and remained there nearly twenty years. He wrote his patron a detailed statement of the affairs of the colony in his letters, as a recognition of the yearly assistance he received from him. He did not flatter the priests and imputed the evils which the colony suffered from the war with the Iroquois to their counsels. Accused of insubordination and about to be arrested by the governor of New France [NewFoundLand], he fled to Portugal and then England. This work is one of the finest descriptions of Indian life and customs in the Americas.

Under Count Frontenac, he had commanded an expedition up the lakes, Greenbay, and the Wisconsin to the Mississippi; then up the "long river" some distance above the Wisconsin: its mouth full of "bull-rushes," channel narrow, alternate groves of timber and prairie. He describes villages of Indians which he visited, consisting of many thousands and several lakes through which he passed. Of these tribes he gained much information of other nations, far to the west and of a great salt lake. On March 2, 1689 he reached the Mississippi, down which he proceeded, past the "Moingona" (Des Moines) and the "riviere de Missouris." He rowed up the strong current, stopping at Indian villages until they reached the "Riviere des Osages, where he encamped. His group wantonly set fire to an Indiana village, "which put the women and the children in such consternation, that they run from place to place, calling out for mercy." This was the first voyage of Europeans up the Missouri River. From there he returned and went up the "Illinese river," and at Fort Crevecoeur met with Tonti and thirty Coursurs de Bois, trading with the Illinese Indians. On the 24th of April, they party arrived at Chekakou. At the mouth of the Oumamis (St. Joseph) they met a war party of four hundred Illinese burning three Iroguese.

The book was a best seller in the 18th century, judging by the numerous editions extant. Historian R. G.Thwaites wrote, "in topography, geography, ethnology, and natural history, all of it the record of personal knowledge, Lahontan's work stands as one of the important sources for the intimate study of New France."

(Housed in a handsome, custom display case; additional shipping charges apply)

	Price: $4,500.00

The "History" contains chapters on the Puritans, the life of the first English colony, the Pequot War, the conversion of the Indians, King Philips War, and the Witchcrafts of New-England. Much on the Indian troubles and the massacres and depredations committee by them in the early years of the colonies.

In the preface, Neal states that he used various narratives written by Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, Edward Winslow, Nathaniel Morton, and others. Sabin 52140; Baur 183; Paullin 2197.

(Housed in a handsome, custom display case; additional shipping charges apply)

	Price: $875.00

"Olmstead recorded his memorable impressions of the South and slavery in the fateful decade between the Compromise of 1850, which sought to avert national disunion, and Lincoln's election as
President, which precipitated it. His writings do more than reveal a little-known chapter in the life of a world famous architect. Far more important, they present a uniquely candid and realistic picture of the pre-Civil War South. The Cotton Kingdom is the nearest thing posterity has to an exact transcription of a civilization which time has tinted with hues of romantic legend. Olmsted's account, in other words, is an indispensable work in the process of recapturing the American past."
--- Arthur M. Schlesinger.

Scarce & Important Americana! Bds. lt. scuff. & soil., but bright; lt. fray. at extrems, lt. bump.; ft. hng. cracked, vol. 1; lt. fox., esp. vol. 1; else v.g., in custom clamshell box.

	Price: $175.00

One of a series of papers read before this old and distinguished history club in Louisville.  Expanded w/ notes and index. 

Scarce. Front wrap. detached/ch.; else clean.

	Price: $950.00

The last (and very controversial) book by the acclaimed and prolific western historian.  Originally a title in Lippincott’s splendid “Great Battles of History” series, this special edition, published by James F. Carr, contains material not in the trade edition:  a tipped-in typewritten page of the original manuscript, signed by Sandoz (like Beveridge’s Manuscript Edition, published posthumously); two letters written by G.A. Custer while at West Point; and an excellent fold-out drawing of Ft. Fetterman, with key. 

A very scarce piece of Custeriana!   Signed copy #93; ½ leather bind., w/ raised bands & uncut edges; v. lt. bump., else excellent; slipcase w/ drawstrap.

	Price: $2,500.00

The original appearance of Stowe's earth-shaking story in the English market. The "Cruikshank" edition features engravings by the famous artist.

Each part a separtte gathering, usual toning, light foxing; occasional loose leaves; protected on clam shell box with leather spine label.

Quite rare.

	Price: $6,500.00

This series largely established Clark’s reputation for scholarly publishing of Western Americana, and set the format for future such works. Included are the travel journals of Brackenridge, Bradbury, Bullock, Croghan, Cuming, De Smet, Evans, Farnhaum, Faux, Flagg, Flint, Flower, Franchere, Gregg, Harris, Hulme, James, Long, Maximilian, Michaux, Morris, Nuttall, Ogden, Pattie, Ross, Townsend, Welby, Wood, and Wyeth, among others. Howes T-225. Complete sets are quite scarce!

Orig. burgundy cloth, w/ t.e.g. & deckle edges; no jackets (as issued); lt. overall wear; owner’s bookplates; else v.g.+; atlas bds. lt. scuff., soil., & mottled; lt. fray. extrems., w/ water damage along top edges; shaken hngs.; tape stain & tear on ft. ep.; else good.

	Price: $1,500.00

Very scarce in this very nice condition.

All volumes Very Good; binding is wraps. Wonderful set.