New York; (1978): Grosset & Dunlap. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Thick Octavo. First printing, inscribed by former President Nixon on the front fly leaf, a card mounted to free endpaper announcing and informal evening with the president to be held June, 15, 1983, and a 10 page..... More
New York (1978): Grosset & Dunlap. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Inscribed by President Nixon on a Nixon bookplate: "(For) Ted Dawson / With best wishes / from / Richard Nixon / 12-10-79." More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover. Large Octavo. SIGNED BY PRESIDENT NIXON on a leaf printed for that purpose. Bound in original navy blue cloth, with original navy blue slipcase. A near fine copy with mild sun spine in a fine slipcase. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED BY RICHARD NIXON ON FFEP without personalization. 107pp. Bound in blue cloth, spine lettering gilt; a fine copy in a fine unclipped dust jacket. More
New York: Random House, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. INSCRIBED AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY NANCY REAGAN ON FFEP. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. 384 pp. More
Full-Leather. (n.p.), 1936; number 155 of 2500 copies SIGNED by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, under a color watercolor image of the White House. Large folio, original full brown morocco, silk endpapers, original wrappers are bound in. Laid in are 16 letters signed by Cabinet Members and one ALS by Eleanor..... More
New York (1960): Harcourt, Brace and Company. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Four volumes, fine, in fine plain white dust jackets; a spectacular set, internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind; the book club edition of 1960, copyright 1939. With 426 half-tones of photographs, and 244 cuts..... More
Washington, DC: U. S. Government, 1998. Original Wraps. SIGNED BY HENRY HYDE AND JIM SENSENBRENNER ON FRONT PANEL OF WRAPPERS without personalization. Fine in original printed wrappers. 8vo. vi, 406 pp. Includes "Referral From Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr in Conofrmity with the Requirements of Title 28, United States Code..... More
New York; 1842-43: Tappan & Dennet. Original Wraps. 14 monthly parts in original printed wrappers. Marginal dampstain on frontis of volume I; a very good set in custom cloth covered slipcase. A fine biography of Washington by one of the foremost historians of the 19th Century. Sparks had access to..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece of Taft with tissue guard, 299pp. Bound in blue-green cloth stamped in gilt, spine lettering gilt; a fine, brilliant copy. Armorial bookplate. Taft's speeches are regarding such issues as; the Federal Courts, the Republican party, railroads..... More
Washington, D.C. 1850. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. House of Representatives issue (House Doc. No. 17). 976 pages, 7 maps (6 folding). Recently bound to style in 3/4 brown calf over marbled boards, marbled end papers, red and green leather labels on spine, printed in gilt. Cowan said that this..... More
Columbus: Ohio Law Publishing, 1884. Original Wraps. SECRETARIAL SIGNATURE OF RUTHERFORD B. HAYES FRONT PANEL OF WRAPPERS without personalization. Very Good in original printed wrappers with edge wear, vertical crease, short closed tear spine. 8vo. 16 pp. More
London: John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1794. First Edition. George Washington's step-granddaughter's copy, signed "M. P. Custis" on John Hodson's bookplate. 12mo, 256 pages, plus Notes and Index; contemporary leather binding. Martha Parke Custis, born December 31, 1777, in the Blue Room at Mount Vernon, died July 13, 1854, is the second..... More
New York: Bernard Geisse Associates/Random House, 1960. First Edition. Original Wraps. Octavo. Uncorrected Proof. Stated " Private and confidential. Not for release, review or comment until on or after June 10, 1960. These are unrevised, uncorrected proofs. Errors in spelling, etc, will be corrected in the finished book, which will..... More
Lancaster: William Hamilton, 1802. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. Octavo, 411 pages. With list of subscribers. Bound in contemporary 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards. Internally very clean, with light age-toning to text; red underlining to several lines on page 57; tips of boards worn through, small loss at head..... More
Lyon: Chez Pierre Bruyset - Ponthus, 1761. Full Leather. President George Washington's copy, with his bookplate which was restruck before 1863, from the original copper plate. "The inventory of Washington's books made at the time of his death....shows that his library then numbered about nine hundred volumes. These under his..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1927. First Edition. octavo, 338 pages; INSCRIBED by the author and with the typed letter signed by Woodrow Wilson (in facsimile), which is quoted and paraphrased in the text at page 202. The Bridge to France was a "bridge of ships" which the author and..... More