So Long
Berlin, Lucia Santa Rosa, 1993 Soft cover. Octavo. SIGNED by author with a personal inscription to Keith Abbott. Slight fading to spine otherwise very good. Poet and author Keith Kumasen Abbott was a colleague of Berlin's at Naropa University where he taught writing and art. He is perhaps best remembered for his memoir of Richard Brautigan, with whom he was a friend.- $550
- $550
Home Sick
Berlin, Lucia Santa Rosa, 1990 Soft cover. Octavo. SIGNED by author with a personal inscription to Keith Abbott. Fading to spine otherwise very good. Poet and author Keith Kumasen Abbott was a colleague of Berlin's at Naropa University where he taught writing and art. He is perhaps best remembered for his memoir of Richard Brautigan, with whom he was a friend.- $650
- $650
Erik Lindegren: An ABC Book
Lindegren, Erik Askim, Sweden, 1976 Oblong hard cover,10" by 7" 199 pages. A compilation of the three parts of the author's "ABC of Lettering and Printing" translated into English by rune Ostland. Erik Lindegren (Swedish calligrapher and typographer, 1918-1996) ran the Erik Lindegren Grafisk studio in Askim, Sweden.- $35
- $35
Japan’s Accession to the Comity of Nations
Siebold, Alexander London, 1901 Hard cover. Small octavo. [xii] 119 pages. Paper over boards. Signature of a U.S. Army Col. dated July 26, 1901. Yokohama to front end paper. Cover shows heavy shelf wear. The book examines how the focus of the West towards Japan changed, as Japan became a dominant force in the political arena of the Far East when it freed itself of Chinese rule and, through the Meiji restoration adopted a democratic system of government based on the West.- $95
- $95
Mental Birth Control
Jackson, Mildred. Teague, Terri Oakland, CA, 1978 Paperback. 56 pages. Clean and unmarked. Very tight binding. Light shelf wear to cover. We have long believed that the mind controls the body... we feel it is a viable spiritual method of birth control. Mental birth control allows us to work out our spiritual path by drawing to us what we need: conception when it is desired; or freedom from the demands of child rearing. - from the preface.- $95
- $95
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone First edition with full number line. Hard cover. Dark green leather binding with ornate stamped gilt and pictorial panel to front cover. All edges gilt. Acetate jacket. A couple of faint marks to gilt of fore-edge and bottom edge otherwise fine in a fine jacket.- $90
- $90
Emancipating The Past
Walker, Kara (Artist) DiTillio, Jessi (Text) Exhibition Catalog 11" by 8 1/2". Side stapled in wraps. Sixteen pages featuring a selection from 59 of Walker's prints and multiples and an essay by Jessi DiTillio. The traveling exhibition visited eight locations in the United States between January 2014 and February 2017.- $75
- $75
A Great Russian Tone Poet Scriabin
Hull, A. Eaglefield London, 1916 Hard cover. Publishers cloth with gilt titles to spine. Small Octavo. [viii] 304 pages with 165 musical illustrations and four b/w photographic plates. Some light shelf wear to covers and spine ends. Very good. Scriabin was an innovator as well as one of the most controversial composer-pianists of the early 20th century. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia said of him, "no composer has had more scorn heaped on him or greater love bestowed."- $45
- $45
Tell A Tall Tale
Salisbury, Kent (Author), Zanazanian, Adrina (Illustrator) Tall plastic comb bound 15 3/4" by 6 1/2" Cardboard covers. Consisting of six groups of six cardboard panels, each with text by Kent Salisbury and a color illustration by Adrina Zanazanian which can be turned and combined to make thousands of different stories. Spine of plastic comb separated in places but binding functionally. Light shelf wear to covers- $125
- $125
The Congressional Club Cook Book
Washington D.C., 1993 Limp red cover with stamped gilt title. Decorative end papers. All edges gilt. 957 pages of recipes fully indexed. Signed on title page "Best wishes - / Ralph M Hall / Member of Congress / 4th District of Texas and dated 1999. Limp red cover with stamped gilt title. At 91, Ralph M. Hall was the oldest serving member of Congress at the end of his last term in office, the oldest person to ever serve in the House of Representatives, the oldest one ever elected to a House term, the oldest House member ever to cast a vote, and also the last member of Congress from the G.I. Generation and one of the last two World War II veterans serving in Congress.- $30
- $30
Fantazius Mallare
Hecht, Ben Hard cover. Green cloth with black title to spine. Octavo. 174 pages and 10 full page b/w plates of extraordinary illustrations by Wallace Smith. "Limited edition for private circulation only, consisting of two thousand and twenty five numbered copies. Only two thousand copies for sale. Published September 1922." This copy marked number 1, and appears to be from a second print run. No dust jacket (if issued). name to top of front free end paper. Very good. A novel of decadence and mystic existentialism, Fantazius Mallare is a story of a mad recluse—a genius sculptor and painter who is at war with reason. Rather than commit suicide, his doting madness dictates that he must revolt against all evidence of life that exists outside himself. He destroys all of his work and then seeks out a woman who will devote herself to his Omnipotence. What follows is a glorious trek into a horrifying enlightening insanity. FANTAZIUS MALLARE was circulated in a limited edition 2,000 copy hardcover, which contained black-and-white illustrations by Wallace Smith. The book was quickly confiscated by the Federal Government, which branded it "lewd, obscene and lascivious" and further charged Hecht with "defiling the U.S.A. mails with its transport" The eminent Clarence Darrow succeeded in winning an acquittal for Hecht, who (as claimed by Gregory William Mank) found himself "loving every minute" of the 1922 legal proceedings.- $95
- $95
When I Grow Up
Denslow W.W. New York, 1909 First edition, September 1909. Hard cover. Large octavo, 9 7/8" by 7 3/8". Tan cloth with cover and spine decorated in black, white and orange. Unpaginated but 104pp. 24 full page color drawings and 24 full page monochrome drawings by Denslow. Short handwritten inscription to front free and paper dated 1914. Light rubbing to covers with some marks, heavier to spine. Illustrations sharp and bright. The book comprises 24 different types of people a child could be when they grow up, with a poem and illustrations for each by W.W. Denslow, who is best remembered as the original illustrator of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum.- $500
- $500
The Pearl and the Pumpkin
Paul West and W.W. Denslow New York, 1904 Hard cover. Large octavo. [ii] 240 pages. Light green cloth Stamped in dark with pictorial label in color to front. Sixteen color plates and numerous two-color illustrations by Denslow. Gift inscription to header of page 7. Spine a little rubbed else a fairly bright copy. Very good. This fantasy was originally conceived as a stage musical with the book as an accompaniment. The play opened in Chicago in 1905 but did not run for long despite Denslow's costumes and elaborate sets receiving much praise. Denslow is best known as the original illustrator of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum.- $160
- $160
Bellifortis
Kyeser. Conrad London, New York, 1968 Two volumes in original glassine in plain slip case. Hard covers. Quarto. Half vellum with titles in red. Volume one is a facsimile of the original with 173 diagrams. Volume two is a translation into German of the original Latin text. Small mark to spine of volume one. Very good. Bellifortis ("Strong in War", "War Fortifications") is the first fully illustrated manual of military technology, written by Konrad Kyeser and dating from the start of the 15th century it summarises material from classical writers on military technology, like Vegetius' De Re Militari and Frontinus' anecdotal Strategemata, emphasizing poliorcetics, or the art of siege warfare, but treating magic as a supplement to the military arts; it is "saturated with astrology", remarked Lynn White, Jr. in a review of the first facsimile edition. Bellifortis was written in Latin and contained many elaborate illustrations of war weaponry. The manual discusses machines and technology that were old and new. It described weapons such as trebuchets, battering rams, movable portable bridges, cannons, rockets, chariots, ships, mills, scaling ladders, incendiary devices, crossbows, and instruments of torture] The portrait of the author is called by its modern editor the first realistic portrait of an author since Antiquity. Many of the illustrations for the book were made by German illuminators who were sent to Eichstätt after their own ousting from the Prague scriptorium.- $500
- $500
Report on the Geology of the Henry Mountains
Gilbert, G.K. and Powell J.W. Washington D.C., 1880 Second edition. Hard cover. Quarto. Dark brown cloth over boards with gilt to spine. [xii] 170 plus five fold out plates, one in color. Illustrated throughout with b/w drawings. Slight change of color to gilt on spine otherwise near fine.- $250
- $250
William Nicholson’s An Alphabet
Craig, Edward Andover, UK, 1978 Number 207 of a signed limited edition of 300. Soft cover. Small folio. Mustard yellow sewn wraps with images of Nicholson's illustrated alphabet to the inside. [iv] 12pp Folded sheet with b/w photographs "Printing William Nicholson's Alphabet from the Original Woodblocks" laid in. Small crease to top corner of front cover else fine.- $50
- $50
Alice in Wonderland (Pop-up Book)
Carroll, Lewis Westminster London, UK, 1960 Illustrated by Vojtech Kubasta. Hardcover. Tall quarto. Unpaginated but 18 pages and two double page color pop-ups on the end papers. Pictorial paper over boards with cloth binding. Front cover has a transparent plastic window with the next four leaves having smaller and smaller cut outs to create the appearance of looking into a tunnel. Full color illustrations to the head of each page. Small closed tear to bottom edge of two text pages. Light shelf wear to covers with some rubbing to edges otherwise very good. Pop-ups intact and in near fine condition. Vojtech Kubasta trained as an architect and became one of the most innovative paper engineers and artists of the 1950s and 60s. Working for the Czechoslovakian state publisher Artia he raised the standard for moveable books everywhere.- $600
- $600
The Road Goes Ever On
Tolkien J.R.R. (Poems), Swann, Donald (Music) Boston, 1967 Stated First Printing. Hard cover. Slim quarto. 67 pages. Contains seven songs, six from "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and one from "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil" along with a glossary of Elvish terms used in the songs. Illustrations by J.R.R. Tolkien and Samuel Hanks Bryant. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. This book has been valued even by those uninterested in music, since it helps Tolkien's readers to better understand the cultures of the various mythological beings presented in Middle-earth, and helps linguists analyse Tolkien's poetry. As well as the poems, notes, and translations, Tolkien contributed decorations in the form of Elvish script for the top and bottom of every page of sheet music, and tailpieces for the spaces at the ends of the poems. - Tolkien Gateway.- $375
- $375
N.C. Wyeth
Allen, Douglas New York, 1972 First Edition. Number 26 of a limited edition of 250 copies Signed by both Authors. Quarto. 335 pages. Half bound leather over cloth covered boards. Top edge gilt. Fine in a very good slip case. More than 300 color and black-and-white illustrations by one of America's preeminent painters are collected here, along with illuminating text from the artist's letters, magazine articles about his work, and many other sources. The result: a fully realized portrait of a "golden age" illustrator. - Goodreads.com- $300
- $300
The Southern Highlander and His Homeland
Campbell, John C New York, 1921 Hard cover. Octavo. [xxi] 405pp. Green publisher's cloth with gilt titles and blind stamped crest. With b/w photographs, tables and fold out color map. Very good. An in depth study of the people of the Southern Appalachian Mountains in the first two decades of the C20th.- $65
- $65
Limousin Cattle in Canada…A Success Story
Gunderson, Harald Calgary, AB, 2002 Inscribed and signed by the author to Dale F. Runnion who contributed the foreword. Hard cover. Brown suede with gilt title and design. Quarto. 208 pages. A few faint marks to the suede cover otherwise very good throughout.- $125
- $125
Limousin Cattle in the United Kingdom
Jobst, Dieter East Molesey, UK, 1986 Inscribed and signed by author on the half title page: With Good Wishes to an / "Old" Limousin Friend / Dieter Jobst / September 1986. Pictorial hard cover. Quarto. 192 pages. Clean and unmarked. Tight binding. Very good condition.- $125
- $125
The Unser Legacy
Kirby, Gordon Minneapolis, 2005 Signed by Al Unser and Al Unser Jr. on the title page. Hard cover. 10 1/4" square. 256pp. Profusely illustrated with b/w and color photographs. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. The story of the Unser family of Colorado Springs. The most successful motor racing family in America with numerous wins at Pikes Peak and the Indy 500.- $200
- $200
The Great Buffalo Hunt
Gard, Wayne New York, 1959 First edition, signed by author on the front free end paper. Hard cover. Octavo. 324 pages with 16 illustrations and photographs. Housed in a custom made tan leather cover with buffalo skull design to front and cowboy portrait to rear. Near fine in a near fine price clipped dust jacket. Focusing on the years from 1871 to 1883, this authoritative work describes the hunting of the buffaloes for their hides as a factor in the conquest of the West. Chapters on the habit of the buffalo, on what the animal meant to the Plains Indian, and on hunting as a sport provide a backdrop for the dramatic action by the gatherers of hides.- $95
- $95
The Cheyenne Saddle
Laird, James R. Cheyenne, WY, 1982 Number 73 of a limited edition of 200 books bound in genuine saddle leather and inserted in a fitted slip case. Signed and dated by author on the limitation page. Hard cover. Quarto. [ix] 1, 55pp. Some fading to spine otherwise near fine in a fine slip case. Profusely illustrated.- $175
- $175
Invocation: War Poems & Others
Nichols, Robert London, 1915 Hard cover 7" by 4 1/2" Grey cloth 41pp [3]. Fine in original but torn glassine. Commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery in 1914, Nichols served on the Western Front, including the Battle of Loos and the Battle of the Somme, until invalided home with shell shock in August 1916. On 11 November 1985, Nichols was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner.- $30
- $30
The Seaman’s Friend
Dana, R.H. Jr. Boston, 1851 Hard cover. Octavo. Blue cloth over boards. Both covers blind stamped and with a gilt sailing ship and title to the front. [viii] 9-225pp with 5 plates plus two pages of publisher's advertisements. Gift inscription from grandfather to grandson on front free end paper. Boston bookseller's label to rear fixed end paper. First and last pages and all page edges foxed, all other pages and plates bright. Cover shows fading, more so to spine.- $200
- $200
Against Speaking Evil of Princes, and Those in Authority Under Them
Gibson, Edm. D.D. London, 1706 Unbound stab-stitched pamphlet. 16pp. Front page partially loose but attached. Two small holes through all pages.Printed and Sold by H. Hills, in Black-Frayars, near the Water-Side. For the Benefit of the Poor. Preached and published shortly before renewed negotiations between England and Scotland concerning the Treaty of Union to create a new "Great Britain" which was deeply unpopular among the Scottish population which on occasion broke out in civil disorder. Scots were prohibited from emigrating until 1707, when the Act of Union united Scotland, England, and Wales as the United Kingdom, giving Scots the same rights as the English. At that time, trade between Scotland and America increased. Scots began to immigrate to Virginia, where tobacco production was a highly profitable business.- encyclopedia.com- $50
- $50
The WORKS of JOHN DRYDEN
Dryden, John Edinburgh, 1821 Complete in eighteen volumes. Octavo. Tan calf over boards with double gilt ruled covers. Ornate gilt tooled spines with five raised bands and two contrasting labels. Marbled end papers and page edges. Volume I with portrait frontispiece of Dryden engraved by W.H. Lizars. Volume VI includes a fold out plate "The Solemn Mock Procession of the POPE Cardinals, Jesuits, Friars Etc. Through the CITY OF LONDON November 17th 1679." with a half width separation along one of the folds. Each volume with the bookplate of Florence de Wolfe Sampson by E.D. French, who also engraved the Grolier Club's own bookplate as well as bookplates for many of its members. Some foxing to frontispiece and title page, Vol I, otherwise very good. John Dryden (1631-1700) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was appointed England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. - wikipedia. There may be additional shipping costs for this large set.- $900
- $900
Light Cars and Cyclecars of 1916
Staff London, 1916 Soft cover Small octavo. [viii] 64pp. Cream colored covers with lettering and sports car image in black to front. One car illustration and specifications per page for a total of 61 different models. Light tanning to pages with some wear to covers. Very good.- $100
- $100
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
Fraxi, Pisanus (pseudonym Ashbee, Henry Spencer) London, 1877 Quarter leather over red marbled boards. 4to. [lxxvi] 542pp [2]. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Title in gilt to spine. Text in black and red. All edges rubbed with an old near vertical scratch to front cover. Front free end paper and first blank leaf loose. Henry Spencer Ashbee was a book collector, writer, and bibliographer. He is notable for his massive, clandestine three-volume bibliography of erotic literature published under the pseudonym of Pisanus Fraxi. The title of the work is Index Librorum Prohibitorum: being Notes Bio-Biblio-Icono-graphical and Critical, on Curious and Uncommon Books. It has an engraved frontispiece and reproduces by photolithography occasional facsimile pages from works which it discusses in its text. Its author listed himself on the title page as Pisanus Fraxi. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum–the title of course is humorously annexed from the Roman Catholic organ of censorship–is the first bibliography in the English language devoted to writings of a pornographic or sexual character. But the Index is itself the first part of a work, for in 1879 there followed a second, companion volume, Centuria Librorum Absconditorum, and in 1885 Pisanus Fraxi completed his project with a third volume, entitled, Catena Librorum Tacendorum. Pisanus Fraxi was the pseudonym of Henry Spencer Ashbee. Ashbee distinguishes himself from most previous bibliographers by virtue of the attention he gives to the contents of the books he examined. - Steven Marcus, The Other Victorians.- $300
- $300
The Rubaiyat of Mortimer Moon
Moon, Mortimer No publisher or place of publication noted. Undated but likely 1890 to 1915. Octavo. Unpaginated but sixteen leaves staple bound in tan wraps and cord tied into a limp brown suede cover with gold title and decoration. 89 verses with duotone illustrations by Lloyd Williams throughout. Very good condition with slight rub to bottom corner of front cover. A one page preface gives a synopsis of the life and work of Omar Khayyam in which the author ends by writing that his own verses are "... at best, pale caricatures which brazenly dare to stand in the shadow of Omar's structure, their only claim for consideration being that they reflect perhaps a somewhat more cheerful and optimistic philosophy and faith." None located in OCLC.- $125
- $125
The History of the Texas League of Professional Baseball Clubs 1888 – 1951
Ruggles, William B. Texas, 1951 Second edition, greatly expanded from the 1932 first edition. Octavo. 408pages. Soft cover in tan wraps with title in black. Clean and unmarked. Spine a little creased but with a tight binding. An in depth reference of Texas baseball from the first season in 1888 through to 1950.- $50
- $50
This Is My Story
Roosevelt, Eleanor New Y, 1937 Stated first edition. Had cover. Octavo. [x] 365pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Light blue cloth over boards with gilt to spine and embossed signature in dark blue to front. Some offsetting from dust jacket. Dust jacket shows shelf wear with some chipping to edges and original price of $3.00 to front dust flap. The first of Eleanor Roosevelt's autobiographies describing her life up until the presidential election of 1924.- $175
- $175
Africa from South to North Through Marotseland
Gibbons, Major A. St. H London and New York, 1904 Two volumes. Hard cover. Octavo. 276pp and 295pp. Green publisher's cloth with map of Africa stamped in black and red and gilt title. Top edges gilt. Some leaves unopened. Many b/w photographs. Covers show light to moderate shelf wear with some darkening of spines. Lacking maps. The author was in charge of the 1898 to 1900 expedition to Marotseland. Aided by grants from the Royal Geographic Society, the British South Africa Chartered Company, and British Military Intelligence, he was able to map fairly accurately the areas of his travels. The object of the expedition were to determine the geographical limits of Lewanika's country, to define the Congo-Zambezi watershed, the discover the main source of the Zambezi, to make a hydrographical and ethnographical survey of Lewanika's territory, to study its resources and industrial possibilities, to ascertain how far the Zambezi and its affluents could be used as navigable waterways and, finally, to furnish Cecil Rhodes with information relative to the selection of a route for a projected trans-continental railway - particularly with reference to the crossing of the Zambezi. Blank Books.- $300
- $300
Short Grass & Longhorns
Hamner, Laura V. Norman, OK, 1943 Hard cover. Octavo. [viii] 269pp. with many b/w photographs. Book in very good condition. Price clipped dust jacket shows shelf wear with a closed tear to front and fading to spine. Compiled from hundreds of first hand interviews "Short Grass & Longhorns" is a meticulously researched history of the cattle industry in the Texas panhandle with anecdotes concerning many of the now famous people of the region.- $110
- $110
Unit Photography
Steadman, F.M. New York, 1914 Inscribed and signed by the author on the half title page November 19th - 1915. Hardcover. Octavo. [xi] 160pp, 2pp advertisements. With 13 plates and 10 illustrations. Light shelf wear to cover with a little rubbing to edges. This book is written with a desire to establish a rational scientific foundation for the practice of photography and for the study of light as it is daily observed in nature. - from the introduction.- $95
- $95
Wilson’s Quarter Century in Photography
Wilson, Edward L. New York, 1887 Hardcover. Large octavo. [xv] 528 plus 20pp advertisements. Green peddled cloth over beveled boards with gilt lettering. Faint moisture mark to fore-edge of first few pages otherwise very good. Light shelf wear to cover with wear to spine ends. Edward Livingston Wilson was an American photographer, writer and publisher based in Philadelphia. In 1864 he began the Philadelphia Photographer magazine. He served as an energetic officer of the National Photographic Association of the United States.- $140
- $140
Pioneer Pottery
Cardew, Michael London, 1973 Hard cover. Oversized octavo. [xv] 327pp. Signed and dated by author on ffep Boulder/1978. Also a handprint in clay to the title page. Previous owner's name to corner of ffep. Near fine in a very good dust jacket which shows tears to top edge. Michael Cardew has been described as "one of the finest potters of the century and one of the greatest slipware potters of all times." There are collections of his work in museums in Britain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.- $250
- $250
The Paris Metro
Buren, Daniel (Artist-Editor) Cenet, Michel (Photographer) London, 1973 Two volumes in slipcase. Oblong with stiff card covers. Each 207pp. Text in six languages. Both volumes clean and unmarked with very tight bindings and slight sun fade to spines. Slip case is in good condition with shelf wear and a little rubbing to edges. A book of photographs taken in over a hundred stations of the Paris metro Each photograph is centered on a billboard and in the upper right corner of each billboard vertical white and coloured stripes. The pieces of white and blue vertically striped paper put up/pasted in this way were a pretext for Michel Cenet's photographs.- $225
- $225
We’ll All Wear Silk Hats
Bailey, Lynn R. Tucson, AZ, 1994 Signed by author on the title page. Hard cover. Octavo. [x] 219pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket which is in an archival quality mylar sleeve. The story of two Cochise County ranches...more than a century ago they monopolized much of the one million acres comprising the Sulphur Spring Valley.- $295
- $295
Adventures of a Bookseller
Orioli, G New York, 1938 Hard cover. Octavo. [viii] 329pp. Extensive scholarly pencil marginalia and notes. Dust jacket worn and torn with loss to the spine and a closed tear to the front. Now protected in an archival quality mylar sleeve. Giuseppe "Pino" Orioli (1884–1942) was a Florentine bookseller best known for privately publishing the unexpurgated first edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover and for his long association with Norman Douglas.- $180
- $180
The Happy Warrior
Roosevelt, Franklin D. Boston, 1928 Hardcover. 7 3/4" by 4 3/4". [vi] 40pp. Black cloth over boards with wrap around paper title label. Book very good. Dust jacket shows chipping to edges and split along spine crease. Alfred E. Smith, a four term Governor of New York, was the democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1928. The basis Happy Warrior is Franklin D. Roosevelt's memorable nomination speech in which he "paints a lively picture" of him.- $44
- $44
Now It Can Be Told
Groves, Leslie R. Lieut. General U.S. Army, Ret. New York, 1962 Hard cover. Octavo. [xiv] 464pp. Black cloth over boards with gilt titling to spine and blind stamped star burst to front. Evidence of price erased from front end papers. Dust jacket shows fading to spine chipping to edges and a tear to top edge. A firsthand account by Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.- $95
- $95
Hunting Big Game in the Eighties
Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor (Editor) New York, 1933 Hard cover in dust jacket. Octavo. [x] 182pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Frontispiece portrait of Elliott Roosevelt with tissue guard. Book very good. Dust jacket poor with loss to edges and a tape repair to back seam. Now in a protective brodart sleeve. Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt (1860-1894) was the third child of Martha Bulloch and Theodore Roosevelt Sr. He was a younger brother of future president Theodore Roosevelt, the father of Eleanor Roosevelt (the author), and godfather of Franklin D. Roosevelt.- $79
- $79
Fifty Years of Public Life
Roper, Daniel C. Durham, N.C., 1941 Hard cover in dust jacket. Octavo. [x] 422pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamped lettering. Top edge stained blue. Book very good. Dust jacket shows wear with small loss at spine ends and is in a protective mylar sleeve. Roper's career spans sixteen presidents. He was the U.S. Secretary of Commerce under president Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 until 1938, during which time he played a major role in the rollout of the New Deal. The National Recovery Administration (NRA) was a part of his portfolio until it was struck down by the Supreme Court in 1935.- $79
- $79
This Man Roosevelt
Looker, Earle New York, 1932 Hard cover. Octavo. 233 pages. Publisher's blue cloth. NO dust jacket. Previous owner's name to front free end paper otherwise clean throughout. Tight binding Shelf wear to cover with fading to spine. A newspaper clipping of a letter to the Times regarding Roosevelt's 1920 nomination for vice-president is laid in. Earle Looker was an author, journalist and a speechwriter for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.- $79
- $79
The Long Shadow of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wolf, Ann M. New York, 1974 Hard cover in dust jacket. Octavo. 81 pages. Blue publisher's cloth with silver lettering to spine. Clean and unmarked with a tight binding. Dust jacket shows wear with chipping to edges and is protected in an archival quality mylar sleeve. An original order form from the publisher is laid in. In a devastating group of essays, Mrs. Wolf attacks the Roosevelt administration and it's influence on subsequent events.- $48
- $48
Memoirs of an Interpreter
Birse, A.H. New York, 1967 Hard cover in dust jacket. Octavo. 254 pages. Dark blue publisher's cloth with gilt titles to spine. A name and date written on title page otherwise clean and unmarked. Price clipped dust jacket shows shelf wear with light chipping to top edge and is protected in a new archival quality mylar sleeve. A.H. Birse accompanied Churchill as his Russian interpreter for the Big Three meetings with Stalin and Roosevelt in Yalta, Potsdam and Teheran. His keen, firsthand observations give enormous impact to his candid account of the personalities and happenings of these times.- $100
- $100
The War Diary of Breckinridge Long
Israel, Fred L. Nebraska, 1966 Hardcover in dust jacket. Octavo. [xxv] 410pp. Brown publisher's cloth with titles in black on spine. Clean and unmarked with a tight binding. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear with slight fading to spine and is protected in an archival quality mylar sleeve. Samuel Miller Breckinridge Long was an American diplomat and politician. He served in the administrations of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt and is infamous among Holocaust historians for making it difficult for European Jews to enter the United States in the 1930s and '40s.- $79
- $79