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
The Future Comes
Beard, Charles A. and Smith George H.E. New York, 1933 Hardcover Small octavo. [xii] 178pp. Red publisher's cloth with gilt title to front and spine. Former owner's stamp to preliminary pages otherwise clean throughout. Light shelf wear to cover. No dust jacket. A contemporary analysis of the New Deal, in political, historical, and economic terms, written at the end of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first year in office.- $20
- $20
Roosevelt and Daniels
Kilpatrick, Carroll Chapel Hill, 1952 Hard cover. Octavo. [xvi] 226pp. Publisher's red cloth over boards. Clean and unmarked. light shelf wear to dust jacket which is protected in an archival quality mylar sleeve. The author presents a record of the thirty year friendship of F.D.R. and Josephus Daniels. Of particular interest is their correspondence during the campaigns of 1928 and 1932.- $35
- $35
Men Around the President
Alsop, Joseph and Kintner, Robert New York, 1939 First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [x] 211pp. Red publisher's cloth over boards. Top edge stained red. Clean and unmarked. Light shelf wear to dust jacket. With the dramatic technique they have made their trade-mark, Alsop and Kintner display the machinery behind the New Deal. They are writing history as it is being made. - from the front dust flap.- $50
- $50
Carter Glass. A Biography
Smith, Rixey and Beasley, Norman New York, 1939 Inscribed to book dealer Roberta Barbee Martin and signed by both the author and Carter Glass in the year of publication. Hard cover. Octavo. [xv] 519pp. Blue publisher's cloth over boards with gilt title to spine. Top edge stained blue. Clean and unmarked. Light shelf wear to cover. No dust jacket. Carter Glass was an American newspaper publisher and Democratic politician from Lynchburg, Virginia. He represented Virginia in both houses of Congress and served as the United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Woodrow Wilson. He played a major role in the establishment of the U.S. financial regulatory system, helping to establish the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. - Wikipedia- $95
- $95
Rendezvous With Destiny
Hardman, J.B.S. New York, 1944 Pre-Publication Edition For the Chicago Joint Board Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Presented to Delegates and Guests at the Fourteenth Biennial Convention May 15, 9144. Hardcover. Black publisher's cloth over boards. Octavo [xxx] 367pp. with b/w photographs. Clean and unmarked. Cover shows light shelf wear with a little rubbing to back and spine faded. Published in support of Roosevelt's 1944 election campaign, which saw him win an unprecedented fourth term and to die three months later.- $75
- $75
Ten Days
Grey, Henry (Pseudonym) New York, 1933 George Grey is thought to be a pseudonym for Franklin D. Roosevelt himself. Booklet in stiff paper cover. Small octavo. [iv] 58 pp. Bound in hard cover library binding of blue cloth over boards. Bookplate of the Forbes Library to front fixed end paper. Evidence of circulation record removed from rear end papers. The author, who conceals his identity under the name George Grey, fixes upon the President's first ten days in office as a turning point in American, and perhaps world, psychology; and in the pages following develops that argument in swiftly striking language. - from the Editor's Note.- $50
- $50
Admiral Halsey’s Story
Halsey, William F. Fleet Admiral U.S.N New York, 1947 Signed by author on half title page. Hard cover. Octavo. [xvii] 310 pp. Blue publisher's cloth over boards. Gilt titles to cover and spine. Map end papers. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Clean and unmarked. Light shelf wear to cover. No dust jacket. William Frederick Halsey Jr. was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy during World War II. He is one of four individuals to have attained the rank of fleet admiral of the United States Navy. Halsey was made commander of the South Pacific Area, and led the Allied forces over the course of the Battle for Guadalcanal and the fighting up the Solomon chain. In 1943 he was made commander of the Third Fleet, the post he held through the rest of the war. He took part in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle of the Second World War and, by some criteria, the largest naval battle in history.- $225
- $225
White House Diary
Nesbitt, Henrietta Garden City, NY, 1948 Inscribed and signed by the author on the front free end paper. Hard cover. Small octavo. 314 pages. Publisher's light blue cloth over boards. Book clean and unmarked. Price clipped dust jacket shows shelf wear with small loss at spine ends and fore-edge and is protected in an archival quality mylar sleeve. During her time as F.D.R's housekeeper the author was responsible for implementing Eleanor Roosevelt's plan to serve budget conscious meals during the Great Depression and W.W.II as an inspiration and example to struggling families throughout the nation. A collection of stories centered round the Roosevelt family and their famous visitors.- $75
- $75
Men And Decisions
Strauss, Lewis L. Garden City, NY, 1962 Signed by author on front free and paper. Hard cover. Octavo. [x] 468 pages. Publisher's grey cloth over boards with black and gilt title device to front cover and spine. Book clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows some shelf wear with a chip at top of spine and is protected in an archival quality Brodart sleeve. Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss was an American businessman, philanthropist, and naval officer who started as an assistant to Herbert Hoover and served two terms on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the second as its chairman. He was a major figure in the development of nuclear weapons, the nuclear energy policy of the United States, and nuclear power in the United States.- $28
- $28
After Seven Years
Moley, Raymond New York, 1939 Inscribed and signed by author on front free end paper in year of publication. Hard cover. Octavo. [xii] 446 pages. Publishers red/orange cloth with gilt and black title device to spine. Light shelf wear to cover with a little fading to spine. No dust jacket. Raymond Charles Moley was an American political economist and adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Initially a leading supporter of the New Deal, he went on to become its bitter opponent before the end of the Great Depression. Moley's After Seven Years was one of the first in-depth attacks on the New Deal, and remains one of the most powerful.- $90
- $90
Present At The Creation
Acheson, Dean New York, 1969 Signed by the author on the front free end paper. Hard cover. Octavo. [xviii] 798 pages. Book clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear with a little rubbing to bottom edge and is protected in an archival quality Brodart sleeve. Dean Gooderham Acheson was an American statesman and lawyer. As U.S. Secretary of State, he set the foreign policy of the Harry S. Truman administration from 1949 to 1953. He was Truman's main foreign policy advisor from 1945 to 1947, especially regarding the Cold War. Acheson helped design the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, as well as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He was in private law practice from July 1947 to December 1948.[2] After 1949 Acheson came under partisan political attack from Republicans led by Senator Joseph McCarthy over Truman's policy toward the People's Republic of China. As a private citizen in 1968 he counseled President Lyndon B. Johnson to negotiate for peace with North Vietnam. During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, President John F. Kennedy called upon Acheson for advice, bringing him into the executive committee a strategic advisory group.- Wikipedia.- $60
- $60
White House Physician
McIntire, Ross T. New York, 1946 Inscribed and signed by the author on the front fixed end paper in the year of publication. Hard cover. Octavo. [vi] 244 pages. Publisher's blue cloth over boards. Price clipped dust jacket shows Fairly heavy shelf wear with rubbing to edges and is protected in an archival quality mylar sleeve. Vice-Admiral Ross T. McIntire was an American physician and United States Navy officer. An otolaryngologist, he was appointed physician to President Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, becoming the first Physician to the President with a board-certified specialty. In 1938, he became the Surgeon General of the United States Navy, overseeing a major expansion of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery during World War II.- Wikipedia.- $95
- $95
The Strange Alliance
Deane, John R New York, 1947 Inscribed and signed by author on title page. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii] 344 pages. Red publisher's cloth with gilt title to spine. Clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear with a couple of chips to edges and is protected in an archival quality mylar sleeve. Major General John Russell Deane, United States Army, served as Chief of the United States Military Mission in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow during World War II. As such, he was the principal U.S. military official in Moscow through the end of the war and Ambassador W. Averell Harriman's key military advisor. He attended the 1943 Moscow Conference and the 1945 Yalta Conference. As the war progressed, he became frustrated by the Soviet government and urged that the U.S. work with the Soviets under a firmer policy "based on mutual respect and made to work both ways." - Wikipedia.- $95
- $95
On Active Service In Peace and War
Stimson, Henry L. New York, 1948 Two volume set. Number 227 of a limited first edition of 1250 signed by the author on the limitation page of volume I. Hardcovers in blue publisher's cloth with dust jackets. Octavo. Both volumes clean and unmarked. Price clipped dust jackets show some shelf wear and fading to spines and are protected in archival quality mylar sleeves. Henry Lewis Stimson was an American statesman, lawyer, and Republican Party politician. Over his long career, he emerged as a leading figure in U.S. foreign policy by serving in both Republican and Democratic administrations. He served as Secretary of War (1911–1913) under President William Howard Taft, Secretary of State (1929–1933) under President Herbert Hoover, and Secretary of War (1940–1945) under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.- Wikipedia.- $165
- $165
Winston Churchill and the Second Front 1940-1943
Higgins, Trumbull New York, 1957 Hard cover. Octavo. [xii] 281 pages. Review copy with carbon copy of review laid in. Book clean an unmarked with a tight binding. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear and slight fading to spine. "An analysis of British and American strategy from the fall of France through the Casablanca Conference in 1943..." from the dust flap.- $23
- $23
