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Chicago: A. Warner & Co.. Very Good. 1889. Print. A steel engraved portrait of Rev. A. A. Lambing extracted from Cushing's History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Including its Early Settlement... also Portraits of Some of its Prominent Men. Chicago: A. Warner & Co., 1889. The portrait measures 10" by 7" with the image and facsimile autograph centered; protective tissue guard in place. .

New York: G. P. Putnam's. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; 252 pages; Contents clean and secure in original binding in edgeword dustjacket. Inscribed and Signed by Theodore C. Blegen, author of one of the essays, on ffep "Theodore Winton, / with high regard, / from / Theodore C. Blegen" An excellent collection of twenty-two essays by Lincoln scholars including Jay Monaghan, David Donald, Arnold Gates, Roy Basler and Donald Riddle. Second section of the book includes highlights of Lincoln's speeches, his humour and his letters. Detailed chronology . The book concludes with a bibliography of several hundred entries. ; Signed by One Author .

Chicago: A. Warner Co.. Very Good. 1889. Print. 1 pages; A steel engraved portrait of Adam Mercer Brown extracted from Cushing's History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Including its Early Settlement... also Portraits of Some of its Prominent Men. Chicago: A. Warner & Co., 1889. The portrait measures 10" by 7" with the image and facsimile autograph centered; protective tissue guard in place. Engraved by E. G. Williams. Major Adam Mercer Brown born in 1826 in Butler County, PA. was admitted to practice in 1853 and was a member of the Bar of Allegheny County for more than 57 years and served as the first president of the Pittsburgh Law Association. He came to Pittsburgh in 1850 to study law and entered into practice with his uncle Thomas M. Marshall. Later he formed a partnership with his two sons, who followed in the profession, under the firm name of A. M. Brown & Sons which continued throughout his active life. He was a man of considerable ability and… Read More

Chicago: A. Warner & Co.. Very Good. 1889. Print. 1 pages; A steel engraved portrait of Albert M. Harper extracted from Cushing's History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Including its Early Settlement... also Portraits of Some of its Prominent Men. Chicago: A. Warner & Co., 1889. The portrait measures 10" by 7" with the image and facsimile autograph centered; protective tissue guard in place. Major Albert M. Harper (1843-1871) served with the Pennsylvania 139th Regiment of Volunteers from 1862 until the end of the War. He returned to his education at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, graduating with a degree in Civil Engineering in 1867. After managing an oil refinery, he entered into the mercantile sector, but his success was cut short by death from illness at the young age of 29. .

Paris: Flammarion. Very Good. 1981. Paperback. From the collection of Susan Mary Alsop, with her manuscript notes laid-in keyed to some ink markings in the text, particularly in the chapter on Le Congres de Vienne. This was a reference source for Alsop's book The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815. From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Her Georgetown homes… Read More

London: Humphrey Milford Amen House. Very Good. 1935. First Edition Thus. Stiff Wrappers. 17 pages; A memorial tribute From the Proceedings of the British Academy. Volume XXI. Printed by John Johnson at the University Press, Oxford. OCLC: 40738455 Alfred Chilton Pearson (8 October 1861 – 2 January 1935) was an English classical scholar, noted for his work on Greek tragedy. Despite a life spent outside academia, Pearson was elected in 1919 as the Gladstone Professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool, subsequently becoming in 1921 the Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Trinity College. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. xv, (1), 368 pages; Owner's signature on ffep - "Susan Jay [Alsop] / March 1936" otherwise clean and secure in original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and front cover; faded spot at lower corner of front board. With a Foreword by J.M.Barrie. Frontispiece portrait and 15 b/w illustrations from photographs. Edward Antony James Bulwer-Lytton, Viscount Knebworth (1903 – 1933) was a British pilot and Conservative politician. Knebworth was the eldest son of Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton, and his wife Pamela, daughter of Sir Trevor Chichele-Plowden. Lady Hermione Lytton was his sister. He was educated at Eton and Oxford University. He worked briefly as a stockbroker in London before taking up a post in the Education Department of the Central Conservative Office. Knebworth was returned to Parliament for Hitchin in 1931. The latter year he also joined the Royal… Read More

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 224 pages; Clean and secure in original binding in very nice dustjacket. A superbly illustrated biography drawn heavily on Audubon's own journals, which offer revealing insights into the character and life of th is singular man. Reproductions of Audubon's beautiful original watercolours, together with engravings from the published editions of his work, testify to the talent and achievement of a fascinating naturalist, explorer and artist. Well written by the noted Caxton bookseller. .

New York: Farrar and Rinehart. Very Good. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; Clean and secure in original green cloth bindings with gilt lettering at spines and front boards. Faded at spines, some offsetting from laid-in newspaper reviews. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by the Author on ffep -- "To my devoted friend / Mary Coleman Jennings / In appreciation of my high / esteem for her father, her / husband and herself. / From / John Hays Hammond / March 1935." OCLC 472245289 John Hays Hammond (1855 – 1936), a mining engineer, diplomat, and philanthropist. He was raised in the Gold Rush days of San Francisco in which his father R. P. Hammond and his father's close friend William P. Coleman played significant roles. John Hays Hammond took his first mining job as a special expert for the US Geological Survey 1879-1880 in Washington, DC. He returned to California in 1881 to work for Senator Hearst, the mining magnate and father of William Randolph Hearst. In 1882, he was… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+. 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. viii, (2), 481 pages; Contents clean and secure in original burgundy cloth binding with gilt letter at spine. OCLC 230769195 Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1841-1906), born in Kentucky, was an American paleontologist and geologist who wrote extensively on the theological and scientific implications of the theory of evolution. Shaler studied at Harvard under Louis Agassiz and later become a Harvard lecturer and professor of paleontology (1869-1888) and a professor of geology (1888-1906). Under the early influence of Agassiz, Shaler was broadly a creationist and anti-Darwinist, but once he was securely established at Harvard, Shaler gradually accepted Darwinism in principle. Shaler was also a noted apologist for slavery and a believer in the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race. Shaler was appointed director of the Kentucky Geological Survey in 1873, and devoted a part of each year until 1880 to that work.… Read More

Waterbury, Connecticut: Press of the American Print. Co.. Very Good. 1873. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 58 pages; Publisher's brown cloth, with covers divided by rules in black and with the title: "BENEDICT" in black against an industrial-shaped gilt lozenge device, chocolate brown endpapers, all edges gilt. Minor toning and spotting to the edges of the covers, a small chip of brown cloth is missing at the foot of the spine, and there is moderate foxing to the title page and engraved frontispiece. The latter is a portrait (with facsimile signature) depicting the subject: Aaron Benedict [1785-1873], an important industrialist and businessman from Waterbury, Connecticut. There are two original albumen-print photographs, each mounted to sheets -- within decorative gilt borders. Benedict was compelled by illness to leave Yale College at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He recovered, to the extent that he lived to be 87 and one-half years old, and… Read More

New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Very Good. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. 302 pages; Note on ffep in Susan Mary Alsop's handwriting "158 Menu of banquet" referring to the paragraph from which she took the title of her book "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Otherwise contents clean and secure in original cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine. From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris"… Read More

Austin: University of Texas Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. xiv, 396 pages; Clean and secure in original binding in very nice dustjacket. Inscribed and Signed on the ffep "For Kay and Rowly --/ and especially Kay - who / kept me going and helped / more than I can say. / Henry Catto / Nov 1998" Henry Edward Catto Jr. (1930 – 2011) was an American businessman and public servant. Catto held several positions within the United States government, including Ambassador to El Salvador from 1971 to 1973, the Chief of Protocol of the United States from 1974 to 1976, the Ambassador to the United Nations Office at Geneva from 1976 to 1977, and the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs from 1981 to 1983. In 1989, President G.H.W. Bush appointed him U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom. In 1999, he was elected chairman of the Atlantic Council of the United States, and in 2007, its chairman emeritus. In the 1980s, Mr. Catto and his wife… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead and Co.. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. x, (2), 211 pages; Clean and secure in original binding in very good dustjacket with some wear at head of spine. An intriguing biography of this fabulous dynasty. It tells of triumphs, tragedies, and scandals. The Astors became landlords of New York, established society's "400," and joined the British nobility. Kavaler tells the Astor story not only as a tale of wealth and power, but of men and women who loved, hated, felt paddion and heartbreak. The history of this dynasty is deeply entwined with the history of our country. .

London: Walter Scott. Very Good. 1888. Hardcover. 193, (1), (16) ads pages; Contents clean and secure in original brown polished buckram binding; slight lean. Owner's name signed on ffep "Kim Roosevelt" Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and operated throughout the Near and Middle East for the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back-channel negotiations eventually produced the treaty signed in October 1954. Nasser ascended and for the next decade Egypt's relations with the West moved along a sometimes rocky road. By 1965… Read More

Philadelphia: Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology. Very Good. 1937. Hardcover. vii, (1), 528 pages; Clean and secure in original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering, toned at endpapers near spine. Former owner's signature on ffep - "Rowland Evans" Illustrated with 2 plates, portraits, folding map at rear. Overland journeys to the Pacific. Frontispiece photo of the author, a lawyer, Gold Rush miner, Union General during the Civil War, and penologist. "Largely devoted to the opening development of the far West from 1849 to 1860, in which Wistar played a conspicuous part before achieving fame and fortune in Pennsylvania." He earned and lost small fortunes as a miner, trapper, muleteer, speculator and lawyer. During the Civil War he raised his own regiment and fought at Gettysburg. Fold-out map at rear shows the route taken in 1849 by Wistar from Independence, Missouri to California. [Howes, W598] Isaac Jones Wistar (1827 – 1905) was an American… Read More

Chicago: A. Warner Co.. Very Good. 1889. Print. 1 pages; A steel engraved portrait of B. F. Jones extracted from Cushing's History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Including its Early Settlement... also Portraits of Some of its Prominent Men. Chicago: A. Warner & Co., 1889. The portrait measures 10" by 7" with the image and facsimile autograph centered; protective tissue guard in place. Benjamin Franklin Jones, Sr. (1824 - 1903) was a pioneer of the iron and steel industry in Pittsburgh and was elected President of the American Iron and Steel Association in 1885. Originally involved in the river barge industry, in the employ of Samuel M. Kier of the Mechanics' Line of boats on the Pennsylvania Canal, Jones became a partner in 1847 in the newly formed firm of Kier & Jones. That partnership lasted until 1854 when the Pennsylvania Railroad supplanted the canal boats as the primary form of commercial transport.In 1851, Jones purchased an interest in American… Read More

New York: Augustus M. Kelley. Near Fine. 1966. Hardcover. Reprints of Economic Classics; clxxvii, (3), 338, (4) pages; "Taken from Volume X of his [Stewart's] Collected Works"-- title page verso; "Biographical Memoirs of Adam Smith, LL.D., William Robertson, D.D., Thomas Reid, D.D., edited by Sir William Hamilton, Bart., to Which is Prefixed 'A memoir of Dugald Stewart', with Sections from His Correspondence, by John Veitch, M.A.; Edinburgh, Thomas Constable and Co., 1858" Frontispiece portrait of the author. .

New York: The World Publishing Company, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; 170 pages; Clean and tight in original binding in very good dustjacket. Inscribed and SIGNED by the author to Justice Potter Stewart. Justice Potter Stewart served on the U.S. Supreme Court for nearly 24 years. In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated Potter Stewart to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Harold Hitz Burton, who was retiring. Stewart served on the Supreme Court until he announced his retirement from the Court on June 18, 1981 at the age of 66. During his tenure (1958-1981) as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Potter Stewart made major contributions to criminal justice reform, civil rights, access to the courts, and Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. Stewart leaned toward moderate, pragmatic positions, but was often in the position of dissenting during his time on the Warren Court. Stewart's philosophy might be… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; (xii), 157, (7) pages; Contents clean and secure in original binding in bright fresh dustjacket. When they were children in the suburbs of Los Angeles in the 1950s, Diane Keaton and her younger brother, Randy, were best friends and companions: they shared stories at night in their bunk beds; they swam, laughed, dressed up for Halloween. Their mother captured their American-dream childhoods in her diaries, and on camera. But as they grew up, Randy became troubled, then reclusive. By the time he reached adulthood, he was divorced, an alcoholic, a man who couldn't hold on to full-time work—his life a world away from his sister's, and from the rest of their family.Now Diane is delving into the nuances of their shared, and separate, pasts to confront the difficult question of why and how Randy ended up living his life on "the other side of normal." In beautiful and… Read More