Search Results: Presidential from Charles Agvent

n.p., 17 July 1848. Manuscript. Light stains at corners from previous mounting. About Fine and scarce. A SIGNED AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION on a 4-1/8" x 6-5/8" sheet from the novel FALKLAND by Edward Bulwer Lytton, dated 27 July 1848, written to William W. Stickney, U. S. Attorney for the state of New Hampshire. In full: "The passions are like sounds of nature, only heard in her solitude. Our senses may captivate us with beauty; but in absence we forget or can conquer so superficial an impression. Our vanity may enamour us with rank; but the affections of vanity are traced in sand; but who can love genius and not feel that the sentiment it excites partakes of its own intenseness and its own immortality." Dolley Madison, wife of James Madison, President of the United States from 1809 to 1817, did much to define the role of the President's spouse, known only much later by the title First Lady -- a function she had sometimes performed earlier for the widowed Thomas Jefferson. It is believed that Aaron Burr… Read More

Reno, NV: Jack Bacon & Co., 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine without dustwrapper, as issued. Bound in half black leather and blue marbled boards. Illustrated with photographs. The story of the Lear Jet written by the widow of the founder in a personal, autobiographical manner. Of a total edition of 5000 copies, there were 26 lettered and signed copies and 20 Presentation copies given to the signers. This is Copy Z of the 26 lettered copies. It is SIGNED by the author, Moya Lear, with a pasted in signature of William Lear on a special page, and on the half-title page it is SIGNED by the first two men to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, President Gerald Ford, and test pilots Clay Long and Hank Beaird, who was the first Lear Jet pilot. In addition to creating the Lear Jet, William Lear also developed in 1930 the first working car radio, the rights which he sold to a company later called Motorola. An impressive collection of autographs, Armstrong is especially scarce in books. Laid… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. A superb copy! Fine in a Fine dustwrapper in the apparently original, and as far as we can tell, unrecorded pale blue envelope, which has a number of tears but seems to be virtually complete. Fritz Kredel. Decorated boards with matching dustwrapper. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. A scarce title by this beloved First Lady, especially so when SIGNED by her, as this copy is on the half-title page.

New York, 13 January 1969 . First Edition. Hardcover. The first text leaf slightly dust soiled and with a few stray marks, stain to Bundy leaf (for which he apologizes in his letter), some very light other thumbsoiling. Book and chemise about Fine, some rubbing to spine of slipcase which is Near Fine. Folio (10" x 15") in contemporary blue morocco-backed cloth by James MacDonald, housed in cloth chemise and matching blue morocco-backed slipcase. The 1969 date comes from the limitation leaf at the front, but likely assembled in 1973. An assembled album of approximately 21 finely printed testimonials about Johnson, all but 2 SIGNED by their authors and most with a letter or note inserted from the writer to Marian S. Heiskell of the NEW YORK TIMES dated 1973, acknowledging her request for the testimonials. A limitation leaf at the front gives only the place and date listed above and numbers this copy 255 from an unstated limited edition. A unique assembly of letters sent to Marian Heiskell by… Read More

Philadelphia: J. Dobson; Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.; Carey & Hart, 1839. Second Edition. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate on the front endpaper. Moderate, even foxing throughout. Very Good. Modern cloth with later marbled endpapers; [ii], xix, [i], 5-262 pages. Introduction and notes by Charles Carter Lee, brother of Confederate general Robert Lee. The correspondence contains much material on Washington, Hamilton, Burr, Madison, and John Jay, among others. HOWES L-205: "The original edition [1832] was suppressed and most copies destroyed."

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, (1962). First Edition. Hardcover. Small ink numbers 3279 and initials ER on the spine of the book and dustwrapper in black. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT'S COPY with both Roosevelt's bookplate and the small circular estate label, this numbered 3279, on the front pastedown. Advance Copy with publisher's business card with publication date laid in.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Small ink numbers 2856 and initials ER on the spine of the book in black and the spine of the dustwrapper in white. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT'S COPY with both Roosevelt's bookplate and the small circular estate label, this numbered 2856, on the front pastedown. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. Hardcover. Some rubbing to the spines, heavier to the edges. Still a Very Good, tight set, quite attractive on the shelf. This set consists of 15 small octavo (4-1/8" x 6-3/4") bound in half smooth calf leather with matching corners and gilt lettered and decorated spines with contrasting gilt morocco spine labels. Present here are THE WILDERNESS HUNTER, AMERICAN IDEALS, THE WINNING OF THE WEST in 6 volumes, HUNTING THE GRIZZLY, HUNTING TRIPS ON THE PRAIRIE, HUNTING TRIPS OF A RANCHMAN, THE ROUGH RIDERS, ADMINISTRATION/CIVIL SERVICE, and THE NAVAL WAR OF 1812 in 2 volumes.

New York: H. C. Kinsey & Company, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Joints and gutters of book darkened but a superior copy in both condition and association. Near Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper. A small, slim clothbound volume of 47 pages. Roosevelt's own copy with a bookplate from the publisher on the front endpaper stating, "This is your editorial copy" with a publication date of 3 January 1938. Above the bookplate the First Lady has INSCRIBED and SIGNED the book to her daughter and son-in-law: "For Anna & John/My good critics & best/readers! With love/Eleanor Roosevelt." We have handled many signed books by Eleanor Roosevelt, but this is only the third signed example of this title we have come across and one of the very very few of any of her titles inscribed to a family member.