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Farmington, ME, 1879. Fine. 8" x 5", 4 pp., in Abbot's small and precise handwriting, two mail folds, includes envelope addresed to Oliver Johnson, Orange NJ. Content: Abbott sends a long and sympathetic letter to the Johnson family expressing his concern and encouragement for their current life situation. "What an unspeakable degree of comfort and strength we derive from the consciousness that we are all in every time of anxiety and trouble, always under the watchful care of a superior providence..."<br /> <br /> Jacob Abbott (Nov 1803 - Oct 1879) was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. He wrote 180 books and was a coauthor or editor of 31 more. Abbott began his career after a degree from Bowdin as a professor at Amherst. Soon he and his brothers founded a church and he became a pastor, then he founded several schools.

Fine. INSCRIBED "To...Best Wishes / Spiro T. Agnew" in black ink. 8" x10" black and white photo. Copyright Karl Schumancher, The White House.<br /> <br /> Spiro Agnew (1918 - 1996) served as the 39th Vice President of the United States, from 1969 to 1973, under President Richard Nixon. Born in Baltimore to Greek immigrants, Agnew put himself through Law School after having served as an officer in the Second World War. Following a recall into the Korean War, Agnew gravitated into politics. He served as the county executive of Baltimore County and was later elected the Governor of Maryland. Although, he was reelected for vice presidency in 1972 he was later forced to resign after being charged with bribery, conspiracy and tax fraud. Rather than face trial, Agnew entered a plea of no contest to charges of evading income tax, and was sentenced to three years' probation. After leaving office, Agnew worked as an international trade executive and also published a memoir… Read More

Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1968. First Edition. B&W card wraps with two staple binding, illustration of space walk reproduced four times on the cover. Very good. 8" x 10.25", pp. 1 - 30, with frontispiece of an astronaut in space walk and B&W photos and illustrations throughout. This is the most uncommonly found booklet (EP-57) in a series of 13 (published on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of NASA. Some scuffing along spine vertical, light wrinkles emanating from spine where opened and read, however inside is clean and collectible. "Man in Space" covers the ground from those pre-Sputnik days when only a handful of scientists and engineers in the United States believed that man would ever fly in space, to the preparation for a manned lunar landing and return in this decade." (Introduction: George E. Mueller).

n.p., 1920. A modest and entertaining archive of eighteen manuscript poems from approximately the same number of different authors, based solely on handwriting style. Seventy-plus pages of original verse ranging from Victorian love, Love lost and found, and several with quite dark and gothic themes. Very few are dated and signed, and if so, only by a first name, their once private words still protected by the anonymity of time. Also included is one letter dated 1871 and one typed poem. All pages are in Very Good condition, with all having mailing fold creases, a few with foxing, light edge and fold wear. The contemporaneous verse shows remarkably little editing. All poems are sufficiently sublime to be published. Titles include: "The Sinner Invertation (sp)", "McAfee's Confesions (sp)", "The Ocean Buriel (sp)", "The Dying Californian", and the following refrain from the 120 line, rhyming, (abab) "The Polish Boy" "What hand is that whose icy… Read More