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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958. First Edition. Small Quarto. Illustrated blue dust jacket, color illustrated end papers, color pictures by H. A. Rey. Very good dust jacket with price of $2.75., some shallow loss at spine ends and top edge, small crayon scribbles at lower rear panel, near fine overall.

[Washington, DC]: No Publisher, [1944]. Large folio scrapbook; 22 1/2 X 14 1/2 inches; Leather covered heavy boards; Heavy paper leaves held by brackets; 100+ folio pages containing notes, clippings, show programs, cards, notes and other ephemera glued or taped on leaves; almost all items are meticulously notated with dates and other commentary. Scrapbook of Mark Freeman Gillette (1929-2013), son of Senator Guy M. Gillette (D-Iowa) who served in the U.S. Congress (1932-1936) and in the U.S. Senate (1936-1944 and 1949-1955) for a combined 18 years. His son, Mark F. Gillette (keeper of the scrapbook) and his mother accompanied the Senator to Washington D.C., residing there for much of Mark's childhood. The scrapbook is compiled by the young Gillette and spans the years when his father served as Senator from Iowa. The front flyleaf of this large folio scrapbook is festooned with scribbled writings and "dedications" by the teenage Gillette (1944) and conveys a hopeful and patriotic outlook. The second… Read More

Hammersmith: Published by William Morris, at The Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall Hammersmith, England, 1895. One of 525 copies, 300 of which were for sale in America and sold by Way & Williams. 12mo, vellum, gilt lettered spine. Near Fine with light staining to vellum covers.