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New York: E. Laub Publishing Co, 1943. First printing. Thin velvet-covered boards. Octavo. 159 pages. Bound in thin, flexible, red velvet-covered boards with upper board titled in gilt, which has darkened. Some shallow bumping to the Yapp edges of covers. Jacket has a few shallow edge wrinkles and light soil. Overall near fine in a near fine dust jacket.. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Poems of political struggle, published while Balabanoff was in exile in New York during World War II. She was a Russian-born Italian Jew who had worked with Lenin, Trotsky, and Zinoviev, and with Socialist leaders in Italy before being forced into exile by the rise of Mussolini. <br /> <br /> Balabanoff has inscribed and signed this copy on a preliminary blank leaf: "For the comrades / O + R Fox / Thanking them for their / warm hospitality / and hoping to meet them / again and again! / W. D.C. 8-27-43 / [signature]."<br /> <br /> Introduction by Arturo Giovannitti. Dust jacket… Read More

New York: (New York American, Inc.), 1929. First edition. Publisher's cloth over boards. Octavo. xxii, 397 pages. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.. Black and white illustrations. Anti-Prohibition book that looks at the American national reaction against the 18th Amendment by 1929. The $25,000 prize-winning plan by Judge Franklin Chase Hoyt is reprinted herein, followed by an examination of the troubling results of Prohibition.

Fulton: Westminster College, 1946. Stapled wraps. Quarto. [24 pages]. Covers have a few slight extremity rubs, otherwise near fine.. Black and white photographs. Here is the rare first appearance of Winston Churchill's speech "The Sinews of Peace," in which he first used the term "Iron Curtain" to describe the Soviet Union's establishment of control over Eastern Europe immediately following World War II. <br /> <br /> Mr. Churchill had been invited to Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, by its President, Franc Lewis McClure--through President Truman--to deliver the college's John Findley Green Foundation Lecture for 1946. The program of events for the day is covered here, including several photographs. President Truman and Mr. Churchill were both given honorary degrees from Westminster, and their individual remarks in response are also included herein.<br /> <br /> Churchill's "Iron Curtain" phrase brilliantly described the… Read More

Princeton: Students of Princeton University, 1917. Printed wrappers. Octavo. [x], [297]-346, [vi] pages. Very good condition with a few edge chips to the covers, which protrude beyond the textblock on three sides. One largish chip (1 3/8" x 1/8") along upper fore edge that has been expertly repaired.. Advertising. Two early F. Scott Fitzgerald print appearances, one story and one poem, in Princeton's undergraduate literary magazine. His short story "The Spire and the Gargoyle" occupies this issue's first eleven pages of content, and the college-angsty poem "Rain Before Dawn" appears on page 321. <br /> <br /> The Nassau Lit was edited at this time by Fitzgerald's friend, John Peale Bishop. The next print appearance of "The Spire and the Gargoyle" was in "The Apprentice Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1909-1917", edited by John Kuehl, in 1965. "Rain Before Dawn" next appeared in print in 1961 in another Princeton… Read More

Baltimore: Various publishers, 1860. Cloth over boards. Folio. Various original paginations. Original pieces of sheet music gathered and bound in 20th century cloth over boards with a leather spine label titled in gilt. Mild scattered foxing inside. Near fine overall.. Some illustrated title pages. This is a bound volume of individual pieces of sheet music, mostly published in Baltimore in the 1860s. Most appear to be popular songs of the day but two are rare and decidedly pro-Southern songs printed in Baltimore early in the Civil War.<br /> <br /> A. F. Gibson composed and dedicated "There is Life in the Old Land Yet" to Severn Teackle Wallis. Wallis was a prominent Baltimore lawyer and member of the Maryland legislature who was then imprisoned at Ft. McHenry along with other Maryland officials suspected of disloyalty to the Federal Government.<br /> <br /> Gibson's composition was published in 1862 by George Willig of Baltimore, and reflects Maryland's… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First edition. Cloth-backed decorative boards. Octavo. [x], 255 pages. Light wear to extremities, some mild soil to dust jacket. Very good to near fine overall.. Drawings by Erick Berry. From the jacket: "A novel of negro life, of elemental passion and tenderness." Attractive dust jacket.

(S.l.): (S.n.), 1920. Cloth over boards with vellum spine and fore corners. Folio. 100 pages [and] 127 pages [and] 113 pages. Fine. bound in green cloth over boards with spine and fore corners in vellum; Gitl-stamped spine label has a patch of wear to lower right quadrant, else book and binding fine.. Diagrams, some tipped in photographic illustrations. Three instructive texts, all in Italian, concerning the accurate use of mounted machine guns and the dropping of bombs from airplanes. These are World War I era or shortly after. There are numerous diagrams, graphs, and formulae. The text appears to be produced by mimeography. Some of the illustrations are tipped in photographs of diagrams and calculations.

(S.l.): (E. P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence), 1986. Advance Reading Copy. Self-wraps. Octavo. [54] pages. Near fine, saddle-stapled binding.. An advance printing of the title story in the collection "To Skin a Cat," published in October of 1986. This is copy #28 of 250, signed by McGuane on front cover. Letter from publisher dated June 19, 1986 is laid in, explaining the present copy to be a "special edition of this title story, signed by the author and limited to 250 copies.

Washington, D. C.: Self Published, 1935. First Edition. Wrappers. Octavo. [iv], 143 pages. Good. Critical report on the U. S. Military establishment just after World War I in which it is alleged that a "war trust" simultaneously profited from war preparations while inviting war and keeping American military power weak. Isham was himself an inventor in the area of high explosives. This booklet is bound in printed paper covers over a side-stapled binding. Browning and dampstaining to front cover and portions of textblock, some red crayon markings to a few pages. Covers have rubs and light soil. Quite scarce.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1914. First printing. Tan-gray laid paper over boards. Octavo. 75 pages. Bound in tan-gray laid paper over boards with blind-stamped double rules on upper board, paper title labels on spine and upper board, top edge gilt. Fine, with a neat prior owner bookplate on front pastedown and a tiny chip to one lower corner of spine label. A beautiful copy.. Alfred Joyce Kilmer was an American poet, editor, critic, and Roman Catholic lecturer who contemporary critics often compared to G. K. Chesterton and Hillaire Belloc. <br /> <br /> Today Kilmer is remembered as the author of the title poem "Trees" in this, his second published collection of poetry. Kilmer deployed to France with the New York's famous "Fighting 69th" Infantry Regiment in 1917. He was killed by a sniper at the Second Battle of the Marne in July 1918. He was 31. <br /> <br /> This is the first issue of the first edition, without the copyright page notice,… Read More

Boston: American Stationers Co, 1837. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 334 pages (with 4 pages ads at front, 12 pages ads at back). Mild scattered foxing, some extremity rubs and shallow chips to cloth along board edges. Hinges not cracked but joints have a few splits.. Hawthorne's third publication in book form and the first to bear his name. This collection of 18 stories won immediate recognition for its author, though all had previously appeared in annuals or magazines. Hawthorne himself assembled and edited them for this collection. <br /> <br /> The included story "Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe" is very close to being a detective story in the purest sense. Indeed, none other than Edgar Allan Poe, (whose "Murders in the Rue Morgue," published four years later, and often credited with the first modern detective story) called Hawthorne's story "vividly original and managed most dexterously." <br /> <br /> One… Read More

Austin, 1969. Near fine. Folded once to fit in envelope. Some slight edge wear.. A nice letter on Johnson's post-Presidential stationery with a clear, bold signature. Includes the original free franked mailing envelope. Johnson expresses his gratitude for a very complimentary letter from a private citizen who states that: "Historians will surely regard you as the president most conscientious about the needs and wishes of the American people." The correspondent's carbon copy of his handwritten letter to which Johnson is replying is included.

Washington: Navy Department, 1919. Navy Department Letterhead plus a single blank sheet. 8" x 10 1/2. Fine with a few light surface wrinkles. Letter bears a date received stamp at top right margin and two holes, presumably for filing, along left margin with no loss of text.. A fine 2 paragraph letter in which future President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his role as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, gently denies a request from a founder of the American Legion for a part of the U. S. Marine Band to perform for the benefit of veterans at the New Willard Hotel in Washington just after World War I.<br /> <br /> "While this Department is heartily in sympathy with any movement tending to promote the welfare and interests of those who have served in the military and naval service of the United States during the war, I very much regret to have to inform you that it will not be practicable to assign a section of the Marine Band to furnish music on the above-mentioned occasion owing to the… Read More