Search Results: Titles starting with W from Montgomery Rare Books

Washington DC: Gaither & Addison, 1846. Printed by John T. Towers. Brown leather with tooled design around cover edges and title impressed on cover. Sixth published Directory of D.C., Rare. Good plus. 4.5" x 7", pp. x, 1-76, 44 pp. of Advertisements on yellowed paper in the center of the book. An anthropological Synoptical Almanac covering a range of personal and business census information for the area. A very uncommon book with only six identified in OCLC. From Morse Code to translating gold weights to vessel arrival and departures, public servants by name and their salaries, rate charges for public transportation, Directory of Churches, Associations and Societies. An indispensable resource tool of the day, giving a broad profile of the Capitol during the James Polk Presidency. Bound in brown leather with stain on cover, front and back cover has some separation, minimal foxing, darkened within some text block, previous owner "M. S. Weller" name on blank ffe and neatly at… Read More

New York: Press of the McWilliams Printing Co, 1889. First Edition. Gray stippled covers with sewn in pages, now top bound by tape at the top into a library cover. Very good. 5.75" x 9', 15 pp. Ex-Long Island Historical Society with associated stamp and embossment. Bound into cardboard covers, Washington and Benjamin Harrison portraits on back cover. Souvenir gives the itinerary for the festivities, historical data on U. S. Presidents and Generals, and concludes with several pages of advertisements for New York businesses. None in retail and one copy in OCLC at time of this writing. Some light chipping and creasing to wraps. Pages toned at edges and light edge wear, overall sound historical memorial. "The President, the Vice-President, the members of Cabinet, the judges of the Supreme Court...and other notables from Washington will arrive at Elizabeth port about nine o'clock on the morning of the 29th.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. 2/3 light green cloth and beige linen spine. Near Fine/Very good. SIGNED "Lady Bird Johnson" neatly across her custom book plate. 6.25" x 9.35 [viii] x [2] 3-806 with 36 pp. of B&W photographs. Clean, square copy with a few spots on fore edge and bottom corners. DJ has a few closed tears along top edge, now well protected in a mylar cover. One of America's most beloved First Ladies, she put her imprint not only on the White House but the beautification of American Hiways. "This was one of those incredible days that would make a book. Lyndon had agreed that we should invite all the astronauts' families, wives and children to spend the night at the White House." (p 288).

Houston, TX: Standard Rice Company, Inc, 1930. Two staple wraps. Very good/very good. 6.75" x 5", pp. 2-47, die cut, graphic cover on yellow background. Wisp of ink fade at cover left margin and some light blue bleed on rear, inside clean and tight. Corporate cookbook promoting the company's grains and how to prepare them. "Pure Wholesome Delicious - Sold only in Hermetically Sealed Wax-Paper Wrapped Cartons