Hardcover. Baltimore: Warner & Hanna, 1803. Octavo; 299 pp. followed by one page of advertisements for other Warner & Hanna publications. Bound in repaired but original calf with red leather title card. Expected wear to edges, some leather rubbed through to boards. Presentation bookplate on front pastedown states... More about The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected From The Best English Writers, And Disposed Under...

Hardcover. Leominster: Salmon Wilder for Isaiah Thomas, September 1810. Octavo (17x10cm); 148 pp. Marbled paper over boards with leather binding on spine. Substantial wear to corners and edges. Front and back hinges are starting, but binding remains sound. Bookplate for previous owner (Hugo Storm) on front pastedown. Name... More about The Adventures of Gil Blas, Of Santillane, Abridged

[New Haven]: [n.p.], 1834. Octavo; 24 pages. Originally published in blue wraps, here only rear panel present and detached. Deals with misreadings and inaccuracies in Biblical translations, and accused Lindley Murray and Joseph Worcester of plagiarizing Webster’s "Speller." From the estate of author, Presidential Speechwriter, and language maven William Safire..... More about A Brief View: 1. of Errors and Obscurities in the Common Version of the Scriptures ; Addressed to...

First Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. First Edition. Octavo. 423 pages. Signed by author to William Safire on front free endpaper with inscription, "To Bill / No stranger to / the inside story himself. / With warmest / regards and admiration. / Bob." Donovan was a longtime... More about Eisenhower: The Inside Story [Inscribed to William Safire

First Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. First Edition. Octavo. 455 pages. Signed by author on half title to fellow journalist William Safire with inscription, "For William Safire - / Whose facility in / this columnar racket I / envy - and admire. / Arthur Krock / Washington, DC... More about In The Nation: 1932-1966 [Inscribed to William Safire

First Edition. New York: Macmillan Company, 1951. First Edition. Quarto. 773 pages. Lacks dust jacket. Signed by author on half title page to talk radio pioneers and television hosts Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg with inscription, "For Tex McCrary / and / Jinx Falkenburg / most sincerely / Stefan Lorant... More about The Presidency: A Pictorial History of Presidential Elections from Washington to Truman...

Revised Edition. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1914. Revised Edition. Octavo. 422 pages plus advertisements. Olive green cloth stamped in black and red. Black and white illustrations throughout. Moderate wear at corners and some chips to spine ends. Rubbing at base of spine. Binding is sound. Loss to final... More about The Official Hand Book for Boys: Revised Edition - Boy Scouts of America

First Edition. Hardcover. London: Jonathan Cape, 1931. Signed limited first edition, # 171 of 304 copies. Octavo; 296pp. Full vellum binding with leather spine label. Gilt tops, other edges uncut. Spine label rubbed, faded and loose, but still attached. Corners are square. Binding is sound. Previous vendor's sticker [W. &... More about Nixey's Harlequin

First Edition. New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1981. First Edition. Quarto. 307 pages. Signed by author on front free endpaper to William Safire with inscription, "To Bill Safire, / With many, many / thanks, / From an old Yipsel [?],/ Victor Lasky." The final book from the conservative columnist takes... More about Never Complain Never Explain: The Story of Henry Ford II [Inscribed to William Safire

London: Randal Minshull, 1722. 12mo. (16x10cm); 328 [10]pp. Misnumbering 198 as 196, 199 as 197, and 255 as 245. Bound in brown calf with simple gold decoration on edges. Raised cords on spine with lettering stamped in gold on red band. Edges rubbed, corners bumped. Front and back... More about Instructions for Youth, Gentlemen and Noblemen

First Edition. New York: New York University Press, 1997. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author on front free endpaper to writer and columnist William Safire and his wife with inscription "For Bill and Helene, these Paris pages in all friendship - Tom. NY 3/97." Octavo; 298pp... More about From the Left Bank: Reflections on the Modern French Theater and Novel

First Edition. [Boston?, n.d., ca. 1850s]. First Edition. Small printed broadside flyer (20x14cm.), accomplished in manuscript. Light foxing, previous folds, else Very Good. Small handbill advertising a lecture delivered by abolitionist phrenologist Clother Gifford on Monday and Tuesday, October 17 and 18 in the School Room in Mansfield... More about Broadside] Mr. Clother Gifford, Practical Phrenologist and Physiologist

Hardcover. Leominster, Ma.: Adams & Wilder for Isaiah Thomas, 1803. Stated 24th edition. 12mo. (18x11cm); 138 leaves. 276 pp., followed by 2 pages of advertisements. Brown calf leather binding with lettering stamped in gold on red band on spine. Edges rubbed, corners bumped. Front hinge cracked and rear... More about An Introduction to the Making of Latin. Comprising, after an Easy, Compendious Method, The...