New York: J.M. Stoddart & Company, 1887. First Edition. Large octavo; [ii], 707pp. Three plates including portrait frontis with tissue guard and eight maps (three folding), all present. Contemporary leather (sheep?), rebacked with newer brown leather spine and black spine label with gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Boards..... More
Boston: John H. Eastburn, 1832. First Edition. Octavo. Removed. 21 pages. Upper edge of title page a bit soiled. Evident ex-library copy with "Dup discard" in pencil on title and call number to rear. Quincy lectures on the American Revolution as the result of historical circumstances rather than..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1937. Second Printing. Octavo. 147 pages. Black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Lacks dust jacket. Signed by author to her sister on half title with inscription, "For my sister, Elizabeth T. Sullivan / 1519 Thirty-First St N.W. / Washington, D.C. / in..... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. Seventeenth Impression. Two volumes. Binding by "The Atelier Bindery for Charles Scribner's Sons," with binder's stamp on verso of front free endpaper. Octavo; I: xiv, 456pp, II: viii, 456pp. 9 plates each including frontispieces with tissue guards, all present. Three quarter black..... More
Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., Printers, 1863. First Edition. Octavo. Original printed wrappers. 30 pages. Somewhat dust-soiled and stained; spine a bit worn and loose; a good, sound copy. A pro-Union address from the long-time Marietta College president and historian. Andrews attacks the principles behind secession and..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. Third Printing. Three signed handwritten letters from co-authors on stationary postcards (one from Beschloss, two from Talbott) to journalist William Safire laid in. Book itself is unsigned. Octavo; 498pp. Printed black dust jacket over red- and black paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to..... More
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Salem: The Essex Institute, 1924. Reprinted from the Essex Institute Historical Collections Volumes LVII and LVIII. Four volumes. Octavos; 173pp, 168pp, 164pp, 175pp.. Black and white photographs throughout. Blue paper-covered boards and navy cloth spine with mounted black and white ship illustration to fronts and gilt lettering to spines... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1962. Book Club Edition. Signed by the author on front free endpaper to journalist and former presidential speechwriter William Safire with inscription "With heartiest respect for Bill Safire from his fan and friend, Bob Gray, January 1976." Octavo; 372pp. Illustrated dust jacket with Book..... More
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. Octavo. 416 pages. Short autographed letter signed from Talbott to William Safire laid in at front. Note [4" x 6 1/4"] is on Deputy Secretary of State letterhead and reads, "July 15 / Dear Bill - / I thought you might be..... More
New York: Subscription Book Department of The American News Company, 1879. First Edition. Two Volumes. Quartos; 631, 631 pages. Frontispiece of Grant with tissue guard; over 800 additional black and white illustrations. Lacks fold-out map. Half calf with gilt decoration and brown and red title labels to spine, volume 1..... More
Minneapolis: The Midwest Company, 1931. Second Printing. Octavo; [xii], 384pp. 9 photos, including frontis, and two maps, all present. Printed black and yellow dustjacket over burnt orange cloth with stamped yellow lettering with "the Caxton Printers, Ltd." imprint at tail of spine (the First Printing read "Midwest" before Caxton's buyout..... More