Limited Edition. New York: Stein and Day, 1963. Limited Edition with original signed lithograph numbered 87/1000 laid in at front. Signed by Dean on dedication page to author and columnist William Safire with inscription: "To Bill Safire - / who contributes an impressive share / of decibels to the Relations..... More
![Natural Selection of Political Forces [Signed with TLS]. Adolf A. Berle Jr](/pictures/thumb/5538.jpg?v=1570629661)
Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1950. First Edition. Octavo. 103 pages. Signed by author to economist Herbert J. Cummings on front free endpaper with inscription, "For Herbert Cummings / with all best wishes / Adolf A. Berle / December 1950." Typed letter signed from Berle to Cummings laid in..... More
Softcover. Pocket notebook (16 x 8cm); 40 leaves. Handwritten notes in ink on each recto. Staple-bound at top edge with black tape covering. Perforated leaves. Cardboard backing with no front cover, possibly as issued (one stub remains on top from a torn-out sheet; unsure if this was a cover page..... More
First Edition. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. First Edition. Signed by author Yergin on front free endpaper to William Safire with inscription, "With admiration and / respect - and appreciation / for the good sense of / originality you bring / to our national life, / best wishes, /..... More
First Edition. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2000. First Edition. Signed by author to William Safire on title page with inscription: "For William Safire / in gratitude for many / hours' reading pleasure / David Micklethwait / Nov. 2000." Additional typed letter laid in. Quarto; 350pp. No dust jacket..... More
![Close-Up: How To Read The American City [Signed with TLS to William Safire]. Grady Clay](/pictures/thumb/5459.jpg?v=1569521115)
London: Pall Mall Press of Praeger Publishers, 1973. First British Edition. Quarto. 192 pages. Autographed note signed from author to William Safire affixed to front free endpaper with tape and reads, "The first of four books by Grady Clay / To William Safire / with admiration / Grady Clay /..... More
Washington, DC: The AEI Press, Publisher for the American Enterprise Institute, 1996. Second Revised Edition. Wraps. Fat Octavo. 622 pages. Inscribed by author on title page to William Safire with inscription, "To Bill Safire / with best wishes / Herb Stein / February 1996." Autographed letter signed from Stein..... More
Unpublished autograph travel diary in three notebooks. February-August 1908. Each commercially-produced small octavo notebook (19cm x 12cm) of 190 pages, ruled paper, sewn gatherings, thin oxblood leather covers, rounded corners, all pageblock edges gilt. Covers and stitching now loosened; gatherings separating but all pages present. Leather covers flaking with edge..... More
![Rabbit Is Rich [with TLS]. John Updike](/pictures/thumb/5700.jpg?v=1573234523)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition. Octavo. 467 pages. Typed postcard signed from Updike to previous owner laid in at front. Postcard is dated February 15 and addressed to a Dr. Sidney M. Fogelman, a dentist in Washington, D.C. In the note, Updike thanks Fogelman for his nice..... More
First Edition. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. First Edition. Signed by the author on title page to William Safire with inscription, "To Bill, / Thanks for the / encouragement. / Enjoy! / Josh." Additional signed typed letter laid in. Octavo. 350 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original $23.00..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1942. Inscribed on front free endpaper in blue pencil by the author, former executive director of the Associated Press, to journalist William Safire: "Greetings to Bill Safire - KC alias (?) Kent Cooper." Octavo; 324 pp.Tan cloth binding with title in orange..... More
![The Last Two Years of Salvador Allende [with ALS from Davis to Ambassador Bonsal]. Nathaniel Davis](/pictures/thumb/6398.jpg?v=1591906664)
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985. First Edition. Two page note on author's stationary from Davis to Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal laid in at front. Letter is dated 1983 and Davis thanks the Ambassador for his support. He goes on to discuss Bonsal's book and mentions parallels between Chile and..... More
First Edition. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. First Edition. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper to William and Helene Safire. Inscription reads, "Bill + Helene / finally: a two- / way flow of books, / established between the / Safires and the Haass' / we'll work on /..... More
Roger Brooke Taney was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1836 through 1864. He was an antagonist of Lincoln, a Southern sympathizer, and, most famously, ruled in 1857 in the Dred Scott case that African Americans could not be considered citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery... More
![Mayday Man [with TLS to William Safire]. William Beecher](/pictures/thumb/5579.jpg?v=1571235968)
Washington, DC: Brassey's (US), 1990. First Edition. Octavo. 213 pages. Typed letter signed from Beecher to fellow Pulitzer Prize-winner William Safire laid in at front. The one page letter centers around a word Beecher thinks Safire would be amused by, "...cryptonomous. It's from the Greek words kryptos, meaning..... More