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
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
Daleville, IN: Barnwood Press Cooperative, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 80pp. Light shelf wear and soil to wrappers, else a Very Good, internally fine copy. Inscribed and signed by the Indiana poet to Robert S. Sargent, the late Defense Department..... More
New Haven: [Yale University], 1933. Complete sammelband of Vol. III issues. Editor Eugene Rostow's copy with his ownership inscription at to of front free endpaper. Signed letter from Alistair Cook taped below, handwritten on Cooke's stationary: "Mar 19 / 98. / Dear Gene: / I have read your compelling piece..... 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
Antibes, France & Sussex, England: 1980-1986. Folio (14” x 9.5”); 24 clear, bound-in sleeves with blank endleaves. Includes seven typed letters from Greene (six signed, one dictated and signed in absence), seven letters from Gibson (four photocopied, three original with two signed), and two letters from Greene’s sister and amanuensis..... 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Unpublished autograph travel diary in three notebooks.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
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
![A Century of Revolution, 1789-1920 [Signed, with Autograph Note, Signed, Laid in]. Margaret Kennedy](/pictures/thumb/7502.jpg?v=1602861665)
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1922]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red cloth, upper cover lettered in blind, gilt-lettered spine; vi,220pp. Spine a hint cocked and cloth quite toned, else Very Good, internally fine. The author's first book, signed on title page. Additionally, laid in autograph card signed "M" on..... More
![Viet-Nam [Vietnam]: The Problem and a Solution [Typed Letter Signed in Facsimile Laid in]....](/pictures/thumb/7211.jpg?v=1599586385)
[Paris]: Viet-Nam Democratic Party, 1962. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's printed green textured paper-covered boards; 145pp.; four leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Extremities and spine faded to tan, light shelf wear, some foxing throughout, else Very Good and sound. Lengthy 2pp. typed letter signed by the author..... More
![Rahab: A Drama in Three Acts [Autograph Letter Signed in Original Envelope Tipped in]. Richard...](/pictures/thumb/7305.jpeg?v=1600885246)
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1906. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey decorative cloth stamped in yellow and dark blue; [2],117,[1],[4](ads)pp. Corners bumped, else a Near Fine copy. Post-marked envelope dated 1908 tipped to front pastedown and containing 1.5pp. autograph letter signed by the author, addressed to a Professor Charles..... 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
London: T.N. Foulis, 1912. First Thus. Slim, narrow octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's card wrappers sewn into pictorial dust jacket, yapp edges; [52]pp. featuring twenty-five mounted photographic plates with captions printed on facing pages. Extremities a bit chipped and toned, else Very Good and sound. This copy used as a souvenir..... More
![Freedomways: A Quarterly Review of the Negro Freedom Movement [Vol. 1, no. 1] Spring, 1961 [With...](/pictures/thumb/7319.jpg?v=1600798162)
[New York]: Freedomways, 1961. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue and white card wrappers; 109pp. Wrappers a bit rubbed and lighter portions slightly soiled, else Very Good and sound. Elusive inaugural issue offered with a typed letter signed in facsimile by the editor Shirley Graham (wife of contributor..... More
![In Old America: Random Chapters on the Early Aborigines [Autograph Letter, Signed, Tipped in]....](/pictures/thumb/7469.jpg?v=1602008904)
New York: Walton Book Company, 1931. First Edition. Slim octavo (24cm.); publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; xii,79pp. Corners very gently bumped, spine gilt rather dulled, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. Autograph letter signed by the author dated 1963 and addressed to Robert Masserman tipped to front..... 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