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

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

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Unpublished autograph travel diary in three notebooks.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

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

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

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

[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

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