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By: N/A
Price: $300.00
Publisher: London, J. Baker: 1710
Seller ID: 353
A Compleat History of the Whole Proceedings of the Parliament of Great Britain Against Dr. Henry Sacheverell with His Tryal Before the House of Peers for High Crimes and Misdemeanors; the Reasons of Those Lords That Enter'd Their Protests; etc. London: J. Baker, 1710. 12mo, contemporary calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering and decoration on spine.. An important document for the history of the Anglican Church. Sacheverell had attacked the Queen, the Whigs and t... View more info
By: Crosby, Ernest and Benedict Prieth [Eds.]
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Newark NJ , The Whim: 1901
Edition: 1st ed
Seller ID: k190218e
Six issues - Vol. 1 No. 1 through Vol. 1 No. 6 bound in a single volume; publisher’s ¼ leather binding, gray boards. Each of the six issues are 24 pp, with colored card covers bound in. Short quips, essays, reviews reflecting 'socialistic, anarchistic and anti-imperialist attitudes toward current events,' (MacLeod, American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle: Art, Protest, and Cultural Transformation] Crosby was a leading proponent in the U.S. of Tolstoyan anarchis... View more info
Price: $150.00
Publisher: 1960
Seller ID: k181228a
Typed letter signed “Ted.” 8-1/2”x11” on official John F. Kennedy for President letterhead. Dated November 17, 1960. A simple letter of thanks to a Los Angeles postal office manager for his help in ensuring that campaign materials were distributed without delay. “Your personal efforts in seeing that the mailings by Campaign Report, our western newsletter, were not delayed, and received highly expeditious treatment, are very much appreciated. / Russell Benedic... View more info
Price: $4,900.00
Publisher: London: J. Johnson: 1779
Seller ID: 022102
8vo, half-leather, marbled boards, black label with gilt titles and ribbed lines on spine. 565 pp. plus 8-page Addenda and Corragenda. 1st edition thus. [Published earlier that year in an exceedingly rare 4to format] This definitive collection of Franklin essays, many printed here for the first time, is the only edition of Franklin's political and philosophical writings printed during his lifetime. The collection was edited by his friend Benjamin Vaughan with Franklin's ... View more info
By: Grosz, George
Price: $45.00
Seller ID: S124
New York: Brussel & Brussel. 1965, 1965. (First edition thus). Small folio. Gilt titled paper covered boards. Near fine in near fine price-clipped d/w. [d/w has a very light discoloration 1/" wide across cover) First U.S. edition of Grosz' work which was suppressed in Germany shortly after its publication. Contains 16 watercolors and 84 drawings. View more info
By: Kennedy, John
Price: $400.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Company: 1940
Seller ID: 121311
1st UK edition, first printing. Hutchison & Co. Ltd (London), 1940. In original dust-jacket with 3s/6p price intact. The book is in good condition: some age-toning and very light foxing on end-papers with very minor shelf-wear to covers. Interior pages are yellowed at edges, but not brittle. (As usual for the cheap wartime pulp paper.) No chips or tears. The dust jacket is in generally good shape with a 1/2"x3/4" chip at top of spine, a 1/4"x1/2" open tear on middle of ... View more info
By: Liam O'Flaherty
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London: 1928
Edition: 1st ed,
Seller ID: k190126a
Novel based on the assassination of the Irish government minister Kevin O'Higgins in 1927.CONDITION: Very good. A bright, crisp copy overall; some toning to end papers, half-title and title pages -- the latter lightly so. Dust jacket is good only; chipped corners, nicks and cracks at spine ends; price clipped; toning to interior flaps. View more info
By: Lincoln, Abraham
Price: $75.00
Publisher: San Francisco, John Howell: 1915
Seller ID: 121340
A Lecture by Abraham Lincoln Delivered in 1860. 1st ed., thus. 8vo, red boards. Printed for San Francisco bookseller John Howell by SF printer John Henry Nash. One of 250 copies printed d on Fabriano Italian Hand-made paper. This is copy no. 68. Interior is clean, tight and bright. Covers have surface wear and several small nicks along edges and top of spine. View more info
By: Low, Governor Frederick F.
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Sacramento, Sacramento Book Collectors Club,: 1959
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 000254
The texts of a "Memoir" (1877-1878) and an interview (1883) between Low and H.H. Bancroft, in which the ninth governor of California (1863-1867) reflected on his business and political life, with particular emphasis on the Gold Rush, the railroads, and the question of Chinese immigration. Club publication number 7. Limited to 310 copies, printed by the Grabhorn Press. 78 pp. Edited, with Preface and Notes by Robert H. Becker. Quarto. Pp. xiii, [1], 78. Frontis portrait ... View more info
By: Martin, Luther
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Cincinnati, Alston Mygatt: 1838
Seller ID: 1067
"From The Notes Taken By The Late Robert Yates, Esq. Chief Justice Of New York, And Copied By John Lansing, Jun. Esq. Late Chancellor Of That State, Members Of That Convention Including The Genuine Information Laid Before The Legislature Of Maryland By Luther Martin, Esq. Then Attorney General Of That State, And A Member Of The Same Convention Also, Other Historical Documents Relative To The Federal Compact Of The North American Union." This is a later printing; first p... View more info
Price: $22.00
Seller ID: 39702
First edition. NY: Viking, 1983. Fine in price-clipped d/w. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse chronicles the history between the Sioux and the United States government, with emphasis on the 1971 shoot-out at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, a 71-day, armed stand-off between federal and state agents and upon the 1975 shootout involving the AIM activist Leonard Peltier in which two FBI agents were killed. Matthiessen investigates his later trial and conviction; and the cont... View more info
![Image for Sal Si Puedes [Signed by both PM and Cesar Chavez]](/assets/images/product/s180622q_1 "Sal Si Puedes [Signed by both PM and Cesar Chavez]")
Price: $625.00
Publisher: NY: Random House: 1969
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: s180622q
A nonfiction account of Cesar Chavez and the struggles of the United Farm Workers to form a migrant workers' union to end the dramatic exploitation of temporary farm labor that was so prevalent in the 1960s and 70s. This book was the subject of a lawsuit, and later issues of the first edition came with a legal disclaimer pasted in. Matthiessen also revised it, and a new edition was issued a couple of years later. A significant piece of reporting and social criticism, c... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Devin-Adair Company: 1952
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: 1068
12mo, blue cloth, 186 pp. Good: External appearance is fine, but pages were printed on cheap paper and have browned along edges. Small ink star on front end paper. In good d/w with numerous creases and nicks along edges and a 1" open tear at bottom of front cover. View more info
Price: $85.00
Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton: 1937
Edition: 1st
Seller ID: 015002
8vo, black cloth. Very good-near fine copy in VG d/w. Book has some light staining inside covers, otherwise fine. The staining appears to be an image transfer from the yellow d/w flaps. D/w has edgewear and a few small nicks but no significant tears or chips. View more info
Price: $95.00
Publisher: New York: Viking: 1993
Edition: 1st ed.
Inscription: Signed.
Seller ID: s180623a
1st ed., 8v, sienna boards/brown cloth. Matthiessen's controversial and suppressed book on the conflict between agents of the federal government and members of the radical American Indian Movement (AIM) in the 1970s, which culminated in a gun battle that left two FBI agents and one Indian dead. Matthiessen argues that the conviction of Leonard Peltier for the agents' death was a miscarriage of justice. His book was the subject of two lawsuits -- by one of the FBI agents... View more info
![Image for In the Spirit of Crazy Horse [Samizdat edition]](/assets/images/product/s180623d_1 "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse [Samizdat edition]")
Price: $650.00
Publisher: Peter Matthiessen: 1983
Edition: 1st thus.
Seller ID: s180623d
Softcover “Samizdat” edition. One of several photocopied underground editions of the book, purportedly for distribution to tribal members after the publisher withdrew the book from distribution. The number produced is undetermined, but probably 50 copies or less. Very good: a bright copy internally but with several small stains to covers and light crease at left edge of front. No tears or marks. Signed by Matthiessen on the title page.Matthiessen's controversial a... View more info
By: Reagan, Ronald
Price: $325.00
Publisher: 1945
Seller ID: k1706304
Original World War 2 mimeographed military orders signed [in the plate] in by Capt. Ronald Reagan - 5 leaves, 8-1/2x11, dated February-April 1945. Reagan served in the 18th Army Air Force Base Unit (the Motion Picture Unit) as Captain and Adjutant. One of his duties was to sign the unit's official orders. These five sheets are all related to duty assignments given to Hollywood producer/director Jack J. Bernhard, another member of the Motion Picture Unit. One sheet is ... View more info
By: Robert E. Draper
Price: $650.00
Publisher: Sacramento, H.S. Crocker & Co, Steam Printers and Stationers: 1869
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: k181231c
8vo, cardboard covers with advtg, 275 pp. i-iv, 1-275 Includes list of Post Offices on the Pacific Coast, Money Order Offices, General Directory, City Business Directory, State Offices, Sacramento City Government, County Directory, local history and statistics, hundreds of advts. Ex Libris William Neely Johnson, with his signature on p 13. Johnson was Secretary of California’s Board of Land Commissioners, was the State’s second appointed State Librarian [an inte... View more info
By: Ronald Reagan
Price: $550.00
Publisher: 1971
Seller ID: k181227f
Typed letter signed, Ronald Reagan; Aug 16, 1971. 2 pp; 8-1/2”x11”, gubernatorial stationery and envelope. A letter to a Los Angeles constituent who had written Reagan expressing her concerns about the threat of communism. “I, too, believe it poses a very real danger. … [C]ommunist influences in the disturbances which have occurred on our university and college campuses are documented….Every precaution must be taken to make sure our schools are not utilized a... View more info
![Image for ALS, Ronald Reagan [President of the Screen Actors Guild] to Hollywood producer Jerry Wald -- personally signed as “Ronnie”, [1959]](/assets/images/product/k181228b_1 "ALS, Ronald Reagan [President of the Screen Actors Guild] to Hollywood producer Jerry Wald -- personally signed as “Ronnie”, [1959]")
By: Ronald Reagan
Price: $1,800.00
Publisher: 1959
Seller ID: k181228b
A one-page handwritten letter from Reagan to his close friend, film producer Jerry Wald, thanking him for his televised production of the 31st annual Academy Awards [1959]. 7-1/2”x11”, 1 page, on Reagan’s personal letterhead, dated March 27 [1959] “Dear Jerry / It is the “morning after” and my only regret is that I did not make a speech to a loud and large audience of our contemporaries. Subject of my speech would have been “Jerry Wald and how grateful ... View more info
