A Biographical History of Eminent and Self-Made Men of the State of Indiana. With Many Portrait-Illustrations on Steel, Engraved Expressly for This Work. Two Volumes by Anonymous - 1880

Beautifully signed LBJ bookplate: To Eunice Graham With appreciation for her Competent service during a trying period. Lyndon B Johnson (Note the "C" in Competent is clearly capitalized by LBJ). Book in fine condition with dust jacket in very good condition. Dust jacket on front page fine condition with very minor wrinkles (see picture). Tiny chips at top of jacket on binding and small tear and wrinkle on rear cover not impacting picture of LBJ (see picture). Clean text. Unclipped ($15.00). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover.LBJ noted about this book, "I make no pretense of having written a complete and definitive history of my Presidency. I have tried, rather, to review that period from a President's personal and political philosophy, a President's experience and knowledge, a President's aspirations, and a President's response to the demands that were made on him." I have not written these chapters to say' This is how it was," but to say, "This is how I saw it from my vantage point."

Oneida Association, Oneida Reserve, NY, 1849; Unique collection of five first edition Oneida Association publications: 1.) "Confessions Of John Noyes," autobiography of controversial Oneida founder John Humphrey Noyes, (1849; 96 pages), who after undergoing a religious conversion in 1834 during a meeting conducted by fiery revivalist Charles Grandison Finney, decided to dedicate his life to the theology of Perfectionism, and by 1836 had established a commune of "Free Church," or "Bible Socialists," at Putney, Vermont where they remained for twelve years until forced to move to New York’s Oneida Indian Reserve to avoid prosecution for adultery, owing to their practice of universal marriage. "Confessions," published the first year at Oneida, is Noyes’ personal account of his life and religious evolution, plus a history of Perfectionism; (2.) Faith Facts, Or A Confession Of The Kingdom Of God And The Age Of Miracles, (1850; 40 pages), the first Free Church… Read More

The Easton Press, 1993. 6 Volumes. First thus; Collector's Edition; Limited Edition of 1500 (#528 of 1500). Signed by Nixon. Issued without dust jackets. Used - Fine, "as new" condition. Very minor shelf wear to bottom edges. Otherwise appear unopened / unread. Bindings and text blocks are tight, bright, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Bound in full (genuine) navy leather with hubbed spines. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spines and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper. All edges gilt. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints and permanent satin ribbon markers. Publisher's letter laid in. Photo is of the set we have at Barbed Wire Books. A beautiful copy as well as a unique and rare find!Volumes: Six Crises, The Real War, Leaders, Real Peace / No More Vietnams, 1999 - Victory Without War, and Seize the Moment.

What Shall We Do with our Daughters? Superfluous Women and Other Lectures. by Mary A Livermore. Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers; New York: Charles T Dillingham, 1883. First Edition. Date on both Title Page and verso as shown. Also see photo of contents.Author Mary A Livermore (born Mary Ashton Rice; December 19, 1820 – May 23, 1905) was an American journalist, abolitionist, and advocate for women's rights. Her printed volumes included: Thirty Years Too Late, first published in 1847 as a prize temperance tale, and republished in 1878; Pen Pictures; or, Sketches from Domestic Life; What Shall We Do with Our Daughters? Superfluous Women, and Other Lectures; and My Story of the War. A Woman's Narrative of Four Years' Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps and at the Front during the War of the Rebellion.Presented here is a rare first edition of her 1883 publication noted above.
Condition: Outstanding condition for this first edition,… Read More

Raised four band spine is holding leather boards barely attached with cracking along the front and back boards as they are attached to the spine making it a very fragile book. Title plate on spine in red gloss with gold gilt, published date in black in third band. Leather boards show smudges, edgewear and bumping/wear to all four corners. Text block is firm but pages are very thin, brittle and show age tanning throughout with some darkening at the page edges of the intro pages (title, etc.). Previous owner name on front cover endpaper. The interior pages are clean with no tears, no chips, or other previous owner marks.

It contains a forty-nice page Appendix that covers: Debate on the Right of Senator Wade to sit as a member of the court; Argument of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts on the question Can the Chief Justice, presiding in the Senate Rule or Vote?; Additional notes to the Brief of the Authorities on the law of Impeachable Crimes and Misdemeanors; and Witnesses.

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Christchurch, New Zealand: Pegasus, 1962. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dustjacket protected in Brodart clear archival cover. Small triangle missing on front free endpaper. Penned name on same page. 223 pages no foxing. Tight and square binding.

London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1777. Near Fine. [2], 311-312 p.; 31 cm. (folio). Disbound. Title page reads "Anno Regni Georgii III. . . . At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth Day of November, Anno Domini 1774, in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third . . . And from thence continued, by several Prorogations, to the Thirty-first Day of October, 1776; Being the Third Session of the Fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain." Woodcut royal coat of arms above the imprint. Woodcut headpiece and historiated initial at the beginning of the act. "Whereas a Rebellion and War have been openly and traiterously levied and carried on in certain of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America, and Acts of Treason and Piracy have been committed on the High Seas, and upon the Ships and Goods of His Majesty's Subjects, and many Persons have been seised and taken, who are expressly charged or strongly suspected of… Read More

NY: Morrisania, 1886. First edition, limited to 250 copies signed by the author. Published NY: Morrisania, 1886. 4to., 7 3/4" x 11", vi+281pp. illustrated frontis engraved plate of author, 2 folding maps, tables, ALS laid in. Quarter bound leather and marbled boards, peach endpapers. Backstrip lacking, leather and edges worn. Internally very good, pages clean, bright, unmaked. Folding maps in very good condition, each with a minor tear in the margin attaching to the book. Scarce, and scarce to find that is not ex-library. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.

London: Richard Bentley, 1836. Signed first edition. 2 volumes finely bound in crimson 3/4 morocco by Stikeman with raised bands and gilt titles. Power's autograph signature bound in. Published London: Richard Bentley, 1836. Large 8vo., 6" x 9", xv+440pp.; vi+408pp., with half titles and frontispieces etched by Hervieu present. Marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. Name plate of noted collector Benjamin DeForest Curtiss on front pastedown of each volume. Power was a well known Irish comedian, actor and author. He toured the Eastern U.S. extensively and was lost at sea returning home from his last tour of 1841. He was great-grandfather of the Hollywood actor of the same name. Pages clean and bright white, page block crisp. Minor rub/scuff at extremities. A fine set in an elegant binding.. Signed. 1st. Hard. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

Bound volume (modern gilt-lettered blue cloth & marbled paper) containing 14 octavo pamphlets
Bound without wraps, one pamphlet lacking title page & stained throughout, (Smith/ Oratory), one pamphlet closely trimmed briefly touching some text (Clayton/ Speech Central American Treaty, 1856), scattered foxing & toning, generally very good
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The Nassau Rake: Edited and Published by the Sophomore Class of the College of New Jersey Princeton, June, 1856, 83, [1] pp.
The Nassau Rake: Edited and Published by the Sophomore Class of the College of New Jersey Princeton, June, 1857, 112 pp.
Memorabilia Sophomorum Edited and Published by the Freshman Class of the College of New Jersey, Princeton, New Jersey, June, 1856, 55 pp.
DAVIS, Thomas T. Address and Poem Delivered Before the Associate Chapters of the Sigma Phi Fraternity, At Their General Convention Held in Williamstown, Mass August 16, 1853 Williamstown: Published by the Alpha of Massachusetts, 1854, 37 pp.… Read More