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Nashville, TN: The Chamber of Commerce (Nashville, TN), 1937. First Edition, First Printing. Original wraps. Good +. 9 X 11 1/4 Inches. 62 PP + Folding Map. Original February 5, 1937 Portfolio created by the Nashville Chamber of Commerce. A fairly incredible "time-capsule" glance and 20th Century Nashville in the making. This unique book was created specifically for the purpose of garnering the business of the Norvell & Wallace Lumber factory. We assume that other, similar copies were created on an individual basis when the city saw fit to "scout" major companies for the area. We have located "0" copies on OCLC and "0" auction records. The summary states, "The principal advantages Nashville offers to industry and other lines of business is summarized from this survey..." <br /> <br /> The index includes: agricultural resources, altitude, area, assessed valuation, building and construction, city government, civic and social data… Read More

1960. Near Fine. 4 7/8 X 2 7/8 Inches. Original 1960 Blank Back postcard/flyer. John F. Kennedy for President, Thaddeus Buczko for State House of Representatives and Edward McCormack for Attorney General. Scarce ephemeral piece from Kennedy's 1960 run for President.

Washington DC: GPO, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 3/8 X 5 3/4 Inches. 202 PP. Original 1971 pocket pictorial guide to the United States Congress. From the personal collection of Marjorie Kriz, veteran reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago and FAA Officer. Kris collected these autographs during her time at the City news Bureau as she has signed "Kriz CNB O'Hare" on the ffep. Original limp leather with gilt title stamping as issued. Accompanied by Marjorie's original Chicago Newpaper Reporters Association ID (1971).<br /> <br /> Highlights include President Gerald Ford, White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker and Shirley Chisholm (Brooklyn), the first black woman ever elected to Congress. <br /> <br /> Signed by Senator Theodore Stevens (AK), Barry Goldwater Jr. (CA), Senator Peter Dominick (CO), Senator Lawton Chiles (FL), Senator Daniel Inouye (HI), Abner Mikva (IL), George Collins (IL), Frank Annunzio (IL), Roman… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. Signed Limited Edition. Original cloth. Near Fine. 6 1/4 X 9 1/2 Inches. 336 PP. #578 of 600 signed and numbered copies by President Richard Nixon. Housed in original issue slipcase. Hint of rubbing to gold gilt stamping on spine, else a fine copy.

Memphis, TN: Fedex, 2011. First Edition. Original wraps. Very Good. 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 Inches. Original contract agreement between FEDEX and its airline pilots. Original printed wraps. Dated February 28, 2011. Hint of wear to edges and folds. Top corner of front cover is chipped. Extremely scarce.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2011. Signed Limited Edition. Leather bound. Near Fine. 6 1/8 X 9 1/4 Inches. 325 PP. #491 of 800 copies signed by author. Publisher COA and prospectus laid-in. Four raised hubs to spine. AEG. A sharp copy.

New York: Random House, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6 3/8 X 9 1/2 Inches. 412 PP. First printing with complete number line to the "1" on the copyright page. Original price of $30.00 intact. Signed by Ambassador Oren directly on the title-page.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1940. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 5/8 X 8 5/8 Inches. 773 PP. Important guide to city courts, elections, planning, zoning, housing, sanitation, police etc... An uncharacteristic (for the time) and sympathetic attack in several places on the mistreatment of negro citizens in American cities. No DJ.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 6 X 9 Inches. [722 PP][647 PP][461 PP]. Stunning three volume complete first edition set with the original dust jackets. Cloth binding and gilt title work to spine fresh and clean. DJ's chipped separating at folds. The jackets are lower grade examples, but extremely rare in any condition. Evarts was United States Secretary of State under James Garfield and Rutherford B. Hayes. He later served as Senator from New York. Evarts is known as one of, if not the greatest legal mind of his time. As an attorney, Evarts famously served as one of the prosecutors of Jefferson Davis for treason. He also served as President Andrew Johnson's Chief Counsel during his impeachment trial. First President and founding member of the New York City Bar Association.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5 7/8 X 8 5/8 Inches. 257 PP. Stated "First Printing" on the copyright page. Original price of $6.95 intact. Signed, "To My Friend, Manuel Vazquez: From his admirer and supporter. In the name of Unity & Justice - Whitney Young Jr." Young was a close personal advisor to President Kennedy, President Johnson and President Nixon. As the Director of the National Urban League and later President of the National Association of Social Workers, Young stands out as one of the great Civil Rights leaders of the 1960's. Much of Young's career was spent on employment discrimination in the United States. This particular copy signed by Manuel Vazquez, noted Spanish author and Political Prisoner. <br /> <br /> A bit of spotting and discoloration to gutters. Light wear to DJ edges. A very attracive copy overall.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6 3/8 X 9 3/8 Inches. 272 [1] PP. First printing with the full and complete number line to the "1" on the copyright page. Original price of $26.00 intact on front flap. Signed by President Carter with the full "Jimmy" on official Carter Center bookplate attached to the half title-page.

Boston: Ginn and Company, 1912. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 X 7 3/8 Inches. 403 PP. Signed and inscribed to fellow University of Michigan Alumnus and President of the Michigan Press Association Junius Beal. Beal served as a State Legislator in the Michigan House of Representatives during the 1905-1906 term. The book is accompanied by a rather lengthy and very personal letter (TLS) to Beal from Illinois Governor Richard Yates Jr. (letter is affixed to front pastedown). The letter is dated December 17, 1912, just days after Yates Jr. lost his 1912 third run for Governor of Illinois. ALL THREE MEN WERE GRADUATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN.<br /> <br /> In part: <br /> "After a long, uniform, continuous and contemporaneous delay, utterly inexcusable, so far as I am able to ascertain from the evidence in the case, I am returning to you today under separate cover, the book which I borrosed from you, just before the late unpleasant… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5 3/4 X 8 3/8 Inches. 110 [1] PP. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Original price of $2.25 intact on front flap. Signed by Adman Draper Daniels on the FFEP (his personal copy). Hint of foxing to pastedowns. Light wear to jacket edges with some minor chips here and there. An attractive copy overall. <br /> <br /> Draper Daniels (1913-1983), 20th Century advertising icon and model for the character "Don Draper" on AMC's "Mad Men" television series. Draper was a visionary in the world of modern advertising born in the 1950's and 60's. While serving as Creative Head of Leo Burnett advertising, he is widely known for The Marlboro Man, the Jolly Green Giant, Elsie the Borden Cow, Charlie Tuna (Star Kist) and Tony the Tiger among many others. Daniels would later leave Leo Burnett in favor of his own company, Draper Daniels, Inc., which he… Read More

College Station, TX: Texas A&M University, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 6 1/4 X 9 1/4 Inches. 487 PP. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Original price of $17.50 intact on front. Signed and inscribed "For Paul Roseblatt..." in the year of publication on the FFEP. 2 1/4 inch close tear to top edge of front DJ panel as shown. Light sunning to spine.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University / Hoover Institution, 1988. First Edition. Original wraps. Near Fine. 5 7/8 X 8 7/8 Inches. Original stapled wraps with $5.00 price sticker intact inside front cover. Signed by President Gerald Ford on the front cover. A sharp copy. From the "Thinking About America: The United States in the 1990's" series that included others including Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and more.

Nashville, TN: McQuiddy Printing Company, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 1/8 X 9 1/4 Inches. 107 PP. First edition in original cloth binding. Signed and inscribed by Albert Gallatin Ewing Jr. (City Attorney of Nashville) on FFEP. Fascinating contents cover all of the expenses of the city as well as the guidelines of city government.

Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soner, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 11 1/8 X 14 1/2 Inches. 174 PP. First edition of the first serious archaeological study of the Mesa Verde and the Pueblo Indian cliff dwellings in the American Southwest. Profusely illustrated and bound in orignal printed blue paper with leather spine and tips. Translated into English by D. Lloyd Morgan. Scholarly study of the cliff dwellers of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. 61 plates / 12 of which are double-page (25 photographs, 9 photogravures, 6 tinted lithographs, 11 sepia-tone photographs, 10 line drawings, map & 94 text figures). There was also a Swedish language issue with fewer plates. <br /> <br /> Signed and inscribed by Adolf Erik Nordenskiold, Gustaf's father and noted mineralogist and Arctic Explorer, to fellow Finnish Independence leader Konrad 'Konni" Viktor Zilliacus. Both Nordenskiold and Zilliacus were active in the struggle for independence of Finland from Russia.… Read More

New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/2 X 8 1/8 Inches. 161 [2] PP. Pre-Publication copy signed by 44 of Oates' employees at Equitable Life Insurance, including at least two (J. Henry Smith and Coy Eklund) who would later become President of the company themselves. Signed, "To James F. Oates Jr. / with the gratitude and / esteem of his Equitable / colleagues. / December 1, 1969" on the FFEP verso. Finely bound in leather and ruled in gilt on front and back cover. Oates, a WWI era veteran, graduated from Northwestern University Law School but spent most of his career in business. He was CEO of Chicago's Peoples Light, Gas and Coke Company. Oates pioneered the insurance industry's participation in urban renewal and served as the President of the Chicago Bar Association in the 60's. In addition, he rose to President of the Chicago Commercial Club and the YMCA. Oates later served on the President's Committee on… Read More

Washington: GPO (Printed by Duff Green), 1835. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 771 PP. Original publisher full tan sheep binding, with red and black spine labels. Square and tight overall. Bookplates to endpapers and ink number "726" on title-page (a private library notation we assume). Incredibly important 1835 record of various actions against and treaties with the various Indian tribes of North America. Includes a census of the Creek nation as well as the first print appearance of several Indian treaties. Toning to text. A Very Good copy of a very rare book.

Menlo Park, CA: Self-Published, 2023. First Edition. Original wraps. Near Fine. 6 1/8 X 9 1/8 Inches. 257 PP. "I challenge a new generation of young Americans to a season of service: to act on your idealism by helping troubled children, keeping company with those in need, reconnecting our torn communities. There is so much to be done; enough, indeed, for millions of others who are still young in spirit to give of themselves in service, too. In serving, we recognize a simple but powerful truth: We need each other, and we must care for one another." - President Bill Clinton (First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1993)<br /> <br /> First printing of this newly published memoir about the creation of Americorps. Signed and dated by author Catherine Milton directly on the title-page. AmeriCorps delivers programs designed to help communities address poverty, the environment, education, and other needs. The organization is the United States domestic version of the Peace Corps in a lot… Read More