Recent Arrivals from Quaker Hill Books

5 August 1980 delivered to the Annual Convention of the National Urban League. 13 pages. After an opening joke about his Hollywood career, candidate Reagan likens his speech before the to the appearance of candidate John F. Kennedy "before a skeptical" audience of Protestant ministers in 1960 "who wanted to know whether his religious beliefs would in dome way affect… Read more about this item

COLOR PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED BY PRESIDENT REAGAN, NANCY REAGAN AND LUCKY - ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY THE PRESIDENT: "This is with our new family member Lucky.Her paw print." Lucky was a female Bouvier des Flandres puppy, given to the Reagans by the March of Dimes Poster Child in 1984 and named after Nancy Reagan's mother Edith Lucket Davis. Eventually after Lucky had… Read more about this item

2 Volumes. Large 8vo.. Original burgundy pictorial cloth, black and gilt, t.e.g., illustrated with folding map and numerous color plates throughout. Custom slipcase. George Catlin was an American painter, author, and traveler. The original book, published in 1842 in London, was written during eight years of travel from 1832 to 1839 and contains many of Catlin's illustrations. The book is… Read more about this item

2 Volumes. Large 8vo.. Original burgundy pictorial cloth, black and gilt, t.e.g., illustrated with folding map and numerous color plates throughout. Custom slipcase. George Catlin was an American painter, author, and traveler. The original book, published in 1842 in London, was written during eight years of travel from 1832 to 1839 and contains many of Catlin's illustrations. The book… Read more about this item

Fortieth President of the United States. Very good content typed letter on his personal letterhead, signed "Ronnie" to Ted Humes a Goldwater campaign staff member in Pennsylvania. Reagan gained national attention in his speeches for Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign and at the urging of California Republicans was considering a run for Governor later that year. 4to., in fine condition.

Now page on unmarked light brown paper to Ben Weissman. In part: " My own politics are exactly as they were in Spain. As a writer, after the war is over.I have to write things as I see them if we are to profit by our mistakes.In the end I think the writing straight will be the most valuable thing… Read more about this item

Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and On the Great Plains. Comprising "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman" and "The Wilderness Hunter" New York and London: G.P. Putnams Sons; The Knickerbocker Press, 1899.With 55 illustrations by Remington, Frost, Beard, and others. "Midway through Roosevelts third term [in the New York State Assembly] in 1884, his wife died after giving birth to… Read more about this item

The true First Edition published on 18 April 1944. An unnumbered copy of 750 copies SIGNED on the limitation page by the author. The Razor's Edge, by British novelist W. Somerset Maugham, was published in London and New York in 1944. Maugham was seventy years old when the book was published, and it was to be the last of his… Read more about this item

Volume I and II are the Second Edtion, 1766, 1767 including te Table of Descents and Table of Consanguinity; Volume III and IV are the Fourth Edition, 1769, 1770. A lovely strong set in a beautiful contemporary, brown polished calf binding with raised spines and red morocco lables. Some minor rubbing and scuffing on volume IV and a tiny unobtrusive… Read more about this item

Original green cloth slightly cocked as usual. Boards professionally rebacked. A fresh and clean copy showing some mild toning and rubbing to the spine. The classic, powerful story many consider to be Conrad's best work.

Five bound volumes of the complete issues for the years 1861-1865. Contents in excellent condition. The bindings show some light to moderate wear to the exterior boards but remain sturdy and tight. Harper's Weekly was the most widely read journal in the United States throughout the period of the Civil War. So as not to upset its wide readership in… Read more about this item

McKee Printing Co. Butte, Montana, 1949. 11th printing. Pictorial paper. Near Fine. small 8vo., 269pp..

Harper Bros. New York, 1834. First Edition. Orig. cloth. Moderately rubbed and soiled. Good. 8vo., 432pp. + ads., Highly interesting American philosohy title..

New York:: Scribner,, 1916. Original articles in verse and prose with literary contributions by Hardy, James, Yeats, Conrad, Cocteau and an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. Beautifully illustrated by Bakst, Beerbohm, Sargent etc. Some soiling and rubbing to borads, corners bumped, some minor scuffing to rear board. A lovely copy of this important and scarce work.. First Edition. Gray Cloth.… Read more about this item

Edinburgh and London:: William Blackwood and Sons,, 1863. Profusely illustrated with maps, charts and plans. This fine set is beautifully bound in 3/4 crimson moroco over light red cloth , with gold decorations and lettering on a raised spine; t.e.g..Spines uniformly a bit faded and some very scattered foxing internally. Small book label to front pastedown.. First Edition. 3/4 Crimson… Read more about this item

New YorkNew York: M.D. Young, 1859 Orig. Brown Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presentation copy inscribed by the author Tomlinson, a reporter who rode with James Montgomery in the Kansas Territory during the tumultuous summer of 1858. Some very minor foxing otherwise a clean and bright copy. Howes T290..

LondonLondon: , 1768 Full Comtemporary Brown Calf. Very Good. 4to. Translated from the French of Francois Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray. Contents excellent with only slight soiling. Spine in 7 compartments decorated in gilt. Binding rubbed and scuffed, front board loose but well attached..

London:: Trubner & Co.,, 1863. Publisher's red cloth with a cowboy sharpshooter and horse illustrated in gold on the front board. Spine lettered in gold. Fiirst Burton Edition. 8vo. Profusely illustrated including folding map in rear. An exceptionally fresh and bright copy with extensive notes by Richard Burton. Unopened. Penzer 69-70; Howes M279; Wagner-Camp-Becker 335:4. Excellent. Small 8vo..

Boston, 1909 First edition. Olive cloth. Excellent - minor scuffing and soiling. 2 portrait plates. 8vo., Inscibed by Lodge and bound in olive green cloth with gold lettering..

Boston:, 1866. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on ffep and dated Dec. 18, 1883. 3/4 Comtemporary brown cloth with flag-bearing soldier embossed in gold on front cover. An important Civil War regimental history that saw action in many of the most famous battles including First Bull Run, Yorktown, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Spottsylvania Court House. Cudworth, the… Read more about this item