Search Results: Titles starting with E from Montgomery Rare Books

n.p., 1920. A modest and entertaining archive of eighteen manuscript poems from approximately the same number of different authors, based solely on handwriting style. Seventy-plus pages of original verse ranging from Victorian love, Love lost and found, and several with quite dark and gothic themes. Very few are dated and signed, and if so, only by a first name, their once private words still protected by the anonymity of time. Also included is one letter dated 1871 and one typed poem. All pages are in Very Good condition, with all having mailing fold creases, a few with foxing, light edge and fold wear. The contemporaneous verse shows remarkably little editing. All poems are sufficiently sublime to be published. Titles include: "The Sinner Invertation (sp)", "McAfee's Confesions (sp)", "The Ocean Buriel (sp)", "The Dying Californian", and the following refrain from the 120 line, rhyming, (abab) "The Polish Boy" "What hand is that whose icy… Read More

Washington DC, nd. Very Fine. SIGNED "Frances F. Clevelend in fountain pen on Executive Mansion Card Signed. 4.5" x2.75", 1p. 16mo. Fine signature is full breadth of the card.<br /> <br /> Grover Cleveland first met Frances when she was an infant and doted on her, even buying her a baby carriage. After her father, with whom Cleveland had a close friendship, died intestate, Cleveland was appointed guardian of the estate. Their relationship became romantic while Frances attended Wells College; shortly after her graduation, he proposed to her by mail. They were married at the White House making Frances, then 21 years old and 27 years younger than her husband, the youngest first lady in history, and a subject of intense public fascination. She was first lady during both of Cleveland's unusual non-consecutive terms, after which they settled in Princeton. A widow in 1908 at the age of 44, she married archaeology professor and Wells College president Thomas Jex Preston, Jr.… Read More