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INSCRIBED TO HIS COPY EDITOR

Collins, Michael.
CARRYING THE FIRE: An Astronaut’s Journeys.
$1500

Only LoC Has a Copy

[U. S. Presidential History].
The PRESIDENTS Of The UNITED STATES Of AMERICA. South. North. 1732 - 1883.
$225

Gregory Dexter

$100 or less
Swan, Bradford F
GREGORY DEXTER OF LONDON AND NEW ENGLAND, 1610-1700
$10

Frederic W. Goudy

$100 or less
FWG
$10
$100 or less
Blumenthal, Joseph
TYPOGRAPHIC YEARS, A PRINTER'S JOURNEY THROUGH A HALF-CENTURY. 1925-1975
$7.50

American Pioneer Daguerreotypist

$100 or less
William F. Stapp
Robert Cornelius: Portraits from the Dawn of Photography, Contributing authors: Marian S. Carson, M. Susan Barger
$45

New York History inscribed by the author!

Moses King
Notable New Yorkers of 1896-1899. A Companion Volume to King’s Handbook of New York City
$250
Count A. Hamilton
Memoirs of Count Grammont
$400

Beautiful nine volume Leather bound set

John Sanderson, Robert Waln, Jr., and Henry D. Gilpin
Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence
$900

Revolutionary Upheaval in Geneva

D'Ivernois, Francis
A Short Account of the Late Revolution in Geneva; and of the Conduct of France Towards That Republic, From October 1792, to October 1794, in a Series of Letters to an American
$250

Diogène. Caricatures and biographies.

Étienne Carjat, Amédée Rolland and others.
Diogène. Portraits et biographies satiriques des hommes du dix-neuvième siècle. Paris, 10 août 1856-26 avril 1857. (Satirical portraits and biographies of nineteenth-century personalities.), Remarkable relief-print and lithographic portraits of prominent actors, composers, artists, authors and politicians of 1850s Paris.
$6500

Nice example of a period Dickens CDV

Dickens, Charles [1812 - 1870]. Gurney, Jeremiah [1812 – 1895] - Photographer.
CARTE De VISITE [CDV] PHOTOGRAPH [Albumen].
SOLD

Revolutionary War

Mary Louise Cresap Stevenson
Life of Col. Thomas Cresap of Western Maryland
$175

Single Folio Watermarked Whatman Paper Leaf

$100 or less
Whatman Paper
Single Folio Watermarked Leaf
$50

BIOGRAPHY OF THE CHARISMATIC PIONEER

Mari Sandoz
Old Jules, First Edition
$250

A Grolier 100 Title

Boswell, James [1740-1795]. Johnson, Samuel [1709-1784]. Bonar, James [1757-1821] - Former Owner.
The LIFE Of SAMUEL JOHNSON Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order... In Two Volumes., [bound with] The PRINCIPAL CORRECTIONS And ADDITIONS to the First Edition of Mr. Boswell's Life of DR. JOHNSON.
$6000

White House Seances

Maynard, Nettie Colburn
Was Abraham Lincoln A Spiritualist?, or Curious Revelations From A Trance Medium
$250

Avakian's 'Stranger Among Friends'

$100 or less
Asdghig Avakian
'Stranger among friends' by Armenian nurse Asdghig Avakian
$69

Staunton, VA - 1823 - The MOUNTAINEER - I. Collett

Conrad Speece, D.D.
1823 - The MOUNTAINEER - Staunton, VA, Essays in the style of The Spectator by a prominent Virginia minister.
$150

Christopher Weimann's work - top 20th-cent marbler

Ingrid Weimann and Nedim Sönmez (b. 1957)
Christopher Weimann (1946-1988), A Tribute
$125

The Musketeers - 29th Inf. Division - World War I

$100 or less
Edley Craighill
The Musketeers, The story of an Infantry Company raised in Lynchburg, Virginia serving through the end of the Great War
$100

Mt. Lookout, West Virginia

Crosby McClung et. al.
They Hacked the Clearings
$150

Winston Churchill

$100 or less
Harry F. Byrd, Jr
The Churchill I Knew
$100

Bio & Correspondence of John Jay, 1833

The Life of John Jay: With Selections from His Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers, by his Son
$500
Elizabeth McClure Wickham
Mr. Thackeray in Richmond
$125

The Story of My Life 1932 Signed Clarence Darrow

Clarence Darrow
The Story of My Life 1932 Signed by Clarence Darrow Limited Ed
$975

An American Life Signed by Ronald Reagan 1990

An American Life only 2000 Copies Signed by Ronald Reagan 1990
$2000
Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske (editors)
APPLETONS' CYCLOPAEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY, Six volumes, complete.
$125
$100 or less
Minor, Manasseh
THE DIARY OF MANASSEH MINOR STONINGTON, CONN. 1696-1720
$70

Eric Gill

$100 or less
Maccarthy, Fiona
ERIC GILL, A LOVER'S QUEST FOR ART AND GOD
$30

Presentation by the Author

(Curtis, George William)
NILE NOTES OF A HOWADJI
$200

Sadakichi Hartman

Sadakichi Hartman
In Memoriam - Our Last Walk Together
$650