The Little History of the United States by Pyne, Mable (inscribed from Carole Lombard and Clark Gable to Frank Capra Jr.) - 1940

Doubleday & Company, Inc. New York.,1974. FIRST EDITION. 8vo.(9.5 x 6.5 inches). Inscribed by the author, and with tipped in typed letter, signed. The book is warmly inscribed by Eisenhower to Mrs Charles (Jane) Englehard, a prominent donor to White House restoration projects and a close friend of Lyndon B. Johnson. She served on a variety of advisory committees through many administrations from Kennedy to Clinton. The letter acknowledges that the author has signed the book and sent under seperate cover. He also refers to the text of the book, mentioning his view on the Foreign service and wishing Mrs Englehard, and her commission, every success. The book is near fine with just a little creasing to the edges of the dustwrapper. Housed in a blue cloth covered chemise and fine, blue morocco leather spined ,slip case. Spine with raised bands,decorated with stars and spots. Compartments ruled in blind, lettered and decorated in gilt. Blue cloth on boards. --- Milton was the Younger brother of Dwight D.… Read More

Munich / Berlin: Friedrich Bruckmann, 1872. 1st Edition Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. 97 Pp With Mounted Plates. Red Cloth, Heavily Embossed In Gilt, Beveled Edges With Double Borders Embossed In Blind, All Edges Gilt, Cloth Endpapers. Bookplate Of Leopold, Duke Of Albany. Inscription On Second Free Endpaper From Queen Victoria Of England To Her Son Leopold, "For Dear Leopold, From (Illegible Two Words Dea---- ---A---A)) (Shortened Name Used By Queen Victoria) Osborne January 1, 1873." Leopold Was Then A Student At Oxford. A Fine New Year's Gift, With What May Be Viewed As Exceptionally Romantically Maternal Germanic-Victorian Plates.

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."

Association Copy First Printing. Inscribed: To Paul Nitze with the high regard of John Foster Dulles April, 1950Clean Text. Price unclipped ($2.50). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. Dulles served as United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959 and was briefly a Republican U.S. Senator for New York in 1949. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism throughout the world. This book offers a critical analysis of the American policy of containment, which was favored by the foreign policy elite in Washington, particularly in the Democratic administration of Harry S. Truman, whose foreign policy Dulles criticized and instead advocated a policy of "liberation." Dulles tenure as Secretary was marked by conflict with communist governments worldwide, especially the Soviet Union; Dulles strongly opposed communism, calling it "Godless terrorism." Dulles's preferred strategy was containment… Read More

Inscribed on first blank page: For David With best wishes George P. ShultzLaid in: Original W. Post article 3/13/1994 review of bookClean text. Price unclipped ($30.00). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. Book and dust jacket in near new condition unread.

Doubleday & Company, Inc. New York.,1974. FIRST EDITION. 8vo.(9.5 x 6.5 inches). Inscribed by the author, and with tipped in typed letter, signed. The book is warmly inscribed by Eisenhower to Mrs Charles (Jane) Englehard, a prominent donor to White House restoration projects and a close friend of Lyndon B. Johnson. She served on a variety of advisory committees through many administrations from Kennedy to Clinton. The letter acknowledges that the author has signed the book and sent under seperate cover. He also refers to the text of the book, mentioning his view on the Foreign service and wishing Mrs Englehard, and her commission, every success. The book is near fine with just a little creasing to the edges of the dustwrapper. Housed in a blue cloth covered chemise and fine, blue morocco leather spined ,slip case. Spine with raised bands,decorated with stars and spots. Compartments ruled in blind, lettered and decorated in gilt. Blue cloth on boards. --- Milton was the Younger brother of Dwight D.… Read More

Munich / Berlin: Friedrich Bruckmann, 1872. 1st Edition Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. 97 Pp With Mounted Plates. Red Cloth, Heavily Embossed In Gilt, Beveled Edges With Double Borders Embossed In Blind, All Edges Gilt, Cloth Endpapers. Bookplate Of Leopold, Duke Of Albany. Inscription On Second Free Endpaper From Queen Victoria Of England To Her Son Leopold, "For Dear Leopold, From (Illegible Two Words Dea---- ---A---A)) (Shortened Name Used By Queen Victoria) Osborne January 1, 1873." Leopold Was Then A Student At Oxford. A Fine New Year's Gift, With What May Be Viewed As Exceptionally Romantically Maternal Germanic-Victorian Plates.

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."

Association Copy First Printing. Inscribed: To Paul Nitze with the high regard of John Foster Dulles April, 1950Clean Text. Price unclipped ($2.50). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. Dulles served as United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959 and was briefly a Republican U.S. Senator for New York in 1949. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism throughout the world. This book offers a critical analysis of the American policy of containment, which was favored by the foreign policy elite in Washington, particularly in the Democratic administration of Harry S. Truman, whose foreign policy Dulles criticized and instead advocated a policy of "liberation." Dulles tenure as Secretary was marked by conflict with communist governments worldwide, especially the Soviet Union; Dulles strongly opposed communism, calling it "Godless terrorism." Dulles's preferred strategy was containment… Read More

Inscribed on first blank page: For David With best wishes George P. ShultzLaid in: Original W. Post article 3/13/1994 review of bookClean text. Price unclipped ($30.00). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. Book and dust jacket in near new condition unread.