Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy - 1961

[Middletown, CT]: Art Laboratory Wesleyan University, 1966.. Small quarto. Cloth and paper over boards, printed label. Narrow loss from left corner of cover label, touching the 'T', a couple of minor rubs, otherwise about fine. First edition in book form. One of thirty copies only, set and printed by hand in Bembo types as a class undertaking: "... printed by the hands of the following on a Washington press, Karl Furstenburg, Alan Thorndike, Bruce Hartman, Wendy Cowie, Kristine Blum, James Patrick, Jeri Cantliffe, James Ruby." This copy (#5) bears Paul Horgan's affectionate year-of- printing presentation inscription to two close Middletown friends and collaborators. One of the multi-Pulitzer Prize winning author's scarcest publications, even within geographical proximity of its origin. OCLC locates five copies: Yale, Newberry, Swarthmore, SMU, and BM Lyon. KRAFT A35.

BEYOND SCARCE DOUBLE-SIGNED TRUE FIRST ISSUE. But condition issues, so please read on. First Issue points include $2.50 price on DJ, black spine, First Edition statement, no Junior Literary Guild. Signed with full names by both "Golden MacDonald" and Leonard Weisgard. Book is Good: flaws include wear at corners and lower edge, signature blocks loose as threading unravels, paper clip impression on page with signatures; otherwise clean with strikingly brilliant artwork. Dust jacket is Fair (please carefully examine photos): Caldecott Medal worn away, wear all around, split at spine. Now in new mylar. Expedited and international shipping are welcome; signed by author.

SIGNED BY THEN-SENATOR BARACK OBAMA at a 2006 event in Chicago. Original owner wrote a unique firsthand account of Mr. Obama's appearance at the Commercial Club of Chicago on the front endpaper. A lovely 3rd Printing, appears unread but one corner bumped; looks terrific with new mylar cover. Expedited shipping is welcome; signed by author.

This listing is for a very large 10-1/8 x 6-5/8 PSA-encapsulated Barack Obama autograph. You will also receive the 5x7 portrait photo of our former President shown above. Condition is as new.

This listing is for a gorgeous Barbra Streisand matted display piece which features a lovely portrait photograph paired with a signed notecard professionally authenticated by James Spence (JSA). Legitimately authenticated Streisand autogrphs are desperately scarce. The matted piece measures 16x12 with an 8x10 photo and an opening for the notecard that measures 4-1/2 by 3; thickness is 1/4" overall with matte board backing (shown in last photo). Barbra's signature is bold and clear as shown. As most of you know, Barbra is one of those luminous artists who have earned an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony during her career.

New York: Monacelli Press, 1995. Signed on the title page by Rem Koolhaas. First edition / First printing. Black and yellow ink over metallic cloth. Light wear, near fine. Rem Koolhaas is the Pritzker Prize Winner for 2000.

1874 Chisholm's Route NEW YORK & Canada St. Lawrence Niagara Illustrated MAPS

'Chisholm's all round route and panoramic guide of the St. Lawrence' is a railroad excursion guide for vacationers from 1874 when steam boats and railroads were making vacation and travel an option for the rising middle class. This book gives a screen shot of the past with its illustrations and large fold out maps.
The frontispiece is a folding panorama by Alfred E. Waud. It is a full 11 1/2 feet long with 40 engraved panels showing both sides of the river from Quebec to Cape Vincent, with an add on of the Niagara River & Falls. This book illustrates places including:
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The Hudson River
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Saratoga
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Trenton Falls
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Niagara
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Toronto
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Thousand Island
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Montreal
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Quebec
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The White Mountains
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Portland
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Boston
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New York
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And more!

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1873 ATLAS Steuben County New York ENORMOUS Color City MAPS Corning Prattsburgh

A rare 19th-century atlas of Steuben County, New York. Collected by D.G. Beers, this atlas features colored maps of the towns in Southern New York – towns such as Prattsburgh, Wayne, Bath, Corning, and Hammondsport.
Item number: #9129
Price: $750
BEERS, D.G.
Atlas of Steuben County, New York ... From actual surveys and official records
Philadelphia : D.G. Beers, 1873.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
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129pp
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Most pages are colored maps
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Language: English
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Binding: Hard Cover; tight and secure
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Size: ~17in X 14in (42.5cm x 35.5cm)
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1845 HOUSTON 1st ed TEXAS and Gulf of Mexico Matilda Voyages New Orleans RARE
Matilda Houstoun was a 19th-century travel writer best-known for her work 'Texas and the Gulf of Mexico'. In 1842, Houstoun set out on a voyage around the Gulf of Mexico traveling back and forth between Galveston, Texas and New Orleans. This book has become one of the best resources on the history of Texas in the 1840s (Jenkins) and one of the earliest works to focus heavily on the city of Houston.
Item number: #17532
Price: $750
HOUSTOUN, Matilda C
Texas and the Gulf of Mexico : or, Yachting in the new world
Philadelphia : G. B. Zieber & Co., 1845. First American edition.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
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xii, 288
· References: Howes H 693aa; Sabin 33202; Streeter Texas
1506; Basic Texas Books no. 97; Reese 79
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
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Blue cloth
· Size: ~5.75in X 4in (14.5cm x 10.5cm)
· Very rare and desirable
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Boston: Beacon Press, 2008. Hard Cover. As New/in dustjacket - as new. Ms. Oliver SIGNED above her name on title page in the presence of this bookseller. Multiple award-winning author Mary Oliver brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of her beloved classics, and two essays about creatures of all sorts and, of course, her beloved and disobedient little dog, Percy, who appears and even speaks in thirteen poems. 
From a poet who teaches us the beauty and magic of the natural world comes a reminder that this world includes "the creatures, with their / thick fur, their shy and wordless gaze. Their / infallible sense of what their lives / are meant to be." 
As Renee Loth observed in the Boston Globe, "Mary Oliver, who won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, is my choice for her joyous, accessible, intimate observations of the natural world...She teaches us the profound act of paying attention." 8½ x 6¾.. 9780807068847. Fine original brown half cloth over red paper boards, silver lettering to spine in… Read More