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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1960. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with brown lettering. x, 390pp. Very good. Faintest of mild wear only, though tight and internally fine. First edition, boldly signed by Johnson in blue ballpoint on front flyleaf. From the collection of one who twice tried to occupy this address: Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65), who lost to Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956 and who appears in this text more than a few times. More recently, from the collection of his son, Adlai E. Stevenson III (1920-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois (1969-81). A sharp copy with interesting background. By the way, historian and politician Johnson (1915-85) went on to edit the multi-volume "Papers of Adlai Stevenson.

N.p.: N.p., n.y.. Hardcover. 4to. Dark brown blind-embossed pebble grain cloth with gilt lettering. 246pp. Top edge gilt. Three heavy stock full page illustrations. Very good. Mild edgewear, with deckled page edges a bit age toned as usual. First of this trilogy reprinting George Bancroft's Lincoln speech of 12 February 1866, James G. Blaine's Garfield speech of 27 February 1882 and John Hay's McKinley speech of 27 February 1902. Strangely, there is no title page in this copy (which tells us this was printed in 1903 by the Government Printing Office in Washington, DC), though there's also no evidence of any missing leaf. Variant? MONAGHAN 1402.

Washington, DC: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1855. Paperback. 8vo. Tan wrappers. 40pp. Good plus. Lacks blank rear wrapper; minor wear and soiling. Several statesmen spoke at this auspicious occasion.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine with gilt lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 352pp. Near fine/fine. Superbly tight and fresh later (4th) printing.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1979. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue and beige cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. xvi, 286pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. First edition of this biography of TR's colorful daughter.

New York: Random House, 1995. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xii, 509pp. Illustrations. Very good. Mildest bit of faint wear. Tight, nice first paperback edition of this memoir of the husband-and-wife presidential campaign managers (for opposing candidates). Tipped to the inside front wrapper is a promotional bookplate from an investment firm, boldly signed by both Matalin (in blue ballpoint) and Carville (in black fineline).

New York: Random House, 1994. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and white paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 493pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Mild bit of faint jacket wear; small stain at lower right of front pastedown and corresponding point at lower left of front flyleaf, noticeable but not offensive. Tight, decent first edition of this memoir of the husband-and-wife presidential campaign managers (for opposing candidates), signed by both on the title page -- Carville in black ballpoint with his usual sloppy initials and Matalin below in black fineline.

[New York]: HarperCollins, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth spine and burgundy paper over boards, dust jacket. xii, 283pp. Color illustrations. Fine/fine. A tight and handsome first edition, bearing Quayle's huge scrawled signature and date ("6-96") in black marker on the front flyleaf.

[New York]: HarperCollins, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth spine and burgundy paper over boards, dust jacket. xii, 283pp. Color illustrations. Fine/fine. Tight, superb first edition, bearing Quayle's quite large scrawled signature and "6-96" in black marker on the front flyleaf.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with paper label on spine. viii, 278pp. Very good. First edition.

N.p.: Friends of the LBJ Library, 1990. Paperback. 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 24pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine. Issue #XLVII, celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of Lyndon B. Johnson's inauguration as president.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1953. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. 298pp. Very good. Mild binding edgewear, with spine lightly sunned. First edition of this volume in the "Makers of the American Tradition" series. From the library of Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III (born 1930) and his father before him, Illinois governor and twice presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65) -- whose large rubberstamped signature in black ink appears on the front flyleaf.

Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2001. Hardcover. Small 4to. Glazed pictorial paper over boards. xxii, 377pp. Near fine. Tight and lovely first edition of this unusual dictionary-style approach to the 17th president's life, with alphabetical entries on the persons and events surrounding his life.

Ames: The Iowa State College Press, 1954. Hardcover. Introduction by W.W. Waymack. Small 4to. Tan pictorial cloth, pictorial cloth. 138pp. Frontispiece, numerous line drawings. Near fine/very good. Some jacket edgewear. First edition, tight and nice, of this delightful compilation of all of the Iowa cartoonist "Ding" Darling's editorial cartoons regarding the Iowan president. Fine frst edition 8vo foldout leaflet "The Herbert Hoover Museum" (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963) laid in.

New York: Penthouse Press Ltd, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, dust jacket. xii, 265pp, (13pp). Illustrations. Very good/very good. Faint jacket rubbing. A tight and handsome first edition.

Son of President Garfield; interior secretary (1907). ALS, 1p, 5" X 7¼", Cleveland, OH, 1892 November 1. Addressed to Julius Strause. Fine. "I regret that I cannot send you one of Gen. Garfield's autographs," etc.

The wife of Warren Harding's vice president (1921-23) became First Lady upon his death and her husband's swearing in as the 30th President of the United States, a role he filled from 1923 to 1929. AD (unsigned), 1p, 5¼" X 4¼", Washington, DC, postal cancellation 22 February 1926. Near fine. Official heavy stock White House envelope bearing red two-cent George Washington stamp at upper right, boldly addressed in Coolidge's hand large and boldl in black ink to "Mr. Darwin P. Kingsley / 346 Broadway, / New York, N.Y." at center. Kingsley (1857-1932) was a fellow Vermonter who headed up the massive New York Life Insurance Company and befriended the Coolidges. Accompanied by a printed 5" X 7½" printed book-type photograph (Harris & Ewing) of her as First Lady. ---- Not signed by her, remember, but an interesting and unusual handwriting example as First Lady.

Hardcover. 8vo. Glossy pictorial paper over boards, yellow pictorial paper over boards slipcase. 242pp, (2pp). Numerous illustrations (2 color), pictorial endpapers, sewn-in green satin page marker. Near fine/very good. Mild slipcase edgewear and light rubbing. Tight, attractive and unusual Japanese-language edition, the first volume of a 12-volume set. Other than the title translation, our non-existent Japanese prevents further bibliographical details such as year of publication (which appears to be circa 1970s or '80s) -- but our extensive Lincolniana background tells us these Japanese editions are rather uncommon.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1918. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green blind-embossed cloth with gilt lettering and oval print tipped to front board. 387pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. Small owqnership signature on front pastedown. Tight and quite handsome later printing, with front board and spine gilt bright and sharp.

City of Industry, CA: Therapy Productions, Inc, 1975. Hardcover. 4to. Burgundy leatherette with gilt lettering. 660pp, 108pp, xvi. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Mild edgewear. A tight, decent first edition of this huge compilation of Watergate source material. Front flyleaf bears large bookplate of Ralph G. Newman (1912-98), the founder of Chicago's noted Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, who appraised Nixon's pre-presidential papers and in 1975 was found guilty of back-dating the appraisal to give Nixon a tax advantage. Mild ex-library, with scuff at foot of spine and almost no other indications.