Search Results: Titles starting with I from De Wolfe and Wood

A promotional booklet for this extravagant stage presentation of Custer's last stand. The piece includes a list of actors and a program. Good condition with minor tape repairs to the lower corner of the front cover. OCLC finds only 2 copies at Brown and the Clarke Historical Library in Michigan.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1937. 251 pp. Very good condition in jacket. A reprint with great graphics on the dust jacket. This is a novel about a woman who falls in love with a Treasury Department agent who is on the trail of a counterfeiting agent.

New York: A.K. Butts, 1874. Good condition with extremities rubbed. The title page has two signatures of former owners and light stains along the top edge of the page. D.D. Homes (1833-1886) was born in Scotland into a family of seers and believers of spirits. He was raised in Connecticut. As an adult he travelled widely becoming one of America's best-known spiritualists. In 1855 he travelled to England and across Europe to Russia. He lived there for many years marrying twice before ending his days in Paris where he is buried.

London: W. Oliver, 1862. 202 pp. Illustrated. Good condition. Wraps almost detached. William Windham (1840-1866) was an eccentric young man who inherited his father's estate. When he married a young woman against the wishes of his mother and uncle, they tried to have him declared insane. This piece documents the trial in which he was found sane. The resulting trial placed upon him a heavy debt and he spent his last few years living in a hotel and worked driving a coach.

New York: Strong, Printer, 1852. Beautiful invitation for the Third Annual Ball of the Richmond County Washington Association on Thursday Eve, November 25, 1852, at the New Military Hall, Clifton, Vanderbilt's Landing. Measures 5.5" x 3.75." Very elaborate cut with gold lettering. Likely the front portion of a dance card. Lacking the other page.

1965. This is a two-page reprint of Virginia O'Hanlons famous "Is There a Santa Claus?" letter that was originially published in The New York Sun, September 21, 1897. This copy is signed on the cover and dated June 5th, 1965. O'Hanlon became known across the world for the letter she wrote as an 8-year-old to the editor wondering of the validity of Santa Claus. She would receive letters throughout her life, especially around Christmas time, and she would include one of these personal reprint pamphlets that include the text of her letter and the editor's response.

Brooklyn: Dunhill Publishing Company, 1922. 222 pages in dust jacket with some soiling. Long Inscription from Rothschild. Printed mailing label for Honorable Al Smith. Printed card indicating that all who read the book should sign it and pass it on. This will serve as a prayer for the author's recovery. This copy signed by 4 people Printed note at the end "Please Don't Break This Prayer Chain. Rothschild was paralyzed from the waist down as the result of an automobile accident.

Jacket worn and chipped. Nicely inscribed.