French and Indian War soldier's stampless autographed letter signed letter Flat Bush June 10, 1758 by Samuel Garfield - June 10, 1758: Datelined Flat Bush 6 miles above Albany Samuel Garfield to his wife

New York: John Holt; At the Exchange. Good+. 1907. Flexible leather. No Copy of the First Charter of 10 November 1766 is known to exist. March 20, 1770 a second charter was granted in the name of King George the Third by William Franklin, Governor of the Province of New Jersey. A copy of this second or oldest charter printed in the year when granted, is here reproduced in facsimile. Edward L. Stevenson, Rutgers College, March 20, 1907. Flexible red leather with chipped edges. Front cover detached. Text tight, clean without foxing & intact. Marbled endpapers. Prior owners book plate. This rare copy of the Charter of Queen's College (Rutgers) is a candidate for rebinding. New Jersey ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 8 pages .

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Pencil marks on title page. ; Designed by the author illustrated by the reader. Pictures are uncolored. ; Unpaginated pages .

Small quarto (11 x 8 1/4 inches) Published in the Interest of the Firemen's Relief Fund, December 1900. 116 pages of half tone black and white photos of early Los Angeles, portraits, and advertisements for Los Angeles businesses of the period.

Descriptive text includes a short history of the Los Angeles Fire Department: "In May, 1875, Engine Company No. 2 was organized."

Good condition: original red cloth binding, showing mild age toning, title on front cover, floral patterned end papers.

Many photos of early Los Angeles fire stations, with horse drawn equipment.

Portraits include: the mayor, the Fire Commissioners back to 1871, Chiefs, Captains, Lieutenants, Engine Drivers, Engineers, Hosemen, and Ladder men.

Advertisements include breweries, hardware supplies, saloons, blacksmiths, and stables among many others.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. Signed by Jimmy Carter on the title page. First edition / First printing. Blue paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Chapman & Hall Ltd. London. 1933. Manuscript copy of the book in a neat hand, with the writer's brief notes in the margins, in a ruled notebook. (10 x 8.1 inches). Calligraphic title page, the text written in black, red and green inks. Photo negative of the fold out 'Street of taste' pull-out and typed leaf of 'The growth of good taste' tree, both loosely inserted. The corresponding page numbers from the 1933 first edition are noted in the margins, and the text contains the unchanged poem on page 119, suggesting that this was copied from a first issue of the first edition. Half beige buckram binding with marbled paper on boards. Marbled endpapers. All edges speckled with red. A fine copy of this curious but attractive item.

Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon and Weber, 1839. Book. Very Good+. Three-Quarter Leather. First Ed.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Volume 1 and 2 bound together in a three quarter leather binding, marbled boards. Light foxing, page 69- 70 has a rip possibly from binder, very solid book, subtly rubbed through on marbled boards, leather in nice condition. A seemingly scarce book edited by Horace Mann..

Gardner, Mass.: Lithotype, 1888. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+. 1st, pebbled brown cloth w/ bevelled edges, good plus; spine sunned, hinges starting esp. in the rear, 2 owner's names on first blank page. 320 pp. + an extraordinary number of plates, mostly photographic portraits; a few are photos of buildings, and there are a few steel-engraved portraits (these have onionskin interleaves). Invaluable for genealogical research.

Fine Condition. Original wood engraving from Harper's Weekly, November 21, 1863. Sheet measures 22 by 16 inches (55.88 by 40.64 cm). Professionally cleaned and deacidified. Image is clean and bright.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Pencil marks on title page. ; Designed by the author illustrated by the reader. Pictures are uncolored. ; Unpaginated pages .

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. Signed by Jimmy Carter on the title page. First edition / First printing. Blue paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.