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Item #265825 [1601] Being a fireside conversation in the tyme of the Goode Queene Bess in which...

The Derrydale ‘1601’ in Original Condition

[1601] Being a fireside conversation in the tyme of the Goode Queene Bess in which divers persons of reknown hold...

[New York]: Done into a privately emprynted booke, 1926. "One hundred copies of this conversation have been printed for H.D.W./ of which this copy is no. 65" with Connett device A at fo ot of limitation leaf. The Derrydale ‘1601’ in Original Condition. The famed Fireside Conversation, written while Clemens..... Read More about 1601] Being a fireside conversation in the tyme of the Goode Queene Bess in which divers persons...

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Item #265275 A Broadside. Published Monthly … [Cuala Press Broadsides. First Series]. Cuala...

A Broadside. Published Monthly … [Cuala Press Broadsides. First Series].

Churchtown & Dublin: Dun Emer and Cuala Press, 1908-1915. One of 300 copies. The beautiful periodical of verse and images produced by the Cuala Press, each number with three illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, who also contributed many of the poems under pseudonyms R.E. McGowan and W.T. MacGowan. The present..... Read More about A Broadside. Published Monthly … [Cuala Press Broadsides. First Series

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Item #264762 1844 U.S. Presidential Campaign Flag of Henry Clay. Henry Clay

Clay, Frelinghuysen & Markle

1844 U.S. Presidential Campaign Flag of Henry Clay.

Pennsylvania: 1844]. Clay, Frelinghuysen & Markle. A grand vestige of the Whig party advocating the presidential candidacy of Senator Henry Clay and his vice presidential running mate Theodore Frelinghuysen. Included on the flag is the Whig gubernatorial candidate for Pennsylvania, Joseph Markle, and the party’s promotion of the Tariff of..... Read More about 1844 U.S. Presidential Campaign Flag of Henry Clay

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Item #263185 Autograph Letter, signed (“Winston S. Churchill”), to Major James B. Pond, with...

Churchill Lectures in America

Autograph Letter, signed (“Winston S. Churchill”), to Major James B. Pond, with related 1 p. Typed Letter, signed, and notes...

[New York]: January 31, 1901. Churchill Lectures in America. On December 1, 1900, Churchill sailed for New York to begin a two month speaking tour of North America organized by Major James Pond. The young Churchill was fresh from the battlefield of four of Queen Victoria’s wars, where he served..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed (“Winston S. Churchill”), to Major James B. Pond, with related 1 p....

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Item #256986 A Woman of No Importance. Oscar Wilde

Large Paper Copy, One of 50

A Woman of No Importance.

London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street, 1894. First edition, one of 50 Large Paper copies. Large Paper Copy, One of 50. An attractive large paper copy. Wilde's witty and urbane satire of the English upper class. This was written and produced in 1893..... Read More about A Woman of No Importance

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Item #250494 Melincourt. By the author of Headlong Hall … In Three Volumes. Thomas Love Peacock

Rare Peacock Satire in Early Cloth Binding

Melincourt. By the author of Headlong Hall … In Three Volumes.

London: For T. Hookham Jun. and Co. Old Bond Street; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row, 1817. First edition. Rare Peacock Satire in Early Cloth Binding. “ANTHELIA MELINCOURT, at the age of twenty-one, was mistress of herself and of ten thousand a year, and of a very ancient and..... Read More about Melincourt. By the author of Headlong Hall … In Three Volumes

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Item #247043 A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the words are deduced from their...

The First Edition of Johnson's Dictionary in Contemporary Calf

A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different...

London: Printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755. First edition. The First Edition of Johnson's Dictionary in Contemporary Calf. First edition of "the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in..... Read More about A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and...

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Item #239106 The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, being a discourse of Fish...

The First Walton

The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, being a discourse of Fish and Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of...

London: Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot, 1653. First edition. The First Walton. First edition of a landmark of English literature. The present copy has A3r in uncorrected state and displays most other errors as noted by Horne (although p. 114 reading VVhen not VVien); p. 245 (with a...... Read More about The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, being a discourse of Fish and Fishing,...

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Item #238988 Addresses of the President of the United States on the Occasion of His Visit to...

Inscribed to Morgenthau in the Deluxe Binding

Addresses of the President of the United States on the Occasion of His Visit to South America, November & December...

[Washington, D.C.]: United States Printing Office, 1937. First edition, one of 75 (but probably one of only 7 in this binding). Inscribed to Morgenthau in the Deluxe Binding. A sumptously produced White House Christmas book, commemorating FDR's nearly month-long diplomatic mission to promote "hemispheric solidarity" with South America. The book..... Read More about Addresses of the President of the United States on the Occasion of His Visit to South America,...

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Item #237303 Collection of 51 American and Irish Political pamphlets, from the library of...

Early 19th century American and Irish political library of Maryland Congressman Alexander McKim

Collection of 51 American and Irish Political pamphlets, from the library of Maryland Congressman, ALEXANDER McKIM.

vp [Washington, D.C.; Dublin]: vd [1792-1811]. Early 19th century American and Irish political library of Maryland Congressman Alexander McKim. Alexander McKim (1748-1832) fought in the Continental Army, serving under Lafayette. He was elected to the Maryland Senate and the United States Congress as a Democratic-Republican in the 11th through 13th..... Read More about Collection of 51 American and Irish Political pamphlets, from the library of Maryland...

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Item #221348 Collection of 36 Autograph Letters, signed, from Alexander Gunn to William C....

Collection of 36 Autograph Letters, signed, from Alexander Gunn to William C. Whitney, and 2 letters from acquaintances of Gunn...

ca. 1883-1901. Gunn, a friend of William C. Whitney, McKinley, and Mark Hanna, was a wealthy Cleveland businessman who retired to spend the last 20 years of his life in Zoar, the commune in Ohio. His note-books, covering 1883-1901, were discovered after Gunn's death, edited by Don Seitz and published..... Read More about Collection of 36 Autograph Letters, signed, from Alexander Gunn to William C. Whitney, and 2...

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Item #220208 Margherita Pusterla, racconto di. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Cesare Cant&ugrave

Presented by Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Edith Story

Margherita Pusterla, racconto di.

Firenze: Felice le Monnier, 1845. Presented by Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Edith Story. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Edith Marion Story, from her affectionate friend, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Rome - Dec 26 - 59.” Edith Story (1844-1907) was the daughter and youngest child of the expatriate American sculptor, lawyer..... Read More about Margherita Pusterla, racconto di

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