With an Autograph Manuscript Leaf
The Writings
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, [ca.1906]. "Author's Autograph Edition" With an Autograph Manuscript Leaf... Read More
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Perils in the Woods, or, the Emigrant Family's Return; a Tale.
London: Effingham Wilson, Waugh & Innes of Edinburgh and W.F. Wakeman of Dublin, N.d. [1835]. First edition. Mrs. Towers, "a writer of genuine ability" (Stuart M. Sperry) was the daughter of John Keats’s teacher, John Clarke, and the sister of Charles Cowden Clarke, Keats’s school-friend and mentor. Her husband, [George].....
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‘I Have Had So Many Exciting Experiences…’
Typed letter signed "Harry A. Franck" to "Mr. Halpern" (Seymour Halpern) in response to Halpern's inquiry regarding the keys to...
Aix-en-Provence [France]: 20 january, 1931. ‘I Have Had So Many Exciting Experiences…’. An anecdotal letter from one of the foremost travel writers of the first half of the 20th century.Reading in part: “I have had so many exciting experiences that I really cannot think of one I should put ahead.....
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"GOOD HEALTH AND ATTENTION TO DUTY"
Autograph Note, Signed "B.H. Fukker," to Seymour Halpern, in response to Halpern's inquiry regarding the keys to success.
Washington, D.C: Sept 18 (c.1931). "GOOD HEALTH AND ATTENTION TO DUTY" A no-nonsense reply from he 15th Commandant of the Marine Corps. Reading in part: “I do not attribute my accession to my present position to anything unusual, but mostly to good health (I did not have to retire) and.....
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The Weekly Inspector. Vol I: Numbers 1-IV.
New York: Published for Thomas Green Fessenden, at E. Sargent's Bookstore, No. 39, Wall-street, August 30, 1806-September 20, 1806. First edition.
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Sport in Indiana
Pioneer Hunters of the Kankakee.
[N.p. Logansport, Ind., Chronicle Printing Co: Privately printed], 1920. First edition. Sport in Indiana. Accounts of hunting and trapping in the Kankakee marshlands, deer and waterfowl.Werich was born in 1860 in a log cabin in Valparaiso, Indiana, not far from the river. “In the final chapter the author laments the.....
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'It Was Perfect'
Autograph letter signed (Stuart Edward White") to ("Editor Daily News").
Grand Rapids [MI]: Oct. 18, 1915. 'It Was Perfect'. A grateful letter from the American author, conservationist, and spiritualist, to the editor of the Grand Rapids Daily News for a tribute to his recently deceased father. printed by the paper. Known for his travel and adventure books such as The...
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Collection of 41 Autograph Letters Signed from Flora to Will & 23 Autograph Letters Signed from Will to Flora.
(Dec. 18, 1868 - Sept. 27, 1869). Flora Payne was the sister of Oliver Hazard Payne of Cleveland, William C. Whitney's roommate at Yale. After graduation, Payne and Whitney kept in touch and visited frequently, and it was on one of these visits, in 1868, that Flora and William were...
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The Valley of the Mississippi Illustrated: In a Series of Views.
Saint Louis: Joseph Garnier, 1948. An exact facsimile, limited to 300 copies, of the original published in 1841-1842. The original is one of the great rarities of illustrated books on the midwest, Missouri, and Illinois.
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"INTELLIGENTLY GRASP YOUR OPPORTUNITIES"
Typed Letter, Signed, "John N. Willys" to Seymour Halpern in response to Halpern's inquiry about the key to Willys' success.
Warsaw [Poland]: May 8, 1931. "INTELLIGENTLY GRASP YOUR OPPORTUNITIES" A reply from the automotive pioneer and statesman whose name will always be associated with the jeep that bore his moniker. Reading in part: "It is hard to answer and I do not think there is one thing that contributes to...
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A.L.S. To Lewis Ashmead. Regretting he has no copies of his speech on the Homestead Bill.
House of Rept, July 26/61. Windom served as, Senator from Minnesota and later as Secretary of the Treasury from March to November 1881, and again from 1889 to 1891.
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Autograph Letter, signed, to "Dear Doctor." Asking about "our" enterprise in Georgia.
Warwick, Mass: Fortieth Congress, September 7, 1868. Windom served as, Senator from Minnesota and later as Secretary of the Treasury from March to November 1881, and again from 1889 to 1891.
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The Northwestern Journal of Education, Science, and General Literature. Vol. 1, No. 1.
Madison, Wisconsin: Beriah Brown, printer, 1850. First Edition. An early western periodical designed to "supply an acknowledged deficiency in the periodical literature of the North-west," this ephemeral publication only ran to three issues, March, April, and May 1850. The first two issues contain the papers read at the first meeting...
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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...
Price: $15,000
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