Presidential from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1987. Hardcover. Foreword by John Y. Simon. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 248pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/fine. Touch of foxing to both endpapers (only). Tight and handsome first edition of Volume XIV of this publisher's "Frontier Military Series." Front flyleaf bears a fine decorative-edged bookplate signed… Read more about this item

Chicago: The John C. Winston Company, n.y.. Hardcover. 12mo. Blue cloth with gilt, red and black lettering and decorative stamping and color plate to front board. xiv, 463pp. Very good. Front pastedown ownership signature; touch of mottling to rear board. Superb, tight later reprint edition (undated, but circa 1900) of this biography first published pre-presidency, perhaps as a campaign… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1904. Hardcover. Compiled by Worthington Chauncey Ford. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering. 114pp. Captioned tissue-guarded 12pp frontispiece. Near fine. Superb, tight and bright first edition of this chronological listing of documents -- uncut, further testament to its exceptional condition. In addition, tipped to the front flyleaf is a high quality, heavy… Read more about this item

New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter black cloth with gilt spine lettering and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 393pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. Tight, pristine first edition.

Washington, DC: The AEI Press, 1997. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 213pp, (2pp). Fine/fine. Handsome, perfect second printing of this in-depth study by the prominent political scientist and Constitutional scholar (1922-2010) who served as advisor to President Ford and resident scholar at the right-wing think tank American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1988. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy wrappers. 450pp. Charts. Near fine. Sharp and tight second revised edition of this classic by the influential economist and advisor to presidents Nixon and Ford (1916-99. This presentation copy has been handsomely inscribed and signed by him in blue ballpoint on half-title page: "To Bob… Read more about this item

Boston: Beacon Press, 1957. Hardcover. Foreword by Erwin D. Canham. Small 4to. Tan cloth with red spine lettering, pictorial corner (NOT price) clipped dust jacket. (6pp), 139pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn and lightly age toned. Handsome first edition. Notes front jacket panel, "How is a reader to determine the difference between fact and opinion in the… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., n.y.. Hardcover. Small 4to. Glossy paper over boards. 431pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine. Bibliographically cryptic but tight and pristine modern facsimile of this scarce family genealogy, first published in New York by Tobias A. Wright in 1913. Inner flyleaf, text blank and some margins bear inked family genealogy notes by descendant David Van Buren (1948-2022), university professor. First… Read more about this item

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952. Hardcover. Edited by T.H. Vail Motter. 8vo. Brick cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. viii, 70pp. Near fine/very good. Spine of otherwise-superb jacket rather tanned. Handsome first edition of the first appearance of Wilson's 1890 University of Tennessee commencement address, with Motter's useful preface and introduction. When Illinois governor and long-time Wilson admirer… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1856. Hardcover. Small 4to. Ornately blind-embossed brown cloth with front board gilt lettering. 251pp. Good plus. Binding rubbed and a bit edgeworn (more so at spine head/tail); endpapers typically age toned and text block lightly to moderately age toned throughout, with occasional foxing and touch of dampstaining. Tight, decent copy of Executive Document No. 350,… Read more about this item

Iowa City: Friends of the University of Iowa, 1974. Paperback. 4to. Stiff black wrappers. (18pp). Fine. Pristine first edition. Leslie W. Dunlap introduces this facsimile (with typescript accompanying) of an 8-page pencilled letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of agriculture, who became his second vice president in 1941, serving until 1945 when Harry S. Truman took over -- and… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1962. Hardcover. Illustrations by Leonard Everett Fisher. 8vo. Red cloth with white lettering and emblem. 128pp. Illustrations. Very good. Internally tight and fine, with just minor scuffing to front board. Tight and nice first edition of one volume from Johnson's "The Government" trilogy for young adults (other two being "The Congress" and "The… Read more about this item

New York: The John Day Company, 1956. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. xvii, 362pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Spine lettering faintly rubbed. Tight and attractive first edition. From the collection of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois (1970-81), and before him his father Adlai II (1900-65), Illinois governor and twice presidential candidate -- and… Read more about this item

President Woodrow Wilson's first grandchild (son of his daughter Jessie) was born in the White House; he became an outspoken Episcopal clergyman and for 27 years served as Dean of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC. Large, bold signature and date ("June 1979") in black ballpoint on a 4½" X 6" slip bearing, appropriately enough, "The Wilson Center"… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xv, 570pp. Illustrations. Near fine/fine. A superbly tight and nice second printing, inscribed and signed huge and bold by Carter in black fineline on front flyleaf: "Best wishes to / Nicki & John -- / JCarter." Carter normally simply… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903. Hardcover. 4to. Black blind-embossed pebble grain cloth with gilt lettering. 246pp. Top edge gilt. Three heavy stock tissue-guarded full-page illustrations. Very good. Faintest of edgewear only. A bright and lovely first edition of this trilogy reprinting George Bancroft's Lincoln eulogy of 12 February 1866, James G. Blaine's Garfield eulogy of 27 February 1882… Read more about this item

New York: The Modern Library, 1944. Hardcover. Edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. 12mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xliv, 756pp. Frontispiece, grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Mild jacket edgewear; tiny front pastedown ownership signature. Tight, nice later printing of #234 in this series (likely circa late 1950s), first published in this form… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine with copper lettering and brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 752pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Superb and tight second printing of the first volume of this biography.

New York: Warner Books, 1980. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth with b lack and silver spine lettering. 341pp. Map endpapers. Fine/fine. Tight and pristine first edition of the ex-president's far-reaching thoughts on (to cite jacket panel) "how we can use our political, economic and military strengths to turn the tide.