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"Mar-a-Lago -- there's no place like it." A Rare TLS With Bold Full Name Signature. SIGNED Typed Letter on "The Trump Organization" letterhead, New York, NY, dated "May 13, 2009," written to Mr. Jerry Camarillo Dunn Jr., a longtime writer for National Geographic who sent Trump a copy of his signed book "My Favorite Place on Earth." Signed as "Donald… Read more about this item

SIGNED and Inscribed on the title page by the author, a first edition copy of Fischer's lavishly illustrated history, which "proposes to trace the different but increasingly entwined meanings of liberty and freedom through the images and artifacts of four centuries of American history. At its best, his book leads readers into the rich material culture of colonial and early… Read more about this item

SIGNED by Thomas Jefferson. "Upon the whole, I consider the fisheries of the utmost importance to America, and her natural right thereto so clear and evident, that it does not admit of a debate, and to surrender them is a species of treason for which no punishment is too severe" (Thomas Paine, 1779). SIGNED by Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of… Read more about this item

SIGNED Charles Lindbergh Presentation Edition of The Spirit of St. Louis, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953, bearing the First Issue point of Scribner's "A" on the copyright page. Signed by Lindbergh in black fountain pen on the presentation page, Charles A. Lindbergh, with number 446 noted in the limited edition of only 1000 copies. Lindbergh won the Pulitzer Prize… Read more about this item

ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Signed Book, "The Democratic Book", 1936. Limited edition, numbered 1146 of an unspecified limitation, believed to be 2500. Gilt-stamped leatherbound hardcover, silk endpapers, gilt top edge. 11.5" x 14.5", 384 pages. Signed on the beautifully designed colophon in fountain pen by Roosevelt as "Franklin D. Roosevelt" below a watercolor vignette of the White House. The original owner's… Read more about this item

"Freedom belongs to the strong" (from Wright's inscription). WRIGHT, Richard (1908–1960). Uncle Tom's Children. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth with titles lettered in gilt (sunning to spine; some soiling to paper edges). Fourth edition. INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT WITH AN AUTOGRAPHED QUOTATION SIGNED: "To Charlotte Rosenbaum / 'Freedom belongs to the strong' / Sincerely, Richard Wright… Read more about this item

Rosa Parks & Martin Luther King Sr. Signed First Day Cover PSA/DNA Slabbed & Graded NM + 7.5. First Day Cover, with a unique Martin Luther King Jr. Stamp, measuring 4.125" x 6.125", and encapsulated to a size of 6.5" x 10". Signed by Martin Luther King Sr. as "M.L. King Sr." and signed & inscribed by Rosa Parks, "the… Read more about this item

SIGNED by author Mark Zuckoff, former Army Ranger Kris "Tonto" Paranto, former US marines John "Tig" Tiegen and Mark "Oz" Geist. "The attacks could have been prevented." The gripping story of matchless American heroism, a First Edition copy, as-new copy, untouched, unread, opened only for signing. No marks, no inscriptions. Not a book club edition, not ex-library, but the actual… Read more about this item

Rare pamphlet written on Ellis Island as Goldman and Berkman were being deported for "subversion." "For nearly 30 years, Emma Goldman had taunted conservative Americans with her outspoken attacks on government, big business and war. Her name became a household word, synonymous with everything subversive and demonic, but also symbolic of the 'new woman' and of the radical labor movement… Read more about this item

SIGNED by Robert Gates without personalization. "I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades," writes Gates in his 2014 memoir Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War. Controversial Memoirs of Obama's Secretary of Defense. "Probably one of the best Washington memoirs ever. The former defense secretary is… Read more about this item

SIGNED directly to title page "Regards" without personalization, an UNread, First Edition of Panetta's controversial memoir. "If we don't prevent these Sunni extremists from taking over large swaths of territory in the Middle East, it will be only a matter of time before they turn their sights on us." First Edition, First Printing of Panetta's memoirs of his decades-long career… Read more about this item

One of the all-time great American poems (Carl Sandburg). Norman Corwin's On A Note of Triumph is Simon and Schuster's publication of Corwin's radio broadcast announcing the allied victory in Europe and the defeat of Nazism. From a time when Americans were proud of their flag. A very good copy in a torn jacket. This copy contains correspondence between Corwin… Read more about this item

SIGNED by author Martin Anderson to Ray Watt, a prolific builder who did much to define the look of modern Los Angeles, on front flyleaf. The policies of the current administration -- with its ever-widening "infrastructure" proposals, its handouts, its frantic searches for new recipients who demand still more handouts -- speak to the timelessness and timeliness of Anderson's Welfare.… Read more about this item

First appearance in book form, "Anthology of Newspaper Verse for 1921," of Hughes' highly influential "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." Hughes' signature poem, written when he was only 17, originally appeared in the June 1921 issue of the monthly periodical "The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races," the official publication of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored… Read more about this item

SIGNED Perfect, UNopened copy by former President Obama, opened only for his signature. Vol 1 of his memoirs, "A Promised Land." A publishing record-breaker, "Promised" sold more than 1.7 million copies in its first week. On its first day, Mr. Obama's book sold a whopping 887,000 units in all formats and editions in the U.S. and Canada, Crown's largest first-day… Read more about this item

SIGNED Abridged Edition with ORIGINAL photo of Nelson Mandela! "NO ONE IS BORN HATING ANOTHER PERSON BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN, OR HIS BACKGROUND, OR HIS RELIGION. PEOPLE MUST LEARN TO HATE, AND IF THEY CAN LEARN TO HATE, THEY CAN BE TAUGHT TO LOVE, FOR LOVE COMES MORE NATURALLY TO THE HUMAN HEART THAN ITS OPPOSITE." With… Read more about this item

Complete with foldout! "RESTRICTED NOT TO BE PUBLISHED" US military instructions manual for the eradication of Nazism in Germany distributed only to high ranking military officers just prior to Germany's surrender. Octavo. Hole-punched and cord tied in the original pale grey cloth-backed printed boards. A bit of wear to extremities, covers lightly stained; still a surprisingly well preserved copy of… Read more about this item

SIGNED by Arnold on the title page, the Twentieth printing of the paperback edition of his The Folklore of Capitalism. A square, tight copy, at least partially unread, with no writings or markings of any kind save author's writing. Accompanying it is a reading copy of the hardcover. Book #C2122. $225. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED by Otto Frank, a Fine Typed Letter, addressed to "Frau Losa," chosen to translate Ernst Schnabel's book: Anne Frank: A Portrait in Courage, which documents Anne Frank's history after her arrest in Amsterdam. Frank's Letter discusses his efforts to arouse interests in the Anne Frank Foundation, Amsterdam. The Letter is unique as it is dated "20.4.1959" the date of… Read more about this item

SIGNED Only, without personalization, on Title Page by former NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. A Very Fine, unread Stated First Edition (September, 2015) copy of Vigilance, written by a fine man of integrity: "Thank God we put our cops where we put them," Mr Kelly writes. "Where else should they go?" Never met Ray Kelly personally, but did meet his… Read more about this item