The June 2-5, 2002, Pre-Long Beach Sale, Sale 14
Lot 1663
1888 Campaign Tie.
1888 political campaign tie. This patriotic chocolate brown tie, sewn to
maintain a permanent full-Windsor knot, has been embroidered with an American
flag on the knot and the phrase "1888 Campaign" inside the neck loop. Measuring
18½" in length. Stitching attaching neck loop to knot has deteriorated
and lining is a bit frayed. Overall, in good condition.
Here we offer a
quaint memento from another close election. In the first of their two
face-offs, the 1888 political campaign set Grover Cleveland against Benjamin
Harrison in the quest for the Presidency. Though Cleveland was initially
nominated because of his popularity as New York Governor, it was Harrison who
won the race based on the electoral votes of that very state.
Estimated
Value $100-200.
Lot 1664
Ohio Execution Cabinet
Card. An "O.P. Annex Souvenir" with "Photos Made From Life" -- a composite
image featuring portraits of 23 inmates executed in Ohio between 1897 and 1905,
with the Ohio electric chair pictured prominently in the upper left corner. The
reverse of the postcard is printed with a key to the portraits, the crime each
inmate committed and date of his execution. Surface soil throughout; minor
fading to image; toning and soil verso. Overall, good condition.
An
unusual cabinet card, these "death house" collectibles always generate
discussion, particularly in light of today's ongoing death penalty debates.
Estimated Value $125-200.
Lot 1665
Presidential Autograph
Collecting. Lot of ten books.
Nickell, Joe, Pen, Ink, & Evidence: A
Study of Writing and Writing Materials for the Penman, Collector, and Document
Detective (The University Press of Kentucky, 1990); Vrzalik, Larry F., &
Minor, Michael, From the President's Pen: An Illustrated Guide to
Presidential Autographs (State House Press, 1991); Hamilton, Charles,
Great Forgers and Famous Fakes: The Manuscript Forgers of America and How
They Duped the Experts (Crown Pub. Inc., 1980); Rawlins, Ray, The Stein
and Day Book of World Autographs (Stein & Day Pub., 1978); Hamilton,
Charles, Big Name Hunting: A Beginner's Guide to Autograph Collecting
(Simon & Schuster, 1973); Benjamin, Mary A., Autographs: A Key to
Collecting (Dover Pub., 1986); Taylor, John M., From the White House
Inkwell: American Presidential Autographs (Modoc Press, 1989); Koschal,
Stephen, Collecting Books and Pamphlets Signed by the Presidents of the
United States Patriotic Pub., 1982); Hamilton, Charles, Auction Madness:
An Uncensored Look Behind the Velvet Drapes of the Great Auction Houses
Everest House, Pub., 1981); Hamilton, Charles, American Autographs: Signers
of the Declaration of Independence, Revolutionary War Leaders, Presidents
Two Vols. (University of Oklahoma Press, 1972).
Conditions vary,
generally good to very good. Several of the books have the original owner's
embossed stamp or library stamps; all show shelf wear; a few have jackets.
American Autographs is in its original dust case.
Estimated Value
$400-500.
Lot 1666
20th Century Presidents.
Lot of nine books.
Thayer, William Roscoe, Theodore Roosevelt: An
Intimate Biography (Houghton Mifflin, 1919) First Edition;
Roosevelt, Elliot, As He Saw It (Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946);
Warburg, James P., Hell Bent For Election (Doubleday, Doran & Co.,
1935); Stevenson, Adlai E., What I Think (Harper & Brothers Pub., 1954)
First Edition; Roosevelt, Theodore, Fear God and Take Your Own
Part (N.Y., George H. Doran Co., 1916); Irwin, Will, Herbert Hoover: A
Reminiscent Biography (The Century Co., 1928); Marsh, William J. Jr.,
Our President Herbert Hoover (William J. & Chas. Marsh, 1930); Coolidge,
Calvin, The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge (Cosmopolitan Book Corp.,
1929); Wilson, Woodrow, Edited by Ray Stannard Baker & William E. Dodd War
and Peace: Presidential Messages, Address, and Public Papers (1917-1924) In
Two Vol. (Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1927).
Condition varies, all books
show shelf wear to some degree, several of the books have the original owner's
embossed stamp or library stamps. Notable flaws: Coolidge's
Autobiography has loose boards, Volume 1 of Wilson's Papers has
been inscribed to "William Gates, Jr., for excellence in History." The only
jacket is on Hell Bent for Election and is faded on the spine with nicks
and tears to the top and bottom edges.
Estimated Value $150-200.
Lot 1667
Died in Office. Lot of
seven books.
The Last Speech of William McKinley (Washington Printing
Office, 1904); Brown, E.E., The Life and Public Services of James A.
Garfield, Twentieth President of the United States (D.L. Guernsey,
Cornhill, 1881); Hughes, Charles Evans, Hon., Secretary of State. In
Memoriam: Warren G. Harding (Government Printing Office Wash., 1924);
Russell, Francis, The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G.Harding in His
Times (Mc Graw-Hill Book Co., 1968); Bishop, Jim, The Day Lincoln Was
Shot (Harper & Brothers, Pub., 1955) signed by the author; Sandburg,
Carl, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (Blue Ribbon Books, 1926);
Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr., A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White
House (Houghton Mifflin Co.: The Riverside Press, 1965).
Conditions
vary, generally good to very good. Several of the books have the original
owner's embossed stamp or library stamps; all show shelf wear; jackets on A
Thousand Days and The Shadow of Blooming Grove, but both show wear;
possible water damage to boards of Garfield and it is loose throughout.
Estimated Value $200-250.
Lot 1668
Early Presidents and
Candidates. Lot of seven books.
Ellis, Edward S., Great Americans of
History: Thomas Jefferson A Character Sketch (Great Americans Pub. Co.,
1903) this is the Salesman's Sample and includes only a couple of pages
from the Jefferson biography, with portraits of the many other worthies to be
included in the series; Curtis, William Eleroy, The True Thomas
Jefferson (J.B. Lippincott Co., 1901); Warshow, Robert Irving, Alexander
Hamilton: First American Business Man (Garden City Pub. Co., 1931); James,
Marquis, The Life of Andrew Jackson (Garden City, Pub. Co., 1940);
Bowen, Catherine Drinker, John Adams and the American Revolution
(Little, Brown & Co., 1950); Our Presidential Candidates and Political
Compendium (F.C. Bliss, 1880); Wallace, Lew, Life of Gen. Benjamin
Harrison (Hubbard Bros, 1888).
Conditions vary, generally good to very
good. Several of the books have the original owner's embossed stamp or library
stamps; all show shelf wear; Wallace's book is missing sections of the spine
and the boards are loose; there are jackets on Andrew Jackson and
John Adams, but they are quite tattered; spine of True Jefferson
is cracked and the first page is loose; Alexander Hamilton is tight and
intact, but the covers are damaged.
Estimated Value $150-200.
Lot 1669
Eisenhower as General and
President. Lot of seven books.
McCann, Kevin, Man From Abilene
(Doubleday & Co., 1952) First Edition; Beckhard, Arthur J., The Story
of Dwight D. Eisenhower (Pub., Grosset & Dunlap, 1956); Gunther, John,
Eisenhower: The Man and the Symbol (Harper & Brothers, Pub., 1952);
Hatch, Alden, General Ike: A Biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Consolidated Book Pub., 1944) "A Wartime Book"; Eisenhower, Dwight D., At
Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends (Doubleday & Co., 1967); Lyon, Peter,
Eisenhower: Portrait of the Hero (Little, Brown & Co., 1974);
Eisenhower, Dwight D., The White House Years: Mandate For Change
1953-1956 (Doubleday & Co., 1963).
Conditions vary, generally good to
very good. Several of the books have the original owner's embossed stamp or
library stamps; all show shelf wear; jackets on Man from Abilene (jacket
shows considerable wear and paper loss, particularly on the back) and At
Ease.
Estimated Value $150-200.
Lot 1670
Harding and Coolidge.
Lot of five books.
Coolidge, Calvin, The Autobiography of Calvin
Coolidge (Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1929) First Edition; Rugg, Arthur
Prentice, Hon. Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Ma., Calvin
Coolidge: Memorial Address (United States Government Printing Office Wash.,
1933); Whiting, Edward Elwell, Calvin Coolidge: His Ideals of Citizenship as
Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings (W. A. Wilde Co., 1924);
Coolidge, Calvin, Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and
Messages (Houghton Mifflin Co.: The Riverside Press, 1919); Chapple, Joe
Mitchell, Life and Times of Warren G. Harding: Our After-War President
(Chapple Pub. Co., Ltd., 1924).
Several of the books have the original
owner's embossed stamp or library stamps, one is inscribed; rear cover of
Harding somewhat loose; no jackets, but the books are in very good to
near fine condition. The Coolidge Autobiography and Warren G.
Harding... are particularly sought-after.
Estimated Value $125-150.
Lot 1671
[Harrison] Wallace, Lew
Life of Ben Harrison (S.S. Scranton & Co., Hartford, Conn., 1888).
Damage to very top of spine does not interfere with embossed title; back cover
tip missing; somewhat loose boards; minor shelf wear. A desirable version of
this sought-after biography written by the author of Ben Hur.
Estimated Value $50-100.
Lot 1672
[Johnson, Lyndon B.].
Lot of five books.
White, William S., The Professional: Lyndon B.
Johnson (Houghton Mifflin Co., The Riverside Press, 1964); Johnson, Rebekah
Baines., A Family Album (McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1965); Johnson, Lyndon
Baines, The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency 1963-1969
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, n.d.); Caro, Robert A., The Years of Lyndon Johnson:
The Path to Power (Alfred A. Knopf, 1983); Johnson, Lyndon B., This
America: A Portrait of a Nation (A Ridge Press Book, Random House,
1966).
Conditions vary, generally good to very good. Several of the books
have the original owner's embossed stamp or library stamps; all show shelf
wear; jackets on all save The Professional; the jackets have minor chips
and nicks but are in generally very good condition.
This America is a
particularly lovely book, with wonderful photographs and sentiment.
Estimated Value $100-150.
Lot 1673
Kennedy, His Presidency
and Assassination. Lot of eleven books.
White, Theodore H., The
Making of the President 1960 (Atheneum Pub., 1961); The New York Times
Edition, Intro. Harrison E. Salisbury, Report of the Warren Commission on
the Assassination of President Kennedy (McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1964);
Bishop, Jim, The Day Kennedy Was Shot (Funk & Wagnalls, 1968); Adler,
Bill, Editor The Kennedy Wit The Citadel Press, 1964); Shaw, Maud,
White House Nannie: My Years with Caroline and John Kennedy, Jr. (New
American Library Inc., 1966); Manchester, William, The Death of a President:
November 20-November 25, 1963 (Harper & Row, Pub., 1967); Sorensen,
Theodore C., Kennedy (Harper & Row, Pub., 1965); Schlesinger, Arthur M.,
Jr., A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House Houghton
Mifflin Co: The Riverside Press, 1965); Epstein, Edward Jay, Inquest: The
Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth (Viking Press, 1966);
Bourjaily, Vance, The Man Who Knew Kennedy (Dial Press, 1967); Lasky,
Victor, J.F.K. The Man and the Myth (The MacMillan Co., 1963).
A
truly comprehensive collection of books about Kennedy. Conditions vary,
generally good to very good. Several of the books have the original owner's
embossed stamp or library stamps; all show shelf wear. Jackets on all save
White, Warren Commission and Shaw, there are minor abrasions, tiny tears and
other signs of shelf wear to most of the jackets, the Lasky jacket is quite
tattered.
Estimated Value $225-275.
Lot 1674
[Lincoln] Basler, Roy P.,
ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. 8 Vols., plus index
(Rutgers Univ. Press, New Brunswick, 1953). History Book Club Edition. No
jackets, otherwise fine. An invaluable resource for the Lincoln
collector/scholar.
Estimated Value $200-250.
Lot 1675
Lincoln, Ten Outstanding
Biographies. Lot of ten books.
Bancroft, George, Abraham Lincoln: A
Tribute (A. Wessels Co., 1908); Howe, M.A. De Wolfe, The Memory of
Lincoln (Sherman, French & Co., 1907); Tarbell, Ida M., He Knew
Lincoln (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1907); Angle, Paul M., & Miers, Earl
Schenck, editors The Living Lincoln: The Man, His Mind, His Times, and the
War He Fought, Reconstructed From his Own Writings (Marboro Books Corp., a
div. of Barnes & Noble Books, 1955); Charnwood, Lord, Abraham Lincoln
(Garden City, Pub., Co., 1917); Whipple, Wayne, The Story-Life of Lincoln: A
Biography Composed of Five Hundred True Stories... (The John C. Winston
Co., 1908); Chafin, Eugene W., LL.B., Lincoln: The Man of Sorrow
(Lincoln Temperance Press , 1908); Holland, J.G., The Life of Abraham
Lincoln (Gurdon Bill, 1866); Sandburg, Carl, Abraham Lincoln The Prairie
Years (Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1929); Vidal, Gore, Lincoln: A Novel
(Random House, 1984).
Conditions vary, generally good to very good. Several
of the books have the original owner's embossed stamp or library stamps; all
show shelf wear; jackets on Living Lincoln, The Prairie Years,
Charnwood's Lincoln and Vidal's tome, all show some minor wear and
chipping; the older books all have some degree of loose boards and/or foxing.
This is an outstanding lot of biographies written over the course of almost
120 years -- invaluable for tracing the Lincoln hagiography and his influence
on the American psyche.
Estimated Value $250-275.
Lot 1676
The Nation's Capital and
Government. Lot of nine books.
Fremont-Smith, Marion R., Foundations
and Government: State and Federal Law and Supervision (Russell Sage
Foundation N.Y., 1965); Anonymous, The Mirrors of Washington (G.P.
Putnam's Sons: The Knickerbocker Press, 1921); Durant, John & Alice,
Pictorial History of American Presidents (A.S. Barnes and Co., 1955);
Lang, H. Jack, editor Letters in American History: Words to remember
(Harmony Books, 1982); West, J.B., Upstairs at the White House: My Life with
the First Ladies (Coward, Mc Cann & Geoghegan, 1973); Hazelton, George C.
Jr., The National Capitol: Its Architecture Art and History (J.F. Taylor
& Co., 1914); Taft, William Howard & Bryce, James, Washington the Nation's
Capital (National Geographic Society, 1915); Anonymous, Boudoir Mirrors
of Washington (The John D. Winston Co., 1923); Bloom, Sol, The Story of
the Constitution (House Office Building Washington, D.C., 1937).
Conditions vary, notable flaws below, jackets present only on Lang's
Letters... and West's Upstairs.... Several of the books have the
original owner's embossed stamp or library stamps; Boudoir Mirrors,
Mirrors and Washington show water damage affecting boards and
back of books; Boudoir and Washington are very loose.
Estimated Value $150-200.
Lot 1677
Nixon, Carter, McCarthy,
Eisenhower. Lot of nine books.
Ducovny, Amram M., compiled, The
Wisdom of Spiro T. Agnew: A Collection of Original Sayings (Ballantine
Books, 1969); McCarthy, Eugene J., Senator The Limits of Power: America's
Role in the World (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967); Carter, Jimmy,
Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President (Bantam Books, 1982); McCann,
Kevin, Man From Abilene (Doubleday & Co., 1952); Kucharsky, David,
The Man From Plains: The Mind and Spirit of Jimmy Carter (Harper & Row,
Pub., 1975) First Edition; Carter, Jimmy, An Outdoor Journal:
Adventures and Reflections (Bantam Books,1988); Bernstein, Carl & Woodward,
Bob, All The President's Men (Simon & Schuster, 1974); Kornitzer, Bela,
The Real Nixon: An Intimate Biography (Rand Mc Nally & Co., 1960);
Wills, Garry, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (Houghton
Mifflin Co., 1969).
Conditions vary, generally good to very good. Several of
the books have the original owner's embossed stamp or library stamps; all show
shelf wear; jackets (also varying condition) on Limits of Power, Man from
Plains, Keeping Faith, All the President's Men and both Nixon books.
Estimated Value $150-200.
Lot 1678
The Presidency. Lot of
nine books.
Esler, L.A., Presidents of Our United States (Rand Mc
Nally & Co., 1935); Warburg, James P., Hell Bent For Election
(Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936); Bradley, Duane, Electing A President
(American Book, Van Nostrand, Reinhold, 1963); Abbott, John, S.C., Lives of
the Presidents of the United States of America, From Washington to the Present
Time (B.B. Russell & Co., 1867); Stone, Irving, They Also Ran: The Story
of the Men Who Were Defeated for the Presidency (Doubleday & Co.,1946);
McClure, A.K., LL.D., Our Presidents and How We Make Them (Harper &
Brothers Pub., 1900); Laski, Harold J., The American Presidency, An
Interpretation (Harper & Brothers Pub., 1940); Kohlsaat, H.H., From
McKinley To Harding: Personal Recollections of Our Presidents (Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1923); Funk & Wagnalls Special Ed., The Presidents (The
Curtis Publishing Co., 1989).
Conditions vary, generally good to very good.
Several of the books have the original owner's embossed stamp or library
stamps; all show shelf wear; jacket only on Laski's book; Abbott's Lives
shows water damage on boards, is loose and has foxing throughout.
Estimated
Value $125-150.
Lot 1679
Presidential Miscellany.
Lot of seven books.
Headley, J.T., Hon., The Travels of General
Grant (New World Pub., Co., 1881); Falkner, Leonard, The President Who
Wouldn't Retire (Coward-McCann, Inc., 1967); Bryan, William J., The
First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896 (W.B. Conkey Co., 1896);
Conwell, Russell H., Life and Public Services of Rutherford B. Hayes,
President of the United States (B.B. Russell & Co., 1877); Truman, Harry
S., Memoirs by Harry S. Truman Vol. Two (Doubleday & Co., 1956); Smith,
Page, John Adams Vol. II, 1784-1826 (Doubleday & Co., 1962); Sorensen,
Theodore C., Kennedy (Harper & Row, Pub., 1965) First
Edition.
Conditions vary, generally good to very good. Several of
the books have the original owner's embossed stamp or library stamps; all show
shelf wear, The First Battle most noticeably (particularly at the
spine); A handsome copy of Travels..., minor shelf wear; 10 loose pages
near back. Jacket only on Kennedy. ...Wouldn't Retire shows some
water damage and mold on the spine and inside the book. Minor foxing in some of
the volumes.
Estimated Value $200-300.
Lot 1680
Roosevelts. Lot of ten
books.
Roosevelt, Theodore, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
(The Century Co., 1905); Warburg, James P., Hell Bent For Election
(Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936); Roosevelt, Elliot, As He Saw It (Duell,
Sloan & Pearce, 1946); Flynn, John T., The Roosevelt Myth (The
Devin-Adair Co., 1948); Wharton, Don, Edited & Annotated, The Roosevelt
Omnibus (Alfred A. Knopf, 1934): Morgan, Ted, FDR: A Biography
(Simon & Schuster, 1985); Thayer, William Roscoe, Theodore Roosevelt: An
Intimate Biography (Houghton Mifflin Co., The Riverside Pres 1919);
Roosevelt, Theodore, Fear God and Take Your Own Part (George H. Doran
Co., 1916); Roosevelt, Theodore, American Ideals: And Other Essays, Social
and Political (G.P. Putnams Sons: The Knickerbocker Press, 1897); Riis,
Jacob A., Theodore Roosevelt The Citizen (The Outlook Co., 1904).
Two
of the most popular presidents of the modern era, men who still have a hold on
the public imagination.
Conditions vary, generally good to very good.
Several of the books have the original owner's embossed stamp or library
stamps; all show shelf wear; jacket only on Morgan's FDR and Flynn's
Myth. Several are particularly desirable and provide a contemporary view
of each man's impact.
Estimated Value $200-250.
Lot 1681
Truman. Lot of five
books.
McNaughton, Frank & Hehmeyer, Walter, This Man Truman
(McGraw-Hill Book Co. 1945); Truman, Margaret, edited Where the Buck Stops:
The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman (Warner Books, Inc.,
1989); Miller, Merle, Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S.
Truman (Berkley Pub., Corp., Distrib. G.P. Putnam's Sons, N.Y., 1974);
Truman, Harry S., Memoirs: Years of Trial and Hope 1946-1952, 2 Vol.
(Doubleday & Co,1955).
Conditions vary, generally good to very good. Several
of the books have the original owner's embossed stamp or library stamps; all
show shelf wear; jackets on This Man, Plain Speaking and Memoirs
(both volumes), with chips and/or paper loss to each.
Estimated Value
$125-150.
Lot 1682
[Tyler] Norton, A.B.,
The Tippecanoe Campaign of 1840.... Full Title: The Tippecanoe
Campaign of 1840: The Great Revolution of 1840. Reminiscences of the Log Cabin
and Hard Cider (A.B. Norton & Co., Mt. Vernon, 1888). First Edition.
Tight; minor shelf wear with bumped bottom corners, else very good.
Estimated Value $90-120.
Lot 1683
Washington and Adams.
Lot of eight books.
Bancroft, Aaron, D.D., The Life of George
Washington: Commander-In-Chief Of The American Army Through The Revolutionary
War, and the First President of the United States Alta Edition
(Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, n.d.); McKeldin, Theodore R., Washington
Bowed (Maryland Historical Society, 1956); Conkling, Margaret C.,
Memoirs of the Mother and Wife of Washington (N.Y., C.M. Saxton, 1858);
Sparks, Jared, LL.D., The Life of George Washington (A.L. Burt Co.,
1902); Ford, Paul Leicester, The True George Washington (J.B. Lippincott
Co., 1898); Smith, Page, John Adams 2 Vol. (Doubleday & Co., Garden
City, N.Y., 1962); North, Sterling, George Washington: Frontier Colonel
(Random House, Inc., 1957).
Conditions vary, generally good to very good.
Several of the books have the original owner's embossed stamp or library
stamps; all show shelf wear; Memoirs has some waterstaining and loose
boards; jacket only on Washington Bowed, stained; John Adams in
original dustcase.
Estimated Value $125-150.
Lot 1684
[Washington] Irving,
Washington Life of George Washington. 5 Vol. (N.Y., G.P. Putnam &
Co., 1860). Very minor shelf wear, owner's embossed stamp in each volume.
Overall, very tight, fine condition.
Estimated Value $150-175.
Lot 1685
[Washington] Marshall's
Life of Washington... with Atlas. Marshall, John,
The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces
During the War Which Established the Independence of Our Country, and President
of the United States...In Two Volumes (J. Crissy, Philadelphia, 1832) and
the scarce Atlas to Marshall's Life of Washington (J. Crissy,
Philadelphia, 1832).
We offer the second edition of this famed work,
"Revised and Corrected By The Author", with the sought-after Atlas.
All three volumes: original boards and endpapers; foxing throughout; shelf
wear. An owner stamped his name "Geo. A. Weaver" at the top right corner of
each title page, and another owner entered a digit (presumably his library
number) in ink on the verso of the front endpapers of Volumes 1 and 2 and
inside the cover of the Atlas, where he/she has also entered the name "L
Weaver". Old penciled price inside front of Volume 1.
Volumes 1 and 2 are
tight and intact, Atlas has all of the beautiful hand-colored maps it
should, but the binding is loose at the bottom edge front and back, and there
is some noticeable soil to the edges.
Less the foxing, these volumes would
qualify as fine condition.
Estimated Value $800-1,250.
Lot 1686
[Washington, George] and
[Lincoln, Abraham]. Pair of framed book pages with the likenesses of
Presidents Washington and Lincoln. Both pieces matted and framed to 6¼ x
10½", image size is 3¼ x 7½". Age toning, mat burns, both
frames show wear through gold paint to base metal. Fair to good
condition.
Attractive 19th century images of our two most popular
presidents make a nice accent for the collector of presidential memorabilia.
Estimated Value $35-50.
Lot 1687
Washington, Two Special
Biographies. Lot of two books, hard-to-find biographies of Washington,
written when his legacy was still fresh in the American psyche.
Alden, Rev.
Joseph, The Jewish Washington; or Lessons of Patriotism and Piety Suggested
by the History of Nehemiah (Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1846).
Ink note on first page "Westminister, Mass / S.S. Library." Wear to boards;
scattered foxing throughout; faint waterstain at bottom edge of several pages;
tight. Overall, very good condition.
Corry, John, The Life of George
Washington, First President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the
Armies (M'Carty & White, 1809). Wear to covers; handful of loose back
pages; pencil and ink notes and sketches inside covers; foxing and toning
scattered throughout; water/dampstains at various points. Overall, a worn book,
but complete and in good condition. An decent copy of a scarce book.
We
have not seen The Jewish Washington before and are fascinated by the
mingling of religious and patriotic virtues in this small volume. Published as
an instructional religious text, it focuses on the life of Nehemiah, while
using the lessons of Washington's religious beliefs and political activities to
illustrate it's points about virtue and religious fervor being rewarded.
Published for around 700 subscribers, The Life of Washington offered
here apparently went to one of the Davis family subscribers, as two of the
names written in the first pages have the surname Davis. Published a mere 10
years after Washington's death, the tone of the biography is clear in the
author's preface, "...The following biography is a narrative of facts. The
virtues of Washington require no adventitious embellishment; like the sun, they
are visible by their own lustre..." A window onto Washington's impact on the
new nation's developing self-image.
Estimated Value $150-250.
Lot 1688
The White House Gallery
of Official Portraits of the Presidents (The Gravure Company of
America, New York, 1901[?]) 16 x 20¼". Leather cover; fabric ribbon
threaded through slits in front and back cover is held in place on front cover
with 3" diameter leather presidential seal; gilded top edge, rough-cut right
edge. Bookplate is partially printed, accomplished in manuscript, it reads,
"White House Gallery of the Official Portraits of the Presidents / This copy
registered and numbered 1257 / Allotted to J.H. Filmer / The Gravure
Company of America / Jany 23, 1903" and signed by the company
secretary. Rubbing to front and back cover with some color loss; the seal has
three areas of significant leather loss but is generally in fair condition;
scattered, minor paper loss at extreme edges of front end paper possibly a
result of very faint dampstaining that extends into the first four pages of the
book; tissue paper at John Adams' portrait has a large tear. The pages are
tight, the portraits are all in excellent condition -- if it weren't for the
minor flaws mentioned above, this book would rate very fine.
Exquisite
portraits and brief essays about each president make this a truly remarkable
book that would enhance any collector's shelf.
Estimated Value $450-600.