The Boys' Life of Theodore Roosevelt
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. Thirty-Fifth Printing. 389, illus., red pencil underlining on a few pages, ink name, date, #, & raised stamp on fr flylf, rough spots ins rear bd & flyleaf. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. Thirty-Fifth Printing. 389, illus., red pencil underlining on a few pages, ink name, date, #, & raised stamp on fr flylf, rough spots ins rear bd & flyleaf. More
New York, N.Y. The Macmillan Company, 1954. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [10], 435, [5] pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. In Lieu of Footnotes. Index. Contents include Book 1, The Growing Family (1887-1901); Book II, Summer White House (1901-1910); and Book III, Beacon on Sagamore. Ex-Library copy with the usual library markings. Hermann Hagedorn (18 July 1882 – 27 July 1964) was an American author, poet and biographer. He was born in New York City and educated at The Hill School and Harvard University, where he was awarded the George B. Sohier Prize for literature, the University of Berlin, and Columbia University. From 1909 to 1911, he was an instructor in English at Harvard. Hagedorn was a friend and biographer of Theodore Roosevelt. He also served as Secretary and Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association from 1919 to 1957. Drawing upon his friendship with Roosevelt, Hagedorn was able to elicit the support of Roosevelt's friends and associates' personal recollections in his biography of TR which was first published in 1918 and then updated in 1922. Drawing on the same friends and associates of Roosevelt, Hagedorn also published the first serious study of TR's experience as a rancher in the Badlands after the death of his wife and mother in 1884. Hagedorn's access to TR's associates in these two books has been utilized by historian, Edmund Morris in his two highly acclaimed biographical books on Roosevelt published in 1979 and 2001. Alive with the magic of Roosevelt's inspiring personality, this is the story of the joys and struggles,the defeats and triumphs of a family that made headlines and history for a quarter of a century. More
New York: Theodore Roosevelt Assoc. 1958. pocket paperbk, 184, wraps, illus., reading list, chronology, some wear to covers, small spine tear, stamp on front cover, some darkening to text marginal ink underlining on title page. This book was published for the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Commission. It contains a biographical sketch by Hermann Hagedorn, together with selections from Roosevelt's writings and speeches, views of his contemporaries (including Ralph Bunche, Elihu Root, Booth Tarkington, and Leonard Wood), and cartoons of the period. More
New York: Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 1899. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8 inches by 10.5 inches. 584, [20] pages. Frontis. Illustrations. Some pages uncut. Cover has some wear and soiling. Greetings slip from William Baylies et al. Dr. Edward Hagaman Hall was born on November 3, 1858, in Auburn, New York. Edward Hall attended Auburn Academic High School, and graduated with honors in 1877. He worked as the editor of the Norwich Morning Bulletin. He then went on to work for several other publications including: Waterbury Daily Republican, New England Correspondent of the New York Tribune, Republic Press (New York City), The Spirit of Seventy-Six, and Commerce and Labor. One of his most notable works was a study on the voyages of Henry Hudson, and the design of his ship, the Half Moon. In 1908, Hall was awarded an honorary degree from New York University and an LL.D. degree from Hobart College. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961. First Printing. 568, notes, index, usual library markings, front board weak, some stains to fore-edge, DJ soiled & small edge tears. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961. First Printing. 568, notes, index, some wear to boards and spine, board corners slightly bumped. More
London: G. Allen & Unwin, [1923?]. First U.K.? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 369, illus. (some fold-out), front board weak, DJ separated at front flap and spine, DJ worn and torn, pieces missing at DJ spine. More
Portland House, 1990. First printing of Portland House edition. Hardcover. 143, [1] p. Illustrations (97 black and white photographs). Glossary. Roster of Recipients. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1965. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xvi, 362, [6] pages. Endpaper map (Track of the Great White Fleet). Illustrations. Bibliographical Note. Notes. Index. The Great White Fleet was the popular nickname for the powerful United States Navy battle fleet that completed a journey around the globe from 16 December 1907, to 22 February 1909, by order of President Theodore Roosevelt. Its mission was to make friendly courtesy visits to numerous countries, while displaying new U.S. naval power to the world. It consisted of 16 battleships divided into two squadrons, along with various escorts. Roosevelt sought to demonstrate growing American military power and blue-water navy capability. The United States Congress appropriated funds to build American naval power. Beginning in the 1880s with just 90 l ships, the navy grew to include new steel fighting vessels. The ship hulls were painted a stark white, giving the armada the nickname "Great White Fleet." More
Chicago, IL: Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., [1944]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 338, wraps, footnotes, bibliography, index, covers somewhat worn and soiled, usual library markings, cocked. More
New York: Macmillan, c1976. First Printing. 25 cm, 348, illus., bibliography, index, DJ worn, soiled, and small edge tears, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 230, [8] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Henry J. "Jerry" Hendrix (born 1966) is an American defense analyst, author, naval historian, and retired U.S. Navy captain. He has been noted for his work on force structure planning of the United States Navy, including the role of the aircraft carrier in modern strategic environments, the structure of the carrier air wing, and more recently, U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to build a 355 ship navy. Hendrix served as a senior military assistant to Andrew Marshall, and has been suggested as a possible candidate for the offices of Undersecretary of the Navy and director of the United States Department of Defense Office of Net Assessment. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966. First Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 736, illus., genealogical tables, index, DJ missing large piece in front. Inscribed by the author. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966. First Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 736, illus., genealogical tables, index, tears and small chips to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. First Edition. First? Printing. 736, illus., footnotes, genealogical tables, bibliography, index, DJ worn, soiled, torn, and chipped. More
New York: World Pub. Company, [1970]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 255, illus., index, front DJ flap price clipped, some wear and soiling to DJ. More
Place_Pub: Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2009. First Edition. Wraps. 292 pages. Wraps. Signed by the author. More
Washington, DC: Historical Society of Washington, 1989. Wraps. 26 cm, 104 pages, wraps, illus., maps, notes. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. ix, [1], 434, [2] pages & viii, [2], 493, [3] pages. 2 vols. Frontis Illustrations. Appendix. Index. Front board of volume I weak, restrengthend with glue. Top of spine of volume I torn and chipped. Volume II has less spine were and smaller tears. Volume II rear board has some weakness. Erasure residue. His 'Autobiography of Seventy Years', was published in 1903; it first appeared in serial form in Scribner's magazine. In addition to his political career, Hoar was active in the American Historical Association and the American Antiquarian Society, serving terms as president of both organizations. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1853, and served as vice-president from 1878 to 1884, and then served as president from 1884 to 1887. He was a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, and a trustee of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Through his efforts, the lost manuscript of William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation (1620–47), an important founding document of the United States, was returned to New England, after being discovered in Fulham Palace, London, in 1855. Hoar was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1901. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First Edition. First? Printing. 402, illus., footnotes, index. More
New York: Theia, 2003. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 369, [3] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Paul Hoffman (born 1956) is a prominent author and host of the PBS television series Great Minds of Science. He was president and editor in chief of Discover, in a ten-year tenure with that magazine, and served as president and publisher of Encyclopaedia Britannica before returning full-time to writing and consulting work. Hoffman, who holds a B.A. degree summa cum laude from Harvard, is the winner of the first National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Chicago magazine once called him "the smartest man in the world." Alberto Santos-Dumont (20 July 1873 – 23 July 1932, usually referred to as simply Santos-Dumont) was a Brazilian inventor and aviation pioneer, one of the very few people to have contributed significantly to the development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air aircraft. More
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1960. First? Edition. First? Printing. 346, illus., footnotes, bibliography, index, DJ worn, soiled, edge tears/chips, some edge soiling. More
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1933. 328, footnotes, tables, bibliography, index, pencil underlining and notes to text, pencil notations inside flyleaves. More
Place_Pub: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. 243, illus., index, boards and spine somewhat scuffed and stained, spine lettering faded. More
Hartford, CT: Aetna Life Insurance Company, 1956. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xvi, 259. [5] pages. Color fold-out frontis. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Appendix. Index. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Aetna Insurance Company organized an annuity fund to sell life insurance in 1850. In 1853, the Annuity department separates from Aetna Insurance and is incorporated as Aetna Life Insurance Company. The company's first president is Eliphalet A. Bulkeley. The "Aetna" name is retained to take advantage of the good reputation of the original Aetna. In 1861, Aetna begins offering participating life insurance policies, which paid dividends to policyholders just as the mutuals did, but gave Aetna the ability to better compete in the marketplace. Aetna launches its new product with an aggressive promotional effort, which included higher commission rates for agents. With the outbreak of the Civil War, many companies were thinking of retrenching, not expansion. The devastation of the battlefields combined with a wartime economy sparked a surge in life insurance purchases. More