John Hay: From Poetry to Politics
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1934. Sixth Printing. 476, illus., bibliography, appendices, index, weakness front board, frontis illus. partially detached, ink notation ins fr flyleaf. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1934. Sixth Printing. 476, illus., bibliography, appendices, index, weakness front board, frontis illus. partially detached, ink notation ins fr flyleaf. More
New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1922. Second Printing. 24 cm, 417, frontis illus., boards worn and soiled, boards weak, corners bumped, pencil note and erasure residue on front endpaper. More
Chicago, IL: Quadrangle Books, 1971. Reprint Edition. First Thus? Printing. 22 cm, 318, illus., index, sticker remnant on front endpaper, DJ worn. More
Santa Barbara, CA: Fifhian Press, 1988. First? Edition. First? Printing. Wraps. 58 pages. Wraps, illus. Inscribed by the author; inscription signed "Enoch (aka Roy). " More
New York: McGraw-Hill, [1967]. First? Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 122, illus., bibliography, index, owner's label on front endpaper, DJ worn, torn, and soiled, edges soiled. More
New York: The Century Company, 1928. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5 inches by 8 inches. vii, [4], 177, [1] pages. Decorative cover. Frontis illustration of Lincoln. Map. Footnotes. Illustrations. Glassine dust wrapper with text imprinted on both flaps, torn at spine. Cover has some wear and soiling. William Edward Dodd (October 21, 1869 – February 9, 1940) was an American historian, author and diplomat. A liberal Democrat, he served as the United States Ambassador to Germany from 1933 to 1937 during the Nazi era. Initially a holder of the slightly Antisemitic notions of his times, he went to Germany with instructions from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to do what he could to protest Nazi treatment of Jews in Germany "unofficially," while also attempting to follow official State Department instructions to maintain cordial official diplomatic relations. Convinced from first hand observation that the Nazis were an increasing threat, he resigned over his inability to mobilize the Roosevelt administration, particularly the State Department, to counter the Nazis prior to the start of World War II. In a letter to President Theodore Roosevelt (whose maternal ancestors were from the South), Dodd described his approach: "The purpose of my studying and writing history is to strike a balance somewhat between the North and the South, but not to offer any defense of any thing." More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. First Printing. 339, illus., bibliography, index, top corner front DJ flap torn off, small edge tears and crease to rear DJ flap, rear DJ scratched. More
Place_Pub: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First Edition. 415, illus., footnotes, appendix, index, slight darkening inside boards and to text, front DJ flap price clipped. More
North Carolina: Paul R. Dunn, 2017. First U.S. Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Trade paperback. 214, [2] pages. Illustrated front and back cover. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads To Dale, Enjoy your time spent with Abe...our greatest President! Paul R. Dunn. An approximately 3.5 inch by 2 inch business card size advertisement for the book with the cover illustration on one side and author contact information on the other. Paul Dunn (1928-2022) enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving as a yeoman from 1946 to 1948 on the U.S.S. Montauk and the U.S.S. Nueces. He founded and was editor of Around Town, a local newspaper. In 1954, Paul graduated from St. John’s University College, Brooklyn, N.Y., and attended its law school. He and B. J. Dunn moved to Pinehurst in 1999, where he volunteered as historian of the Newcomers Club and served for five years as historian of the Pinehurst Golf and Country Club. In 2003, Paul and B.J. designed and marketed a pocket watch which honored the 100th Anniversary of the First Flight to the Wright Brothers. His high interest in golf and Donald Ross, the famed golf course architect, led him and B.J. to co-author "Great Donald Ross Golf Courses You Can Play" in 2001, and a second edition in 2017. Both books describe all Donald Ross golf courses open to public play in America. He contributed op-ed articles to The New York Times and for 20 years columns in The Pilot newspaper, of Southern Pines. He recently authored and published "The Secret War Diaries of Abraham Lincoln - Including His Recurring Dreams," a four-volume work. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912. Hardcover. 73 pages. Includes illustrations. Signed by author. Cover worn and soiled. Spine damaged, part at top missing. James Francis Dwyer (1874–1952) was an Australian writer. From 1902 he wrote more than 300 stories for pulp magazines such as Black Cat, Harper's Bazaar and Collier's. More
Washington, DC: NY Ave. Presbyterian Church, [c1962]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 369 pages. Illus., glossary. Signed by the author. More
Place_Pub: New York: Free Press, c1997. First Printing. 25 cm, 464, illus., maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, sticker residue on DJ. More
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1958. First Edition. First Printing. 208 pages. Notes, bibliography, index, pp. 7-10 creased, bookplate ins fr bd, some wear spine edges/board corners. Signed by the author. More
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1958. First Edition. 208, notes, bibliography, index, ink name on front flyleaf blacked out with marker, small ding & slight soiling inside rear flyleaf. More
Chicago, IL: Alliance Book Corporation, 1942. First? Edition. First? Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 368 pages. Boards worn and soiled, tears and gouge at top corner of rear board. Signed by the author. More
Washington, DC: The Washington Journal, [c1943]. First? Edition. First? Printing. Wraps. 20 cm, 475 pages. Wraps, spine discolored, some wear to spine edges. Signed by the author. More
Linthicum, MD: American Urological Association, The William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History, 2011. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 45, [3] pages, including covers. Illustrations (some color). Ink mark on front cover. Dr. Rainer Engel, MD was an urology specialist in Baltimore, MD and has been practicing for 60 years. He graduated from Med Fac Rhein, F Wilhelms U Bonn in 1959 and specialized in urology. As we look as selected stories of American presidents' illnesses, we look into a mirror reflecting changes in medical practices throughout our nation's history, ranging from the invention of improved diagnostic tools to the discovery and use of antibiotics. Along the way, we confront the sometimes uncomfortable dichotomy between the personal right to medical privacy and the public's right to know their elected leaders' degree of illness and whether it effects the ability to carry out official duties. More
New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2008. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. xii, 559, [5] pages. Includes Illustrations. Afterword, Acknowledgments, Sources and Notes, and Index. Daniel Mark Epstein (born October 25, 1948) is an American poet, dramatist, and biographer. His poetry has been noted for its erotic and spiritual lyricism, as well as its power—in several dramatic monologues—in capturing crucial moments of American history. While he has continued to publish poetry he is more widely known for his biographies of Nat King Cole, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bob Dylan and Abraham Lincoln, and his radio plays, "Star of Wonder," and "The Two Menorahs," which have become holiday mainstays on National Public Radio. The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage (2008) was named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Sun Times and the Wall Street Journal, whose reviewer remarked it "may be the best Lincoln book in a generation." More
Madison, WI: The American History Research Center, 1957. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. viii, [2], 278 pages. Frontis illustration. Bibliographical Note. Notes to the Text. Index. This work was distributed by the University of Illinois Press. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Don Edward Fehrenbacher (August 21, 1920 – December 13, 1997) was an American historian. He wrote on politics, slavery, and Abraham Lincoln. He won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, his book about the Dred Scott Decision. In 1977 David M. Potter's The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861, which he edited and completed, won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1997 he won the Lincoln Prize. From 1953 to 1984 Fehrenbacher taught American history at Stanford University. His posthumous book, The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States government's Relations to Slavery (completed and edited by Ward M. McAfee), won the Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians in 2002. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1874. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. x, 339, [4] p. 20 cm. Index. More
New York: The Free Press, 1996. First Printing. 406, notes, index, slight sticker residue on rear DJ, small indentations and slight waviness to a few pages. More
St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1974. First Edition. 226, illus., bibliography, notes, index, DJ somewhat worn: small tears, small chips missing. More
Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, c1980. First? Edition. First? Printing. 29 cm, 187, profusely illus., bibliography, index, DJ somewhat worn and soiled. Special Introduction by Herbert R. Collins. More
New York: Greenwich House, 1984. First Printing thus. Hardcover. Quarto, 160 pages. Illustrations. Recipes. Index. DJ somewhat soiled, small tear to bottom edge rear DJ. Brief anecdotes and information concerning the private lives, habits, and personal likes and dislikes of America's presidents and their families are related. Arden was the author of many books including Wives of the Presidents; A Taste of White House Cooking; Dolley Madison, First Lady; and, with Sid Frank, Presidential Tidbits and Trivia. Before earning her Bachelors degree Arden covered New Jersey state and county government for the Associated Press. In the public sector, as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce in the administration of Gov. Thomas Kean, Arden spearheaded the indelible “New Jersey and You” campaign. Fittingly, Arden was inducted into the New Jersey Advertising Hall of Fame and served as President of the Advertising Club or New Jersey. More
Seattle, WA: Superior Pub. Co, [1966]. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 28 cm, 192 pages. Profusely illus., index, ink notation inside front board. More