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Vintage Signed Photo matte-finish 8" x 10" head and shoulder portrait, boldly signed and inscribed in the lower border in fountain pen, “For Tom Amatucci, with best wishes and personal regard from his friend, Dwight D. Eisenhower.” In very good condition, a bit of transparent tape on margins (probably from.....
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. English Traits. First Edition. Boston: Phillips Sampson, 1856. 8vo (4 5/8 x 7 1/2 in.). Original full brown cloth, covers and spine decoratively bordered in blind, spine gilt lettered. In custom green cloth covered slipcase and wrapper. First Edition, First Printing, with all correct points: '(1)' on.....
STONE, Lucy. Autograph Letter, signed, from Lucy Stone to Mrs. Pitman, regarding suffrage meetings and "what might be done if others who are well felt the same spirit to, do what they could. " 1p., on a folded quarto sheet. Dorchester: Jan. 6 1885. very good plus. Letter written by.....
19th Century tintype photograph of interracial couple in the post-Civil War era. A well-dressed African American woman wearing Victorian-era dress sits next to a white man with their arms warmly touching. The man, presumably her husband, is very light-skinned with Caucasian-looking features and hair, so it is assumed he is.....
Obama, Barack. A Promised Land: Deluxe Signed Edition - with the original publisher deluxe cloth bound slipcase. Crown, 2020. Hardcover. Condition: New. First edition thus, first printing. Special signed limited clothbound editions of Barack and Michelle Obama's memoir: Becoming Deluxe Signed Edition. Both books are new, unread, unused, and in.....
Reagan, Ronald. An American Life: The Autobiography. Signed "Ronald Reagan," New York: Simon & Schuster 1990. Hardcover first edition signed, with original dust jacket. 748 pages, 6.5" x 9.5." in black ink on a bookplate imprinted with large presidential eagle seal. Ronald Reagan takes the reader behind the scenes of.....
[AFRICAN AMERICAN MILITARY] A group of four African American soldiers sit at the mouth of an earthen bomb-shelter, while one man below stands over a large pot making coffee, 1864. On the Lines Before Petersburg, Va., 1864. Hartford, CT: The War Photograph & Exposition Co., ca 1864. About 6 1/4.....
[African-American Art] Locke, Alain. Negro Art: Past and Present. First Edition, First Printing. Third book of the "Bronze Booklet" series. Washington, D.C.: Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1936. 122 pages. Stapled bronze softcover wrappers. Octavo. Regarded as one of the fundamental leaders, "philosophical architect”, and “ideological genius” of the Harlem.....
Archive of ten photographs of cowgirls in the Old West. Photos range in size from 3" x 4" to 7" x 9". Circa 1900-1920s. Mostly black and white photos, some sepia toned, one with coloring added. Seven of the photos depict the cowgirls mounted, with six of them on horseback.....
Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years' Personal Experience Among the Red Men of the Great West, Hartford, CT: A.D. Worthington, 1882. First edition, Large format 9" tall; 653 pages, Landmark work on native Americans of the west. Illustrated with steel engraved portraits, half leather with marbled boards, and decorative endpages, gilt.....
[Guns] "No Shooting on These Premises". Original Broadside, Phoenix, Arizona: G.G. Morgan Ptg. Co., 1920. . Larger format 12" x 8-3/4" inch broadside printed on linen cloth. This broadside was issued in the early years of Arizona's statehood, whose constitution gave citizens the right to bear arms in 1910. Phoenix.....
Hubbard, William. A Narrative of the Indian Wars in New England. Printed by Daniel Greenleaf for Joseph Wilder: Worcester, Massachusetts, 1801. Scarce Fourth edition (3rd American) first published in 1677, we found only one first edition copy for sale at over $170,000 and no other earlier editions than the 4th.....
Abraham Lincoln The Nation's Martyr Assassinated 14th 1865. New York: Currier and Ives,1865. Medium Folio -14" x 9.75" inches. A photorealistic lithograph portrait of the martyred President, issued shortly after his death. Currier and Ives was a major printmaking firm that would utilize the reuse of stock images for "rush.....
Memory book of Kenneth W. Thomson of Jacksonville, Illinois. Most of the album dates from the mid 1920s. The album contains approximately 300 photos along with newspaper clippings, dance cards, programs, pamphlets, school report cards, invitations, postcards and University of Illinois ephemera. Album covers measure 10” x 13”; photos measure.....
[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Perali, Joseph T. 1 page. 8" x 10." Letter ordering a property vacated on behalf of Thomas M. Holmes, a free person of color. Charleston, 8 June 1865. Thomas M Holmes was the sitting president of the Colored People's Convention of South Carolina. This ADS states, "Permission.....
Archive of 23 stereoview photographs depicting the African American experience, primarily in the American South around the end of the 19th century. Multiple publishers but primarily consisting of Underwood & Underwood, the Keystone View Company, and Strohmeyer & Wyman. 1890-1905. Around 3.5" x 7.5" each. Black and white, often sepia.....
Bill Clinton, 42nd President. Typed letter signed as president, one page, 7" x 9", White House letterhead, dated October 15, 1998. Clinton writes to Reverend Stan Easty in North Carolina, one of his closest friends and spiritual advisors, who also advised him during the Monica scandal. In full: “Hillary and.....
This pamphlet is the catalog of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Emerson was inducted into the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1828 at age 25. He was the only student of Harvard to receive admission that year. Along with his Phi Beta Kappa Address, we have a very rare.....
Ralph Waldo Emerson Autograph Quotation, unsigned, entirely in Emerson's hand: "The guiding star to the arrangement and use of facts, is in your leading thought." 5" x 8" inches, minor blemishes, lower edge ragged. on the verso an address panel in another hand: Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Concord, Mass. Undated.....
Howe, Julia Ward. Autograph quote signed. Influential women’s suffragist, abolitionist, and poet Julia Ward Howe handwrites this verse of kindness from one of her poems. She writes, “then spoke the angel of mothers / To me, in gentle tone: / “Be kind to the children of others, / and thus.....
Helen Keller was an American author, political activist & lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she.....
Original 19 century Albumen Cabinet Card Photograph of Lakota Sioux Chief "Rain in the Face" by Western photographer D. F. Barry. 4 1/4" x 6 1/2". Titled "Rain in the Face - D.F. Barry copyright -Bismarck, DAK" on the mount with Barry's "Bismarck, North Dakota" imprint on verso. Although this.....
Spanish–American War Battleships Photo Archive consisting of 28 silver gelatin print photographs. All are vintage black and white photos, sizes range from 4.5" x 3.5" to 5.5" x 4" inches. Photos are loose. Archive depicts US armored naval ships in New York harbor around the time of the Spanish-American War.....
Photo album used as a promotional item by Ruhm’s Phosphate & Chemical Company of Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee. Circa 1928. The album contains 77 silver gel photos, almost all of which are captioned, and a couple newspaper clippings. Black album covers measure 11” x 7 ½”. Photos range from 2 ½”.....
BRADY, Mathew, photographer. Stereoview of African American soldiers of the 7th USCT outside Fort Burnham (formerly CSA Fort Harrison), near Richmond, VA. New York: E. & H.T. Anthony, n.d. 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. stereoview on cardstock mount (light edge wear to mount). Mount recto with series title, "The.....