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Rare Presidential Commission appointing Baseball Hall of Famer Joe Dimaggio as a member of the Conference on Physical Fitness and Sports; signed by President Richard Nixon
Nixon, Richard; Joe DiMaggio.
Joe DiMaggio Presidential Commission Signed by Richard Nixon.
Washington, D.C: 1970.
Rare Richard Nixon Presidential Commission appointing Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio as a “Member of the Conference on Physical Fitness and Sports.” Dated September 25th, 1970 the appointment is signed by President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State William Rogers with the Presidential seal. Double matted and framed. In fine condition. From the personal collection of Joe DiMaggio. Included is letter of provenance from DiMaggio’s estate signed by his two granddaughters. An exceptional association linking two American icons. Double matted and framed.
Price: $15,000.00
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First Edition of Theodore Roosevelt's African Game Trails; Inscribed by Theodore Roosevelt to General Sir Reginald Wingate
Roosevelt, Theodore.
African Game Trails. An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1910.
First edition of Theodore Roosevelt’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth, gilt top edge, photogravure frontispiece, illustrated, 48 plates, map of Roosevelt’s route and hunting trips in Africa. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To General Sir Reginald Wingate with the high regard of Theodore Roosevelt April 21st 1911.” The recipient, Reginald Wingate was a British general and administrator in Egypt and the Sudan. He earned the nom de guerre Wingate of the Sudan. In December 1899, on Lord Kitchener being summoned to South Africa, Sir Reginald Wingate succeeded him as Governor-General of the Sudan and Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, being promoted to local major general on 22 December 1899. His administration of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, between 1899 and 1916, achieved the colonial goals of the British Empire, with the colony regaining a degree of prosperity and its infrastructure being rebuilt and expanded. In near fine condition with light rubbing and wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half calf clamshell box. A nice association, signed trade editions of African Game Trails are rare.
Price: $9,800.00
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Signed Limited Edition of Theodore Roosevelt's Outdoor Pastimes of An American Hunter; In the Scarce Original dust jacket
Roosevelt, Theodore.
Outdoor Pastimes of An American Hunter.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1905.
Signed limited edition of Roosevelt’s classic work, one of 260 numbered copies signed by Theodore Roosevelt, this is number 23. Small quarto, original cloth, printed on ruisdael paper by the De Vinne Press, photogravure frontispiece of Roosevelt, illustrated throughout. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some light expert restoration. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Exceptionally rare and desirable in the original dust jacket.
Price: $9,500.00
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Rare baseball signed by President Richard Nixon; from the collection of Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio
Nixon, Richard (Joe DiMaggio).
Richard Nixon Autographed Baseball Presented to Joe DiMaggio.
Rawlings Official Ball National League .
Rare baseball signed by President Richard Nixon on the sweetspot. From the personal collection of Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio. Accompanied by an original black and white photograph of DiMaggio and Nixon shaking hands in the White House, also from DiMaggio’s personal collection. In near fine condition. Included is letter of provenance from DiMaggio’s estate signed by his two granddaughters. An exceptional association linking two American icons.
Price: $7,800.00
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Signed Limited Edition of Theodore Roosevelt's Outdoor Pastimes of An American Hunter
Roosevelt, Theodore.
Outdoor Pastimes of An American Hunter.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1905.
Signed limited edition of Roosevelt’s classic work. One of 260 numbered copies signed by Theodore Roosevelt, this is number 56. Printed on ruisdael paper by the De Vinne Press. Photogravure frontispiece of Roosevelt, illustrated throughout. Bound in full morocco, gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, marbled endpapers. In fine condition.
Price: $7,200.00
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT’S RANCH LIFE AND THE HUNTING-TRAIL; ILLUSTRATED BY FREDERIC REMINGTON AND IN THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET
Roosevelt, Theodore.
Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail.
New York: The Century Company 1899.
Early printing of Roosevelt’s fascinating account of the West. Quarto, original illustrated cloth, top edge gilt with others uncut. Profusely illustrated by Frederic Remington. Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Exceptionally rare in the original dust jacket.
Price: $3,000.00
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First Edition of Theodore Roosevelt's African Game Trails; in the Scarce original dust jacket
Roosevelt, Theodore.
African Game Trails. An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1910.
First edition of Theodore Roosevelt’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth, gilt top edge, photogravure frontispiece, illustrated, 48 plates, map of Roosevelt’s route and hunting trips in Africa. Near fine in the original dust jacket with some chips and wear to the extremities. This is the first example we have seen in the dust jacket. Rare and desirable.
Price: $2,800.00
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Rare John F. Kennedy Inaugural Ball Invitation; from the collection of Joe DiMaggio with the original transmittal envelope addressed to him
Kennedy, John F. (Joe DiMaggio).
John F. Kennedy Inaugural Invitations.
Washington, D.C: January 5, 1961.
Original Inaugural Committee invitation to the inauguration of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on Friday, January 20, 1961 from the collection of baseball legend Joe DiMaggio. Octavo, with the gilt Inaugural seal. Laid in is an invitation to the Inaugural Ball, ticket to the Inaugural ball, invitation to the Inaugural Concert, calendar of Inaugural activities, and the original transmittal envelopes for the invitations addressed to Joe DiMaggio. From the collection of Joe DiMaggio with a letter of provenance signed by his granddaughters Paula DiMaggio Hamra and Kathie DiMaggio Stein. Both Kennedy and DiMaggio had romantic relationships with Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. DiMaggio and Monroe were married at San Francisco City Hall on January 14th, 1954, marking the culmination of years of constant media attention. After their honeymoon in Japan and Korea, the couple returned to Hollywood where tension began to build due to DiMaggio’s discomfort with his wife’s vivacious image. In September of 1954, on the New York City set of the director Billy Wilder’s The Seven Year Itch, DiMaggio became irate as Monroe filmed the now-famous scene in which she stands over a subway grate with the air blowing up her skirt. The couple were divorced in October 1954, only 274 days after the day of their marriage ceremony. In May of 1962, Monroe took a break from shooting the 20th Century Fox film Something’s Got to Give, to sing “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” on stage at President John F. Kennedy’s early birthday celebration at Madison Square Garden in New York, drawing attention with her costume: a beige, skintight dress covered in rhinestones, which made her appear nude. When 36-year-old Monroe died of a drug overdose on August 5, 1962, DiMaggio handled her funeral arrangements. He barred Hollywood’s elite as well as members of the Kennedy family, including then-U.S. President John F. Kennedy, from attending. For the next two decades, until his own death in 1999, he sent roses several times a week to her grave at Westwood Village Memorial Cemetery in Los Angeles. In fine condition. A unique association.
Price: $2,800.00
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First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Classic Work You Learn By Living; Signed By Her
Roosevelt, Eleanor.
You Learn By Living.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers 1960.
First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s classic work on how to discover life’s lessons. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the front free endpaper. Tear to the front panel, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Dr. David Gurewitsch. Rare signed, as Roosevelt passed away in 1962. A very nice signed example.
Price: $2,200.00
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Rare autograph letter signed by President Gerald Ford to Baseball Legend Joe Dimaggio
Ford, Gerald (Joe DiMaggio).
Gerald Ford Autograph Letter Signed to Joe DiMaggio.
Rare autograph letter signed by President Gerald Ford to Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio. Dated December 20, 1979 on Ford’s presidential letterhead, the letter reads: “Dear Mr. DiMaggio: I would like to invite you to play in the Fourth Annual Jerry Ford Invitational Tournament in Vail, Colorado. The dates this year are July 28-29. The purse this year will be $100,000. We will be playing in fivesomes, one best ball. It should be a great golfing experience with over forty professionals attending…Hope to see you there. 1980 could be a banner year for the tournament. Warmest best wishes, Sincerely, “Jerry Ford.” In fine condition. Double matted and framed with the original transmittal envelope which is also signed by Ford and an original full-color photograph of DiMaggio and Ford at the Fourth Annual Jerry Ford Invitational Tournament in Vail, Colorado. The entire piece measures 25 inches by 20 inches. A unique association.
Price: $2,000.00
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"A Good public Servant Becomes so at a high cost of personal sacrifice": First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Classic Work You Learn By Living; Signed By Her
Roosevelt, Eleanor.
You Learn By Living.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers 1960.
First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s classic work on how to discover life’s lessons. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the front free endpaper. Name on the half-title page, near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Dr. David Gurewitsch. Rare signed, as Roosevelt passed away in 1962.
Price: $2,000.00
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"We had a long distance to make that day, and after leaving the grain fields travelled pretty steadily": First Edition of Theodore Roosevelt’s Hunting Trips Of A Ranchman
Roosevelt, Theodore.
Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1886.
First edition of Roosevelt’s stories of sport hunting on the Northern Cattle Plains. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, patterned endpapers, illustrated with 26 full-page engravings by A.B. Frost, R. Swain Gifford, J.C. Beard, Fannie E. Gifford, and Henry Sandham including tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Roosevelt in hunting attire. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00
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"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers": First Edition of Fishing For Fun; Inscribed by Herbert Hoover
Hoover, Herbert.
Fishing For Fun and To Wash Your Soul.
New York: Random House 1963.
First edition of this collection of writings from President Hoover. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Elliot Hass The Good Wishes of Herbert Hoover.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. Edited by William Nichols. A very sharp example.
Price: $750.00
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"A strange place, a strange crowd this, sure enough, into which we suddenly dropped that April afternoon": First edition of Lincoln A. Lang's Ranching With Roosevelt
Lang, Lincoln A. [Theodore Roosevelt].
Ranching With Roosevelt by a Companion Rancher Lincoln A. Lang.
Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company 1926.
First edition of Lincoln A. Lang’s insightful work on the ranching days of Theodore Roosevelt and the history of the Badlands in the years after his departure. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, with 25 photographic illustrations including frontispiece. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.
Price: $200.00