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Rare Second Pickering Diamond Edition of Horace's Quintus Horatius Flaccus
HORACE,.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus.
London: Gulielmus Pickering, 1824.
Rare second Pickering Diamond edition, large paper issue, with an additional engraved title page. 12 mo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the front panel, raised bands, marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Housed in a custom chemise and half morocco slipcase.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 82315
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"The greatest short story writer of his day": First edition of Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Appreciation by R. Thurston Hopkins
HOPKINS, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Appreciation by R. Thurston Hopkins.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd, 1915.
First edition of R. Thurston Hopkins' anthology and appreciation of Kipling's works. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 121670
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First edition of R. Thurston Hopkins' Rudyard Kipling: The Story of a Genius
HOPKINS, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: The Story of a Genius.
London: Cecil Palmer, 1930.
First edition of Hopkins' biography of Rudyard Kipling. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 122049
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First edition of R. Thurston Hopkins' The Kipling Country
HOPKINS, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling].
The Kipling Country.
London: Cecil Palmer, 1924.
First edition of Hopkins' illustrated homage to Kipling's home in rural Burwash and its surrounds. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with drawings by Captain Irvine B. Bately and Gordon Volk. In good condition. Bookplate.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 135263
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First edition of R. Thurston Hopkins' Kipling's Sussex
HOPKINS, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling].
Kipling’s Sussex.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 1921.
First edition of Thurston's work on Kipling in Sussex. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In good condition.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 135205
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First Edition of The Story of the FBI; Inscribed by J. Edgar Hoover in the year of publication
HOOVER, J. Edgar [Introduction].
The Story of the FBI.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1947.
First edition of the official picture book of the FBI. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by J. Edgar Hoover in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Ellen Mc Mahon J. Edgar Hoover 10.21.47." In very good condition. Introduction by J. Edgar Hoover. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 133207
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Signed Photograph of Presidents Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman
HOOVER, Herbert & Harry S. Truman.
Signed Photograph of Presidents Herbert Hoover & Harry S. Truman.
1946.
Photograph of Presidents Herbert Hoover & Harry S. Truman, signed by both Presidents. Double matted and framed, the entire piece measures 11.25 inches by 9.5 inches. Rare and desirable signed by both Hoover and Truman.
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 102878
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Inscribed Set of Herbert Hoover's Addresses Upon the American Road
HOOVER, Herbert.
Addresses Upon The American Road Complete Set.
New York: Scribners and Van Nostrand and Stanford University Press, 1938-1955.
Signed and inscribed set of President Hoover's famed addresses given upon the American Road. Octavo, 7 volumes. Each volume is inscribed by Herbert Hoover on the front free endpaper. Volume one is inscribed, "To my good friend Lewis Stevens from Herbert Hoover." Volume 2, "Same as volume I with affection Herbert Hoover." Volume 3, "Same as first and second volumes plus more affection Herbert Hoover." Volume 4, "What more do you want? Herbert Hoover. Volume 5, "This one marks the last of the least but has the spirit of the other four volumes H.H." Volume 5, "This is the next…
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 48016
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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 Item Number: 91673
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"About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends": First Editions of The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Each Inscribed by President Hoover
HOOVER, Herbert.
The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Years of Adventure 1874-1920; The Cabinet and the Presidency 1920-1933; The Great Depression 1929-1941: Three Volume Complete Set.
New York: MacMillan, 1951-1952.
First editions of each volume in Hoover’s memoirs. Octavo, 3 volumes, illustrated. Each volume is inscribed by Herbert Hoover on the front free endpaper. Each are near fine in near fine dust jackets. Includes: Volume One: Years of Adventure 1874-1920; The Cabinet and the Presidency 1920-1933; The Great Depression 1929-1941. Includes an original photograph of Hoover with his Belgian shepherd King Tut. An exceptional set, uncommon signed and in the first printing.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 94356
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"Our system has at all times had to contend with internal encroachments upon liberty": Herbert Hoover's The Challenge to Liberty; Signed by Him and 13 others
HOOVER, Herbert.
The Challenge to Liberty.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
First edition, early printing of Herbert Hoover's challenge to Roosevelt's New Deal arguing it abandoned "the heritage of liberty." Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed on the front free endpaper by Herbert Hoover, along with thirteen others including Nebraska Governor Samuel Roy McKelvie, Judge Harry A. Spencer, Near fine in a good dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 117626
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"Our system has at all times had to contend with internal encroachments upon liberty": First edition of Herbert Hoover's The Challenge to Liberty; Inscribed by Him
HOOVER, Herbert.
The Challenge to Liberty.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
First edition of Herbert Hoover's challenge to Roosevelt's New Deal arguing it abandoned "the heritage of liberty." Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To my good friend and consultant- from Herbert Hoover Samuel Blythe." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A nice association.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 125711
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The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: 1920-1933 The Cabinet and The Presidency; Inscribed by Him
HOOVER, Herbert.
The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: 1920-1933 The Cabinet and The Presidency.
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1951.
First edition, second printing of Hoover's Presidential memoir. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "The good wishes of Herbert Hoover to John P. Costello." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Riki Levinson.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 133701
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First Edition of Herbert Hoover's The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson; Inscribed by Him
HOOVER, Herbert.
The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1958.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Hugh Kelly with the good wishes of Herbert Hoover." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by H. Lawrence Hoffman. First editions are uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 138559
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First Edition of Through Joy and Beyond: A Pictorial Biography of C.S. Lewis; Signed by Walter Hooper
HOOPER, Walter [C.S. Lewis].
Through Joy and Beyond: A Pictorial Biography of C.S. Lewis.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co, 1982.
First edition of this biography on C.S. Lewis. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Walter Hooper on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 131584
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George Bell's Waterloo: The Downfall of the First Napoleon: A History of the Campaign of 1815
HOOPER, George.
Waterloo: The Downfall of the First Napoleon: A History of the Campaign of 1815.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1904.
First edition, new impression of Hooper's account of the decisive engagement of the Waterloo campaign and Napoleon’s last. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In very good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 137102