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Rare Columbia University Alumni Banquet Program; signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower
EISENHOWER, Dwight D.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Columbia University Banquet Program.
Cincinatti: Columbia University Alumni Club of Cincinatti, 1949.
Rare Columbia University Alumni Banquet program signed by the 34th President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Large octavo, the program was printed for the Regional Columbia University Alumni Banquet held at the Netherland Plaza Hotel on November 22, 1949. Signed by Eisenhower on the front panel of the program. Eisenhower served as president of Columbia University after World War II, a position he held from 1948 to 1953. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 121022
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“THE MOST AUTHORITATIVE FIGURE IN JEWISH LIFE”: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF CHAIM WEIZMANN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY TRIAL AND ERROR
WEIZMANN, Chaim.
Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 500 copies signed by Chaim Weizmann, this is number 255. Octavo, 2 volumes, frontispiece of Weizmann in volume one. Fine in good dust jackets. With the original sales slip from 1949 laid in. Uncommon in the original dust jackets.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 134759
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“one of the transcendent moral influences of our century" (John F. Kennedy) Albert Schweitzer's Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography; Inscribed by him
SCHWEITZER, Albert.
Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1949.
First edition, early printing of the Nobel laureate's classic autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Schweitzer on the recto of a photograph to Miss Margaret Lial and additionally inscribed and signed by him in French on verso and additionally inscribed by conductor and pianist Antonia Brico. The Dutch born conductor and pianist, Antonia Brico had an enduring friendship with Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the organ-playing doctor who practiced medicine in the wilds of Africa. The two shared a love of Bach’s music, and she detoured home from an engagement in Europe to visit Schweitzer in Africa in 1950. This…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 140103
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“THE MOST AUTHORITATIVE FIGURE IN JEWISH LIFE”: FIRST EDITION OF CHAIM WEIZMANN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY TRIAL AND ERROR; INSCRIBED BY HIM
WEIZMANN, Chaim.
Trial and Error.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949.
First edition of the first president of Israel's classic autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Weizmann. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Pam Affectionately Chaim Wiezmann." Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 134391
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First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s This I Remember; Signed By Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
This I Remember.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949.
First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s wonderful autobiography. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated with 41 photographs of the Roosevelt family, including frontispiece of the First Lady. Boldly signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 138860
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First Edition of Gandhi's Autobiography; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
GANDHI, Mahatma K.
Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth.
London: Phoenix Press, 1949.
First edition of Gandhi's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition. Translated by Mahadev Desai.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 134231
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“THE MOST AUTHORITATIVE FIGURE IN JEWISH LIFE”: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF CHAIM WEIZMANN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY TRIAL AND ERROR
WEIZMANN, Chaim.
Trial and Error.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 500 copies signed by Chaim Weizmann, this is number 415. Octavo, 2 volumes, frontispiece of Weizmann in volume one. Near fine in near fine dust jackets, owner name to the front free endpaper of volume one. Uncommon in the original dust jackets.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 135082
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First Edition of Gandhi's Autobiography; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
GANDHI, Mahatma K.
Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth.
London: Phoenix Press, 1949.
First edition of Gandhi's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Translated by Mahadev Desai.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 142027
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First edition, advance review copy of Llyod Lewis's Captain Sam Grant; from the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Herbert Donald
LEWIS, Lloyd. [David Herbert Donald].
Captain Sam Grant.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950.
First edition, advance review copy of Lewis' great biography of American Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant, with the publisher's review slip laid in. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Herbert Donald with three drafts of a review of the book by Donald's mentor and the director of his dissertation at the University of Illinois, John Randall, laid in.; one with hand-written annotations. American historian David Herbert Donald is best known for his 1995 biography of Abraham Lincoln. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography two times for his biographies of Charles Sumner and Thomas…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 136237
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First Edition of Winston Churchill’s Masterpiece The Second World War: The Hinge of Fate
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The Second World War: The Hinge of Fate.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950.
First American edition of the fourth volume in Churchill's classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 144548
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First Edition of Partners: The United Nations and Youth; Inscribed by Eleanor Roosevelt
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor & Helen Ferris.
Partners: The United Nations and Youth.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950.
First edition of this work which tells the dramatic story of the United Nations. Small quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Inscribed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page, "For Marjorie friedgood with good wishes Eleanor Roosevelt." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket by Rafael Palacios.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 62052
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First Edition of Partners: The United Nations and Youth; Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt and Helen Ferris
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor & Helen Ferris.
Partners: The United Nations and Youth.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950.
First edition of this work which tells the dramatic story of the United Nations. Small quarto, original cloth, illustrated, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt and inscribed by Helen Ferris to famed photographer Fred Stein, "For Fred Stein with our appreciation and all our good wishes for the days ahead Helen Ferris June 1951." Stein was an early pioneer of the hand held camera and noted street photographer in New York and Paris. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket by Rafael Palacios. We have never encountered another signed copy by both authors.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 4553
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“I know that like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have": Rare photograph of the First Lady of Argentina Eva Perón; Lengthily Inscribed by Her
PERóN, Eva.
Eva Perón Signed Photograph.
1950.
Rare photographic portrait of the First Lady of Argentina Eva Perón, signed and lengthily inscribed and dated by her in Spanish. Retaining the original mount. Double matted and framed, the entire piece measures 15.5 inches by 18 inches. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 116038
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First Edition of Jefferson and the Rights of Man; Inscribed by Dumas Malone
MALONE, Dumas.
Jefferson and the Rights of Man.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.
First edition of the second volume in Malone's landmark work on Jefferson, from the library of Archibald Bolling Shepperson. Octavo, original navy cloth with gilt titles to the spine and Thomas Jefferson's seal in gilt to the front panel, frontispiece of Jefferson at the Dawn of the French Revolution by Houdon. Illustrated with fifteen black-and-white photographed portraits and documents. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To the Sheps with love from The Malones - Sept. 25, 1951." The recipient, Archibald Bolling Shepperson was a professor of English at the University of Virginia, the author behind…
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145265
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"I HAVE FOUND IT IMPOSSIBLE TO CARRY THE HEAVY BURDEN": A KING'S STORY, Inscribed by THE DUKE OF WINDSOR to Ambassador Henry Taylor
WINDSOR, Duke of [King Edward].
A King’s Story.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1951.
First edition of King Edward's classic autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the his official letterhead pasted to the half-title page, "To Henry N. Taylor with best wishes and congratulations on winning the Sullivan Award of the University of Virginia Edward May 1951." The recipient, Henry Junior Taylor was an economist, author, radio broadcaster and former United States Ambassador to Switzerland He served as a foreign correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain in the early years of World War II. After the war, Taylor hosted the General Motors-sponsored radio program Your…
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 144116
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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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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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Rare original silver gelatin print of the 1952 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Economic Conference; signed by Winston S. Churchill and eight additional Finance and Prime Ministers of the Commonwealth
CHURCHILL, Winston S.; Nicolaas Havenga; Dudley Senanayake; Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh; Edgar Whitehead; Sidney Holland; Louis St. Laurent; Robert Menzies; Khawaja Nazimuddin.
Winston S. Churchill Signed 1952 Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Economic Conference Photograph.
London: 1952.
Official black-and-white photograph of the members of the November 1952 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Economic Conference which historically proclaimed Queen, Elizabeth II, Head of the Commonwealth in succession of her late father, George VI. The large black-and-white silver gelatin print is signed on the mount by Nicolaas Havenga (Finance Minister of South Africa), Dudley Senanayake (Prime Minister of Ceylon), Sir Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh (Finance Minister of India), Edgar Whitehead (Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia), Sidney Holland (Prime Minister of New Zealand), Louis St. Laurent (Prime Minister of Canada), Winston S. Churchill, Robert Menzies (Prime Minister of Australia), and Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin…
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 137259
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First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s India and the Awakening East; Inscribed by Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
India and the Awakening East.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1953.
First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's account of her travels through the Middle East and India. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. Warmly inscribed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 12046
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First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s India and the Awakening East; Signed By Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
India and the Awakening East.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1953.
First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's account of her travels through the Middle East and India. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some chips to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 4356