[Concord, NH: 1827]. Broadsheet. 45.5 cm. x 29cm. [2] pp., printed in four columns. Sheet lightly and uniformly browned. Adams' third Annual Message to Congress takes up seven of the eight columns. Most of his speech is concerned with international trade and treaties. Jackson Democrats had swept the mid-term elections..... More

Boston, (MA): J. H. Eastburn, City Printer, 1831. First edition. 8vo. 100 pp. Celebration of the life of the recently deceased Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) by his successor; like the author’s father and Thomas Jefferson, Monroe died on the Fourth of July. American Imprints 5630. Disbound..... More

New York: J.P. Giffing, [1840]. Improved edition. 8vo. (36) pp. Illustrated with wood engravings, front and rear wrappers illustrated with a wood engraving. Almanac information for each month, with a 22-page biography of William Henry Harrison. Sabin 30579. American Imprints 41-2404. Drake 7809. Foxed, else very good. Original illustrated self-wrappers..... More

Philadelphia, (PA): Ferris & Leach, 1909. First edition. Small 8vo. 128 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, portraits. Biographical sketches of Mrs, Madison, born and raised in New Garden, North Carolina. Not in Thornton. Gray boards (stained along top edge), pictorial onlay on upper board. Old tideline through upper margin of..... More

Ivy, VA: The author, 1980. First separate edition (first published in the Virginia Cavalcade). 8vo. 18 pp. Illustrated from facsimiles, plates. Betty Hemings and her children, including Sally, who moved to Monticello in 1775, at the death of Jefferson father-in-law John Wayles, his property passing to his daughter and Jefferson..... More

NY: Basic Books, (c2005). First edition. 8vo. xiii, 351 pp. Illustrated from old art, facsimiles, a title page, portraits. “Sets a new standard, post-DNA, for the next generation’s reassessment of the most evocative and provocative of this country’s founders.” Two-tone boards, color illustrated dust jacket. Fine. More

Single sheet of letterhead stationery, dated 30 October 1992, and signed by the former first lady. The short note also says she will be unable to attend the celebration due to a previous commitment at the Carter Center. Frankie Hewitt was instrumental in the renovation of Ford's Theater. Folded for..... More

[Princeton, NJ?]: 1907 (?). 4to (28 cm.). 10 pages [typed rectos only], approximately 2850 words, each leaf mounted along the left edge to a larger, heavier sheet, each page double-spaced, with 29 separate ink corrections, deletions, and additions by Cleveland in his characteristic hand (44 words added, 19 deleted, 20..... More

Charlottesville, VA: Jefferson Editions, (c2001). First edition (paperback original). 8vo. 207 pp. Illustrated from old art and a photograph, portraits. Issued to “expose the false information [about the Jefferson-Hemings controversy] being disseminated to destroy the reputation of [a] founding father.” Illustrated glossy wrappers. Very good. More

Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Pr. (1964). First edition. 8vo. x, 507pp. Frontis. portrait & plates. Illustrated from photographs and old paintings, plates, portraits. "The collective intellect of Jefferson's Virginia was far broader in its interests, wider in its variety of reading, more faithful in its artistic and scientific..... More

Yonkers, N.Y: Printed at the Office of the Semi-Weekly Clarion, 1862. Sewn, lacking wrappers. 23 cm. 32 pp. Fremont's Republican party campaign document. Previously published in No. 3 of the Crisis Papers. More

Boston [MA]: Printed for the Author, by Homer & Palmer, Congress Street, 1835. First edition. Two volumes. 22 cm. 96; 97-172 pp. Original printed paper wrappers on each part. Part one ends in mid-sentence, and commences with the rest of the sentence in part two, as intended by the printer..... More

New York: Johnson, Fry, (c1867). First edition in Spanish (published in English the previous year). 4to. 230 pp. 17 steel engraved portraits, one for each of the presidents from Washington to Johnson, extra-engraved title-page illustrated from a painting of the White House. Not in Sabin (cf. Sabin 21500 for the..... More