A COLLECTION OF THE SPEECHES OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS, AT THE OPENING OF EVERY SESSION, WITH THEIR ANSWERS. ALSO, THE ADDRESSES TO THE PRESIDENT, WITH HIS ANSWERS, FROM THE TIME OF HIS ELECTION: by GEORGE WASHINGTON - 1796 WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE CIRCULAR LETTER OF GENERAL WASHINGTON TO THE GOVERNORS OF THE SEVERAL STATES, AND HIS FAREWELL ORDERS, TO THE ARMIES OF AMERICA, AND THE ANSWER.

Good HCs, no DJs. 2 volume set. Green-brown buckram cloth over boards, gilt stamped titles on spines. Covers are scuffed with uneven fading and some spotty stains; some rubbing at spine ends and fore corners, light fraying; both volumes tightly bound; interiors are clean with slight general age darkening; all leaves are supple, not brittle; cover leaf of final issue has short closed tear at mid-cover. Issues run from Vol 1, No 1 (April 30, 1910) through Vol 3, No 37 (January 11, 1913), presumably a complete run. Liberal-reformist weekly newspaper ran 1910-1913. Initial editor was Edward H. Clement, thereafter, Livy S. Richard. 100 shareholders held 1 share each. Exec. Comm: Ralph Albertson, William E. Butler, Alexander M. Wilson, Robert Treat Paine Jr, Charles M. Cabot. Many unsigned articles on local, state and national affairs - political and social; some signed articles including writers: Mayor John F. 'Honey Fitz' Fitzgerald (JFK's grandfather and mentor), Gov. Curtis Guild, Sen. Jonathan Bourne… Read More

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Very Good+. 8 7/16" × 5 11/16" × 3/8" (21.4 × 14.4 × 1 cm) . First Printing. Edited by Frederick Startridge Ellis. Printed by William Morris. 8vo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and paper title label. One of 300 [at seven shillings and sixpence] paper copies (plus 12 [at three guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). [ii], 63, [ii] pp. Printed in black and red throughout with the Chaucer type designed by Morris for his press. Head-titles in red. Numerous three-quarter woodcut ornamental borders and 6-, 5-, and 3-line initials all designed by Morris, engraved by William Harcourt Hooper. "Thus ends the rhymed version of the Penitential Psalms, found in a Manuscript of… Read More

Sumptibus Rulandiorum, Typis Iohannis Bringeri, Francofvrti, 1617. Antiquarian. hardcover. Very Good+. 7 3/4" × 5 1/8" × 2 1/8" (19.7 × 13 × 5.4 cm) . Small 8vo. Bound in fine hardcover alum tawed pigskin. Beautifully bound in alum tawed pigskin over beveled wooden boards, elaborately blindestamped, with some hardware (clasp) still present, an excellent specimen of this style of binding and with a unique centerpiece stamp—an arrow up and an arrow down, with a bridge between the two incorporating a cross (representing Jesus coming to earth, dying on the cross, and rising again). A very similar ancient symbol can be found on Pictish rock carvings in Scotland (see the Elgin Cathedral Church Pictish stones).Josephus was a 1st century Jewish-Roman historian, who mentions Jesus in his writing, providing a 1st century non-Christian reference to the man Jesus Christ. Also, Josephus' histories are important references for Jewish 1st century history. Within the book, at the reference to Jesus you'll… Read More

New York: The John Day Company, 1941. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Original orange cloth in the scarce and well-preserved original dust jacket (not price-clipped). Chip to head and base of spine; one-inch closed tear to head of front panel; small scuff to rear panel. Exceptional first printing of Burnham's groundbreaking work in an uncommonly bright dust jacket. Fine in a very good-plus dust jacket.. James Burnham's (1905-1987) seminal work in which he argues that capitalism will be displaced by a form of global managerialism and, as a result, bureaucratic elites will supplant workers and capitalists at the apex of power. Prior to publishing The Managerial Revolution Burnham was a prominent Trotskyist, but he would resign from the Workers Party in 1940 and thereafter become an influential theorist in the post-war American conservative movement. Shortly after the outbreak of the European phase of World War II, Burnham wrote The Managerial Revolution to explain the major world powers'… Read More

Philadelphia: Sold by H. and P. Rice, No. 50 Market-Street, 1793. Duodecimo. Contemporary blue paper wrappers with early manuscript title on front wrapper. Wrappers are worn with neat repair along spine; rear wrapper discolored. Shorthand annotation on front free endpaper and second plate. Small tear to outer margin of initial leaves not affecting text. Minor soiling to folding plate with tear to inner margin just touching text of leaves B1-B2, else very good. Includes the subscriber list as well as two engraved plates.. An exceptional copy of one of the earliest shorthand manuals printed in America-and this copy is rarer still because it contains the oft-missing subscriber list, which includes Thomas Jefferson (then Secretary of State), James Madison (then a Virginia representative), and members of Congress, among others. This short manual describes the shorthand system of Thomas Lloyd (1756-1827), who was known as the "Father of American Shorthand" on account of his stenographic skill and method… Read More

Good HCs, no DJs. 2 volume set. Green-brown buckram cloth over boards, gilt stamped titles on spines. Covers are scuffed with uneven fading and some spotty stains; some rubbing at spine ends and fore corners, light fraying; both volumes tightly bound; interiors are clean with slight general age darkening; all leaves are supple, not brittle; cover leaf of final issue has short closed tear at mid-cover. Issues run from Vol 1, No 1 (April 30, 1910) through Vol 3, No 37 (January 11, 1913), presumably a complete run. Liberal-reformist weekly newspaper ran 1910-1913. Initial editor was Edward H. Clement, thereafter, Livy S. Richard. 100 shareholders held 1 share each. Exec. Comm: Ralph Albertson, William E. Butler, Alexander M. Wilson, Robert Treat Paine Jr, Charles M. Cabot. Many unsigned articles on local, state and national affairs - political and social; some signed articles including writers: Mayor John F. 'Honey Fitz' Fitzgerald (JFK's grandfather and mentor), Gov. Curtis Guild, Sen. Jonathan Bourne… Read More

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Very Good+. 8 7/16" × 5 11/16" × 3/8" (21.4 × 14.4 × 1 cm) . First Printing. Edited by Frederick Startridge Ellis. Printed by William Morris. 8vo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and paper title label. One of 300 [at seven shillings and sixpence] paper copies (plus 12 [at three guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). [ii], 63, [ii] pp. Printed in black and red throughout with the Chaucer type designed by Morris for his press. Head-titles in red. Numerous three-quarter woodcut ornamental borders and 6-, 5-, and 3-line initials all designed by Morris, engraved by William Harcourt Hooper. "Thus ends the rhymed version of the Penitential Psalms, found in a Manuscript of… Read More

Sumptibus Rulandiorum, Typis Iohannis Bringeri, Francofvrti, 1617. Antiquarian. hardcover. Very Good+. 7 3/4" × 5 1/8" × 2 1/8" (19.7 × 13 × 5.4 cm) . Small 8vo. Bound in fine hardcover alum tawed pigskin. Beautifully bound in alum tawed pigskin over beveled wooden boards, elaborately blindestamped, with some hardware (clasp) still present, an excellent specimen of this style of binding and with a unique centerpiece stamp—an arrow up and an arrow down, with a bridge between the two incorporating a cross (representing Jesus coming to earth, dying on the cross, and rising again). A very similar ancient symbol can be found on Pictish rock carvings in Scotland (see the Elgin Cathedral Church Pictish stones).Josephus was a 1st century Jewish-Roman historian, who mentions Jesus in his writing, providing a 1st century non-Christian reference to the man Jesus Christ. Also, Josephus' histories are important references for Jewish 1st century history. Within the book, at the reference to Jesus you'll… Read More

New York: The John Day Company, 1941. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Original orange cloth in the scarce and well-preserved original dust jacket (not price-clipped). Chip to head and base of spine; one-inch closed tear to head of front panel; small scuff to rear panel. Exceptional first printing of Burnham's groundbreaking work in an uncommonly bright dust jacket. Fine in a very good-plus dust jacket.. James Burnham's (1905-1987) seminal work in which he argues that capitalism will be displaced by a form of global managerialism and, as a result, bureaucratic elites will supplant workers and capitalists at the apex of power. Prior to publishing The Managerial Revolution Burnham was a prominent Trotskyist, but he would resign from the Workers Party in 1940 and thereafter become an influential theorist in the post-war American conservative movement. Shortly after the outbreak of the European phase of World War II, Burnham wrote The Managerial Revolution to explain the major world powers'… Read More

Philadelphia: Sold by H. and P. Rice, No. 50 Market-Street, 1793. Duodecimo. Contemporary blue paper wrappers with early manuscript title on front wrapper. Wrappers are worn with neat repair along spine; rear wrapper discolored. Shorthand annotation on front free endpaper and second plate. Small tear to outer margin of initial leaves not affecting text. Minor soiling to folding plate with tear to inner margin just touching text of leaves B1-B2, else very good. Includes the subscriber list as well as two engraved plates.. An exceptional copy of one of the earliest shorthand manuals printed in America-and this copy is rarer still because it contains the oft-missing subscriber list, which includes Thomas Jefferson (then Secretary of State), James Madison (then a Virginia representative), and members of Congress, among others. This short manual describes the shorthand system of Thomas Lloyd (1756-1827), who was known as the "Father of American Shorthand" on account of his stenographic skill and method… Read More