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SIGNED and inscribed by Gloria Gage on the front endpaper. 1937 House of Field, NY. With Addenda by Gloria Gage. 255 pages. Dust Jacket is chipped and torn around the edges but does not affect text blurbs, title or ads on back panel. Blue cloth with white letters on spine and front cover. Gage served in the cabinets of Presidents Mckinley and Roosevelt, and was a significant figure in forming American financial institutions and banking laws as Secretary of the Treasury. Faint foxing on endpapers, else pages clean, bright and tight.

SIGNED by both author and illustrator. 1993 Brown cloth with gold letters on spine. Published by University of Utah Press. Dustjacket has small rub and stain.

1. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by Elijah Jacobs on fep. Missouri Writers: a Literary History of Missouri, 1780-1955. By Jacobs & Wolverton. State Publishing. 356pp. 1955. 1st ed. Green cloth. Lightly rubbed edges; no fraying. Dull gilt to spine & front cover. Photo frontis of Gari Melcher's mural showing Mark Twain in steamboat pilot house. Pages clean, bright and tight. Includes bibliography & index. "";This survey, the most comprehensive yet published, covers frontier literature, fiction, poetry, literature of the Civil War, history, and biography. A 'List of Professional Missouri Writers' includes living (1955) Missouri authors and the city with which they are most closely associated.""; . . Insured.

1. Printed by John Wilson & Son, Boston, 1863. VG scarce hardcover with 71 pages. Presented to the Maine Historical Society from the Essex Institute. Ex-lib shows bookplate and stamps. Tissue covered frontis portrait. Pages clean and bright. Dark brown cloth with embossed line borders to boards, gold letters on front cover. Extremities rubbed, small chipping to spine. Overview: Born 1776, geneology, 17 siblings, boyhood farm life in Methuen (Now Lawrence Mass.?), Christian devotion, troubles & joys, Cambridge 1783, highest honors 1797, Life in Medford, teacher, lawyer 1804, 1807 marriage, judge, wife's death, 1810-1815 state senator, remarried 1819, 2nd wife death 1821, 1824 third marriage 3 sons-1 survives, associations, publications, Federalist, philanthropist, writings and views on slavery, secession, unitarianism, life in Salem, death at 84 in 1861.

1. SIGNED by author Michael Jenkinson. ""John and Alice Way"" written in top page margin above title. Inscribed ""Best wishes, Michael"" below his name on title page. Published by Paisano. Softcover. 103 pages. Edition limited to 1500 copies. Very light wear. Biography and the political life of Reies Tijerina. Hispanic American movement in New Mexico, including the Tierra Amarilla Raid. Land grant issues and New Mexico settlement history to 1968, including info on 1826 Rio Grande settlements, and an early full page map. Illustrated with about 20 b&w photos. See NPR archive 6/01/07 for a great presentation on the person and the conflict.

1. F S G. 1982 hardcover. First U.S. edition. First printing. Book clean, square, bright, tight and unread. Dustjacket has 1/4""; x 1/2""; chip on spine else clean with back panel slightly rubbed.

1. Scarce 7 volume set in excellent condition. 1983. Edited by Robert E Burke. Published by Garland Publishing. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spines. 6.5 x 8.25 inches. Printed on acid-free, 250-year-life paper. The facsimiles in these volumes have been produced from copies in the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. They contain an extensive introduction with an index in Vol 7. Frontispiece portrait of Hiram and his two sons in Vol 1. Johnson practiced law in 1888 in Sacramento. Moved to San Francisco in 1904, became assistant district attorney, and was one of the founders of the Progressive Party in 1912. He was Governor of California 1911-1917, and served as a Senator until his death in 1945. A great gift for a politician or anyone with interest in early 20th century California history spanning both World Wars.

1. On the title page, ""A Memoir Of The Life And Public Service Of Joseph E. Johnston, Quartermaster General Of The Army Of The United States, And General In The Army Of The Confederate States Of America. Edited By Bradley T. Johnson, Formerly A Soldier In The Army Of Northern Virginia. Baltimore: R. H. Woodward & Company. 1891"". Original dark brown cloth, generally rubbed. Gilt letters on front cover and black letters on spine. xii, frontis,1-362pp. Decorated endpapers. Illustrated with tissued frontis and 11 full-page plates of portraits and war scenes. On the first blank endpaper, handwritten in pencil, ""B W Bossieux 322 So. 3rd St. Richmond Va"". Bradley Johnson Bossieux was named after the author and son of Captain Louis Francis Bossiex, who was a distinguished officer and citizen of Richmond, and managed the author's campaign for Congress. Sturdy copy, tightly bound, pages clean and unmarked.

1. 1978 Viking first edition. Book clean, tight and bright. Dustjacket is clean w. a closed tear on spine, top back flap has corner fold.