New York: The Grafton Press 1909. First Edition. Good ex-library copy with usual markings. In green cloth covers with gilt embossed medallion on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. Intact binding. Clean unmarked pages. Bumping and fraying of ends of spine. Bumping of corners. Moderate shlef rubbing. Thank you for your patronage. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. The Grafton Press Hardcover
While a captain in command of the HMS Vindictive during World War One attempting to land Royal Marines at the dock in Zeebrugge Belgium in an effort to block this port and bottle up the German Navy this Royal Navy officer succeeded brilliantly and became thenceforth the "Hero of Zeebrugge" for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross; he served in World War Two as well and rose to the rank of Vice-Admiral. Handsome and bold full signature and "Captain V.C. / Royal British Navy" in black ink on a heavy stock 5" X 3" card n.p. n.y. 29 December 1921 pencilled on verso. Near fine. Minor mounting traces on verso. Near top edge of card is neatly typed "Captain Carpenter of the 'Vindicative' sic commanded the / fleet which 'bottled up' the German Navy by blocking / its submarine base at Zeebrugge Belgium." A nice example especially with his rank and greatest honor added. unknown
While a captain in command of the HMS Vindictive during World War One attempting to land Royal Marines at the dock in Zeebrugge Belgium in an effort to block this port and bottle up the German Navy this Royal Navy officer succeeded brilliantly and became thenceforth the "Hero of Zeebrugge" for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross; he served in World War Two as well and rose to the rank of Vice-Admiral. ALS 2pp single leaf 4�" X 7" London England 29 December 1921. Addressed to "Dear Boy." Very good. Single light horizontal fold and three small mounting traces at left edge. Friendly note to a juvenile American admirer reading in part: "I am interested to hear that your Daddy was amongst one of my Chicago audiences. Tell him that Houghton Mifflin of Boston are shortly to publish my book containing the complete story of 'The Blocking of Zeebrugge' and that he ought to get it for you as you have done so well at school!" He goes on ".unfortunately U.S.A. stamps won't do over here. Some day our two nations may combine even that far and I hope so because if they do combine in everything that's worth while the world is going to be a mighty good planet to live on." A nice example mentioning his great claim to fame not too many years afterward. unknown
Chevy Chase Maryland: Department of the Navy 1967. Sheet of stationery with the letterhead of the U. S. Navy's Deep Submergence Systems Project Office that is SIGNED without inscription by Mercury 7 astronaut Scott Carpenter. Provenance: from the collection of Lee Saegesser Chief Archivist from 1967 until 1997 in the Washington DC NASA Headquarters History Office. Certificate of Authenticity available if desired. The autograph is bright and unfaded; the stationery is clean with 2 horizontal folding creases light toning and two tiny brown spots. SIGNED. First Edition. Paper. Collectible-Very Good. 11" by 8 1/2". Manuscript. Department of the Navy Paperback
New York: Hurd and Houghton 1877. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green pebble-grained blind-ruled cloth with gilt spine lettering. vii 359pp. Very good. Very mild edgewear only else internally near fine. A tight and quite attractive "Twenty-Sixth Thousand" later printing. First published in 1866 as "Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln. The Story of a Picture" all printings post 1868 bear this altered title. Front pastedown bears the often-seen neatly-mounted 4�" X 7�" printed handbill advertising "The Independent" a New York religious newspaper listing at bottom steel-engraved prints and finally "Carpenter's Book of 'President Lincoln at the White House' 360pp." A sharp copy with giltstamped spine bright. Carpenter 1830-1900 was the American painter best remembered for his painting "First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln" and this is his account of his experiences at the White House. MONAGHAN 849 note. Hurd and Houghton hardcover
New York: Hurd and Houghton 1868. Hardcover. 12mo. Purple pebble-grained blind-ruled cloth with gilt spine lettering. vii 359pp. Very good. Spine sunned and with chip at head else tight clean and quite nice; flyleaves tanned and a bit delicate as usual with brown cloth tape reinforcement at inner hinges. A tight clean decent "Twenty-Fourth Thousand" later printing. It was with this and all subsequent editions that the publisher first altered the title from "Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln. The Story of a Picture." Carpenter 1830-1900 was the American painter best remembered for his painting "First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln" and this is his account of his experiences at the White House. MONAGHAN 849 note. Hurd and Houghton hardcover
New York: Hendricks House Inc 1953. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering dust jacket. xiv 268pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear with several small edge chips. Errata slip tipped opposite half-title page. A tight and attractive first edition of this interpretation of Emerson's life and influence. Front flyleaf bears ownership signature of one C.D. Mead -- presumably the same C. David Mead who edited the 1970 collection "The American Scholar Today: Emerson's Essay and Some Critical Views" and author of a handbook himself -- the oft-reprinted "Prentice Hall Handbook for Writers." Below this is a fine archival decorative-edged bookplate bearing the full bold signature in turquoise fineline of famed Walt Whitman biographer Gay Wilson Allen 1903-95 -- who in 1981 authored the Pulitzer Prize-nominated "Waldo Emerson: A Biography." A great association copy of this rather uncommon Emerson study. Hendricks House, Inc hardcover
Utica: The Brodock Press 1975. Hardcover. Edited by Lewis Morris Hall. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 93pp. Color frontispiece illustrations. Fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. A tight and attractive first edition limited to 1000 copies of this diary of a small town New York newspaper editor -- boldly signed and inscribed by the editor in blue ink on the front flyleaf: "With my best wishes -- / Lewis M. Hall / 15 December 1975." Title page bears the circular blind-embossed ownership imprint of Percy L. Greames Jr. 1906-84 American economist historian and the American Party's 1980 presidential candidate. The Brodock Press hardcover
San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company 1975. Hardcover. Wide 8vo.Tan pictorial cloth. viii 481pp. Numerous illustrations line drawings maps plans pictorial endpapers. Very good. Faintest bit of edgewear. A tight attractive first edition of this landscaping landmark. W.H. Freeman and Company hardcover
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1988. Hardcover. Small 4to. Cream cloth spine and tan speckled paper over boards pictorial dust jacket. xii 1005pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. A tight and handsome first American edition of this massive biography. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
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