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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Dampness has seeped into more than just the cover. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: VG. 1st Edition. xiv, 434pp, index, illustrated with historical photographs, very clean and bright, unmarked inside and out, signed at title-page by author below printed name; as-issued without a dust jacket. Greenup County, Kentucky, home of KY author and educator Jesse Stuart. Chapter / sections include Native Americans, by Nicholls, Establishment of state and county government, by Nicholls, Transportation, by Nicholls, Aviation History of Greenup County, by Martin, The African-American Experience, by Nicholls, History of Religion, Communities: Oldtown, North Fork, Laurel, Frasure, by Kathleen Virgin-Kenney, History of the City of Greenup, by Nicholls, Weddings in Greenup, by Dunn & Roe, History of Argillite, by Harris, The History of Hunnewell, by Thomas, City of Russell History, by Nicholls, History of South Shore, Nicholls, Raceland / Worthington, Sammons, History of Wurtland, by Stafford & Nicholls, Camp Swigert, by Stafford, The City of Flatwoods, by Byrne, War, by Piatt, Byrne, and Nicholls, Industrial Development, by Peterson, Whitt, and Penkava, Education, by Webb, Sports, by Piatt, Fish and Wildlife, by Soc Clay, and Greenup County Authors, by Gifford. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. First edition. xxiv, 576 pp., frontispiece and 35 plates from photographs, many with 2 images on the plate, large (26.25 x 42 inches) folding map of the Far East printed in colors at rear, folding railway map of China inserted in text; original blue cloth with gilt spine title. Thomas F Millard (1868-1942) was an American journalist and author of many books on the far East. He served as political advisor to the Chinese government for 15 years. A brief obituary of Millard laid in at front of the book says he was "No. 1 on the Japanese government blacklist." Trace of sticker removed from foot of spine (no library markings anywhere), else very good, maps in fine condition.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition thus. Decorated binding, design by Decorative Designers (DD). No DJ; covers show some scuffing and shelf wear. Spine has some lettering loss. Illustrated with more than 60 photographs and maps, including one fold-out map. Prior owner's bookplate on FEP; otherwise, unmarked pages. This classic work has been reprinted in numerous formats, but nothing compares to owning a book in its original first edition state, More images and/or description can be sent on request. Condition: Very Good. DECORATIVE DESIGNERS (DD) (illustrator).…

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Elaborately bound collection of Presidential autographs, containing the autograph of each of the first 34 Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Dwight D. Eisenhower. Quarto, bound in full red morocco by Riviere & Son with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt presidential seal to the front panel with white and blue morocco onlays, gilt arms and motto of George Washington to the rear panel with white and blue morocco onlays and his gilt signature in facsimile, centerpieces within quintuple gilt ruling with star emblems at each corner, blue morocco doublures with multiple gilt presidential signatures, blue silk endpapers. This complete series of autographs of the first 34 Presidents of the United States contains the signature of each mounted on an album leaf opposite a loosely tissue-guarded engraved portrait of each. The collection includes: the signature of George Washington on an envelope addressed to Major General Knox as Secretary ofÂtheÂSocietyÂofÂthe Cincinnati, November 3, 1783; a clipped signature of John Adams; clipped signature of Thomas Jefferson; the signature of James Madison on an envelope addressed to Reverend Frederick Freeman of Manayunk, Pennsylvania; and inscription signed by James Monroe; the signature of John Quincy Adams on an envelope addressed to William Plumer jun. Esq. in Epping, New Hampshire; a partially printed land grant signed by Andrew Jackson dated 1831 registeringÂtheÂpurchaseÂof 20 acres in Detroit by Peter Aldrich; clipped signature of Martin Van Buren; clipped signature of William Henry Harrison; signed inscription from John Tyler; signed inscription from James Polk; clipped signature of Zachary Taylor dated Baton Rouge, March 5, 1841; clipped signature of Millard Fillmore; clipped signature of Franklin Pierce; clipped signature of James Buchanan on a document dated July 18, 1858; clipped signature of Abraham Lincoln; endorsement signed by Andrew Johnson as President; clipped signature of Ulysses S. Grant; card signed by Rutherford B. Hayes; inscription signed by James Garfield; large card signed by Chester A. Arthur and dated May 22, 1884; autograph noted signed by Grover Cleveland declining an invitation, dated November 16, 1890; an Executive Mansion card signed by William McKinely; clipped signature of Theodore Roosevelt; clipped signature of William Howard Taft; clipped signature of Woodrow Wilson; typed letter signed by Warren G. Harding as President, dated June 4, 1923 on White House letterhead; card signed by Calvin Coolidge; White House card signed by Herbert Hoover; typed letter signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt as Assistant SecretaryÂofÂthe Navy, February 15, 1917. Laid in is a typed letter signed by Harry S. Truman as President, June 30, 1950, on White House stationery and a typed letter signed by Dwight Eisenhower. TLS as President, November 13, 1956, on White House stationery. In fine condition.ÂHoused in a custom folding chemise and half morocco slipcase. An exceptional collection and presentation. The first thirty-four Presidents, from George Washington to Dwight D. Eisenhower, presided over the transformation of the United States from a fragile agrarian republic into a continental power and then a global superpower. Washington established the precedents of the office, including the cabinet system and the voluntary surrender of power after two terms. The early presidents from Adams through John Quincy Adams, most of them Virginians or Adamses, defined the limits of federal authority, doubled the nationâs territory through the Louisiana Purchase, and confronted the strains of the War of 1812. Andrew Jacksonâs election ushered in mass democracy and a more assertive executive, while the antebellum presidents struggled, and largely failed, to contain the sectional conflict over slavery. Abraham Lincoln preserved the Union through civil war and ended slavery, and the Reconstruction and Gilded Age presidents who followed wrestled with the unfinished work of emancipation and the rise of industrial capitalism. Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson expanded the powers of the presidency in the Progressive Era and drew the nation into world affairs. Franklin D. Roosevelt then led the country through the Great Depression and the Second World War, serving an unprecedented four terms before the Twenty-second Amendment limited the office to two. Harry S. Truman and Eisenhower, in turn, shaped the postwar order, committing the United States to containment of the Soviet Union and to a standing role in international affairs.…