Dictionary of American History; Second Revised edition
New York: Scribner, 1942. 6 volumes including the index. Thick 4tos, blue cloth. New York: Scribner's, 1942. A very good(+) set. More
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Dictionary of American History.
New York: 1940. 6 volumes including the index, thick 4to, light blue cloth, dark blue spine labels. New York: Scribner's, 1940. Very good (+). Volume VI is the index volume. More
Album Of American History.
numerous illus. 4 vols. 4to, cloth, torn d.w. N.Y.: Scribner's, 1944-1948. More
The Adams Family.
New York: The Literary Guild, 1930. illus. 8vo, cloth. New York: The Literary Guild, 1930. A very good copy. More
America's Tragedy.
415pp. 8vo, cloth. New York, 1934. More
Building The British Empire; To the End of the First Empire.
New York: Abbeville, 1938. 438pp. 8vo, cloth. N.Y., 1938. More
Empire On The Seven Seas: The British Empire, 1784-1939.
New York: Scribner, 1940. xi + 391pp., 8vo, cloth; spine lightly faded. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1940). A very good copy. More
The Epic Of America.
405pp. 8vo, cloth. Boston, (1959). More
The Living Jefferson.
New York: Scribner, 1936. 403 pages, 8vo, red cloth; bookplate and gift inscription inside front cover. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. A very good copy. More
The March Of Democracy; The Rise of the Union.
New York: Scribner, 1932. Illus. 428pp. 8vo, tan cloth, d.w. chipped and lightly soiled. New York: Scribner's, 1932. More
The March Of Democracy; The Rise of the Union.
New York: Scribner, 1932. Illus. 428pp. 8vo, tan cloth, cloth lightly soiled. New York: Scribner's, 1932. More
The March Of Democracy; Volume II: From Civil War to World Power.
New York: Scribner, 1933. illus. 438pp. 8vo, tan cloth, spine very lightly soiled. New York: Scribner's, 1933. Very good. More
From Gags to Riches
New York: Frederick Fell Inc., 1946. 336 pages, illustrated with black-and-white cartoons, 8vo, brick-colored cloth, dust wrapper (worn, torn, and price-clipped). New York: Frederick Fell Inc., 1946. A very good copy in a poor dust wrapper. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Judge Pence who went from RAGS to Riches from a boy who went from gags to Riches to my favorite Judge & favorite guy. Love & KIXXX, Pal Joey." More
Defense des Constitutions Americaines, ou, De la necessite d'une balance dans les pouvoirs d'un gouvernement libre
Paris: Chez Buisson, 1792. 2 volumes. 8vo, 1/2 contemporary calf, leather spine labels, spine ends and edges of corners lightly worn on each volume, corners lightly bumped, boards lightly rubbed, small amounts of light foxing to some pages of both volumes. Paris: Chez Buisson, 1792. First French Edition "The serious divisions in the States led Adams to study principles of government....The first volume (of the American edition of this work) appeared in America while the convention for framing a constitution..... More
The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2000. Frontis. 8vo, pr. wrs. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, (2000). From the library of Wendell Garrett with his rubber stamp on the front flyleaf and his ink marks in some margins. Wendell Garrett was the co-editor of the Diary and Autobiography of John Adams. More
Statesman and Friend; Correspodence of John Adams with Benjamin Waterhouse, 1784-1822
Boston: Little Brown, 1927. Ed. by Worthington Chauncey Ford. 8vo, blue cloth, cloth, front endpaper, and front flyleaf, all lightly dampstained, corners bumped, spine ends and edges of corners rubbed. Boston: Little Brown, 1927. More
The Book of Abigail And John; Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. Edited by L.H. Butterfield, et al. Color frontispiece, and some other black-and-white illustrations. 411 pages. 8vo, cloth, d.w. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1975. A very good copy, lightly foxed outer edges, in a very good(-) dust wrapper, tearing at rear cover. More
The Adams Papers and The Adams Family Correspondence
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973. 2 volumes ONLY. Edited by L. H. Butterfield and Marc Friedlaender, 426 pages & 472 pages, 8vo, blind giltstamped mauve red cloth in a dust wrapper (edges of wrapper a bit sunned & torn), Massachusetts:Harvard University Press 1973. Near fine set, aside for a dampstain affecting foot of spine on Voume III, very good dust wrappers. volume 3 & 4 of the Adams Papers. More
Discourse Commemorative of Alex Hodgson Stevens Life and Character.
New York: 1871. Mounted photograph, 42pp. N.Y., (1871). More
A Letter to the Hon. Harrison Gray Otis, a Member of the Senate of Massachusetts, on the Present State of our National Affairs; with Remarks upon Mr. Pickering's Letter to the Governor of the Commonwealth.
Salem: Pool and Palfray, 1808. 32 pages. 8vo, pamphlet stitched and unopened as issued; light toning and foxing, page edges worn but text unaffected. Salem: Pool and Palfray, 1808. Second Salem edition. A very good(-) copy. Early American imprint. More
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Letters on the Masonic Institution.
Boston: Martin, 1847. 284 pages, 8vo full brown pebbled morocco, gilt edging. Neat small inscription on fly-leaf. Boston: T.R. Marvin. 1847. First Edition. Near fine. Adams was the sixth president of the United States. After serving a single term as president, he was elected to the House of Representatives for nine consecutive terms. While serving in the House, Adams ran an unsuccessful campaign for Governor of Massachusetts in 1833 as a candidate of the Anti-Masonic Party (formed in 1828). Letters..... More
Lettres sur la Silesie, ecrites en 1800 et 1801, durant le cours d'un voyage fait dans cette province
Paris: Dentu, 1807. Illustrated with one folding map of Silesia, colored in outline, drawn by Lapie, and engraved by B. Tardieu. Translated from the English by J. Dupuy. [4], iv, 421 pages. 8vo, contemporary calf-backed plain boards. Paris: Dentu, 1807. First French edition. A near fine clean copy. First French edition of Adams's very extensive correspondence with his brother, Thomas Boyleston Adams, comprising a travel journal of considerable interest, written during Adams's stint at the Prussian court as U.S. Minister....... More
Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette. Delivered at the Request of Both Houses of the Congress of the United States, Before Them, in the House of Representatives at Washington, On the 31st December, 1834.
Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1835. 94 pages. 8vo, recased in new green paper wrapper; some foxing and toning throughout. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1835. A very good copy. More
The Magnum Opus of Joseph Florimond Loubat. A Leaf Book
Newtown: Bird & Bull, 2007. Illus., 4to, blue silk cloth with red leather spine; round pictorial label. Newtown: Bird & Bull, 2007. Limited Edition. Contains 2 leaves fro Loubat's 1878 "Medallic History, and roundels based on the Jacquemart etchings in that volume. No. 101 of 150 copies. Prospectus enclosed. More
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America. Volume I.
London: C. Dilly, 1787. [ii], xxxi, [1], 3-392 pages. 8vo, neatly rebound in black pebbled cloth with red leather spine label. London: Printed for C. Dilly, in the Poultry, 1787. First English edition. Light scattered foxing throughout, heavier on title and first several pages, still a near fine copy of this landmark book. Complete in itself, this first volume was issued separately, and two subsequent volumes were published later in 1787 and 1788. The work comprises an important series of..... More