612.     [BIOGRAPHY]. Lot of 56 nineteenth- and twentieth-century imprints and 2 prints related to the lives of many famous persons, including past presidents and statesmen. Included are:

ADAMS, John. Inaugural Address [wrapper title]. N.p.: Veterans of Foreign Wars, n.d. Fine.

ADAMS, John Quincy. The Lives of James Madison and James Monroe. Boston & Buffalo: Phillips, Sampson & Co. & Geo. H. Derby & Co., 1850. Fair.

BEMELMANS, Ludwig. My War with the United States. New York: Modern Library, 1941. Ex-library copy, good condition.

[BEVERIDGE, ALBERT J.]. BOWERS, Claude G. Beveridge and the Progressive Era. Cambridge: Riverside Press & Houghton Mifflin, 1932. Very good in good d.j.

BIRMINGHAM, Stephen. The Grandes Dames. New York: Simon & Schuster, [1982]. Very good.

BOONE, Daniel. “Adventures of Captain Daniel Boone....” pp. 282-85 in The Family Magazine III:VIII (January, 1836). Fine.

[BOONE, DANIEL]. BAKELESS, John. Daniel Boone. Harrisburg: Stackpole Co., 1965. Near fine in rubbed d.j.

[BOONE, DANIEL]. BROWN, John Mason. Daniel Boone. The Opening of the Wilderness. New York: Random House, [1952]. Good.

[BRADY, MATTHEW B.]. MEREDITH, Roy. Mr. Lincoln’s Camera Man. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1946. Very good in worn d.j.

[BUCHANAN, JAMES]. CURTIS, George Ticknor. Life of James Buchanan. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1883. 2 vols. Near fine.

[BURR, AARON]. McCALEB, Walter F. The Aaron Burr Conspiracy. New York: Wilson–Erickson, 1936. Very good.

[BURR, AARON]. McCALEB, Walter F. New Light on Aaron Burr. Austin: [University of Texas, 1963]. Near fine in lightly worn d.j.

[CALHOUN, JOHN C.] COIT, Margaret L. John C. Calhoun. American Portrait. Boston & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Riverside Press, 1950. Very good in lightly worn d.j.

DANIELS, Jonathan. Ordeal of Ambition: Jefferson, Hamilton, Burr. Garden City: Doubleday, 1970. Fine in good price-clipped d.j. First edition.

EVANS, E.L. A Documented History of the Long Family. [Decatur, Georgia: Beacon Press, 1956]. Near fine.

[GRANT, ULYSSES S.]. McCABE, James D. (editor & compiler). A Tour Around the World by General Grant. Cincinnati, Philadelphia, & Chicago: Jones Brothers & Co., [1879]. Fair.

[HARDING, WARREN G.]. RUSSELL, Francis. The Shadow of Blooming Grove. Warren G. Harding in His Times. New York & Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1968. Fine. First edition.

HEARTMAN, Charles F. (editor). An Immigrant of a Hundred Years Ago. A Story of Someone’s Ancestor Translated and Retold by An Old Hand. Hattiesburg: The Book Farm, 1941. Fine. First edition (limited to 399 copies).

HENRY, Patrick. I am Not a Virginian but an American [wrapper title]. N.p.: Veterans of Foreign Wars, n.d. Near fine.

[HENRY, PATRICK]. WIRT, William. Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry. Philadelphia: James Webster, 1818. Upper cover and first several leaves detached, lower cover nearly detached, interior otherwise fine.

HILLARD, E.B. The Last Men of the Revolution. [Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, 1968]. Fine in very good d.j. Gift inscription.

[HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL]. The Dissenting Opinions of Mr. Justice Holmes. New York: The Vanguard Press, [1929]. Very good in lightly worn d.j.

HOWE, E.W. Notes for My Biographer. 1926. Covers stained and detached, else good. Signed by Howe on cover. Laid in is a newspaper article about the author, “the famous Kansas country editor,” and his son Gene Howe, editor of an Amarillo newspaper.

[JACKSON, ANDREW]. JAMES, Marquis. Andrew Jackson the Border Captain. New York: Garden City Publishing, [1940]. Very good in worn d.j.

[JACKSON, ANDREW]. JAMES, Marquis. Andrew Jackson. Portrait of a President. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1937. Good in d.j. with light insect damage.

[JACKSON, ANDREW]. Memoirs of Andrew Jackson, Late Major General and Commander in Chief of the Southern Division of the Army of the United States. Compiled by a Citizen of Massachusetts. Philadelphia, 1840. Near fine. Howes S610. Later edition of a popular biography, variously attributed to Jerome V.C. Smith, John Reid, or John H. Eaton.

JEFFERSON, Joseph. The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson. New York: The Century Co., [1897]. Good.

JEFFERSON, Thomas. The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Modern Library, [1944]. Very good in worn price-clipped d.j.

JEFFERSON, Thomas. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. New York: H.W. Derby, 1861. 9 vols. Fine. Edited by H.A. Washington.

[JEFFERSON, THOMAS]. FLEMING, Thomas. The Man from Monticello: An Intimate Life of Thomas Jefferson. New York: William Morrow, 1969. Fine in d.j. Bookplate of William H. Morrow.

[JOHNSON, SAMUEL]. BATE, W. Jackson. Samuel Johnson. New York & London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1977]. Fine in price-clipped d.j.

[JOHNSON, SAMUEL]. The Life of Samuel Johnson L.L.D. New York: Modern Library, n.d. Fine in tattered d.j.

[JOHNSON, SAMUEL]. The Life of Samuel Johnson L.L.D. London, Melbourne, & Toronto & New York: Dent & Dutton, 1978. Near fine in d.j.

[JONES, JOHN PAUL]. UNITED STATES. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. John Paul Jones Commemoration at Annapolis April 24, 1906. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1907. Good, spine absent.

[LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA]. HARRIS, Alex. A Biographical History of Lancaster County. Lancaster: Elias Barr & Co., 1872. Good.

[LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]. Abraham Lincoln Association Papers. Springfield: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1937. Good.

[LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]. BEVERIDGE, Albert J. Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858. Boston & New York & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Riverside Press, 1928. 4 vols. Good, in publisher’s slipcase (tattered).

[LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]. BEVERIDGE, Albert J. Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858. Boston, New York & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Riverside Press, 1928. 2 vols. Very good, in browned and heavily chipped dust jackets, in worn publisher’s slipcase.

[LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]. DAUGHTERY, James. Abraham Lincoln. New York: Viking Press, 1943. Gift inscription.

[LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]. HOLLAND, J.G. The Life of Abraham Lincoln. Springfield, Massachusetts: Gurdon Bill, 1866. Good, frontispiece and title detached.

[LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]. RICE, Allen Thorndike. Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time. New York: North American Publishing Co., 1886. Very good.

[LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]. ROBERTS, Octavia. Lincoln in Illinois. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1918. Fine in worn d.j. with tape repairs. Large paper issue.

MOORE, George. Memoirs of my Dead Life. New York: Privately printed by Boni & Liveright, 1920. Very good, partially unopened, in d.j. Publisher’s announcement laid in. Limited edition (#664 of 1500 copies).

PRESCOTT, William Hickling. The Papers of William Hickling Prescott. Selected and Edited by C. Harvey Gardiner. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1964. Fine in fine d.j. (price-clipped).

RUPP, I. Daniel. A Collection of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French, and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776. Philadelphia: Leary, Stuart & Co., 1898. Cover with small area of rodent damage, internally fine.

SCHMITT, Rev. Edmond J.P. An Old Ouiatanon Record. [San Antonio?], 1898. Very good. First edition.

TRUMAN, Harry S. Memoirs by Harry S. Truman. Volume One. Year of Decisions. Garden City: Doubleday, 1955. Fine in browned and worn d.j.

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS. Americanism: Addresses by Woodrow Wilson...Franklin K. Lane...Theodore Roosevelt.... N.p: Veterans of Foreign Wars, n.d. Fine.

[WASHINGTON, GEORGE]. Souvenir and Programme of the Washington Inauguration Centennial. Compliments of the Kinney Tobacco Co. [wrapper title]. N.p.: Kinney Tobacco Co., 1889. Fine.

[WASHINGTON, GEORGE]. FITZPATRICK, John C. & Albert Bushnell Hart. Washington as a Religious Man. Washington: George Washington Bicentennial Commission, 1931. Good.

[WASHINGTON, GEORGE]. FREEMAN, Douglas Southall. George Washington, A Biography. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, [1948-1957]. 7 vols. Fine in lightly rubbed price-clipped dust jackets.

[WASHINGTON, GEORGE]. MORISON, Samuel Eliot. The Young Man Washington. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1932. Fine.

WHIPPLE, Henry Benjamin. Bishop Whipple’s Southern Diary 1843-1844. Edited with an Introduction by Lester B. Shipee. Minneapolis & London & Oxford: University of Minnesota Press & Oxford University Press, [1937]. Near fine.

[WILKINSON, JAMES]. HAY, Thomas Robson & M.R. Werner. The Admirable Trumpeter. A Biography of General James Wilkinson. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1941. Near fine in very good d.j.

[WILKINSON, JAMES]. JACOBS, James Ripley. Tarnished Warrior: Major-General James Wilkinson. New York: Macmillan, 1938. Very good. First printing.

[WILKINSON, JAMES]. SHREVE, Royal Ornan. The Finished Scoundrel. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1933. Very good in worn d.j.

Lot includes two printed portraits, one of Napoleon and one of “Le Roi de Rome.”

($200-400)

Auction 22 Part II Abstracts