Category: Presidential Biography

The Life of Abraham Lincoln. [Two volume set].

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Indianapolis: Boss-Merrill, (1928). 2 volumes. First edition.

Seller ID: 71259bd

Presentation copy, bearing a bookplate on an endpaper declaring that, ÒThis set of The Life of Abraham Lincoln belongs to the library of [handwritten] Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ballard and is autographed by the Author [and is signed] William Barton.Ó Above the plate, the author has inscribed, ÒTo Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ballard / Who honor the name of Abraham / Lincoln this book is gladly inscribed / by the author. / William E. Barton,Ó dated June 11, 1929. Octavo, black levant & marbled boards, spines elaborate gilt paneled framed with small flowers with red inlays, top; edges gilt, xvi, [ii], 515 ...
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Tad's Scrapbook -- Lincoln's Boy: 200 Cartoons of His Father's Day. Comments and Poems, including Alice in Wonderland! With Original Illustrations by John Tenniel.

By: Bauer, Charles J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Silver Spring, Maryland: Silver Spring Press, 1978. First Edition, Limited to 2000 copies, of which this is Number 1427.

Seller ID: 8564bd

Quarto, paperbound (stiff blue illustrated wrappers), [242] pp. Near-Fine, with darkened edges. From letter at start of book: The wide range of Civil War cartoons... collected provides, I think, a good cross-section of those typical of that time, and they are very revealing of the attitudes toward Lincoln. As we all know, caricaturists found in him an ideal subject for ridicule, for homely jest, and for praise. He was the butt of rancor, sarcasm and abuse not only in the South, but more astonishingly in the Northern press and in England. Northern weeklies account for most of these 175 gr...
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The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941 - 1945.

By: Beschloss, Michael.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002).

Seller ID: 81504BD

Octavo, blue & black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xiv + 377 pp. Near-Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: From one of America's most respected historians, The Conquerors reveals one of the most important stories of World War II. As Allied soldiers fought the Nazis, Franklin Roosevelt and, later, Harry Truman fought in private with Churchill and Stalin over how to ensure that Germany could never threaten the world again. Eleven years in the writing, drawing on newly opened American, Soviet and British documents as well as private diaries, letters and secret audio recordings, ...
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Presidential Campaign Memorabilia, with Prices.

By: Gores, Stan.

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Des Moines, Iowa: Wallace-Homestead Book Company, 1982. First Edition.

Seller ID: 005405scs

Quarto, softbound (stiff, full-color illus. wrappers), 156 pp. Very Good+, with lightly rubbed edges. Contents: Why Collect Presidential Memorabilia?; Scarcity Years for Collectors, 1789-1828; Jackson to Garfield, 1829-1880; The Years of Plenty, 1880-1912; From Wilson to Reagon; Presidential Plates of P. J. Jacobus; Presidential Memorabilia with Prices; The Presidents and Many of the Also-Rans; Bibliography; Index.
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Lincoln in Illinois: Commemorating the Bicentennial of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln, Febrary 12, 2009. Ron Schramm, Photographer.

By: Hart, Richard; comp.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Springfield: The Abraham Lincoln Association, 2009. First Edition. Of an edition of 1000, this is No. 71.

Seller ID: 4621bd

Signed by the photographer. Quarto, black cloth with photo illustration affixed to front cover, xiv, 250 pp. Photographs of Lincoln's Illinois statues with commentary. Fine.
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Old Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire.

By: Heidler, David S. and Jeanne T. Heidler.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Stackpole Books, 1996. First Edition.

Seller ID: vas5325

Octavo, burgundy cloth & gold boards (hardcover), gilt letters, x, 308 pp. Very Good+ in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: No one was ever indifferent about Andrew Jackson. They idolized him or they reviled him, and not without cause in either case. Strong, imperious, determined, ÒOld HickoryÓ was very much his own man. He expected others to share his visions and dreams without question, and he brooked opposition from no one. People either agreed with Jackson, or found out sooner or later that conflict was inevitable. David and Jeanne Heidler's important new book Old Hickory's War s...
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Abraham Lincoln, A New Portrait. In Two Volumes. Volume II. Foreword by Nicholas Murray Butler. [Signed].

By: Hertz, Emanuel.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1931. First Edition.

Seller ID: vas613

Signed by the Author. Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, 1006 pp. Very Good, with light speckling to rear endpapers; in a Good+, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: Thousands of newly discovered documents, speeches, letters, pardons, memoranda and other material never before published constitute the most comprehensive Lincolniana in existence. For the first time, many Lincoln papers, which were to have remained secret for two more decades, are given in this book -- the complete and authentic appraisal of Lincoln, the...
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Leading with My Heart: My Life. With James Morgan.

By: Kelley, Virginia.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Simon & Schuster, [1994].

Seller ID: 00444sc

Octavo, red cloth & grey boards (hardcover), 248 pp. Fine, in a like dust jacket. ÒGrowing up poor in tiny Hope, Arkansas, she was the daughter of an affectionate, self-effacing father and a driven, often explosively angry mother. Virginia would revisit these emotional extremes in her five marriages to four men: handsome, charismatic Bill Blythe, the father Bill Clinton never knew; abusive, alcoholic Roger Dude Clinton, whom Bill loved, young Roger hated, and Virginia divorced and then remarried out of pity; flashy-dressing, soft-spoken Jeff Dwire, the haridresser who did time for stock fr...
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Richard Nixon: A Political and Personal Portrait.

By: Mazo, Earl.

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, (1959). First Edition.

Seller ID: 2760qs

Signed and inscribed by Richard Nixon (ÓDickÓ Nixon). Octavo, cloth-backed boards (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, viii + 309 pp. Good, with edgewear that includes fraying to spine, light foxing (age darkening) to endpapers.
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I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan.

By: Reagan, Nancy.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Random House, 2000. First Edition.

Seller ID: 5064bd

Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), 189 pp. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Starting in 1950, shortly after they met, and up through the 1990s, Ronald Reagan wrote letters to his wife, Nancy. In this beautiful book, those extraordinary letters are woven into a moving portrait of a long and loving marriage, as Nancy Reagan shares not only the letters but also her reflections on them, and on the life that she and Ronald Reagan shared, from courtship, young marriage, and the White House years on through to her life today. Included letter: My Darling / This is really just an in-b...
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Lincoln and Medicine.

By: Schroeder-Lein, Glenna R.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, (2012). First Edition.

Seller ID: 4631bd

Inscribed and signed by the author. Octravo, black cloth (hardcover), xiii, 128 pp. Photos. From the dust jacket: [The book] investigates the most enduring controversies about Lincoln's mental health, physical history, and assassination; the conditions that afflicted his wife and children, both before and after his death; and Lincoln's relationship with the medical field during the Civil War, both as commander-in-chief and on a personal level.Ó Fine in dust jacket.
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The Accidental President.

By: Sherrill, Robert.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Grossman, 1967. First Edition.

Seller ID: 70218s

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), 282 pp. [Lyndon Baines Johnson.]. Near-Fine, in a slightly chipped dust jacket.
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Licoln and the Immigrant.

By: Silverman, Jason H.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, (2015). First Edition.

Seller ID: 4633bd

Inscribed and signed by the author. Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), [viii], 159 pp. Photos. From the jacket: ÒFrom an early age... Lincoln developed an awareness of and a tolerance for different peoples and their cultures, and he displayed an affinity for immigrants throughout his legal and political careers.Ó Fine in dust jacket.
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Everlasting in the Hearts of His Countrymen: A Guide to the Memorials to Abraham Lincoln in the District of Columbia.

By: Steers, Edward, Jr; Chaconas, Joan L.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Brandywine, Maryland: Marker Tours, (1984).

Seller ID: 8556bd

Octavo, paperbound (stiff white stapled wrappers), 36 pp. Fine.
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LIFE: The Day Kennedy Died: Remembering the Man and the Moment. With a New Introduction by Richard B. Stolley.

By: Sullivan, Robert; Managing Editor. LIFE.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Des Moines, IA: LIFE Books,

Seller ID: 60757bd

Square quarto, full-color photo. illus. boards (hardcover), 224 pp. Full-color photographs throughout.
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By Square & Compass: Saga of the Lincoln Home.

By: Temple, Wayne C.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Mahomet, Ill.: Mayhaven Publishing, (2002). Revised Edition.

Seller ID: 4635bd

Signed by the Author. Octavo, softbound, 321 pp. Photos., illustrations. Near-Fine.
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The Roosevelts, An Intimate History. Based on the Documentary Film by Ken Burns. With a Preface by Ken Burns. Picture Research by Susanna Steisel. Design by Maggie Hinders.

By: Ward, Georffrey C. and Ken Burns.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. First Edition, stated.

Seller ID: 60762bd

Square quarto, gray cloth (hardcover), photo. illus. endpapers, 503 pp. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: A vivid and personal portrait of America's greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation -- the companion volume to the seven-part PBS documentary series... Geoffrey C. Ward, distilling more than thirty years of thinking and writing about the Roosevelts, and the acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns help us understand for the first time that, despite the firece partisanship of their eras, the Roosevelts were far more united than divided. All the history the Roose...
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The Gerald Ford Letters.

By: Winter-Berger, Robert N.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, Inc., [1974]. First Edition.

Seller ID: 17509scs

Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), 235 pp. Fine, in a Near-Fine, lightly rubbed dust jacket. Reproduces more than three dozen letters that Ford wrote to Winter-Berger, providing solid documentation that challenges Gerald Ford's statements that he scarecely knew Winter-Berger, met him only a few times, wrote no more than a handful of letters to him.
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Category: Presidential Biography