Presidents & Political Figures Lots 366-422
366 BEN-GURION, David (1886-1973). Israel: a Personal History. New York and Tel Aviv: Funk & Wagnalls and Sabra Books, 1971. 4to. Photographic plates. Original publishers blue morocco gilt; blue cloth slipcase.
367 BRANDEIS, Louis Dembitz (1856-1941). Typed letter twice signed (“Louis D. Brandeis,” “Brandeis, Dunbar & Nutter”) to Charles H. Tyler. Boston, MA, 23 July 1901. 1 page, 4to, on Brandeis, Dunbar & Nutter letterhead, offsetting, toning, framed with a photographic print of Brandeis, not examined out of frame.
FIRST EDITION. LIMITED EDITION, numbered 1713 of 2000 copies. SIGNED BY BEN-GURION beneath frontispiece portrait. A history of Israel’s establishment by its first Prime Minister.
Brandeis writes to a fellow lawyer Charles H. Tyler regarding “negotiations for the sale of the control of the Coeur D’Alene mine,” hoping to hear updates from Tyler’s inquiries.
$600 - 800
$300 - 400
368 CARTER, James Earl (“Jimmy”) (b. 1924). A group of 13 works, comprising:
369 CHURCHILL, Winston L. S., Sir (1874-1965). The Story of the Malakand Field Force. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898.
Why Not the Best? Nashville, TN, 1975. SIGNED. -- A New Spirit, A New Commitment, A New America. N.p., 1977. SIGNED. -- A Government as Good as its People. 1977. -- Keeping Faith. Toronto et al, 1982. Slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED. -- Another copy. -- The Blood Of Abraham. Boston, 1985. Original printed wrappers. ADVANCE REVIEW COPY, UNCORRECTED PROOFS. -- Another copy. SIGNED. -- CARTER, and Rosalynn CARTER. Everything to Gain. 1987. SIGNED BY BOTH JIMMY CARTER AND ROSALYNN CARTER. -- Turning Point. N.p., 1992. SIGNED. -- Talking Peace. 1993. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. ADVANCE REVIEW COPY, UNCORRECTED PROOFS. -- Always a Reckoning. 1995. SIGNED. -- The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleeger. 1995. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED. -- Living Faith. 1996. SIGNED. -- The Virtues of Aging. 1998. SIGNED. -- Our Endangered Values. 2005. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED. -- Together, 13 works in 15 volumes, most published in New York, various 4to and 8vo sizes, most in original cloth, quarter cloth, boards, or printed wrappers, most in unrestored and unclipped dust jackets, ALL FIRST EDITIONS, most SIGNED OR INSCRIBED BY PRESIDENT CARTER, condition generally fine. $300 - 400 98
THE LIBRARY OF JACK CHARLES DAVIS
8vo. Frontispiece and 6 maps, 2 folding. (Minor toning, occasional spotting.) Original apple green cloth gilt lettered (spine darkened, light soiling, spine slightly leaned). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Churchill’s first book, an account of the uprising on the North-West Frontier of India (now western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan). With 32-page Classified Catalogue printed on thinner paper, separately numbered, and dated 12/97 on the last page. Frontispiece with tissue guard, others lacking. No errata slip. Woods A1(a). $1,000 - 1,500
