World Leaders & Historic Figures | Lots 472-512 Printed & Manuscript Americana,

472 BREZHNEV, Leonid Ilyich (1906-1982). Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev [in Cyrillic]. Moscow, 1976.

12mo. Text in Cyrillic. Illustrated. Original gilt-lettered boards; slipcase.

SIGNED BY BREZHNEV on title-page.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $200 - 300

473 CASTRO, Fidel (1926-2016). Speech Delivered… at the Opening Session of the 68th Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Havana, September 15, 1981. [Havana, 1981].

12mo. Text in French, English and Spanish printed on separate colored papers for each language section. Original pictorial wrappers; slipcase.

SIGNED BY CASTRO on the title-page of the Spanish language section of the booklet (white pages). Castro delivered this speech at the 68th Inter-Parliamentary Conference in Havana Cuba on September 15, 1981. His opening speech is presented here in three languages, each sectioned on a different colored paper, respectively.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $300 - 400 472 473

474 [CHAVEZ, Cesar (1927-1993)]. LEVY, Jacques (1927-2004). Autobiography of La Causa. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1975.

8vo. Illustrated with photographs. Publisher’s red cloth; original dust jacket. Provenance: Michelle Hamilton (presentation inscription).

FIRST EDITION, second printing. INSCRIBED BY CESAR CHAVEZ: “Best wishes.” Autobiography of La Causa describes the founding and growth of the United Farm Workers of America, as well as their historic victory over the Delano growers of California which resulted in the union winning higher wages, the restriction of certain pesticide use in crops, and health care.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $200 - 300

475 CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). The Second World War: The Hinge of Fate. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950.

Vol. 4 (of 6) only. 8vo. Original cloth (front hinge cracked with half-title partially detached); dust jacket (some wear with a few chips and short tears); slipcase.

Book-of-the-Month Club edition, SIGNED BY CHURCHILL (“Winston S. Churchill”) on the title-page. Churchill chose this title to reflect the turn in the Allies’ fortunes from “almost uninterrupted disaster to almost unbroken success.” The Book-of-the-Month Club edition was published virtually simultaneously with the U.S. first edition and is quite similar in appearance. See Woods A123(a).

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $800 - 1,200

476 CLINTON, Hillary Rodham (b. 1947). Invitation to the White House: At Home with History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

4to. Publisher’s red leather gilt; slipcase.

DELUXE LIMITED FIRST EDITION, one of 50 copies, SIGNED BY HILLARY CLINTON. Invitation to the White House was written during Hillary Clinton’s 2000 campaign for the United States Senate.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $200 - 300

477 COLOP, Luis Enrique Sam (1955-2011). Popol Wuj. Guatemala City: Cholsamaj, 2008.

4to. Publisher’s printed wraps; later slipcase.

INSCRIBED BY LUIS ENRIQUE SAM COLOP. The Popol Wuj is an ancient text recounting the history and myths of the Ki’che’ people. It passed through the centuries as oral tradition until the 16th century, when it was first recorded in writing; it was later translated into Spanish by the Dominican friar Francisco Ximenez.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $100 - 200

478 CURIE, Marie (1867-1934). Pierre Curie. Paris: Payot, 1924.

8vo. (Margins browned and brittle, single wormtrack in lower margin of last third of text.) Contemporary half morocco gilt, upper cover with gilt ship motif (slight wear to extremities); slipcase. Provenance: Marie Mattingly Meloney (1878-1943), journalist and friend of Curie (presentation inscription from the author, gift inscription to her son on front flyleaf in pencil, dated Christmas 1924); William Brown Meloney IV (bookplate and ship motif on binding).

PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CURIE TO A FRIEND AND SUPPORTER on title-page: “To dear Missy / her friend / M. Curie.” Marie (“Missy”) Mattingly Meloney was one of the leading woman journalists of the United States, a magazine editor and a socialite who in the 1920s organized a fund drive to buy radium for Marie Curie and began a movement for better housing. She was a friend and confidante of Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1930s. William Brown Meloney was born in San Francisco to a seafaring family, and at the age of eighteen became a shipping news and political reporter in San Francisco before moving to New York in 1901, where he worked for the New York World Newspaper. He wrote several novels and plays but concentrated on a history of shipping, The Heritage of Tyre.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $800 - 1,200

479 [CUSTER, George Armstrong (1839-1876)]. Index to Officer’s Pay Accounts. A ledger for the years 1841-1870.

334 pages, on red and blue ruled sheets, 383 x 290 mm, modern black morocco binding.

Listing officers alphabetically, each page divided into 14 columns listing regiment, officer name, date of transfer, “book and page,” and “Remarks.” The “Remarks” column includes dates of retirement, resignations, deaths and dismissals.

Included are entries for George Custer and his brother Thomas W. Custer, with the remark: “Killed 25 June ‘76.” An annotation next to George Custer’s name in red ink in an unidentified hand identifies him as Lieutenant Colonel of the Cavalry (“Lt. Col. of Cav.”).

Throughout are entries for every United States officer of the period who served in the MexicanAmerican war, the Civil War, and the Indian Wars. Union officers from the Civil War include Ulysses S. Grant, George B. McClellan, Philip Sheridan, and William T. Sherman. Confederate officers from the Civil War include Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Robert E. Lee, Charles E. Lee, Francis Lee, Richard B. Lee, George Pickett, James Longstreet, Jefferson Davis, and Pierre Gustave Beauregard. Future Presidents Zachary Taylor and John Tyler are listed for their service in the Mexican-American War. The ledger likely served as an index enabling the Army to keep track of their records.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $1,500 - 2,500

480 CUSTER, Elizabeth (1842-1933). “Boots and Saddles” or Life in Dakota with General Custer. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885.

8vo. Frontispiece portrait and map. Original pictorial cloth (spine toned, minor soiling); slipcase.

FIRST EDITION, second issue with portrait and map, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ELIZABETH CUSTER TO HER NEPHEW on the front free endpaper: “For Alfred Stone / with the compliments of the Author / Elizabeth B. Custer / April 4 - 1887 / from affectionate Aunt Libbie.” Howes C-980.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $400 - 600

481 [CUSTER, Elizabeth Bacon (1842-1933)]. LIBBY, O. G., editor. The Arikara Narrative of the Campaign Against the Hostile Dakotas June, 1876. Bismarck, ND: n.p., 1920.

8vo. Frontispiece, maps and plates. Publisher’s cloth, spine gilt-lettered (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Elizabeth Custer (signature).

FIRST EDITION, ELIZABETH CUSTER’S COPY, SIGNED BY HER. The work comprises vol. VI of the North Dakota Historical Collections, and includes personal accounts of the Arikara Indians, who served as scouts for Custer. “There has been no volume published on Custer’s last fight of more interest than this. While it requires a careful analytical study, it furnishes a surprising number of facts which before its publication were unknown.” (Dustin).

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $400 - 600

482 [CUSTER, George Armstrong (1839-1876)] -- [SCOTT, Hugh Lenox (1853-1934), his copy]. LIBBY, O. G., editor. Collections of the State Historical Society of North Dakota. Grand Forks, ND: n.p., 1925.

Comprising Vol. VII of the Collections of the State Historical Society of North Dakota, 8vo. Frontispieces, plates and maps. Original cloth (a few discreet repairs, some slight rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Major General Hugh Lenox Scott (1853-1934), Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army (signature in Vol. VII, extensive annotations, see below); Library of Congress Bureau of American Ethnology Library (release stamp, shelf label on spines).

FIRST EDITIONS. MAJOR GENERAL HUGH LENOX SCOTT’S COPY WITH HIS ANNOTATIONS or underlinings on some 50 pages in chapters relating to Dakota Pioneers. After Scott’s graduation from West Point, he was commissioned in the Cavalry and he served on the Western frontier for some 20 years, chiefly with the 7th United States Cavalry. He was assigned to the quarters only recently vacated by the widow of George Armstrong Custer, and was sent to mark gravesites for Custer’s men killed in the Battle of Little Big Horn.

[With:] LIBBY, O. G., editor. The Arikara Narrative of the Campaign Against the Hostile Dakotas June, 1876. Bismarck, ND: n.p., 1920. Provenance: Library of Congress (release stamp, shelf label on spine). (See lot 481 for Elizabeth Custer’s copy.)

483 DALAI LAMA (b. 1935). The Art of Living. Translated by Geshe Thupten Jinpa. London: Thorsons, 2001.

4to. Publisher’s burgundy cloth; original dust jacket.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE DALAI LAMA.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $100 - 200

484 [DAVIS, Jefferson (1808-1889), his copy]. Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Thirty-Third Congress, Part I. Washington: Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer, 1854.

8vo. (Some spotting and marginal browning throughout, a few small tape reinforcements on front free endpaper.) Original cloth (recased preserving original endpapers, spine ends and corners repaired); slipcase.

JEFFERSON DAVIS’S COPY, SIGNED (“Jefferson Davis / Secretary of War”) on front free endpaper (some ink bleed). Davis served as Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce from 1853 to 1857. This volume is the Senate Issue, Executive Document No 1, 33d Congress, 2d Session, Part I, containing the report of the Secretary of the Interior.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $400 - 600

485 GANDHI, Mohandas K. (1869-1948). Autograph letter signed (“MK Gandhi”), to Mrs. McMillan Seely. Segaon, 15 February 1940.

One page, 110 x 164mm; with original envelope addressed in another hand (possibly by the recipient), docketed on verso, with censor’s label.

In full: “Dear Sister / I thank you for your letter and the sentiments expressed therein. / Yours sin’ly, / MK Gandhi.” The recipient of the letter is most likely Harriet McMillan Seely, granddaughter of Senator from Minnesota (1875-87), who like her mother Jessie McMillan Seely collected autographs. The Minnesota Historical Society holds the Ravi D. Goel collection of Samuel James Renwick McMillan family papers, 1818-1956.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $1,500 - 2,500

486 GANDHI, Mohandas K. (1869-1948). Young India, 1919-1922. Madras: S. Ganesan, 1922.

8vo. Original cloth (recased preserving original endpapers, spine ends and corners repaired, finish recoated, some red in stains on fore-edge); slipcase. Provenance: B. G. Platten, “Chanctonbury”, Loughton, Essex (signature and inscription on front free endpaper).

FIRST EDITON. INSCRIBED BY GANDHI on half-title: “With love / MK Gandhi 18-9-’31.” Additionally signed on front pastedown by his son Devadas Gandhi, his secretaries Pyarelal Mahadev and Haribhai Desai, and his disciple Mirabehn (Madeleine Slade), dated “18.9.31.” Possibly a presentation copy to his son or one of his followers.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $4,000 - 6,000

487 GORBACHEV, Mikhail (1931-2022). The August Coup: The Truth and the Lessons. London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991.

8vo. Publisher’s red cloth; original dust jacket.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MIKHAIL GORBACHEV. The August Coup tells the story of the failed attempt by Soviet hardliners to seize control of the rapidly-collapsing Soviet Union from President Gorbachev.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $200 - 300

488 [HOOVER, J. Edgar (1895-1972)]. COLLINS, Frederick L. The FBI in Peace and War. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1943.

8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth. Provenance: “Bob” (gift inscription).

Fourth impression. INSCRIBED BY J. EDGAR HOOVER, “Best wishes,” and INSCRIBED BY FBI SPECIAL AGENT EARL J. CONNELLEY, “Regards.” Earl J. Connelley took over Chicago operations after the departure of Inspector Sam Cowley in late 1934 and would later orchestrate the raids which led to the captures of Ma Barker, Doc Barker, and Fred Barker.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $200 - 300

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490 KAI-SHEK, Madame Chiang (May-ling Soong Chiang) (1898-2003). Selected Speeches 1958-1959. Taipei: the Office of the President, 1959.

8vo. Original cloth, printed paper cover label; slipcase.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, SIGNED BY MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK on front flyleaf as “Mayling Soong Chiang.” Signed in teal-blue ink by the former First Lady of the Republic of China.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $100 - 200

491 [KEY, Francis Scott (1779-1843), his copy]. CROKE, Sir George. Reports of Sir George Croke, Knight, formerly one of the Justices of the Courts of King’s-Bench and Common-Pleas of such Select Cases as were Adjudged in the Said Courts during the Reign of James the First… Dublin: E. Lynch et al, 1792

8vo (232 x 142mm). Contemporary calf, morocco spine labels (spine ends and corners repaired, minor wear); slipcase. Provenance: Francis Scott Key, lawyer and author of “The Star Spangled Banner” (signature on title and bookplate); “B.M.” (unidentified monogram bookplate).

Fourth edition. SIGNED BY FRANCIS SCOTT KEY (“F. S. Key”) on title and with his rare printed bookplate on the front pastedown (“F. S. Key, Georgetown - Columbia”). Key practiced law in Washington D. C, and this was undoubtedly from his law reference library there. This is volume two of Croke, published many years after volume one and considered complete in itself. When this copy sold at Sotheby’s New York in 1994, it was described as containing a pencil notation on front free endpaper indicating that this copy had once belonged to Kingman Brewster, but the note is no longer legible.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $2,000 - 3,000

492 KHRUSHCHEV, Nikita Sergeyevich (1894-1971). Typed document signed, in Russian Cyrillic, apparently dealing with discuss companies and commodities in Voroshilovgrad, now Luhansk in modern day eastern Ukraine. [ca 1947].

3 pages, 301 x 206mm. (Some minor marginal chips, filing punch-holes in left margin.) Slipcase. Provenance: Ron Hoskins Collection.

SIGNED BY KHRUSHCHEV as Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Countersigned by Lazar Kaganovich, as Secretary of the Central Committee of the KPU (Communist Party of Ukraine).

Khrushchev, then in his role as Chairman of the Board of Ministers of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, signed as “N. Khrushchev” in green ink at lower left. Kaganovich, serving as Secretary of the Central Committee of the KPU (Communist Party of Ukraine) has signed in purple ink as “L. Kaganovich” at lower right. The typed sheets show scattered pencil and pen notations, apparently clerical.

The untranslated document appears to discuss companies and commodities in Voroshilovgrad, now Luhansk in modern day eastern Ukraine. The city of Voroshilovgrad was known as such between 1935-1958 and 1970-1990. The first of these time periods coincides with the date “8.10.47” (October 8, 1947) docketed on the bottom of the third page. The year “1947” also appears within the body of the text on the second page.

In early 1947, Khrushchev lobbied Stalin in person for food aid for Ukraine and eventually received it, at a cost; Stalin was so irritated by Khrushchev’s “mischief-making” that the premier temporarily removed Khrushchev from the secretaryship and replaced him with Lazar Kaganovich, the cosigner of this document. Yet Khrushchev was sufficiently restored in Stalin’s graces to be restored to his office by December 1947. This political rehabilitation was no small feat when one considers the toxic political environment. Khrushchev himself had participated in Stalin’s purges (arrests, exile, and executions) while managing Ukraine.

Lazar Kaganovich was Khrushchev’s old mentor from the earliest days of the Russian Revolution. The two had met as early as 1917, and Khrushchev had served as Kaganovich’s second-in-command in Ukraine in the 1920s. An interesting document signed by two of the most important Soviet leaders, the future premier of the Soviet Union and Kaganovich (1893-1991), one of Josef Stalin’s closest advisers.

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493 KHRUSHCHEV, Nikita Sergeyevich (1894-1971). An Account to the Party and the People. Report of the C.C. C.P.S.U. to the 22nd Congress of the Party October 17, 1961. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1961.

8vo. Text in English. Original pictorial wrappers (small marginal tear and chip on rear wrapper, minor soiling and rubbing); slipcase.

SIGNED BY KHRUSHCHEV on title-page. The 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was held from 17 to 31 October 1961. In fourteen days of sessions, the more than 4000 delegates, in addition to delegates from 83 foreign Communist parties, listened to Khrushchev and others review policy issues. At the Congress, the Sino-Soviet split hardened, especially due to Soviet de-Stalinization efforts. It was the last Congress to be attended by the Chinese Communist Party. The Congress elected the 22nd Central Committee. The core of the Party program was a promise of the millennium: Russia would catch up and overtake the United States standard of living over the next decade or two. The complete transition from socialism to fully fledged communism would be accomplished.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $500 - 700

494 KING, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968). Stride Toward Freedom. The Montgomery Story. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958.

8vo. (Upper corner of front flyleaf reattached with archival tape.) Original cloth; dust jacket (spine panel slightly faded, minor soiling); slipcase.

“THE STRONG MAN IS THE MAN WHO CAN STAND UP FOR HIS RIGHTS AND NOT HIT BACK…”

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with the publisher’s code H-H on copyright page.

PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY KING WITH HIS NONVIOLENCE CREDO on front free endpaper: “The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back. With Best Wishes / Martin L. King Jr.”. The quotation comes from his address given to the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church on November 14, 1956, following the MIA’s failure to receive a temporary restraining order to prevent the city of Montgomery from interfering with the car pool system which enabled blacks to participate in the Montgomery bus boycott. Anticipating the imminent desegregation of city buses, King asks everyone to remain nonviolent during the first challenging days. Echoing Gandhi, he tells them that “I’m not asking you to be a coward. ...You can be courageous and yet nonviolent.” A SUPERB INSCRIPTION: ENCAPSULATING KING’S PHILOSOPHY AND ADVOCACY FOR NONVIOLENCE.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $8,000 - 12,000 493

495 LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow (1906-2001). “Flying Around the North Atlantic.” In: National Geographic. Washington: The National Geographic Society, September 1934.

Volume LXVI, number 3, 4to. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Publisher’s printed wraps; slipcase.

SIGNED BY CHARLES AND ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH. “Flying Around the North Atlantic” chronicles the transatlantic journey taken by Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh following the trial of Bruno Hauptmann for the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. A VERY FINE COPY.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $400 - 600

496 [MacARTHUR, Douglas (1880-1964)]. WHITNEY, Courtney (1897-1969). MacArthur: His Rendezvous with History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956.

8vo. Publisher’s orange and blue cloth; original dust jacket (very worn, lacking rear flap).

Later edition, SIGNED BY DOUGLAS MacARTHUR.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $200 - 300

497 MANDELA, Nelson (1918-2013). Long Walk to Freedom. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2000.

8vo. Publisher’s green leather gilt.

COLLECTOR’S EDITION, SIGNED ON LIMITATION PAGE BY NELSON MANDELA. Long Walk to Freedom was written shortly after Mandela›s release from prison and chronicles his upbringing, education, and his 27 year prison sentence.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $500 - 700

498 MANDELA, Nelson (1918-2013). In His Own Words. London: Little, Brown, 2003.

8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth; original dust jacket.

LIMITED EDITION, number 42 of 50 copies, SIGNED BY NELSON MANDELA. In His Own Words is a collection of speeches, writings, and letters from throughout Nelson Mandela’s public life, beginning in 1951 and ending in 1995.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $400 - 600

499 McCAIN, John (1936-2018). A group of 3 signed works in 3 volumes, comprising:

Character is Destiny. 2005. -- Faith of My Fathers. 1999. -- Worth the Fighting For. 2002. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, all 8vo, all published by Random House in New York and written with Mark Salter, condition generally fine.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $300 - 400

500 [MORÈS, Marquis de (1858-1896), his copy]. GREGOIRE, Leon. Le pape les Catholiques et la question sociale. Paris: Perrin et Cie, 1895.

8vo. (Some marginal browning.) Contemporary half cloth, with original printed front wrapper bound in; cloth slipcase. Provenance: Felix Potin Collection bookplate laid-in.

THE MARQUIS DE MORÈS’S COPY, SIGNED (“Mores”) on front wrapper in pencil, and with his annotations in pencil throughout.

Antoine-Amédée-Marie-Vincent Manca Amat de Vallombrosa, Marquis de Morès et de Montemaggiore, commonly known as the Marquis de Morès, was a French duelist, frontier ranchman in the Badlands of Dakota Territory during the final years of the American Old West era, a railroad pioneer in Vietnam, and a politician in his native France. He resigned from the French cavalry in 1882 and married Medora von Hoffman, sometimes called the Marquise. Soon thereafter, he would move to the North Dakota badlands to begin ranching, purchasing 44,500 acres for that purpose. He also opened a stagecoach business. He tried to revolutionize the ranching industry by shipping refrigerated meat to Chicago by railroad, thus bypassing the Chicago stockyards. He built a meat-packing plant for this purpose in Medora, the town he founded in 1883 and named for his wife. He became famous in the West as a rancher and gunslinger, getting arrested for murder a few times, but was always acquitted. Known as an adventurer, he was quick to anger and was engaged in numerous duels throughout his life; he notoriously sent Theodore Roosevelt what the latter interpreted as a challenge to a duel. Following his business failure, he left Dakota Territory and returned to France. He was commissioned by the French army to build a proposed railroad in Vietnam, from the Chinese frontier to the Gulf of Tonkin, and arrived in Asia to lead railroad construction in the fall of 1888. Later, the Marquis went on an expedition to Africa. He had gotten involved in political disputes and made some bitter enemies. While he was in Africa, he was murdered. With a Felix Potin celebrity trade card depicting the Marquis de Morès laid in. ACCORDING TO ONLINE RECORDS, WE FIND NO MATERIAL SIGNED BY THE MARQUIS DE MORÈS.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $600 - 800

Oblong 12mo. Original glazed pictorial wrappers; slipcase.

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY MOTHER TERESA on title: “God bless you / M Teresa MC” in purple ink. The Blessings of Love is a collection of Mother Teresa›s words that serve as instructions for how to make our daily lives count. Mother Teresa was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun who was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in in Skopje, North Macedonia (at the time part of the Ottoman Empire). At the age of eighteen she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived most of her life. In 1950, she founded the Missionaries of Charity, whose sisters, brothers and priests serve the poorest of the poor throughout the world. Active in nearly 140 countries, they run hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; dispensaries and mobile clinics; children’s and family counseling programs; orphanages; and schools. Mother Teresa was the recipient of numerous honors, including the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She was beatified as “Blessed Teresa of Calcutta” in October 2003.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $400 - 600

502 POPE JOHN PAUL II (Karol Jozef Wojtyła,1920-2005). Rise, Let Us Be on Our Way. [New York]: Warner Books, 2004.

8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket; slipcase.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, FIRST PRINTING, SIGNED BY POPE JOHN PAUL II (“Joannes Paulus II”) on the title-page, and with the Papal blindstamp of the Segreteria Particolare di Sua Santita beside. Previously published in the Polish language as Wstańcie, chod my!

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $300 - 400

503 [POPE JOHN PAUL II (Karol Jozef Wojtyła,1920-2005)]. Pastoral Visit of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to Jamaica, Merida and Denver, August 9-16, 1993. [Vatican City]: Typus Vaticanus, [1993].

Large 8vo. Text in English, Spanish and some prayers in Latin. Original giltdecorated white roan with Papal arms on upper cover, with three attached silk bookmarks; slipcase.

SIGNED BY POPE JOHN PAUL II (“Joannes Paulus PP II”) on the title-page of the Denver service. During his reign, Pope John Paul II (“The Pilgrim Pope”) made 104 foreign trips, more than all previous popes combined. The 1993 World Youth Day was held on August 10-15, 1993 in Denver, Colorado. It was the first World Youth Day held in either North America or an Englishspeaking nation.The event took place in the context of the pope’s sixtieth apostolic journey, on which, before reaching Denver, he had stopped in Jamaica and Mexico.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $300 - 400

504 POPE FRANCIS (Jorge Mario Bergoglio, b.1936). Lettera enciclica Lumen Fidei del sommo pontefice Francesco ai vescovi ai presbiteri e ai diaconi alle persone consacrate e a tutti i fedeli laici sulla fede. [Vatican City]: Tipografia Vaticana, [c.2013].

8vo. Original red roan with gilt Papal arms on upper cover (a few minor bumps).

SIGNED BY POPE FRANCIS (“Francesco”) on the title-page, and with the Papal blindstamp of the Segreteria Particolare di Sua Santita below. Lumen fidei (The Light of Faith) is the first encyclical of Pope Francis, issued on 29 June 2013, the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, and published on 5 July 2013, less than four months after his election to the papacy. It was the first encyclical in the history of the Catholic Church written by two popes, being begun by Pope Benedict XVI and finished by Pope Francis. The encyclical traces the history of the faith of the Church (from the call of God to Abraham and the people of Israel, to the resurrection of Jesus), discusses the relationship between reason and faith, the Church›s role in the transmission of the faith, and the role faith plays in the building of societies in search of the common good. The text concludes with a prayer to the Virgin Mary, who is presented as a model of faith. Accompanied by a typed letter signed from Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Segretario di Stato di Sua Santita, 15 December 2014.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $200 - 300

505 ROOSEVELT, Eleanor (1884-1962). This is My Story. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937.

8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth (sunning to spine, rubbing).

LIMITED FIRST EDITION, number 155 of 250 copies, SIGNED BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. This is My Story was the first of four memoirs published by Eleanor Roosevelt; its serialization in The Ladies’ Home Journal sold 250,000 copies and prompted its editors to remark that the book “was read...by everyone - in government, parlor, and slums.”

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $200 - 300

506 RUBY, Jack (1911-1967). Autograph manuscript signed (in the third person) written from his jail cell while incarcerated for the murder of Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, [n.d., ca 1966].

14 pp, 12mo, 154 x 101mm. Written in pencil on rectos only of hand-numbered sheets. (A few minor marginal chips, some tiny pinholes on upper lefthand corners.) Slipcase. Provenance: Earl Ruby, Jack Ruby’s brother (accompanying affidavit copy, see below); Anthony V. Pugliese III (purchased from Earl Ruby, 21 December 1992, according to affidavit).

An autobiographical account by the Dallas night-club owner, written while incarcerated awaiting a new trial for the nationally televised murder of Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. The text begins: “Here are the facts about Jack Ruby!!…” and goes on to tell about his early jobs and his first visit to Dallas, the building of his sister’s nightclub near the Ambassador Hotel, hiring a band leader, moving back to Chicago, and returning to Dallas to take over his sister’s club. According to the a copy of the notarized statement by Jack’s brother Earl Ruby on 22 December 1992, this is an “autographed, unpublished manuscript written by my brother Jack Ruby from Jail at my request after Jack was convicted of murder and sentenced to death…” According to to his brother’s affidavit “the manuscript was to be used by Jack’s lawyers if a new trial was granted to establish his character as not being capable of pre-meditated murder and that his act on November 24, 1964 was spontaneous and born of anguish and grief. A new trial was granted, but Jack died before the new trial could commence”.

On March 14, 1964, Ruby was convicted of murder with malice and was sentenced to death. Ruby’s conviction was overturned by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on the grounds that “an oral confession of premeditation made while in police custody” should have been ruled inadmissible, because it violated a Texas criminal statute. The court also ruled that the venue should have been changed to a Texas county other than the one in which the high-profile crime had been committed. Ruby died technically unconvicted, because his original conviction was overturned and his retrial was pending at the time of his death.

SANTA ANNA, Antonio López de (1794-1876). Manuscript document signed (“Ant. López Santa Anna”), as President of Mexico, countersigned by José María Tornel, Senior Minister of the War and Navy, 10 March 1842.

12 pages, on three bifolia, on Ministerio de Guerra y Marina stationery, stab-sewn in outer margin.

An official notice outlining rules in 28 parts to the military office of invalids, created in 12 January. Rules and regulations are established regarding operations and hospital accounting, particularly with regard to persons in hospitals who are disappearing.

Antonio López de Santa Anna exerted his strong influence on Mexican politics and government in the first half of the 19th-century, a time often referred to as the “Age of Santa Anna.” He served non-consecutive presidential terms over a 22-year period, interspersed with the continued pursuit of his military career. In the fall of 1841, Santa Anna returned to the presidency for a sixth time, a position he would hold until the turbulent election of 1842. José María Tornel (1795-1853) was prominent among the “santanista,” a group of politicians who helped Santa Anna return to power frequently, despite defeats in the 1836 Texas Revolution and later in the Mexican-American War.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $500 - 700

508 SCHWEITZER, Albert (1875-1965). Out of My Life and Thought. An Autobiography. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1949.

8vo. (Front endpapers slightly toned.) Original cloth (spine head and one fore-corner bumped); dust jacket (price-clipped, minor wear to extremities); slipcase. Provenance: Antonia Brico (1902-1989), conductor and pianist (gift inscription to Margaret and Maria Lial on front pastedown, dated 10 July 1950, and related cards and newspaper clippings laid in).

Fourth printing. ASSOCIATION COPY. The Dutch-born conductor and pianist, Antonia Brico had an enduring friendship with Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the organ-playing doctor who practiced medicine in the wilds of Africa. The two shared a love of Bach’s music, and she detoured home from an engagement in Europe to visit Schweitzer in Africa in 1950. This copy was inscribed by Brico to music shop owner in Monterey CA, Margaret Lial, who arranged concerts in a hall above her shop where presumably the two met. In July 1938, Brico was the first woman to conduct the New York Philharmonic.

[With:] A postcard photograph depicting a nursing care scene in Lambarene, in western Gabon, where Schweitzer’s hospital was built to treat tropical diseases, INSCRIBED BY SCHWEITZER on the recto margin to Miss Margaret Lial and additionally inscribed and signed by him in French on verso; a photograph of Brico conducting the Denver Orchestra in 1950, inscribed and signed by her on verso; a two-page photostat Christmas letter from Brico outlining her travels, including her lecture on Schweitzer and being his guest at his French headquarters in Gunsbach, inscribed to Margaret Lial and signed at end, with envelope; an unsigned photograph portrait of Schweitzer; and several newspaper clippings related to Brico laid in.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $400 - 600

509 [SHERMAN, William Tecumseh (1820-1891)]. UPTON, Emory. The Armies of Asia and Europe: Embracing Official Reports on the Armies of Japan, China, India, Persia, Italy, Russia, Austria, Germany, France, and England. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1878.

8vo. Original cloth (recased with hinges reinforced, some light stains and soiling); slipcase. Provenance: Hon. John A. Kasson (1822-1910), U.S. Congressman from Iowa and Minister to Austria-Hungary (presentation inscription from W. T. Sherman).

INSCRIBED BY GEN. SHERMAN TO THE U. S. MINISTER TO VIENNA on front free endpaper in pencil: “Hon. John A. Kasson / U. S. Minister to Vienna, With Compliments of / W. T. Sherman / General / Washington DC / May 20. 1878.” Emory Upton “distinguished himself in the Civil War and left a marked influence on the army as commandant of cadets at West Point from 1870 to 1875. Starting in July, 1875, he toured the world and spent two years writing this highly detailed book” (Smith). The recipient, John A. Kasson, spent many years serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa. In 1877, Kasson was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Austria-Hungary by President Rutherford B. Hayes, a position he held until early 1881. Smith U15.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $400 - 600

510 [STALIN, Joseph (1878-1953), his copy]. Session of the Academy of Science USSR - Dedicated to the Anniversary of the Brilliant Work of J. V. Stalin “Marxism and Linguistics Issues” [in Russian]. Moscow, 1951.

8vo. Photographic frontispiece portrait of Stalin. Original gilt-lettered cloth (lettering a little dulled); slipcase.

STALIN’S COPY, SIGNED ON THE TITLE-PAGE AND WITH A COUPLE OF MARGINAL ANNOTATIONS in his hand in blue pencil. With his library stamp “J. V. Stalin” on title-page and lower margin of first page of the main text. Stalin was an avid reader, and at the time of his death, it is estimated his personal library ran to approximately 25,000 books, pamphlets and periodicals. Roughly 11,000 were classics of Russian and world literature by authors like Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Hugo and Shakespeare. The remainder were nonfiction titles in Marxism, history, economics and other fields. Lenin was by far the most represented author, at nearly 250 publications. Stalin had his own ex-libris stamp and classification system. The centerpiece of his Moscow residence was its library, although he preferred to store his collection off-site and have an assistant bring him reading material upon request. According to Roberts, scholars have preserved about 400 volumes that contain Stalin’s pometki— markings, notes and marginalia. BOOKS FROM STALIN’S LIBRARY ARE RARE AT AUCTION, ESPECIALLY SO SIGNED BY HIM. See Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books, New Haven, 2022.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $5,000 - 7,000

511 THATCHER, Margaret (1925-2013). Statecraft. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2002.

8vo. Publisher’s blue leather gilt.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MARGARET THATCHER of her work Statecraft, which outlines Thatcher’s views of a post-9/11 world. With additional certificate signed by Thatcher laid in.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $200 - 300

512 [WRIGHT, Orville (1871-1948)]. KELLY, Fred C. The Wright Brothers: A Biography Authorized by Orville Wright. New York, 1943.

8vo. (Some toning and spotting to half-title, occasional minor spotting.) Original cloth (recased with free endpapers renewed, spine ends and extremities repaired); slipcase. Provenance: Melvill Jones (1887-1975), aeronautical engineer (presentation inscription).

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ORVILLE WRIGHT on half-title: “To Professor Melvill Jones / with my compliments and cordial regard. Orville Wright / May 5, 1943.”

Sir Bennett Melvill Jones was Francis Mond Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Cambridge from 1919 to 1952. He demonstrated the importance of streamlining in aircraft design, developing the ideas of Louis Charles Breguet into a refined theory to demonstrate emphatically the importance of drag to the performance of aircraft. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $600 - 800