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BARTHES, Roland, Fragments d’un discours amoureux, Paris, Seuil, 1977.
First edition of what can be considered as one of the Roland Barthes’ most popular work among readers & scholars. Exceptional autograph dedication from Roland Barthes to the writer and critic François-Régis Bastide: “To François-Régis Bastide, always so kind to me, this book, half-novel, half-essay, with the friendship of a compatriot, Roland Barthes.” Notably, Barthes…
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Signed Copy of Stride Toward Freedom, Inscribed to A. Philip Randolph—with Randolph’s Extensive Notes
Asa Philip Randolph was a pioneer crusader for Civil Rights. In 1925, he founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (the Pullman Porters). In 1963, he was one of the Big Six organizers of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Full-page inscription by King: “To my dear friend A. Philip Randolph. / In appreciation of…
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Abraham Lincoln Signed Check to “William Johnson (Colored),” the President’s Valet, Who Accompanied Him to Antietam and Gettysburg
William Henry Johnson was a free black servant who accompanied the president-elect on his journey from Springfield to Washington, D.C., while Lincoln was under threat of assassination. Lincoln’s identification of Johnson as “Colored” would facilitate the latter’s cashing of the check. On arrival in the capital, Lincoln found employment for Johnson stoking the furnace of the…
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President John Adams Reflects on Presidential Leadership
A wistful letter to a Harvard friend in which Adams mentions some guileful political colleagues and laments the “popular Passions of the times” and the general neglect of his political writings. “The Difficulty of leading or guiding Millions, by any means but Power and Establishments can be known only to those who have tried Experiments…
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John Jay Appoints Richard Varick as Mayor of New York City
John Jay—Declaration signer, Continental Congress President, Governor, First Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court—appoints the mayor who saw New York City’s population double during his tenure. “The People of the State of New York, by the grace of God free and independent.… Do nominate, constitute and appoint the said Richard Varick to be Mayor…
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George Washington Signed Military Commission, Preparing for a Decisive Battle Against Native Americans and the British in the Midwest
George Washington-signed military commissions are rare on the market, and we do not recall ever seeing a more attractive example. Two weeks after his second inauguration, President Washington appoints William Winston as Captain of Light Dragoons. By the time Winston joined the army in the Northwest Territory, he had been promoted to command the entire…
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The Bill of Rights: Congressman and Future Speaker of the House Theodore Sedgwick’s Copy in 1789 Journal of the Senate
An incredible rarity with unique association to one of the people who played an active role in creating the first laws of the United States of America. The Bill of Rights appeared in two 1789 book printings —this Senate Journal and the Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States—both printed soon after the…
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Samuel Huntington Signed Connecticut Laws, Heavily Annotated Noting Legislative Changes
The volume begins with the Royal Charter granted by King Charles II in 1662, followed by the Articles of Confederation, and then a compilation of the governing acts for Connecticut through 1786, including key legislation that ultimately ended slavery in the state. “And whereas sound Policy requires that the Abolition of Slavery should be effected…
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EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Autograph Letter Signed
4pp. May 20, 1853. Concord [MA]. An ALS from Emerson to poet and historian, John Albee. With a signed one-page typescript, December 14, 1957, from Emersonian Kenneth Cameron on its editing. New Castle historian and poet, John Albee (1833-1915), spent several years as a Unitarian minister before writing the 1884 history of New Castle, New…
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Rosenbach: A Biography (Signed) Wolf, Edwin, 2nd and John F. Fleming
8vo (25 x 17 cm). 137/250. 616, [3] pp. Red/black covers with gilt titles to upper and spine. Signed by authors on colophon, rest of text block tight and unmarked. Green slipcase with wear to edges. Offered by Liberty Book Store $195 To purchase, contact thorne@libertybookstore.com