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1945, First Edition in book form, First Printing. 124 pp. Hardcover, brick cloth. Illustrated with b&w photos from the production. Fine copy. NO dust jacket. Clean and unmarked contents. Bookplate of the former owner, actor Hume Cronyn, on the fly leaf. Cronyn's wife, Jessica Tandy, starred as the heroine in the original Broadway production of Williams' other masterpiece, "A Streetcar Named Desire." A scarce book, with a wonderful association.

The Glass Menagerie
Williams, Tennessee (Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy)
New York: Random House, 1945. 1945, First Edition in book form, First Printing. 124 pp. Hardcover, brick cloth. Illustrated with b&w photos from the production... more
Price: $250.00

5 folio sheets (15.2 x 10.7 inches), all handwritten, with 3 TLS and a signed printed broadside, by Harry Hood Byrd, the folio sheets bearing signatures and sentiments to Edward Charity Martin (1879-1967), a politician from Waynesburg, PA, who was elected Governor of PA in 1943 and served until 1946 when he was elected to the Senate as a Republican and served there till 1958 when he retired; he wasa a seasoned collector of autographs and assembled a great collection which was auctioned off over a period of years in Western Pennsylvania small auction houses. Titled in his hand, The United States Senate, 82nd Congress, Second Session, June 1952" it features the signatures of JOHN F. KENNEDY (unfortunately the pen was running out of ink, so Kennedy's signature is not the boldest), LYNDON JOHNSON, RICHARD NIXON; the list begins: Alben W. Barkley, Kenneth McKellar, Ernest W. McFarland, Styles Bridges, [unreadable], Henry Dworshak, Francis Case, Everett Dirksen, John Marshall Butler, Wallace Bennett, Robert Taft, Arthur U. Watkins, Milton R.Young, Allen J. Ellender, James E. Murray, Herbert H. Lehman, William Benton, Spessard L. Holland, James O. Eastland, Lester C. Hunt, Clyde R. Hoey, Howard Alexander Smith (?), Walter F. George, John C. Stennis, Leverett Saltonstall, Owen Brewster, Alexander Wiley, Hebert R. O'Conor, Guy Cordon, Guy M. Gillette, Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Olin D. Johnston, Russell B. Long, Karl E. Mundt, Zales N. Ecton, A. Willis Robertson, [unreadable], Harry Hood Byrd, Carl Hayden, Tom Connally, Joe McCarthy, Warren Magnuson, Thomas C. Hennings Jr., Harley M. Kilgore, Margaret Chase Smith, Richard B. Russell, Estes Kefauver, William Langer, Dennis Chavez, Frank Carlson, Robert Kerr, Brien McMahon, Hugh Butler, Herman Welker, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, Edward John Thye, Harry P. Cain, Homer Ferguson, George Aiken, HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, J. W. Fulbright, Earle Clements, John O. Pastore, Thomas R. Underwood, J. Allen Frear Jr., Willis Smith, Pat McCarran, James P. Kem, H. Alexander Smith, John W. Bricker, Andrew F. Schoeppel, Irving Ives, Wayne Morse, George W. Malone, RICHARD NIXON ("Dick Nixon, U.S.S. California, June 26, 1952, to a fine friend and a great legislator"), John McClellan, Theodore F. Green, Almer Monroney, George Smathers, Paul Douglas, Burnet R. Maybank, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, William E. Jenner, Homer E. Capehart, John Sparkman, Blair Moody, Edwin Johnson, Ralph Flanders, John J. Williams, Fred A. Seaton, J. Lister Hill ..... Sheet titled U. S. SENATE 1953: Frderick G. Payne, Dwight Griswold, ALBERT GORE, Prescott bush, John Herman Cooper, William A. Purtell, Henry Jackman, Mike Mansfield, Stuart Symington, Frank Barrett, Thomas H. Kuchel, BARRY GOLDWATER, Charles E. Potter, JOHN F. KENNEDY (faded signature, with the following note by JFK: Massachusetts - with my highest regards to Senator Martin, March 1953), Alton A. Lennon, Robert W. Upton [Reverse side of this sheet has signatures from 1954-57]: Eva Bowring, Sam Ervin, Edward D. Crippa, Samuel W. Reynolds, Ernest Brown, Hazel H. Abel, Norris Cotton, Charles E. Daniel, Roman L. Hruska, Gordon Allott, Alan Bible, W. Kerr Scott, STROM THURMOND, Patrick V. McNamara, Richard L. Neuberger, Thomas E. Martin, George H. Bender, Carl T. Curtis, Clifford P. Case, William R. Laird IIII, Thomas A. Wofford, Robert Humphreys, Frank Lausche, Herman Talmadge, William A. Blakley, Frank Church. FINAL SHEET OF SIGNATURES FROM 1957-1958: Thruston B. Morton, [unreadable], Chapman Revercomb, Joseph S. Clark, John Sherman Cooper, John A. Carroll, Ralph Yarborough, William Proxmire, John D. Hoblitzell Jr., B. Everett Jordan, also 3 TLS (with some glue marks to left sides) by Clinton Anderson, Charles W. Tobey, and Henry Cabot Lodge; and a broadside signed by Harry Hood Byrd "The Test of My Vote in the Senate..." (1951) also with glue marks to left side.

Signatures of all the United States Senators, 1952 - 1953, plus additional senatorial signatures to 1958; 82nd-85th congress
Kennedy, John F., Lyndon Baines Johnson, Joseph McCarthy, Hubert H. Humphrey, Richard Nixon, Barry Goldwater, Strom Thurmond, et al. (Edward Martin estate)
5 folio sheets (15.2 x 10.7 inches), all handwritten, with 3 TLS and a signed printed broadside, by Harry Hood.. more
Price: $3,500.00

c. 1895. Complete set in 5 volumes. This set was limited to only 25 numbered and registered copies, this one being #5. Hardcover, small 8vos., uniformly bound in handsome green morocco with gilt title and floral inlays in red and pale yellow. Red silk endpapers, gilt dentelles, and leather doublures with gilt crown emblem. There is a small, neat bookplate of a former owner on the bottom margin of the limitation page of each volume. Otherwise, these are absolutely Fine copies, each housed in a green leather slipcase with velvet interior that shows minor scuffing. Illustrated throughout with hand-colored plates, and at least one watercolor illustration per book. Contents include: The Life of Spenser, The Shepheards Calender, The Faerie Queene, Complaints, and other miscellaneous works, poems, sonnets, hymns and a glossary. 5 volumes.

Edmund Spenser, The Crown Edition of the British Poets, complete in 5 volumes, one of only 25 sets
Spenser, Edmund
London: British Literary Society, c. 1895. c. 1895. Complete set in 5 volumes. This set was limited to only 25 numbered and registered copies, this one.. more
Price: $2,000.00

c. 1913. Softcover. Pictorial wraps, showing an aristocratic woman playing golf, with her caddie, a train, and the North Carolina mountains behind her. A lovely book, illustrated throughout. Includes many views of Asheville, the mountains, general scenery, cars, the Vanderbilt estate, as well as a large fold-out map of the Southern Railway's routes from New York to the Mississippi. Light tearing and wear along the edges. Otherwise a clean, sound copy. Scarce.

The Land of the Sky
(North Carolina, Americana)
Asheville, NC: Southern Railway, 1913. c. 1913. Softcover. Pictorial wraps, showing an aristocratic woman playing golf, with her caddie, a train, and the North Carolina.. more
Price: $150.00

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