TWO SMITHSONIAN SCIENTIFIC PAPERS ON THE PRESIDENTIAL CRUISE OF 1938, INSCRIBED TO FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT TO POLIO ACTIVIST AND RED CROSS EXECUTIVE BASIL O'CONNOR, WHO ACCOMPANIED ROOSEVELT ON THE CRUISE, LATER BELONGING TO PREEMINENT ROOSEVELT COLLECTOR DONALD S. CARMICHAEL
(ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.) KILLIP, Ellsworth P. Flowering Plants Collected on the Presidential Cruise of 1938. WITH: List of the Fishes Taken on the Presidential Cruise of 1938. Washington, 1939-40. Two volumes.
First editions of two Smithsonian scientific papers on the presidential cruise of 1938, inscribed on each wrapper by Roosevelt to his friend, lawyer, polio activist, and Red Cross executive Basil O'Connor: "For Basil from Franklin D. Roosevelt" and "B.C.o'C. from FDR," later belonging to distinguished Roosevelt memorabilia collector Donald S. Carmichael. $4700.
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BEAUTIFUL LIMITED EDITION OF SCARRON’S THE COMICAL ROMANCE, ONE OF ONLY 150 COPIES PRINTED ON JAPANESE VELLUM
SCARRON, Paul. Comical Romance, and Other Tales. London, 1892. Two volumes.
Limited edition, number 33 of only 150 copies beautifully printed on Japanese vellum, with frontispieces and 14 illustrated plates. $750.
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"WE WHO LIVED THERE SAW OUR STREET AS A WORLD, WHERE EVERYBODY WAS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM EVERYBODY ELSE"
NAIPUL, V.S. Miguel Street. London, 1959.
First edition of Naipaul's powerful collection of stories about colonial Trinidad. $600.
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