NIXON SIGNS IN THE ARENA

RICHARD NIXON (1913-1994).  Nixon was the Thirty-Seventh President.

SB. 384pg. No date. Yorba Linda.  In The Arena signed “Richard Nixon” on a Presidential book plate that has been attached to the first free endpage.  The book is in very fine condition.

RICHARD NIXON SIGNS HIS MEMOIRS

RICHARD NIXON (1913-1994).  Nixon was the 37th President from 1969 to 1974.

SB. 1120pg. No date. No place.  The Memoirs Of Richard Nixon inscribed “To William Schneiderman with best wishes from Richard Nixon” on the title page.  The interior pages are in fine condition.  The dust jacket has a clipped price and some wear, especially to the spine.

PULLMAN SIGNS A BOOK FROM THE DEDICATION OF HIS CHURCH IN ALBION, NEW YORK

GEORGE W. PULLMAN (1831-1897). Pullman created the first sleeping railroad car and he created the world’s largest railroad car construction company.

SB. 30pg. 1895. Albion, New York. A book, Pullman Memorial Universalist Church Dedication Services, signed “Compliments of Geo W Pullman” on the first endpage. Pullman was from Albion, New York and he decided to build a church for his community. Pullman agreed to give $5,000 for its construction if Albion came up with another $5,000. Tiffany designed the windows and the building was dedicated on January 31, 1895, with Pullman present. This book was used at the ceremony. It is in fine condition.

ALEXANDER STEPHENS SIGNS HIS COPY OF ECHOES FROM THE SOUTH,  A POSTWAR ACCOUNT OF THE “MOST IMPORTANT” CONFEDERATE TEXTS

ALEXANDER STEPHENS (1812-1883). Stephens served as the only Vice President of the Confederate States of America.

SB. 211 pages. 5” x 7”. February 27, 1873. A book signed “Alexander H. Steph” and from his personal library.  He signed the first free endpage in pencil.  The book is Echoes from the South: The most important speeches, proclamations, and public acts emanating from the South during the late war, and it was published by New York’s E.B. Treat & Co. in 1866.  As the publisher’s note in their Notice: “The Publishers present this little volume to the public in the belief that a record of the great speeches and public acts emanating from the South during the late struggle, will prove, as a matter of History, both valuable and interesting to all classes of readers.” The book includes Stephens’ famous "The Assertions of a Secessionist” speech, which he gave on November 14, 1860 in the Georgia House of Representatives (“I look upon this country, with our institutions, as the Eden of the world, the paradise of the universe”) and his “Cornerstone Speech” from March 22, 1861 (“Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new Government, is the first, in the history of the world, based on this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth”). The book also includes the “Declaration of causes which induced the secession of South Carolina”, the ordinances of secession for every seceded state, except Tennessee, Jefferson Davis’ speech upon leaving the United States Senate and his presidential inaugural address, the Confederate constitution, and more. The book is in very good condition, with the cover and binding perfectly intact, and is clear evidence of Confederate remembrance immediately after the Civil War.

MARGARET THATCHER (1925-2013).  Thatcher was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990.

SB. 914pg. No date. No place.  An autobiography The Downing Street Years signed “Margaret Thatcher” on a bookplate attached to the inside front cover.  This first edition is in very fine condition.

A POETRY ANTHOLOGY SIGNED BY DYLAN THOMAS

DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953). Thomas was a Welsh poet and author best known for his poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” and his story A Child’s Christmas in Wales.

OSCAR WILLIAMS (1900-1964). The pen name of American poet Oscar Kaplan.

SB. 1946 & 1950. N.p. A book of poetry signed “Dylan Thomas” and “Oscar Williams”. It is A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry, edited and with an introduction by Oscar Williams. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1946. Both Thomas and Williams inscribed and signed the first free front end page to Melanie Williams. Thomas also wrote out his home address for some reason. “For Melanie Barber with love from Oscar Williams…also for Melanie Barber from Dylan Thomas…Home address: Boat House, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales ”. Williams’s inscription is dated 1946 and Thomas’s 1950. The jacket has minor chips and tears, and a red stain to the bottom; the overall interior condition is fine.