Amy Tan Typed Note Signed, dated 7/30/1990 Tan responds cordially to a book signing request for Joy Luck Club by famous 1st edition collector Rolland Comstock. 8.5" x 11", two holes punched at top edge, two horizontal folds, paper bright and clean. Condition: Fine. More

Budd Schulberg Typed Note Signed 1991 Schulberg responds cordially to a 11/27/91 book signing request by famous 1st edition collector Rolland Comstock. On 8.5" x 11" Schulberg letterhead, two horizontal folds, paper bright and clean. Condition: Fine. More

Poet Craig Raine handwritten Note Signed, Jan 12, 1995 Raine responds cordially to a book signing request by renowned 1st edition collector Rolland Comstock. Written on a British postage-paid self-mailer letter, two horizontal folds, paper bright and clean, torn as neatly as possible along edges when opened, lightly wrinkled. Please see photos for details. Condition: Very Good Kept in binder on bookshelf in Netdesk office. More

Isabel Allende Handwritten Letter Signed with drawing of flower on a handmade blue card with stitched scene of a butterfly and a bush on front, with envelope. A very cordial thank you note to renowned 1st edition collector Rolland Comstock. Four small pieces of tape attach the card to a sheet of paper. Envelope is attached with two pieces of tape to same paper. More

John Hersey Typed Note Signed on 3.5" x 5.5" note paper w/Letterhead, dated 6/15/88, in response to a book signed request by renowned 1st edition collector Roland Comstock. Condition: two pin holes from staple in upper left corner, two small pieces of tape at top corners attaching it to sheet of paper, otherwise Very Good. More

Washington DC: US Congress, 1842. 1st. 69pp, 6 x 9" Light foxing typical for a document of this age. Stain on bottom right corner going through book, does not affect text. Report of the Select Committee on the "amount and character of the expenditures which have been made by the Government in satisfaction of bounty land claims allowed by the state of Virginia." The claims were for land grants made by Virginia to members of the militia who had served in the revolutionary war. These lands were located in what is now the states of Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. When Virginia ceded these lands, as the Northwest Territory, to the United States, they wanted these claims to be honored. More

Bookplate with the Comstock name and family crest, self-adhesive, 3-1/4x4-3/4", signed by author Louis Auchincloss. Louis Stanton Auchincloss (September 27, 1917 – January 26, 2010) was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. Rolland Comstock was the famous book collector and lawyer, from Springfield MO, whose collection was known world-wide to authors and bibliophiles. (This item is kept in the eBay room). More

Actor, Writer, Theatre director and Painter Sir Antony Sher, Handwritten Note Signed, Jan 12, 1995 Sher responds cordially to a book signing request by renowned 1st edition collector Rolland Comstock. Written on a British postage-paid self-mailer letter, two horizontal folds, paper bright and clean, two small pieces of tape at top edge attaching letter to a piece of paper, lightly wrinkled. Condition: Very Good. More

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1936. 1st. 5x9" pamphlet in brown wraps, 6pp, in Very Good condition. More

Washington DC: Gales and Seaton, 1834. 1st. 8vo, 43pp, heavily foxed, some age-darkening, otherwise in Good condition for a document of this age. Speech by former President, now Representative, Adams on the withdrawal of public money from the Second Bank of the United States, a precursor to the Panic of 1837. More

Washington DC: USERDA, 1972. 1st. two pamphlets, 5x9" total 112 pp in slightly soiled wraps, o/w in Very Good condition. More

Harper Woods MI: A, 1976. 1st. 6x9" pamphlet. 28pp on laid paper, hand-bound with silk thread, in Extremely Fine condition. More

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1936. 1st. 5x9" pamphlet in brown wraps, 8pp, in Very Good condition. More

Washington DC: US Congress, 1859. 1st. 12mo, 32pp, ery Good condition with light foxing typical for a document of this age. More

Philadelphia PA: William Cobbett, 1796. 2nd. Stated Second Edition. This issue contains 64 pages, numbered 1-64. Included among the articles are: Remarks on the debates in Congresss, particularly on the timidity of the language held towards France, A letter to the infamous Tom Paine, in answer to his crutal attack on the Federal Constitution, and on the conduct and character of General Washington. 8" x 5". Heavy foxing on front page, else pretty clean, this is an original issue that was bound up about 200 years ago and subsequently disbound back to it's original form. William Cobbett (9 March 1763 - 18 June 1835) English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist, born in Farnham, Surrey. Best known for Rural Rides(1830). Cobbett published controversial pamphlets, and generally tweaked the Establishment, in England and in America. His only consistency appears to have been a disdain towards the French. In 1807, in a story, Cobbett coined the term 'red herring' to mean a distraction from the important issue. More

Washington DC: Smithsonian, 1896. 1st. 8vo, 70pp in brown wraps. Cover chipped and brittle, o/w in Good condition. More

Lincoln, NE: Nebraska, 1927. 1st. 8vo, 135pp, in gray wraps, ownership stamp on front, o/w clean and supple, condition is Very Good. More

New York: New York Public Library, 1954. 1st. 45pp, 8vo in gray wraps. An exhibition catalog of a collection of manuscripts, letters &c. Very Good condition. More

London: Curtain Press, 1948. 1st. 5x7" 40pp in stiff wraps. Very Good condition. The Masque was a series of monographs on the "Art of the Theatre" edited by Lionel Carter. Issue contains a subscription card. More

Salem, MA: Salem Press, 1889. 11th. 12mo in green wraps, 94pp plus advertisements, tipped in folded map of Cape Ann. Very brittle covers, fold separation in map, o/w in Good condition; shelved in Room 13. More

Washington DC: US Congress, 1853. 1st. 12m0, 3pp, Very Good condition, light foxing typical for a document of this age. More

Boston MA: Thomas B Mosher, 1909. 1st. 22pp, 16mo in wraps, limted ed of 900 on hand-made paper, Very Good condition. More

Washington DC: US Congress, 1849. 1st. 12m0, 88pp plus big map of River Jordan and Dead Sea showing the route of the expedition. and a chart showing sectional view of Dead Sea. Good condition with light foxing typical for a document of this age, plus some bug stains on the last page and the edge. More

Washington DC: US Congress, 1853. 1st. 12mo, 55pp, Very Good condition with light foxing typical for a document of this age. More

Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1917. 16mo, 32pp in stiff gray wraps, condition is Very Good. More