Thomas john warren (29 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Reissue Edition; First Printing. 6 X 1.2 X 9 inches; 339 pages; dog-earing on the top corner of some pages. Rubbing and light creasing on the covers. Light curl on book's body. Light wear on the head of the spine. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

paperback. Zustand: Good. Moderate wear, rear cover has a large sticker, cover is creased, binding sound, pages have highlighting, underlining Internal Reasons: Contemporary Readings, edited by philosophers Kieran Setiya and Hille Paakkunainen, in the MIT Readers in Contemporary Philosophy series.A substantial collection examining one of the central debates in contemporary moral philosophy: whether a person can have reasons for action independent of their existing motivations or desires. The volume takes as its starting point Bernard Williams's influential essay ?Internal and External Reasons? and brings together important contributions by Williams, Christine Korsgaard, John McDowell, Michael Smith and other major philosophers.Includes Setiya's substantive introductory essay, bibliography and index. An important academic collection covering ethics, practical reason, moral motivation, rationality and metaethics.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good - Cash. No Jacket. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. Secure pages, solid binding. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good - Cash. No Jacket. First Edition. Unmarked text and secure binding. Minor wear to corners, end, and edges. One minor scratch on the back cover. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. xv, 446 p. (some folded) : ill. ; 28 cm. ; LCCN 83026174 ; LC T379 .O44 1985 ; Dewey 604.2 ; ISBN 9780827322059, 0827322054 ; OCLC 10277455 ; yellow and blue stiff paper wrappers ; with contributions from C. Thomas Olivo.; Contents: Industrial Blueprint Reading -- Foundations for Interpreting and Technical Sketching Lines -- Basic Principles of Projection -- SI Metric System -- Machine Elements and Processes -- Sectional Views -- Tolerancing -- Machine Elements (Aactuators -- )Pictorial Drawings -- Industrial Production -- Working Drawings -- Machine and Tool Drawings -- Computerized Systems: NC, CNC, CAD, and CAM -- Manufacturing and Occupational Drafting Systems -- Technical Illustration -- Fundamentals of Industrial Sketching ; numerous fold-out examples of blueprints ; ex-library, stamps, labels ; Deals with principles, background drafting room technology of representation, related technical information about basic processes and products, and standards. Based on occupational analyses, all of these items are applied through a series of industrial blueprints. The overall objective is to develop the ability to read and to translate information normally found on blueprints and to make sketches with skill, speed, and accuracy. The unit objectives are readily identified from the descriptive title of each unit. ; VG. Book. …

Zustand: New.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. [2nd ed.], rev. and updated ; xiv, 426 pp. ; 23 cm. ; ISBN: 0842026118 ; LCCN: 96-9466 ; similar to OCLC: 17872027 ; LC: JL956.C58; Dewey: 322/.5/098 ; Argues that with or without direct military rule, antipolitics persists as a foundation of Latin American politics. This study examines the origins of antipolitics, traces its nineteenth- and twentieth-century history, and focuses on the years from 1965 to 1995 to emphasize the somewhat illusory transitions to democracy. ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; nick at top of spine ; VG. Book.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 5th printing ; 26 cm. ; photographic stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: Avon bottles -- Badges -- Banks, still -- Beer trays -- Buck Rogers -- Buttons -- Cast metal & steel toys -- Character watches -- Cild size toys -- Cigarette trade cards -- Coca-Cola -- Comic Books -- Enamelware -- Fruit jars -- Heisley Glass -- High Chairs -- INsulators -- Kewpie Dolls -- Lighter than air -- Litho or painted tins -- Matchbook covers --- Matchbook cars -- Medals, US & British -- Mickey Mouse merchandise -- Magazines, Monster & Others -- Monsters of Filmland -- Monster Cards -- Monster Cards -- Monster Magazines -- Paper Dolls -- Playboy Magazine -- Pocket knives -- pottery -- Radios -- Radio, TV, Character items -- Shirley Temple -- Tables -- World's Fair ; "At the center of this book you will find 16 pages of full-color reproductions of some of the most fabulous. Book.…

Paperback. Zustand: Collectible-Like New.

Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the origina.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. [1st edition], 3rd printing ; 896 pp. ; illustrated (partly in color) ; color maps. 21 cm. ; LCCN: 66-15517 ; LC: SB453; Dewey: 635 ; OCLC: 1337884 ; green cloth with gold lettering, in color pictorial dustjacket ; "Prepared by the editors of the Reader's digest. General editor and technical advisor, Thomas H. Everett" ; previous owner marks on front ep ; nicks and edge tears to dustjacket ; "Some 800 kinds and countless varieties of plants are described. More than 7000 items are listed in the index. This single volume of almost 900 pages contains everything a gardener needs to know. Flowers, indoors and out, lawns and trees, plant identification, alpines and bonsai, specialty gardens, structure of soil, calendars of garden work--these are a few subjects covered. 715 illustrations, over half of them in six colors, drawn by 24 outstanding artists. Maps and charts show the origins of plants, five special climatic areas, identification and chemical control of pests, plant diseases and weeds." -- dustjacket ; page 321/322 repaired ; G/FAIR. Book.…

Soft cover. 8vo. pp 255. Original publisher's green and white card covers, lettered black and green. Contains and early version of 'Under the Rose' by Thomas Pynchon. Covers a little marked, shelf marks at lower edge of text block, minor creasing at corners, top of spine bumped, else content clean. good plus. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 225 p. Contents: A memento mori motif in Nicola Pisano's Pulpit in the Baptistery at Pisa -- Sacred poem and Beatus Vir -- Stranger in a strange land: getting to know Henricus de Darbato -- Submitted in triplicate: Gawain's three confessions -- Moral education in L'Esquiiriel, Manuscrip A (PAris, B.N. fr. 837), or What's a mother to say? -- An affective romance? Genre blending in The SIege of Jerusalem -- Complaint literature: The voice of the people, or literary formulae? -- Sir Dinadin's knightly language -- An here on the othir syde: Thomas Malory's Amens as a textual marker -- Couples counseling: Christine de Pizan's Advice to young royal spouses -- Do you inquire about these things? : Texxt, relic and t he power of St. Marina -- The Menagier's odd shopping list -- Islamic and Syraic apocalypses of the seventh and eight centuries -- A treatise on detectives playing: The medieval player as sleuth in the novels of Margaret Frazer ; FINE. Book.…

CD. Zustand: D'occasion - Comme neuf.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing ; xi, 612 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.; ISBN: 061815907X; 9780618159079 ; Dewey: 635.9 ; OCLC: 61225501 ; green cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; "Provides information on growing trees, perennials, annuals, grasses, herbs, and bulbs, features the basics of garden design, and talks about environmentally sound controls of pests and diseases" ; Contents: Creating a garden -- Thinking about your garden -- A gardener's look at plants -- Thinking about design -- Elements in the landscape -- Special gardens -- Gallery of plants -- Encyclopedia of plants -- Growing healthy plants -- Soil -- Planting -- Increasing your own plants -- Ongoing care -- Lawns.; more than 3,000 species detailed, photo gallery of 1,000 of the best trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, bulbs, herbs, succulents, and ferns best suited to the American garden, cross-referenced ; major section on creating a garden, illustrated with 200 photographs of garden scenes; complete guide to making and maintaining a garden, with analyzing soils, somposting, buying plans, propagating, pruning, watering, fertilizing ; a chapter on pests and diseases recommends only safe, organic controls ; heavy, thick volume ; slight wear to top of dustjacket ; else FINE/FINE. Book. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Black cloth ; badly shaken ; 820 pp. ; several color (chromolithograph?) illustrated plates featuring wildlife, including the kingfisher, bag worms, the sunfish, the banded pickerel, and diseases of plants: San Jose scale on Bartlett pear, etc ; also included are reproduced photographic plates showing various landscape and plant anomalies ; several unusual articles on tuberculosis, wolves, the war against oleomargerine (!), etc ; also several graphs in red and black, and two or three charming plates showing farm implements ; interest in primarily in the color plates, although there is useful and important information on weather, farming, and agricultural life in general ; FAIR. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition Thus. Three volumes. 12mo (approx. 16cm x 10cm). A fascinating, custom-bound composite library set containing 14 individual single-play printings from the celebrated "The British Theatre" and companion series compiled with critical prefaces by the pioneering female dramatist Mrs. Elizabeth Inchbald. The original theatrical scene plates accompanying these printings were designed by noted British painters Henry Singleton, George Romney, Thomas Stothard, and Howard, and brought to life by master engravers James Heath, James Fittler, Charles Warren, and Evans. These editions include "Remarks" by Mrs. Elizabeth Inchbald, a prominent 18th-century actress, playwright, and novelist who edited many theatrical works. Theatrical Connection: It was printed "from the prompt book" of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, indicating it reflects the version of the play as it was actually performed on stage during that period. Tightly bound, strong clear pages, the title pages about very good, other page very fine. Any damage or loss seen by me will be in the images. Please view the photographs for more information. Items are guaranteed to be very well packaged prior to postage. Tracking details will be forwarded to the purchaser. James Heath, James Fittler, Charles Warren, and Evans. (illustrator).…

Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Signed first edition of this lavish two-volume set tracing the work of the influential Beaux-Arts architectural firm responsible for such landmarks as the New York Public Library and the Manhattan Bridge. From their first commission of the Ponce de León Hotel to their late 1920s New York skyscrapers, Carrère & Hastings perfectly married classical inspirations with modern elegance. They were "at the nexus of a generation of architects who solidified the ideals of the American Renaissance" (introduction), and helped establish the refined vernacular of monumental buildings in this country. This copy of the comprehensive and attractive two-volume work is signed by all four contributing authors. 12'' x 9''. Original navy blue cloth boards. Original unclipped (no prices) color pictorial dust jackets. Illustrated in black and white with four fold-outs to vol. 1 and three fold-outs to vol. 2. 420; 336 pages, including indexes. Signed by Hewitt, Lemos, Morrison, and Warren to half-title pages of both volumes. In original navy blue cloth slipcase with black-and-white pictorial paste-ons and ribbon pull. Slipcase with a touch of sunning to spine. Tiny bump to rear of vol. 1 jacket. Else clean and tight. Near in near fine dust jackets. Signed.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2nd printing ; xv, 352 pp. ; illustrated ; (portraits) ; 22 cm. ; LCCN: 37-20307 ; LC: PS558.G4; Dewey: 810.822 ; OCLC: 2553812 ; "Biographical sketches and notes": p. 321-348. ; pictorial green cloth ; authors featured are Conrad Potter Aiken, Clara Lundie Askew, Bill Arp, Myrta Lockett Avary, Maude Barragan, J M Barron, Charles J Bayne, Daniel Garnett Bickers, Logan Edwin Bleckley, John T Boifeuillet, Agnes Cochran Branblett, Hennie I. Burke, Warren A Candler, Margaret Davis Cate, Joseph Ha rris Chappell, Thomas Holley Chivers, Betty Reynolds Cobb, Ellis Merton Coulter, Francis Potter Daniels, Will Allen Dromgoole, William T Dumas, Harry Stillwell Edwads, Lawton B Evans, Herbert M Franklin, John B Gordon, Francis Robert Goulding, Henry Woodfin Grady, John Temple Graves, Agnes Kendrick Gray, James A hall, Betsy Hamilton, Christine Park Hankinson, Will N Harben, Corra Harris, Joel Chandler Harris, Paul Hamilton Hayne, William Hamilton Hayne, Clarence L Haynie, Daniel Whitehead Hicky, Benjamin H Hhill, Nelle Womack Hines, Clark Howell, Charles W Huner, Louise Prudden Hunt, Henry Rootes Jackson, Thornwell Jacobs, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Charles Colcock Jones, Sara Singleton King, Lucian Lamar Knight, Marie de La Coste, John Basil Lamar, Sidney Lanier, Octavia Walton Le Vert, Constance Deming Lewis, Robert Loveman, Margaret McGarvey, Carlyle McKinley, Wightman Fletcher Melton, Olin Miller, Abby Crawford Milton, Margaret Mitchell, Roselle Mercier Montgomery, Minnie Hite Moody, Will D. Muse, Ernest Neal, Louie D Newton, Marie Conway Oemler, Thaddeus Oliver, George F Pierce, James Henry Reddick, Thomas W Reed, Loula Kendall Rogers, Mildred Lewis Rutherford, Abram Joseph Ryan, Anderson M Scruggs, Nelson M Shipp, Carrie Bell Sinclair, Johnny Spencer, Frank Lebby Stanton, Alexander H Stephens, Margaret Price Stillman, Jessie Gertrude Thomas, Ralph Methven Thomson, Ella May Thornton, William Tappan Thompson, Francis Orray Ticknor, Lida Wilson Turner, Thomas E Watson, Ouida C Wells, Charles Wesley, Gertrude Capen Whitney, Francis P Wightman, Richard Henry Wilde, and Augusta Evans Wilson ; portraits of Frank Stanton, General James Oglethorpe, Margaret Mitchell, Corra Harris, Henry W Grady, and Harry Stillwell Edwards ; intended for use by female college students in Georgia, this literary collection contains a large number of contributions from women authors in Georgia, making it a rather desirable book for women's studies collections ; "Free School Book Record" for Hart County, Georgia's Goldmine School, shows race of student required to be filled in; included on front endpaper ; VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. A trifle bumped at the crown else fine in very good dustwrapper with chip at the bottomof the front panel. A small poetry anthology that is particularly noteworthy as Sylvia Plath's first book appearance, preceding the rare offprint *Sculptor* by two years. After contributions from a host of already-established poets there is a small "Undergraduate" section which contains two Plath entries: "Aubade" and "Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea." Also includes an entry from James Wright, his first book was published this year was well. Other contributors include Robert Frost, W.H. Auden, John Ciardi, Donald Hall, Richmond Lattimore, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Louis Macneice, W.S. Merwin, Howard Moss, Louise Townsend Nicholl, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke, May Sarton, Louis Simpson, Robert Penn Warren, John Hall Wheelock, Richard Wilbur, James Wright, Dannie Abse, Eric Barker (First Prize), Thomas Blackburn, J.R. Brownfield, Jean Burden, Kenneth M. Cameron, Grace Carnot, Charles Causley, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Barbara D. Cooper, Allan Donaldson, Leah Bodein Drake, Carleton Drewry, Evelyn Eaton, Thomas Hornsby Ferril, David Ferry, Robert Francis, Frances Frost, Jed Garrick, Kenneth O. Hanson, John Heath-Stubbs, Elizabeth Henley, Robert Horan, Elizabeth Jennings, Dilys Laing, Joseph Langland, Fred Lape, Norman MacCraig, Harold Grier McCurdy, Jackson Morris, David Morton, Thomas Moult, Hubert Nicholson, Gloria Rawlinson, Alastair Reid, Dorothy Roberts, James L. Rosenbert, Arthur M. Sampley, Ernest Sandeen, Marcia Masters Schmid, Burns Singer, Radclive Squires, Jean Sewell Standish, Margaret Stanley-Wrench, A.M. Sullivan, Robert A. Wallace, Peter B. Walsh, Lynne Lawner, Donald Lehmkuhl, Henry D.M. Sherrerd, Jr., Richard Roe, and Barbara Stewart. A nicer than usual copy - the thin paper jacket is very prone to tearing.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 323-388 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Nice reproductions of black and white photos. Features: Treasury Administration; June, The Battle Month; For Her Sake; A Thief of the Roofs - a dramatic sketch; New Hampshire in the War of 1812; The Burdon Robbery; Concord Oratorio Society - First Annual Festival; Poems; Nice illustrated ad for Prescott pianos inside front cover; Index for Volume XXX. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy.…

Zustand: Good. 4to Spiral bound. 40pp. + inserts. Silkscreen cover by Charles T. Coiner (1898-1989). In 1933 Coiner was asked to design a symbol for the National Recovery Administration, the federal agency created to encourage industrial recovery and combat unemployment. His Blue Eagle design, that he sketched on a flight to Washington, DC, was displayed by businesses all across the United States and as its much publicized creator, Coiner became something of a household name.Photograph by Ruth Bernhard.When Advertising Arts made its debut during the Great Depression, the economy was at its nadir and desperation was at its zenith. Unless advertising and public relations men like Calkins could help resuscitate the economy, the nation would plummet further into the abyss ? and with it the advertising industry. Advertising Arts, edited by Frederick C. Kendall and Ruth Fleischer, was developed as a vehicle to encourage innovative work and celebrate the determination of advertising designers to manipulate popular perception using pseudoscience. It was indeed a magazine with a mission. So rather than publish the usual diet of gossip, trade talk, and technical notices, Kendall and Fleischer tapped the movers and shakers of what was then called "art for industry" to flag the new progressivism. Touting their own achievements as "artists" and imbuing art with commercial value was a massive public relations effort that required the most articulate practitioners. Granted, the readers of Advertising Arts were primarily other advertising artists and designers, but nonetheless the magazine gained authority within the offices and boardrooms of industry. The articles validated contemporary design in ways that business men could understand it.Provenance : Estate of CCAC/CCA professor Steve Reoutt, who passed away May 14, 2008. He was born in 1938 in Shanghai to Russian parents. He came to the United States when he was just 12 years old. He went on to co-found the San Francisco chapter of the AIGA, including serving a nine-year board position as design historian. In 2001 Reoutt received the AIGA Fellowship award for "personal and professional contributions to raising the standards of excellence within our design community.".…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 74 pages. Articles: Troubles of College Deans; The Germans Wait Only For a Leader - argues we must make a fresh start toward stopping the rise of old-line Nazis - with color photo of John J. McCloy, High Commissioner for U.S. Occupied Germany; Lover with a Ball Bat - actor Paul (Dreamboat) Douglas - article with colour photos of Douglas and Linda Darnell; Saturday Afternoon Meat Grinders; The Christian Science Monitor - Gentleman of the Press (part 2 of 3); Always Heading for Salt Water - Bob Lane has been making boats since he was five; Fabulous Jacques Fath - article and color photo of fashion's most talked about designer; Fiction: Any Friend of Sam's; Man in the House; Where Else in the World?; The Case of the Negligent Nymph (part 3 of 6); The Black Pearl; Cat's Cradle. Nice vintage ads include: Springmaid Fabrics; Ipana toothpaste; Botany Sportswear (very attractive ad); Chevrolet trucks; Span (color photos); Borden mild products - featuring Elsie the Cow; Nunn-Bush shoes; Willys "Jeep" Station Wagon; Lucky Strike cigarettes (featuring LG. Griffin); Ford cars; General Motors - nice centerfold color ad featuring the GM proving ground near Milford, Michigan; Fisher Body; 2-page Dodge car ad; Great Northern Railway; Winthrop shoes; Schlitz beer; Awesome back cover colour ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features Glenn Ford, with inset illustration of tobacco farmer Herbert L. Lupo of Tabor City, N.C. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's, The National Weekly Magazine, October 1, 1949 Denazification Ivy League Troubles of College Deans; The Germans Wait Only For a Leader - argues we must make a fresh start toward stopping the rise of old-line Nazis - with color photo of John J. Illustrated by Kaufman, Joe; Fransioli, Thomas; Gilbert, Lionel; Mullin,Willard; Baumgartner, Warren; Morris, Nelson; Valentine, S.B.; Royle,Ralph; Brackett, Ward; Reusswig, William; Coster, Roger; Grohe, Glen; (illustrator). …

[1] pp.; 55.1 x 75.6 cm.; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Single sided folded exhibition announcement poster published in conjunction with show held June 5 - 26, 1971. Artists include Curt Barnes, Benedetto Bianchi, Thomas Blackwell, Jack Bosson, Marvin P. Brown, Steve Conley, Warren Davis, Jackie Ferrara, G.C. Griffin, Ernest Grusella, Audrey Heminway, Comer Jennings, Ronn Johnson, Vivian Kline, Harry Kramer, Walter Kravitz, Gerhard Liebmann, John Manno, Paul Narkiewicz, James Norman, James Peterson, Joanna Pousette-Dart, Vernon Pratt, James Richmond, David Roth, Alex Sibirney, Thomas Steigerwald, Wayne Stephens, Robert Thiele, Richard Trickey, Guy Williams, Athos Zacharias, and others. Fair / Good. Folded in 8 as issued. Mailed copy with mailing marks and mailing wear. Yellowing of fragile newsprint. Multiple small tears to poster along folds and at left side edge with an additional 1.5 cm. tear to center and a 1 cm. tear to bottom edge of edge. Clean and unmarked.…

Elaborately bound collection of Presidential autographs, containing the autograph of each of the first 34 Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Dwight D. Eisenhower. Quarto, bound in full red morocco by Riviere & Son with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt presidential seal to the front panel with white and blue morocco onlays, gilt arms and motto of George Washington to the rear panel with white and blue morocco onlays and his gilt signature in facsimile, centerpieces within quintuple gilt ruling with star emblems at each corner, blue morocco doublures with multiple gilt presidential signatures, blue silk endpapers. This complete series of autographs of the first 34 Presidents of the United States contains the signature of each mounted on an album leaf opposite a loosely tissue-guarded engraved portrait of each. The collection includes: the signature of George Washington on an envelope addressed to Major General Knox as Secretary ofÂtheÂSocietyÂofÂthe Cincinnati, November 3, 1783; a clipped signature of John Adams; clipped signature of Thomas Jefferson; the signature of James Madison on an envelope addressed to Reverend Frederick Freeman of Manayunk, Pennsylvania; and inscription signed by James Monroe; the signature of John Quincy Adams on an envelope addressed to William Plumer jun. Esq. in Epping, New Hampshire; a partially printed land grant signed by Andrew Jackson dated 1831 registeringÂtheÂpurchaseÂof 20 acres in Detroit by Peter Aldrich; clipped signature of Martin Van Buren; clipped signature of William Henry Harrison; signed inscription from John Tyler; signed inscription from James Polk; clipped signature of Zachary Taylor dated Baton Rouge, March 5, 1841; clipped signature of Millard Fillmore; clipped signature of Franklin Pierce; clipped signature of James Buchanan on a document dated July 18, 1858; clipped signature of Abraham Lincoln; endorsement signed by Andrew Johnson as President; clipped signature of Ulysses S. Grant; card signed by Rutherford B. Hayes; inscription signed by James Garfield; large card signed by Chester A. Arthur and dated May 22, 1884; autograph noted signed by Grover Cleveland declining an invitation, dated November 16, 1890; an Executive Mansion card signed by William McKinely; clipped signature of Theodore Roosevelt; clipped signature of William Howard Taft; clipped signature of Woodrow Wilson; typed letter signed by Warren G. Harding as President, dated June 4, 1923 on White House letterhead; card signed by Calvin Coolidge; White House card signed by Herbert Hoover; typed letter signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt as Assistant SecretaryÂofÂthe Navy, February 15, 1917. Laid in is a typed letter signed by Harry S. Truman as President, June 30, 1950, on White House stationery and a typed letter signed by Dwight Eisenhower. TLS as President, November 13, 1956, on White House stationery. In fine condition.ÂHoused in a custom folding chemise and half morocco slipcase. An exceptional collection and presentation. The first thirty-four Presidents, from George Washington to Dwight D. Eisenhower, presided over the transformation of the United States from a fragile agrarian republic into a continental power and then a global superpower. Washington established the precedents of the office, including the cabinet system and the voluntary surrender of power after two terms. The early presidents from Adams through John Quincy Adams, most of them Virginians or Adamses, defined the limits of federal authority, doubled the nationâs territory through the Louisiana Purchase, and confronted the strains of the War of 1812. Andrew Jacksonâs election ushered in mass democracy and a more assertive executive, while the antebellum presidents struggled, and largely failed, to contain the sectional conflict over slavery. Abraham Lincoln preserved the Union through civil war and ended slavery, and the Reconstruction and Gilded Age presidents who followed wrestled with the unfinished work of emancipation and the rise of industrial capitalism. Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson expanded the powers of the presidency in the Progressive Era and drew the nation into world affairs. Franklin D. Roosevelt then led the country through the Great Depression and the Second World War, serving an unprecedented four terms before the Twenty-second Amendment limited the office to two. Harry S. Truman and Eisenhower, in turn, shaped the postwar order, committing the United States to containment of the Soviet Union and to a standing role in international affairs.…