Frederick Grant, Signed (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. No DJ. INSCRIBED TO PREVIOUS OWNER AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Ex-College Library with usual library stamping/filing sticker on spine and card folder on inside cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelving wear with glue-like protective covering backstrip and joints. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! Signed by Author.

Laminated Pictorial Boards. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket Issued. First Edition. Biography of a succesful English Businessman who suffered a harsh and sometimes cruel childhood. Signed by Grant on the half-title page. As new copy. NB - Postal Rates shown by ABE are frequently incorrect and are vague estimates NOT guaranteed rates. WE use Canada Post, the United States Postal Service and Asendia and try to offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Images are available. Shipped well packed. USA postage is usually $6.50. Canadian postage varies considerably depending on weight and destination. Postage to anywhere within Canada, can now be approx US$15.00 for weights up to 5kg total - boxed, insured, trackable and faster than regular parcels. Less will be charged if rates indicate. NOW available - new, considerably lower Trans-Canada rates for many markets, and, new, considerably lower rates for Overseas destinations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. hardback, 8vo, laminated boards, a very good copy, signed by one of the authors, not issued with a dust wrapper, b&w images, 196pp. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 196 pages, illustrated, signed by Wendy Grant on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 8vo. 196 pages. Well illustrated throughout with very good black and white photographic plates. it is described as "The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary Man". He was, in fact, born in Ripon workhouse and ended up living a very interesting and prosperous life. A very readable account. Signed by authors on title page. In original most attractive pictorial yellow glossy paper covered boards. Near Fine. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Original dark green cloth with gilt title. 226 pp. indexed. Inscribed by author to Rev. Patrick Henry and dated July 1, 1938. Stamp of Rev. Henry on front pastedown. Tight binding, clean book that shows only slightest wear. A beautiful copy of this scarce book. Ships within 24 hours. Inscribed by Author(s).

Second paperback edition in publisher's original illustrated stiff card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 336 printed pages of text with monochrome archive photographs to the central pages. In Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper as issued. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'To Bill Brown - Enjoy! Michael Bliss - Toronto January 8th 1995'. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0802073875 BIO (Résumé, Memoir).

DOUGLASS, Frederick; GRANT, Ulysses S. (illustrator). First Edition. contributor]. GRANT, Ulysses S., [contributor]. Dominican Republic. Report of the Commission of Inquiry to Santo Domingo. with the Introductory Message of the President; Special Reports made to the Commission, State Papers furnished by the Dominican Government, and the Statements of over seventy witnesses. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1871. Full Description: DOUGLASS, Frederick, [contributor]. GRANT, Ulysses S., [contributor]. Dominican Republic. Report of the Commission of Inquiry to Santo Domingo, with the Introductory Message of the President; Special Reports made to the Commission, State Papers furnished by the Dominican Government, and the Statements of over seventy witnesses. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1871. First edition. Octavo (8 7/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 225 x 145 mm). v, [1, blank], 297, [1, blank] pp. With folding map entitled "Map of the Island of Santo Domingo." Publisher's full red cloth. Boards double-ruled in blind. Spine lettered in gilt. Cloth with some rubbing and soiling. Head and tail of spine with some chipping. Larger stain at the bottom of the front board. Inner hinge cracked. Previous owner's old ink inscription on front free endpaper. Internally very clean. Overall a very good copy. "In 1869, President Grant put forth an annexation scheme. He proposed paying the Dominican Republic $1.5 million (about $25 million today) for the territory. Many in Congress opposed the idea, citing racist fears Dominicans would emigrate to the United States, plus political upheaval in neighboring Haiti. Grant asked Douglass to travel as an emissary to the Dominican Republic to determine if the population was amenable to becoming part of the United States. Feeling optimistic that the United States's values of democracy and equality were advancing and believing those ideals would benefit the Dominican people, Douglass agreed. Despite Douglass's efforts, the annexation treaty failed to pass in Congress. Further, in 1874 in response to a growing wariness of U.S. imperial ambitions, Haiti and the Dominican Republic signed a pact that neither nation would annex itself to a foreign power. The United States had to switch diplomatic tactics from annexation to alliance." (The Diplomatic Career of Frederick Douglass, The National Museum of American Diplomacy). Sabin 75191. HBS 68901. $500. Signed.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. ("Frederick D. Grant") in black fountain pen ink on stiff card, Washington, D.C. 4 5/8" x 3 1/2"; very good (mounting traces on back); 1904. Signed and inscribed: "Washington D.C. Sept. 12th 1904 Frederick D. Grant Brig. Genl. U.S.A." Grant (1850-1912), born May 30, 1850, St. Louis, Missouri; died April 12, 1912, New York City; son of Ulysses S. Grant; graduated from West Point (1871); U.S. minister to Austria-Hungary (1889-1893); New York City police commissioner (1895-1897); distinguished in Philippine insurrection (1899-1902) and thereafter held territorial commands as regular major-general. Signed by Author(s).

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Archive of material relating to diplomat Henry C. Hall (circa 1820-1901), the U.S. Consul at Matanzas (1864-73), U.S. Consul General at Havana (1873-77), and U.S. Minister at Costa Rica, Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua (1882-89). Highlights --------- 1). Document measuring 14 x 20 inches, with State Department raised seal, appointing Hall as the temporary U.S. Vice-Consul at Havana; dated March 1869; signed by Secretary of State William H. Seward. 2). Document measuring 15 x 20 inches, with Executive Department raised seal, appointing Hall as the U.S. Consul General at Havana; dated November 7, 1873; signed by President Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. 3). Document measuring 12 x 24 inches (both sides), with state Department raised seal, appointing Hall as U.S. Minister to the "Central American States"; dated May 9, 1882; signed by Secretary of State Frederick T. Frelinghuysen. 4). Document measuring 14 x 22 inches, testimonial acknowledging Hall's efforts at defusing the "recent political crisis" in Guatemala through his "wise and beneficent counsels," thereby sparing "us from anarchy and bloodshed, which the whole Republic so very narrowly escaped"; dated April 18, 1885; signed by 70 leading Guatemalans -------- President Grant conferred upon Hall the position of Consul General at Havana on November 7, 1873, the day that Spanish authorities in Cuba shocked Americans by executing 53 crew and passengers of the "Virginius," a vessel caught off the island trying to supply insurgents while falsely flying the U.S. flag. Grant, Secretary Fish, and Hall spent a difficult month balancing public demands for retribution with the knowledge that the "Virginius" had limited grounds for legal protection. Before passions cooled, most Washington lawmakers had shied away from action, causing Grant to quip "if Spain were to send a fleet into the harbor of New York, and bombard the city, the Senate might pass a resolution of regret that they had had cause for so doing, and offer to pay them for the expense of coming over and doing it." A remarkable archive with historical significance. Inscribed by Author(s).