[Sale Number 63.] Great Events in American History Described by Participants [...] Manuscripts by Famous American Authors [...] The William Randolph Hearst Collection, Part I.

Quarto: xii + 168 pp. In original grey printed wraps. Numerous facsimiles. Printed order slip loosely inserted. Good, with grubby prelims and creasing to last few leaves at rear. Including a twenty-four page description of an 'extensive collection of Washington letters and documents [covering] every phase of his eventful life'. Participants named in the title: 'Cotton Mather, George Washington, William Penn, Benjamin Franklin, Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Generals of the American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Robert Fulton'. Manuscripts in title: ' "Eulalie" by Poe, "The Skeleton in Armor" by Longfellow; Monograph on George Washington by Bryant, Cooper, Clemens, Hawthorne, Harte'.