JUMBO'S HIDE, ELVIS'S RIDE, AND THE TOOTH OF BUDDHA

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2000. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xi) 372 pp. Quarter-bound in blue on pale green boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband; illustrated with black and white photographs and facsimle documents. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Contents are: Introduction; The Tooth of the Buddha; The Gold Larnax of King Philip II; The Magna Carta; The Stone of Scone; The Essex Ring; Galileo's Middle Finger; George Washington's Schoolboy Copybooks; John Harrison's Fourth Marine Timekeeper; The Virginia Declaration of Rights; The Rising Sun Chair; The Louisiana Purchase Treaty; The Lewis and Clark Journals; Beethoven's Ear Trumpets; Harrison's Peace Pipes; John Adams's Pigtail; The Doubleday Ball; Vendovi's Head; The Battle Sword of Colonel Najera; Charles Dicken's Prompt-copy of A Christmas Carol; The First American Flag Raised in Japan; The Emancipation Proclamation; Slices of Tom Thumb's Wedding Cake; Thomas Edison's Original Tinfoil Phonograph; Jesse James's Stickpin; Ulysses S. Grant's Smoking Stand; Jumbo the Elephant; Freud's Couch; The Hoof of Fire Horse Number Twelve; Take Me Out to the Ball Game; Mark Twain's Orchestrelle; The Zimmermann Telegram; The Fourteen Points; The Truce Flag that Ended World War One; Wyatt Earp's Drawing of the O.K. Corral Gunfight; The Maltese Falcon; Monty's Battle Caravans; The World War Two Japanese Surrender Table; ENIAC; Marilyn Monroe's Billowing Dress from The Seven Year Itch; Elvis Presley's Purple Cadillac; Able the Space Monkey; Odyssey; and The Gun That Killed John Lennon; followed by an index..