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Symmes's Theory of Concentric Spheres; Demonstrating that the Earth is Hollow, Habitable Within, and Widely Open About the Poles
Cincinnati: Morgan, Lodge and Fisher, 1826. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [i-v], vi-vii, [viii-xiii], 14-163 pages. The first formal exposition of the Hollow Earth theory of John Cleves Symmes, Jr. by one of his acolytes. Supposes the Earth is composed of concentric habitable spheres which are open at the poles and..... More
The American Shooter's Manual, Comprising, Such Plain and Simple Rules. as are Necessary to Introduce the Inexperienced Into a Full Knowledge of all that Relates to the Dog, and the Correct Use of the Gun; Also a Description of the Game of this Country
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1827. First Edition, Second Issue. Illustrated with 3 engraved plates by Francis Kearney. Half calf and marbled boards. Duodecimo. xii, [13]-249, [1], [3] pages of ads. This is just the second shooting book published in America and the first comprehensive sporting manual. Published anonymously but..... More
Watership Down
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., (1972). First American Edition. Illustrated with a map. Hardcover. Octavo. ix, [3], [1]-429 pages. A cornerstone modern classic of mythic adventure as a band of anthromorphized rabbits flee destruction to found a new warren. This first American edition is in the first..... More
Go to the Polls! June 20th, 1933
New Haven: Connecticut Branch, W. O. N. P. R., 1933. Broadside. 7" x 10 1/4" This is an original handbill from a major women's group soliciting votes to repeal Prohibition in 1933. Women's organizations--particularly the Women's Christian Temperance Union--are strongly associated with passage of the 18th Amendment to the..... More
Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated: With Notes on the Translation, and on the Original; and Two Dissertations, on Poetical, and Musical, Imitation
London: Luke Hansard & Sons, 1812. Second edition. Original cloth over boards. Octavos. xxxii, 344 and [iv], 499 pages. Thomas Twining had produced the first useable English translation of Aristotle's Poetics in 1789. This is the second edition of 1812, edited by his nephew. This 2-volume set has..... More
The "Z" Formation: Its Theory and Application
(East Lansing): (S.l.), [1947]. Diagrams throughout. Spiral bound card covers. Octavo. [ii], 94 pages. Legendary college football coach lays out his system of offense perfected over 31 years of college and service team coaching. Coach Charlie Bachman was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1978. Scarce..... More
The Speeches of Mr. Bacon and Mr. Nicholson, in the National House of Representatives, in Defence of the Bill Received from the Senate, Entitled, "An Act to repeal certain Acts respecting the organization of the Courts of the United States." February, 1802
Boston: Munroe & Francis, 1802. First edition. Octavo. 44 pages. Loose signatures. Two Jeffersonians--Bacon of Massachusetts and Nicholson of Maryland--argue in favor of the repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801, which stacked the federal judiciary with Federalists appointed by the departing President John Adams. Joseph Hopper Nicholson..... More
Traffic in Souls: A Novel of Crime and Its Cure
New York: G.W. Dillingham Company, Publishers, (1914). First Edition. Black and white stills from the film. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 289 pages. Based on the successful 1913 full length film of the same name, this book published the following year is widely recognized as the first American novelization of a...... More
Curtis' Bay; Its Superior Advantages and Admirable Location as the Only Existing and Available Deep Water Harbor Contiguous to the City of Baltimore, in Connection with Its Rapidly Increasing Local Manufactures, the Development of Its Coal Traffic, and the Accommodation of Its Western and Souther Railroad Connections
Baltimore: The Patapsco Land Company, (1874). First edition. Large fold-out map. Hardcover. Octavo. 100 pages. This is a detailed prospectus seeking investment in the newly reorganized Patapsco Land Company, which intended to turn its holdings at Curtis Bay into a major seaport and railhead. The background information included therefore gives..... More
The Silver Bridge
Clarksburg, WV: Saucerian Books, (1970). First Edition. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. 151 pages. First book to deal with the mysterious "Mothman" sightings and their possible connection to the 1967 collapse of the Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. A cornerstone book of American UFO-ology. More
250th Coast Artillery, Army of the United States, Camp McQuaide, California, 1941
[Baton Rouge]: [Army and Navy Publishing Company, Inc.], 1941. Black and white photographs, one color cartoon. Hardcover. Folio. [vi], 89, [26] pages. Uncommon book on this California coastal defense regiment during World War II. Camp McQuaide was located near Watsonville, California, and the site is now occupied by Monterey Bay..... More
Tad Lincoln's Father
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1931. First edition. Black and white photographic plates. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. xiv, 206 pages. Julia Taft and her two young brothers were often in the White House as playmates of the two youngest Lincoln boys, beginning soon after President Lincoln's inauguration in 1861..... More
Beatles Map: John, Paul, George, Ringo
[Liverpool]: [City of Liverpool], [1974]. Single sheet. 16" x 18" This scarce pictorial map is a guide to all sites of Beatles interest in their native city of Liverpool. It is featured in the book "A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps," by Tim Bryars and Tom Harper..... More
All Men are Mortal
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, (1955). First American Edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [iv], 345 pages. Through this novel, Simone de Beauvoir delves into the existential theme of immortality. The protagonist, Raimon Fosca, gains eternal life through a magic potion in the 13th century, but has come..... More
Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1929. First Edition. Printed wrappers. Duodecimo. 194 pages. A collection of essays by notable literary figures--including Samuel Beckett and William Carlos Williams--defending and analyzing Joyce's then "Work in Progress" (later published as "Finnegans Wake"). Offers critical insights and captures the intellectual fervor surrounding Joyce's groundbreaking work..... More
Practical Fly-Fishing Founded on Nature
London: Methuen and Co., 1893. Limited Edition, #29 of 56 copies. Hardcover. Octavo. xxii, [2], 1-54, [2] pages + [1]-20 page publisher catalogue. Lovely 1893 limited edition of the work Beever originally published in 1849 under his pseudonym "Arundo.' Beever was an avid and observant Lake District angler who was..... More
Looking Backward, 2000-1887
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, (1945). Limited edition, #354 of 950 copies. Decorative chapter heads by George Salter. Hardcover. Octavo. 311 pages. An elegant, limited edition of this influential socialist utopian novel which was originally published in 1888. The story centers on a Boston aristocrat who falls..... More
Mr. Reverdy Johnson: The Alabama Negotiations, and Their Just Repudiation by the Senate of the United States
New York: Baker & Godwin, 1869. First Edition. Original wraps. Octavo. 36 pages. Very critical analysis of Reverdy Johnson's arguments and actions regarding the Alabama Claims. The Alabama Claims were a series of demands by the United States against Great Britain for damages caused by Confederate ships which the latter..... More
John Hay, Scholar, Statesman An Address Delivered before the Alumni Association of Brown University, June 19, 1906
Providence: (Standard Printing Company), 1906. Wrappers. Octavo. 29 pages. Memorial to Hay, Brown University class of 1858, secretary to Lincoln, diplomat, journalist, biographer, and Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt. Bound in tan paper covers stitched to textblock, Yapp edges, front cover titled in black. A few edge wrinkles..... More
The Commissioners of the Alms-House, vs. Alexander Whistelo, a Black Man; Being a Remarkable Case of Bastardy...
New York: David Longworth, 1808. Disbound. Octavo. 56 pages. The courtroom proceedings as a Black man is charged with bastardy in New York at the beginning of the 19th century. Alexander Whistelo was claimed by the mother herself to be the father of her female bastard child, which she had..... More
Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books
Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1768-1770. First Editions of volumes 3 and 4. Fourth Editions of volumes 1 and 2. Full calf. Quartos. Over 2,000 pages in all. A striking quarto set of Blackstone’s Commentaries, preserved in their original 18th‑century bindings. This is the landmark work that rendered English..... More
The Enemies of Books
London: Trübner & Co., 1880. First Edition. Frontispiece plus 6 plates intended to show various means of book illustration. Engraved typographic ornaments. Marbled paper over boards with leather spine and fore corners. Octavo. xvi, 110 pages. A charming and influential bibliophilic essay of the Victorian era, whose author mounts a...... More
There Are No Dull Dark Days
Baltimore: H. G. Roebuck & Son, (1944). First Edition. Black and white photographic illustrations, drawings. Hardcover. Octavo. 92 pages. Perce Blogg was an expert waterfowl hunter and longtime member of the Miller's Island Ducking Club and the Seneca Ducking Club. He was also an avid angler, and these are some..... More