London: Fishing News (Books) Limited, (1967). First Edition. Black and White Photographs, Drawings. Hardcover. Quarto. 650, i-xlii pages. Detailed reference from the third FAO Congress on Fishing Boats of the World, held in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1965. This volume focuses on smaller types of craft used in inshore and near-water..... More
New York: Grove Press, (1954). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 174 pages. A collection of related stories about a small West African boy who ends up in the ghost-inhabited wilderness after fleeing armed slave traders. This was Tutuola's second book, following "The Palm Wine Drinkard." More
(S.l.): (S.n.), [1942]. Black and white illustrations, map drawings. Wrappers. Twenty-fourmo. 31 pages. This was a handbook for newly arrived recruits at Camp McQuaide during World War II. Camp McQuaide was on the coast of the Monterey Bay just west of Watsonville, California, and home to the Coast Artillery Replacement..... More
New York: The Tea & Coffee Journal Company, 1935. Limited edition. Color frontispiece, numerous black and white illustrations in text. Cloth over boards. Quarto. xiv, 818 pages. The first independent work to fully cover all aspects of coffee, including the historical, technical, scientific, commercial, social, and artistic. Everything from early..... More
Washington: J. & G. S. Gideon, 1845. Wood engravings. Disbound. Octavo. 24 pages. Vail was an engineer and inventor who collaborated with Samuel B. Morse in the development and practical application of the telegraph. Some have argued it was actually Vail who invented the telegraphic alphabet named after Morse, but..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1944. First edition. Illustrations by Rafaello Busoni. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 31 pages. Scarce first edition of the story that was adapted into the beloved holiday classic film, "It's a Wonderful Life." Philip Van Doren Stern was an accomplished Civil War historian and author but perhaps his most..... More
Annapolis: 1865. Folded sheets, with original envelope. Incredible 6 page manuscript letter from a Civil War Chaplain posted at Annapolis, discussing St. John's College Hospital Chapel, visiting hospitals, and the work of the U.S. Christian Commission in Annapolis during the war. Partial transcript: "At 2 P.M. I preached..... More
New York: New York City Transit Authority, 1972. First printing. Color-coded route map. Single sheet approximately 18" x 21" printed on both sides. Folds to about 3 1/2" x 7" Here is the important first printing of Massimo Vignelli's 1972 NYC Transit Authority map. Vignelli sacrificed geographic accuracy for simplicity..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917. Black and white halftone photographs. Stapled wraps. Octavo. 28 pages. Summarizes the anti-aircraft weapons and capabilities of Italy, France, Germany, England, and the United States in World War I as of April, 1917. Draws conclusions based thereupon this information and what had been learned about..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1976). First printing. Drawings by Consuelo Hanks. Hardcover. Octavo. xiii, 304 pages. Warner's landmark work on the Atlantic Blue Crab and its primary habitat, the Chesapeake Bay. This was Warner's first book and it won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1977. More
New York: Doubleday, Page, & Co., 1901. First printing. Black and white frontispiece photograph. Cloth over boards. Octavo. x, 330 pages. Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in Franklin County, Virginia--the illegitimate son of a white man and a black woman. Washington graduated from the Hampton Institute, founded..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1968. First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xvi, [1-2], 3-226 [227-237] pages. Inscribed and signed by Watson on preliminary blank leaf. Here is Watson's story of his work with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins--the three merging data from chemistry, physics, and biology--to solve the molecular structure of..... More
Washington: Gideon & Co. , Printers, 1851. Wrappers. Octavo. 21 pages. The Reform Convention of Maryland, assembled to reform the state constitution, honored Mr. Webster for his role in the Compromise of 1850. This pamphlet contains Webster's address that evening as well as the toasts and speeches by some of..... More
Baltimore: Church Home & Hospital, 1994. First Edition. Black and White Photographs. Full cloth. Quarto. x, 115 pages. Recollections of 13 men and women who devoted their lives to one of Maryland's oldest medical institutions--the Church Home & Hospital facilities located at Fayette Street and Broadway in Baltimore. It was..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1982). First printing. Black and white illustrations. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 326 pages. Welchman was a mathematician working at Bletchley Park, analyzing Nazi German Enigma intercepts. Some progress had been made, but the decoding process took so long that the information was of little use by..... More
London: Printed for Burgess and Hill, 1820. First printing. Cloth over boards with leather spine. Octavo. xv, [errata], 410 pages, vi Appendix. James Wilson was a pupil of the eminent Scottish surgeon, John Hunter, and took over Hunter's position as Professor of Anatomy at the Hunterian School in London. These..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., (1917). First edition. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. xiv, 141 pages. An indictment of what the author believed was America's woeful unpreparedness for World War I, followed by his solution--a program of Universal Military Training. Well documented, with a brief bibliography. Col. Jennings C...... More
[Salt Lake City]: (S.n.), [1925]. Stapled wrappers. Duodecimo. 24 pages. Contains addresses by then Secretary of the Interior Dr. Hubert Work, Commissioner of Reclamation Dr. Elwood Mead, Director of National Parks Stephen T. Mather, Bishop C. W. Nibley, and President Anthony W. Ivins of the Mormon Church. The three U.S...... More
Washington: Department of Defense, (1977-1978). Endpaper maps. Hardcovers. Quartos. These volumes contain a major part of the communications intelligence which the U.S. gleaned from intercepted and decoded Japanese communications from February 1941 to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Of particular importance is the correlation of the intelligence with the discussions..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1962). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 230 pages. Yate's first collection of stories, published the year after his critically acclaimed debut novel, "Revolutionary Road." These stories also received positive critical attention, being compared favorably with James Joyce's "Dubliners." More