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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 122 pages. The case of a 17 year old girl who became a heroin addict and marries a dealer. Jacket photograph by Lotte Jacobi. More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 122 pages. The case of a 17 year old girl who became a heroin addict and marries a dealer. Jacket photograph by Lotte Jacobi. More
(New York): Privately Printed for the Angler's Club of New York, 1926. Limited Edition, #209 of 350 copies. Black and white maps and plates. Paper over boards with cloth spine. Octavo. [xviii], 139 pages. An early attempt to outline the problems of trout stream ecology and conservation. Designed..... More
New York: Random House, (1968). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 335 pages. Irving's debut novel, whose plot revolves around a pair of motorcycle-riding youths and their plan to free the animals in Vienna's Heitzinger Zoo. More
Washington, D. C. Self Published, (1935). First Edition. Wrappers. Octavo. [iv], 143 pages. Critical report on the U. S. Military establishment just after World War I in which it is alleged that a "war trust" simultaneously profited from war preparations while inviting war and keeping American military power weak. Isham..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008). First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 131 pages. When Lee Israel's celebrated writing career took a sudden downturn she embarked on an astonishing one-woman forgery racket run out of her Upper West Side studio. Using old typewriters, she fabricated hundreds of letters from..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., (1944). First printing. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. [vi], 244 pages. Charles Jackson's famous first novel of a talented but alcoholic writer and a five-day drinking binge. There are many parallels to Jackson's own life, and he later would become a spokesman for AA..... More
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Eighteenmo. 219 pages. Henry James's first novel, originally published serially in the Atlantic Monthly in 1871, and here for the first time in book form. The simple and melodramatic plot caused James to essentially disown this..... More
Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1829. Original calf over boards. Sixteenmo. [iv], 1-280 pages. Originally published anonymously in 1785, Jefferson's "Notes on Virginia" was the only full-length book he published during his lifetime. It describes various aspects of Virginia’s natural, social, and political features but also includes important statements of certain..... More
Washington: Post Office Department, 1867. Single sheet. 8 1/2" x 14" Uncommon Reconstruction era Proclamation by President Andrew Johnson to clarify the judicial authority of the federal government and its courts in the South. General Dan Sickles was in command of the Second Military District (North and South Carolina) under..... More
Austin: 1969. A nice letter on Johnson's post-Presidential stationery with a clear, bold signature. Includes the original free franked mailing envelope. Johnson expresses his gratitude for a very complimentary letter from a private citizen who states that: "Historians will surely regard you as the president most conscientious about the needs..... More
[London]: G. W. Bacon & Co., Ltd, 1914. Single sheet. 22" x 30". Folds into paper covers. A rare seriocomic pictorial map of Europe at the outbreak of World War I. Likely designed in September 1914, after the German advance on Paris had been halted with the aid of the..... More
Baltimore: Printed by W. M. Innes, 1863. Later card covers. Octavo. 48 pages. Interesting and uncommon pamphlet published in Baltimore during the Civil War which is highly critical of Abraham Lincoln, New England, and Abolitionists. The author sees disunion and the Civil War as resulting from self-righteous New Englanders too..... More
Brooklyn: Historical Printing Club, 1891. Limited edition, #84 of 250 copies. Black and white frontispiece photo. This copy extra-illustrated. Leather and marbled paper over boards. Tall octavo. 111 pages plus 8 pages of publisher ads. The period covered in this orderly book of the Maryland Loyalists begins with the evacuation..... More
[Mexico City]: 1861. Manuscript. 10.50" x 8.25" The Juarez government had recaptured Mexico City on January 1, 1861, and he was elected President in the month following this letter. His declaration of a 2-year suspension of interest payments on international debts related to the Mexican Revolution led to an invasion..... More
[New York]: The Limited Editions Club, (1987). Limited edition, #259 of 800 copies. Lithographs by Michael Hafftka. Quarto. [iv], 53 pages. Kafka's famous short story of an island penal colony and its brutal execution device. Four lithographs by Hafftka printed on handmade Japanese paper. Signed by Hafftka at colophon. More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, [1966]. Black and white photographs. Softcover. Square quarto. 341, [2] pages. Kaprow's important book on the then emerging field of performance art. It has the special merit of documenting this movement from within, at the beginning, in real time. He had originally written..... More
London: Horace Cox, The Field Office, 1900. Engraved Cuts. Original cloth. Quarto. xii, 667 + ads pages. Kemp's classic work on selecting, inspecting, and building a yacht along with detailed instruction on seamanship and sailing in open yachts, steam yachts, ice boats, and much more. This edition was published in..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1873. First printing. Cloth over bevelled boards. Octavo. xii, 13-521 pages. John R. Kenly had just been admitted to the bar in Baltimore when the War with Mexico broke out. He raised a company of volunteers and led them into battle as a captain..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. First printing. Black & white photographs, illustrations. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xii, 372 pages. Stetson Kennedy's highly critical yet hopeful look at the South and its institutions and traditions. A native Southerner, Kennedy infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan, Sons of Dixie, and the..... More
New York: Brewer & Warren, 1930. First printing. Black & white chapter heads, cuts. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 281 pages. Rockwell Kent had just finished illustrating his famous edition of Moby Dick for the Lakeside Press when he set out on a voyage to Greenland with a couple of friends. The..... More
New York: Random House, Inc., 1927. Logo by Rockwell Kent. Stitched wrappers. Twenty-fourmo. [4 leaves]. Rare "Announcement Number One" promoting seven fine limited editions planned for 1927 by The Nonesuch Press and to be distributed in the US by the fledgling Random House, Inc. This was the first commercial use..... More
New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1857. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. [xii], 203 pages, plus 12 page publisher catalogue. The first published collection of poetry by Francis Scott Key. "The Star Spangled Banner" is the first poem in the book, appearing on pp. 31-33 after an introductory..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1914). First printing. Tan-gray laid paper over boards. Octavo. 75 pages. Alfred Joyce Kilmer was an American poet, editor, critic, and Roman Catholic lecturer who contemporary critics often compared to G. K. Chesterton and Hillaire Belloc. Today Kilmer is remembered as the..... More
London: Charles Dilly, 1781. Third Edition. Half calf over marbled paper boards. Duodecimo. xx, 415 pages. Knox was an educator, having succeeded his father as headmaster of Tonbridge School. Here are 40 interesting essays in which he gives his views on education--everything from learning classics by heart to developing a...... More
Barre: Barre Publishers, 1964. Limited edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [vi], 111, [1] pages. Dana Lamb was one of the 20th century's best writers on fishing. This collection of 33 essays on trout and salmon adventures was limited to 1500 copies. In original slipcase. Ref. HAND L25; BRUNS..... More