New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 233 pages. An inscribed and signed copy of this collection of 11 powerful stories. Munro is an acknowledged master and innovator of the short story, and this volume was nominated for a Governor General's Award in 1982... More
(S.l.): (S.n.), [1940s]. Black & white halftones from photographs. Saddle-stapled wrappers. Octavo. [8] pages. Interesting booklet on Ray R. Myers, born without arms. Though a circus sought to employ him at age 3, his parents chose to give him as normal a life as they could. He learned to play..... More
Chicago: National Board Of Fire Underwriters, [1940s]. Wrappers. Octavo. [ii], 29 pages. Scarce World War II booklet highlighting vulnerabilities of ports, piers and wharves in the U. S. , and suggesting many improved practice requirements. The primary threat was fire--either by accident or sabotage--with the danger being greatly multiplied by..... More
Washington, DC: Published by the author, 1968. Limited edition, #316 of 400 copies. Black & white and color plates of armorial crests. Original cloth. Octavo. viii, 188 pages. A thoroughly researched reference on the usage, meaning, and lineage associated with various seals, shields, and coats of arms of Maryland gentry..... More
(Cambridge): Harvard University Press. Diagrams. Cloth over boards. Quartos. xlii,547 and [vii], 548-916 pages. Newton's landmark achievement. This new edition from Harvard University Press in 1972 traces the evolution of one of the great products of human intellect in the 250 years between the manuscript draft of the 1680s first..... More
Newburyport: Press of Hiram Tozer, 1838. Wrappers. Octavo. 18 pages. A sermon likely in response to the February 24, 1838 pistol duel between two members of the U.S. Congress, resulting in the death of newly elected Representative Jonathan Cilley of Maine. Cilley had taken to the House floor and made..... More
[Oneida]: (S.n.), 1850. First printing. Wrappers. Sixteenmo. 14 pages. Scarce pamphlet that cleverly harnesses the contemporaneous debate over slavery to attack the institution of marriage. Many of the Abolitionist arguments against slavery are here effectively turned against mid-19th century marriage. The text is structured as a fictionalized dialogue between..... More
New York: Random House, (1934). Limited edition. Cloth over boards with leather spine and fore corners. Octavo. 157 pages. Beautiful edition of this play by Eugene O'Neill. This is copy #220 of a stated limitation of 325 copies. Binding by Bayntun of Bath. More
Boston: Beacon Press, [2004] and (2005). First editions thus. Hardcovers. Octavos. xii, 255 pages and [xii], 178 pages. Fantastic collection of work from this master poet of the natural world and the fundamental questions of life and death. Selected by Mary Oliver herself, with volume two containing 42 new poems..... More
Washington: (S.n.), 1863. Wraps. Octavo. 8 pages. Frederick Law Olmsted--pioneering American landscape architect and co-designer of New York's Central Park--here gives a very interesting report in his role as General Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. Olmsted gives a good outline of the activities..... More
Durham: Carolina Academic Press, (1995). First Edition. Black and White Photographs, Illus. Full cloth. Octavo. xxxvi, 421 pages. Study of the admiralty system as it was transmitted from England to America, with an emphasis on Maryland. Based on extensive manuscript research on both sides of the Atlantic. Includes appendices on..... More
(s. L. ): (S. N. ), 1927. First Edition. Black and White Photographs, Maps. Full leather. Quarto. viii, 106 pages. History of the evolution of the great port of London, from Roman times to the early 20th century. Well illustrated with photographs, a color plate of the Head Office of..... More
Orlando: Harcourt, Inc., (2004). First U.S. printing. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 1-538 pages. Amos Oz grew up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the 1940s and 1950s, and his extraordinary memoir is simultaneously tragic, comic, and utterly honest. It is the magical self-portrait of a gifted writer who witnessed the birth of..... More
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., (1957). First edition. Full cloth. Octavo. viii, 275 pages. A fascinating guide to the dawn of the Age of Manipulation, when motivational researchers were learning all sorts of things about people's subconscious urges, fears, frustrations, and wish fulfillments, and the Mad Men employed this..... More
Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1849. Original cloth over boards. An important publication on baptism from the period of the Second Great Awakening. The Appendix discusses the common reasons and arguments by which infant baptism is urged and defended, and evidence in favor of full immersion as the mode of..... More
New York: James Miller, [1860]. Hand colored. Single sheet. Approximately 17 1/4" x 29 1/4" Street map of New York City that was drawn by Humphrey Phelps in 1857. Wards are shaded in different colors. Also included are parts of Brooklyn, Hoboken, and Jersey City. Includes a guide to locate..... More
Bristol: Mount Hope Bridge Corporation, 1933. Lithographed by J. C. Hall. Folded sheet. 17 3/4" x 26" This pictorial map was created to publicize the recently opened Mount Hope Bridge connecting Aquidneck Island and Newport with mainland Rhode Island. Researched by John W. Haley and designed by H. W. Hetherington..... More
(S.l.): The Walpole Society, 1929. Limited edition. Black and white plates. Full cloth, octavo, xviii, 325 pages. Useful reference that gives brief sketches of a wide variety of craftsmen and manufacturers, including silversmiths, cabinet makers, stone cutters, sign painters, engravers, glass ware makers, upholsterers, clock makers, and much more. One..... More
(Washington): (Government Printing Office), (1950). Samples of black and color inks. Comb-bound boards. Octavo. About 200 pages (not paginated). This book was compiled to show the basic ink colors stocked by the Government Printing Office Ink Section, with each given a unique number. The idea was to simplify requests for..... More
[Pittsburgh]: Office of Administrator, Prohibition District No. 4, [1925]. Cloth over flexible boards. Sixteenmo. [ii], 53 pages. A rare manual issued by Prohibition District No. 4, Pittsburgh as a pocket guide to help its Revenue and Prohibition agents build strong cases as they enforced the Volstead Act in the field..... More
Washington: The Associated Publishers, Inc., (1948). First printing. Black & white frontispiece, plates. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xii, 378 pages. The first definitive biography of Frederick Douglass. Noted African American scholar Benjamin Quarles objectively treats all phases of Douglass's life in this well researched and footnoted study. Includes a Bibliography..... More
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, (1967). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 261 pages. This Edgar Award nominee is Raab's exposé on police methods during investigation of the 1963 "Career Girls" murder case in New York City. A confession was coerced from a young African American man named..... More
London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1839. First edition. Steel and wood engraved black & white plates and text illustrations. Expertly rebacked original cloth over boards. Octavo. xii, 327 pages. Illustrated treatise on fox-hunting, by the Master of Hounds at the Hertfordshire Hunt Club. More
[c.1980s?]. Original. Pastel on paper. Single sheet. Approximately 13 1/2" x 17" Untitled original art in pastels by award winning courtroom and journalistic sketch artist, Freda L. Reiter. The scene depicts an active Cuban cigar and rum market. Reiter studied drawing in Mexico City under Diego Rivera. She..... More
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1992. First Edition. Black & White Photographs, Illustrations. Full cloth. Octavo. xx, 214 pages. Descriptions of 679 croquet books, ephemera, pamphlets, and other items from this unique collection housed at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont, Ohio. Good annotations. Appendices list books on..... More