New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1864. First printing. Extra engraved title page, 1 map. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 196, 8 (ads) pages. An important firsthand account by a woman who experienced the siege of Vicksburg by Union forces in 1863. Ref. Nevins vol II, p. 195. More
New York: John A. Gray, Printer, 1860. Wrappers. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. 29 pages. Correspondence related to accusations of libel made by Gerrit Smith against Royal Phelps and Watts Sherman of the New York Democratic Vigilant Association. The dispute arose from the latter publishing a "Manifesto" in which it..... More
[Chicago]: Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, [1930?]. Single sheets. 6 1/8" x 9 1/8" Women in the early 20th century were assumed to favor Prohibition, and indeed had been a powerful force--in the form of the Women's Christian Temperance Union--in getting it passed. By the late 1920s, however, Pauline..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition. Black and white plates. Hardcover. Octavo. xxii, 307, [blank], viii pages. Biography of the Temperance firebrand, Carry Nation, whose signature was attacking liquor kegs with a hatchet. This copy is signed by the author and has a printed "Seasons Greetings" card..... More
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, [1960?]. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 285 pages. Alexander Belyaev was Russia's first sci-fi writer, sometimes called the Russian Jules Verne. Here he spins the story of a reclusive doctor on the coast of South America who gives his son shark gills in a life-saving operation. The son..... More
Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Viduam Sebastiani, & Christianum Petzoldum, 1710. Second edition. Vellum. Duodecimo. [xvi], 296, [8] pages. Dr. Johannes Bohn was a noted 17th century German physician, professor of medicine, and pioneer in forensic science. He introduced the policy of thorough autopsies of the deceased. Bohn's specialty was the investigation of..... More
Annapolis: Thomas J. Wilson, Printer, 1862. Wrappers. Octavo. 15 pages. Augustus W. Bradford, as the Union Party candidate for governor, defeated Democrat Benjamin C. Howard by nearly 30,000 votes on November 6, 1861. Maryland had seemed to teeter on the brink of secession just 6 or 7 months earlier. Bradford's..... More
[Rochester?]: (S.n.), [1899]. Black and white illustrations. Single sheet. 4" x 9 1/4" This small broadside is a rare piece of ephemera from the unveiling of this monument to Frederick Douglass in 1899. The Rochester monument to Douglass was the first in the nation to honor a particular African American..... More
Albany: Edward Leslie, Printer, 1865. First edition. Disbound. Octavo. 20 pages. Rev. Dyer was the chaplain at the Albany Penitentiary. His memorial sermon, given in the prison's chapel, coincided with Lincoln's funeral in Washington on April 19th. He finds the circumstances of Lincoln's death to be "of a painfully instructive..... More
London: Printed for the author, 1792. First edition. Morocco and marbled paper over boards. Octavo. [50], 455 pages. William Eddis arrived in Annapolis in 1769, having secured a position as surveyor of customs through the patronage of Maryland's last Royal Governor, Sir Robert Eden. His letters back to England are..... More
[Baltimore]: [Democratic City Convention], [1848]. Broadside. Approximately 13" x 18 3/4". Single sheet. Democratic broadside from Baltimore attacking the Whigs and their Presidential candidate, Zachary Taylor, in the 1848 campaign. The Whigs had nominated Taylor for President and Millard Fillmore for Vice-President at their convention in June. This broadside presumably..... More
[Bruceton Mills]: Old Hemlock, 1986. Limited Edition. Black & white drawings. Hardcover. Octavo. [x], 182 pages. Sketches from the gun diaries of George Bird Evans, who was one of the world's foremost authorities on upland gunning and bird dogs. He perfected the Old Hemlock line of English Setters, the descendants..... More
[San Francisco]: Soheyl Dahi/Sore Dove Press, 2014. Limited edition, one of 30 copies. Portfolio. 10 1/4" x 12" Here is Ferlinghetti's scathing 1962 letter to TIME in defense of Jack Kerouac and his then-latest-book "Big Sur." TIME had reviewed the book in what Ferlinghetti here calls a "...snide, sneering, condescending..... More
Washington: Microcard Editions Books, 1973. First edition thus. Cloth over boards. Quarto. xxxviii, 336 pages. A detailed photographic facsimile of Fitzgerald's handwritten manuscript of "The Great Gatsby" located in the Princeton University Library. The Introduction by Bruccoli sets the stage for this visual exploration of Fitzgerald's composition process. Includes sample..... More
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Princeton: Students of Princeton University, 1917. Advertising. Printed wrappers. Octavo. [x], [297]-346, [vi] pages. Two early F. Scott Fitzgerald print appearances, one story and one poem, in Princeton's undergraduate literary magazine. His short story "The Spire and the Gargoyle" occupies this issue's first eleven pages of content, and the college-angsty..... More
Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1937. First printing. Black and white photographic plates. Original cloth. Octavo. xii, 500 pages. Forrester vividly shares her family memories, traditions, and relics in this account of Booth's escape and survival after the Lincoln assassination. She argues that Booth was a tool of the Knights..... More
New York: M. Barrows and Company, 1941. First printing. Drawings by Rea Irvin. Full cloth. Octavo. 223 pages. Not just a fine compilation of cocktail recipes from the early 20th century, but also a wise and witty look at the philosophy of drinking, the arts of sociability, and a snapshot..... More
San Francisco: Wine Advisory Board, [early 1960s]. Color offset lithography. Poster. 21" x 28 1/8" Colorful California wine poster by Amado Gonzalez California Wine Advisory Board. Gonzalez was born in Mexico but immigrated to San Francisco in 1927 and studied at the California School of Fine Arts. He painted murals..... More
New York: William Farquhar Payson, (1932). First edition. Sketches by Grant throughout. Cloth over boards. Quarto. xiv, 127 pages. An excellent visual contribution to the history of whaling. Grant expertly combines strict accuracy of detail with vivacious presentation in the 64 sketches herein. Each full page illustration is accompanied by..... More
New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910. First Edition. Frontispiece portrait. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 206 pages. In the spring of 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt sent a Commission abroad in an attempt to interest the prominent nations of Europe in putting China's finances on the gold standard..... More
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Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1871. 1st Edition. Original cloth. Duodecimos. 152 pages. First state of the first edition, with correct issue points on spine, title page, and page 136, together with a second state copy. The pair are housed together in a custom half morocco slipcase. 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
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
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, (1902). First printing. 15 Black & White Tissue-Guarded Plates. Full cloth. Octavo. xxiv, 407 pages. This handsome volume of poems contains the first book appearance of baseball's most famous poem--Casey at the Bat--in an anthology. The poem was written by Ernest Lawrence Thayer but is..... More
New York: Greenberg : Publisher, (1935). First printing. Full cloth. Octavo. 249 pages. A scarce novel of the struggles and successes of immigrants in the United States. More