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
[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
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
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
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First edition. Drawings by Erick Berry. Cloth-backed decorative boards. Octavo. [x], 255 pages. From the jacket: "A novel of negro life, of elemental passion and tenderness." Attractive dust jacket. More
(S.l.): (S.n.), [1900]. Cartoon on rear cover. Wrappers. Duodecimo. 16 pages. Williams Jennings Bryan, the Democratic nominee for President in 1900, delivers a speech against the reign of monopolies he saw as having been abetted by McKinley and the Republicans. Bryan ultimately would lose to the incumbent, McKinley, who would..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1918. First Edition. Fold-out plans, tables, photographs. Original cloth. Octavo. 96 pages. Scarce, Confidential manual on the weaponry associated with U. S. Army aircraft and pilots in World War I. Sections on the Marlin, the Lewis, and the Vickers aircraft machine guns, synchronizing gears, machine gun..... More
New York: Grove Press, Inc., (1959) [1962]. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi, 255 pages. Burroughs's groundbreaking work that challenged censorship laws and pushed the boundaries of literary form with its fragmented, hallucinatory narrative. It has had a lasting influence on counterculture and modern literature, solidifying Burroughs as a key..... More
New York: Charles Magnus, 1864. Hand-colored lithograph headpiece. Single leaf approximately 5" x 8" Patriotic Union Civil War song sheet with three verses, beginning: "Draw comrades draw the bright sabre again, Let the crack of rifle for ever be heard..." The hand-colored headpiece is a view of..... More
Lawrence: The Regents Press of Kansas, (1979). First printing. Black and white illustrations. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi, 244 pages. A study of the self-segregated African American communities settled in the United States in the 50 years following the Civil War. Provides an uncommon examination of the role of African Americans in..... More
Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke, 1822. First edition. Engravings. Paper over boards with leather spine. Duodecimo. 155 pages. This manual is an early attempt to introduce a uniform system cavalry of exercise and movements for the U. S. military. Illustrated with eight copper-plate engravings. Includes significant instruction on swords. More
Manchester, NH: Wm. H. Fisk, 1856. Calligraphic text surrounding a full length portrait of George Washington. Single sheet, approximately 23" x 28" Gilman R. Russell, a professor of penmanship, designed and executed the original of this work entirely with a pen. Gilman's calligraphic text of the Declaration surrounds a lithographed..... More
Chicago: R. S. Peale & Company, 1888. First Edition. Black and white illustrations. Cloth hardcovers. Tall octavos. [i-iv], v-ix, [x-xii], 502 and [i-ii], [503-504], 505-998 pages. An elaborate and eccentric argument that Francis Bacon was the actual author of the plays attributed to William Shakespeare. Donnelly claimed that Bacon had..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1900. First printing. Black and white frontispiece and plates by E. W. Kemble. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. [vi], 362 pages. fine collection of 20 short stories by pivotal African American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was first a poet. Dunbar deftly weaves in..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Limited Edition, copy #18 of 201. Hardcover in slipcase. Octavo. [iv], 398 pages. A sweeping tale of three generations performers aboard the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River showboat. The novel explores themes of love, struggle, and social issues like racism, reflecting the vibrant..... More
New York: Bloomsbury, (2014). First U.S. printing. Hardcover. Octavo. [iv], 279 pages. This was Abdulrazak Gurnah's eighth novel, and centers on an east African immigrant named Abbas, who has raised a family in England and now reflects on the past he has never told anyone about. A stroke has now..... More
Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Company, Publishers, (1921). First Edition. Drawings by Carll B. Williams. Original cloth. Octavo. 409 pages. The first volume published in the Seckatary Hawkins series. These boys' stories revolve around a club of boys whose home base is a river bank on the Ohio, with the lead character..... More
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. First Edition. Contemporaneous half leather over marbled boards. Octavo. i[v], [1]-207 [208]; [iv], [1]-211 [212] pages. A handsome copy of the first edition of Hawthorne's fabulous story collection written while he resided in Emerson's property--the Old Manse--in Concord, Massachusetts. This is the first appearance..... More
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, (1901). First printing. Black and white photographs, illustrations. Cloth over boards with printed paper sides. Tall octavo. 176 pages. Beautiful depiction of child life in China, revealing something of their nursery's, school rooms, and playgrounds. Numerous photographs throughout, along with old prints, to illustrated..... More
Boston: Alfred Mudge & Sons, Printers, 1864. Woodcut mastheads, occasional other woodcuts, and a map of the Fair venue laid in. Cloth over boards. Folio. 80 pages. The complete run of 10 issues of this newspaper from the National Sailors' Fair in Boston. The Fair ran from November 9 to..... More
London: Printed by John Hughs for Olive Payne, 1738. Frontispiece engraving of Confucius, fold-out plates, table. Leather over boards. Octavo. [viii], 536 pages. Landmark account of Qing‑era China based on the detailed observations of Jesuit missionary and mathematician Louis le Comte while on the French Jesuit mission to China in..... More
[San Francisco]: [Richard F. Guggenheim], [c.1940]. First edition. Black and white drawings by Hoff. Comb binding. Octavo. 189 pages. Charming, slightly risqué guide to nightlife in Hollywood and Los Angeles on the eve of World War II. Numerous bars, dance clubs, and restaurants are described, accompanied by witty text and..... More
Milwaukee: E. C. Kropp Co., 1933. Color photograph of Napoleon Bonaparte House, New Orleans, to front. Single card. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" A wonderful handwritten postcard from H. P. Lovecraft to E. Hoffmann Price, in which Lovecraft mentions Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, various works by all four..... More
Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1941. Limited Edition, #24 of 270 copies. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 35 pages. MacDonagh's first solo book of poetry, published in this small edition, of which this is hand-numbered copy 24. Published by Elizabeth Yeats's Cuala Press, with support from her brother, William Butler Yeats... 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