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1899 Photograph of Trout Fishermen with their Catch in Downtown Skagway, Alaska
Skagway: Case & Draper, 1899. Photograph is 4 3/4" x 6 3/4", mounted on thin board of 7" x 9" Lovely photograph showing a string of 30 trout caught on the Skagway River, April 20, 1899. The fishermen, posing at each end of the string, are F. F. Clark and..... More
Series of Four Broadsides Advocating Repeal of Prohibition
[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
The Speeches of Mr. Bacon and Mr. Nicholson, in the National House of Representatives, in Defence of the Bill Received from the Senate, Entitled, "An Act to repeal certain Acts respecting the organization of the Courts of the United States." February, 1802
Boston: Munroe & Francis, 1802. First edition. Octavo. 44 pages. Loose signatures. Two Jeffersonians--Bacon of Massachusetts and Nicholson of Maryland--argue in favor of the repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801, which stacked the federal judiciary with Federalists appointed by the departing President John Adams. Joseph Hopper Nicholson..... More
The Art of the Sabre and the Épée
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., (1936). First American edition. Frontispiece portrait, black and white photographic illustrations, many line drawings. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xviii, 170 pages. Barbasetti's excellent instruction on fencing, well-illustrated with line cuts by Ciro Barbasetti. While the noble art of swordsmanship cannot be learned..... More
Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro
London: Trübner & Co., 1864. First British edition. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 91 pages. This anonymously published pamphlet first appeared in New York. This is the London edition from the same year. The title is a coined word in this work to describe intermixing of races. While this is the..... More
De Renunciatione Vulnerum, seu Vulnerum Lethalium Examen. Exponens horum Formalitatem & Causas, tam in specie ac per singulas Corporis partes
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
I Sing the Body Electric, and Other Stories (Signed)
(Burton, MI): Subterranean Press, 2007. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 389 pages. Ray Bradbury's "I Sing the Body Electric" was first published in 1969. The title story was adapted from a 1962 episode of the Twilight Zone which Bradbury had written. This limited edition includes 11 additional stories that had appeared..... More
Anti-Trust Speech of W. J. Bryan. Delivered at St. Louis, September 16, 1900
(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
The Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World; Comprehending a History of the South Sea Islands, etc. etc.
London: Jaques and Wright, 1825. Engraved black and white plates. Marbled paper over boards with leather spines and fore corners. Octavos. [iv], 488 and [ii], 457 [1] pages. A complete narrative of Cook's three voyages of discovery, illustrated with a frontispiece and engraved title page in volume I plus 12..... More
The Life of Laura Keene. Actress, Artist, Manager and Scholar. Together with Some Interesting Reminiscences of Her Daughters (Signed)
Philadelphia: Rodgers Publishing Company, 1897. First printing. Black and white plates. Clover over boards. Octavo. 254 pages. The first biography of the 19th century actress and businesswoman, Laura Keene, written by one who knew her. Keene, of course, is best known in connection with the Lincoln assassination and the play..... More
I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 179 pages. First printing of this posthumous collection. There is a previously unpublished essay and ten previously uncollected science fiction short stories. More
The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902. First printing. Frontispiece and 15 tipped in plates by Sidney Paget. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 359 pages. First edition of the third of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels, and widely considered the best. It is the first reappearance of Holmes after his apparent death..... More
After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy (Signed)
London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1934). First printing. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. 68 pages. Three lectures delivered by Eliot at the University of Virginia in 1933--The Page-Barbour Lectures that year. He asserts that the weakness of modern literature is a religious weakness. This copy is signed and dated 22..... More
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Essays [with] Essays: Second Series
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841 and 1844. First printings. Original cloth. Duodecimos. [vi], 303 pages and [iv], 313 pages, [2] pages ads. A nice set of first editions of Emerson's Essays (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844). These writings represent the core of Emerson's thought, and read as well..... More
Pity the Nation, Portfolio Edition #3 (Signed)
San Francisco: Sore Dove Press, (2007). Limited edition. Original paintings, color photographs. Hardcover portfolio with three ribbon ties. Folio. A portfolio by Sore Dove Press of San Francisco celebrating Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 2007 poem "Pity the Nation." There are two letterpress copies of the poem in different formats, each signed and..... More
The General in His Labyrinth (Signed)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Limited edition, #280 of 350. Leather. Octavo. 285 pages. Limited edition, printed on special paper and specially bound each signed by García Márquez and numbered. This is copy #280 of the special edition, In original map-illustrated slipcase. More
Episodes in the Life of Ye Printer...9. - Ye New Installation
[New York?]: (Gill Engraving Company?), [c.1905?]. One of a series of illustrations by E. M. Gill which were featured in Artemas Ward's advertising trade journal, "Fame," around the turn of the 20th century. Nicely matted and framed. More
The Western Angler: An Account of Pacific Salmon and Western Trout
New York: The Derrydale Press, (1939). Limited edition. Copy #362 of 950 sets. Color and black and white illustrations, fold-out map. Cloth hardcovers Quartos. xviii, 200 pages and x, 192 pages. Haig-Brown was an Englishman who spent most of his adult life on British Columbia's Campbell River. This fine Derrydale..... More
Statement of Expenditures by the State of Maryland for the Penitentiary, 1806-1818
Annapolis: Treasury Office, 1818. Single sheet, approximately 9 1/4" x 11 3/4" Statement of expenses related to the construction and first few years of the Maryland Penitentiary in Baltimore. Issued by Benjamin Harwood, Treasurer of the Western Shore of Maryland, and dated December 16th, 1818. Over $160,000 in expenditures are..... More
CDV Photographic Portrait, Signed
Washington: Mathew Brady, [1862-1863]. Black and white photograph. Mounted on a 2" x 4" card. Original albumen photographic profile vignette of a seated General Hooker, facing left. Imprint of Brady Studio, Washington, in bottom margin. Inscribed on back of the mount "Joseph Hooker / Maj. Genl." General Hooker's aggressive..... More
Signed Letter to Edgar Conkling of Cincinnati, Dated February 26, 1861, Mexico City
[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
Survival: From a PT Base in the Solomons comes this nightmare epic of the will-to-live (in Reader's Digest, Vol. 45, No. 268)
Pleasantville: Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1944. Magazine. Duodecimo. This is a complete issue of Reader's Digest magazine containing the article that launched John F. Kennedy's political career. John Hersey, a Kennedy family friend, had gotten this flattering account of the PT-109 incident into the 'New Yorker' two months..... More
Trees and Other Poems
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
'Captains Courageous': A Story of the Grand Banks
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1897. First edition. Original cloth. Duodecimo. viii, 245 pages [ii ads]. Story of a boy washed overboard from a steamship and rescued by a fishing schooner off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. The accident, rescue, and subsequent work on board the fishing boat transform fifteen..... More