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
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, (1931). First American Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 109 pages. Rare book by the Father of the Boy Scouts, reviewing the positive roles played by such organizations in fostering healthy, happy, and helpful citizens of nations and the world. Bound in black cloth over boards..... 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
Santa Monica: Earth Books, 1977. First issue. Black and white photographs by Lawrence Robbin. Two 33 1/3 records in sleeve. Scarce album of Charles Bukowski recording his poetry in his Hollywood apartment in 1966. The recording, "90 Minutes in Hell" was finally released as this limited edition LP record in..... More
![The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan [Sudan]. Winston S. Churchill](/pictures/thumb/11648_1.JPG?v=1623802442)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First US Edition. Maps and plans, some folding. Full cloth. Octavo. xvi, 381 pages. Winston Churchill's detailed military history of the operations directed by Lord Kitchener on the Upper Nile between April 1896 and November 1899. Churchill was a participant in the decisive battle..... More
North East and Annapolis: 1864. Loose sheets. Dr. Charles T. Simpers and his wife, Eliza, lived in the town of North East, in Cecil County, Maryland. This group of letters from late 1864 opens a window into the trials and feelings of a couple separated by the Civil War. Eliza..... More
[Nashua]: (S.n.), 1865. Broadside. 9 5/8" x 11 1/2" Poem on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln composed by George G. B. DeWolfe--the Wandering Poet of Nashua, New Hampshire. Boldly printed title "MURDER!" as if a newspaper headline, with the subtitle and 20 line poem in 5 stanzas printed beneath. Dated..... More
London: Elkin Mathews, 1905. First printing. Illustrations by S. H. Sime. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 94 pages. Signed by Dunsany on the front free endpaper. Lord Dunsany's first book. A collection of pioneering fantasy stories linked by an invented pantheon of deities who inhabit Pegāna. Critics view Dunsany's early..... More
![Essays [with] Essays: Second Series. Emerson, alph, aldo](/pictures/thumb/910.jpg?v=1639948112)
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
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: 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
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1912. First printing. Black and white plates. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xxii, 200 pages. Matthew Henson was an African American explorer who was Robert Peary's indispensable right-hand man on his seven Arctic expeditions over nearly 23 years. It is now generally acknowledged (as he..... 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
[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
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
New York: John Day Company, (1943). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xvi, 262 pages. With this book, Rose Wilder Lane helped reignite a passion for classical liberal ideas in America. She is considered one of the "Founding Mothers" of Libertarianism, along with Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson, each of..... More
New York: Book Collectors Society, [1948]. Limited edition. Black and white photographs, drawings. Leather over boards. Octavo. xxxii, 349 pages. An amazing document of discovery as G. Rachel Levy helps uncover a group of archaeological sites in Iraq prior to World War II. Importantly, Ms. Levy speculates as to links..... More
Berea, KY: Berea College Press, 1923. Limited edition, copy #226 of 325. Stapled wrappers. Octavo. [16 pages]. Barton's lecture discusses Lincoln's youth and education in Kentucky. Among other points Barton makes a convincing case that because Lincoln grew up in the mountains of Kentucky he knew about anti-slavery and anti-secession..... 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
Sauk City: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Limited edition. Original cloth. Octavo. xii, 432 pages. Arkham House collection containing Lovecraft's three horror novels, along with shorter masterpieces. Colophon states 3,000 copies in this first printing. More
[Brooklyn]: (S.n.), [c.1848]. Woodcuts. Wrappers, octavo, [16] pages. Interesting and uncommon patent medicine piece featuring one of the earliest claims of "Indian" cures. The first 4 pages of this promotional pamphlet recount a thwarted Indian ambush of a cattle drive from Niagara to Detroit at the end of the 18th..... More
Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press, 1929. First edition. Black and white frontispiece. Octavo, full cloth, 66 pages. A tribute to Col. Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment of United States Colored Troops in the Civil War. The author, who was married to an officer in a U.S.C.T. regiment, identifies..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1922). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 328 pages. Mencken's acerbic wit and good sense. A nice looking copy. Errata slip tipped in. More
New York: Whittlesey House, (1948). First edition. Black and white photographs. Original cloth. Octavo. x, 238 pages. Autobiography of Adolphe Menjou, early 20th century film actor and Hollywood man-about-town, famous for his wardrobe and his wit. Foreword by Clark Gable. More
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1954. First printing, one of 1,200 copies. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. [ii], 123 pages. A supernatural horror story of a young English boy who falls under the spell of a vampiric being while on a visit to Auvergne, France. The only book published by Arkham House..... More