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
Philadelphia: The Franklin Press, 1909. First edition. Black & White Photographs, 1 fold-out map. Full cloth. Octavo. [x], 276, [3] pages. A Chesapeake Bay classic. The first book to draw significant attention to the Bay as ideally suited for pleasure boating. The Barrie brothers were members of the Corinthian Yacht..... More
Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1886. First edition. Original cloth. Octavo. 283 pages. Reverend Bigham went to California as a missionary in the early years of the Gold Rush. The dramatized scenes and sketches here are loosely based upon his actual experiences as a preacher and miner. HOWES B444. 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: Charles Magnus, [1863?]. Colored woodcut headpiece. Single leaf approximately 5" x 8" Union Civil War songsheet with Copperhead sentiments. "Abraham Lincoln...stop this war, It's all played out..." Also references the Conscription Act which was passed in March, 1863: "The Conscription act it now is passed, and we'll be..... More
Philadelphia: J. Magee, 1864. Single sheet, folded. Union Civil War songsheet commemorating the Battle of Cedar Creek. Printed in red and blue, with double-line border and two flags at top corners. Folded once along short dimension. WOLF 97b. More
[Lowell]: Stone & Huse, Printers, [1861]. First printing. Single sheet. 5" x 8" Rare broadside program for the funerals of the first two Union soldiers killed in action during the Civil War. Addison and Ladd, both of Company D, 6th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, were killed in mob violence as..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [xii], 364 pages. Includes the following items in addition to the book: - a typed letter signed by Collier, addressed to a fan who had requested an autographed photograph. - part of the original mailing envelope for the..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1903. First edition. Black and white photographs. Full cloth. Small quarto. xiv, 492 pages. Observations and impressions by an American woman's who was with Ambassador Horace Porter's party on a diplomatic visit to Turkey. Dodd stayed at the Sultan's Yildiz Palace at Constantinople. Illustrated..... More
Boston: Tappan & Dennet, 1844. Wrappers. Octavo. 132 pages. Frustrated by Rhode Island's outdated landed property ownership requirement for voting, and by the inability to change the system legislatively, Thomas Dorr and his supporters essentially tried to set up a separate state government and capture the arsenal at Providence. These..... More
[1941]. #10 of 10. Black and white photograph. Photograph mounted on board. 1931 Walker Evans photograph, sometimes known as "Bed and Stove, Truro, Massachusetts," printed by Evans in 1941 for the exhibition "American Photographs at $10" at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. SIGNED twice on the mount..... More
Boston: David Clapp, 1847. First Edition. Wrappers. Octavo. 29, [iii], xviii pages. Scarce pamphlet concerning the Jackson-Morton dispute over the discovery of ether's effectiveness as a surgical anesthetic in 1846. More
(S.l.): [Printed by 29th Engineers, U.S. Army], 1918. Stapled wrappers. Octavo. 16 pages. This interesting pamphlet contains translations of several captured German documents from the Ludendorff Offensive on the Western Front in World War I, showing how the Germans were dealing with airplane and gas attacks. The first document shows..... More
New York: American Rocket Society, (1945). First edition thus. Black & white photographs, diagrams. More
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 294 pages. Gogarty, who was James Joyce's model for Buck Mulligan in the opening chapter of Ulysses, here presents a satire on English social mores. It is the story of one Ouseley, an Irishman, advised by..... More
Springfield: William C. Hazelton, 1922. 2nd Edition. Photographs. Original cloth. Octavo. [xvi], 138 pages. Contributions by Thomas Dixon, Jr., George L. Hopper, John B. Thompson, Clyde B. Terrell, Dr. Edmund W. Weis, and several others. Stories of waterfowling from the Chesapeake to California, Manitoba to Louisiana. There is a contribution..... More
(Wilmington): (S. N. ), (1946). First Edition. Black and White Frontispiece Photos. Full cloth. Octavo. 72 pages. Scarce biography of this prolific Victorian journalist and writer. "Gath, " as Townsend signed himself, was the youngest war correspondent during the American Civil War. His dispatches from the Battle of Five Forks..... More
Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Company, 1919. First printing. Profusely illustrated, including eight color plates of flies. Cloth hardcover. Duodecimo. xvi, 264 pages. Contents include selection, care, and rigging of the rod, the art of casting, trout habits, the angler's flies and how to tie them, description of trout-fly patterns, and..... More
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
[Boston?]: [1908]. Manuscript. 6.25" x 8" This is an endearing letter from the aged social activist, suffragist, and poet just days before her 89th birthday. Julia Ward Howe is perhaps best known as the writer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," but was also a prominent abolitionist and women's..... More
[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
Barre: Barre Publishers, 1969. Limited edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 99, [1] pages. A collection of essays on fishing and hunting. Lamb was one of the 20th century's best outdoor writers. Frontispiece features is A. L. Ripley's last illustration. Printed on specially made paper with a salmon watermark on..... More
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. 1st Edition. Original cloth. Octavo. 366 pages. A very nice first edition of one of the most important books in American literature. Hemingway believed that "American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.” This..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First American edition, Review Copy. Full cloth. Octavo. 446 pages. An extraordinary novel set in the midst of political upheaval at the beginning of the Irish War of Independence in the summer of 1919. Was awarded the Lost Man Booker for 1970 in 2010..... More