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: Lee Keedick, 1913. First Edition. First Printing. Maps, b&w photographs. Original cloth. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xxv, 392 & x, 449 pages. Amundsen's expedition was the first to reach the geographic South Pole, achieving the feat on December 14, 1911. They were 8 weeks ahead of the..... 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
[Baltimore]: (Printing Bureau, Police Department), 1925. Flexible cloth. Sixteenmo. 158 pages. 1925 pocket handbook for Baltimore Policemen with detailed descriptions of over 50 rules of expected conduct in a variety of situations. Pencilled ownership inscription on front pastedown: "Officer Michael J. Moloney / Northeastern District." There is a $5.00 receipt..... More
[Boston]: (S.n.), 1862. Broadside. 6 1/8" x 14 5/8" John Wilkes Booth, following in his father's and siblings' footsteps, tried his hand at acting and found some success in stock companies in Philadelphia, Richmond, and other provincial theaters. Still, he performed under the name "J. Wilkes" because he lacked the..... More
New York: E. M. Blunt, (Proprietor,) and Samuel A. Burtus, 1817. 1/2 leather. Octavo. xvi, [2], 274, 280, [555]-597, [13] pages. Early edition of this important work on navigation. The extensive tables have in this edition been stereotyped for the first time, at significant expense. This is the first and..... 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
San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1919. First Edition. Black & white photographs. Original cloth. Octavo. 117 pages. Interesting and often witty collection of letters from a young Californian to his parents and wife back home. Lt. Britton sailed for France in July, 1918. He participated in the Battle of Argonne. He..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1883. First Edition. First Printing. Black & white plates. Hardcover. Octavo. 240 pages. An important Whitman book, though more of an anthology of documents about Whitman than a conventional biography. Its importance arises from the major contributions of Whitman himself, who wrote the account of his birthplace..... 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: David Mckay, 1937. First Edition. First Printing. Full cloth. Octavo. 243 pages pages. Fictionalized memoir of a Southern "mammy," tracing her story from early life and capture in Africa, being sold in America, her "happy childhood on a southern plantation, and her unhappy girlhood; her role as "Mammy"..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, (1956). Limited Edition. 1 of 50. Paintings, some color. Leather. Octavo. [12], vii-x, 302 pages. Chamberlain's memoir details his personal adventures in Mexico and the American Southwest before, during, and after the Mexican War. It is the primary source for Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece, Blood..... More
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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
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[Albany]: (Weed, Parsons & Co., Printers), [1863]. First Edition. Wrappers. Octavo. 16 pages. A pro-Union Democrat attack on the Copperhead wing of their party. The Copperheads sought to let the Confederate states peacefully secede from the Union, and this pamphlet refutes them with testimony and opinions of many prominent Democrats..... 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
Philadelphia: Published for the Subscribers, 1848. First Edition. 2 facsimile letters by George Washington. Quarter leather. Octavo. 302 pages. Little known episode of the Revolutionary War in which several prominent Quaker citizens of Philadelphia were arrested and banished to Virginia when their pacifism ran afoul of the Supreme Executive Council..... 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
Fort Worth: Western Heritage Press, (1971). First Edition. Black & white photos, facsimiles, etc. Hardcover. Octavo. 202 pages. History of New Mexico's rugged frontier rangers and their fight for law and order in the territory. In addition to his other research, Hornung was able to gather personal recollections from the..... 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
[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
Norfolk/Virginia Beach: Donning Company Publishers, (1989). Black and White Photographs. Hardcover. Quarto. 191 pages. The best compilation of historic photographs of Anne Arundel County. Includes over 300 generously captioned photographs of Annapolis, Glen Burnie, Severna Park, Fort Meade, Odenton, and South County, along with historical narrative by Kelly for each..... More
Boston: Henry Tolman & Co., 1861. Paper covers. Folio. [3 ] pages. Unusual copy of the "Star Spangled Banner, " printed with Oliver Wendell Holmes' fifth stanza in place. Holmes' lyrics are very much of their moment at the outbreak of the Civil War, as seen in this sample: "If..... More
[Atlanta]: Ku Klux Press, 1918. Wrappers. Octavo. 8 pages. Indicated as being "Document No. 1 of Imperial Instructions, Series AD. 1918, AK. LII. " Early publication of the reincarnated KKK, which was founded in 1915 by William Joseph Simmons in Georgia. Describes the various conduct expected of members. Simmons was..... More
Baltimore: John D. Toy, Printer, 1838. Disbound. Octavo. 45 pages. Speeches in support of colonization and in adamant opposition to abolition, by President of the Senate Richard Thomas, Speaker of the House William H. Tuck, J. H. Culbreth, William F. Giles, and Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge. This Maryland branch of..... More
New York: Random House, (1985). First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 337 pages. McCarthy's masterpiece, which critics now acknowledge as one of the greatest American novels to date and likely to retain that status. Set in the American Southwest between 1849-1850 and based on historical events, McCarthy brings some unforgettable..... More