New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1864. First printing. Extra engraved title page, 1 map. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 196, 8 (ads) pages. An important firsthand account by a woman who experienced the siege of Vicksburg by Union forces in 1863. Ref. Nevins vol II, p. 195. 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
[Cooper Station]: [Students for DeBerry and Shaw], [1964]. Black and white illustrations. Single sheet folded twice into a brochure. 8 1/2" x 10 3/4" A rare bit of ephemera from the 1964 U.S. Presidential campaign of Clifton DeBerry. DeBerry was the first African American in the 20th century to be..... 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
(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
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
London: Oldburne, (1958). First printing. Black and white frontispiece and photographic plates. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 222 pages. George Burchett was kicked out of school at age 12 for tattooing his classmates. After a stint in the Royal Navy--from which he absconded--he became a full-time tattoo artist in 1900... 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
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, (1984). First printing. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 387 pages. A signed first edition of Clancy's debut novel. This Cold War fiction high spot is CIA analyst Jack Ryan's debut as well, as he plays a hunch that a Soviet submarine captain is trying to defect with..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1940. Limited edition, one of 350 copies. Hardcover. Octavo. 30 pages. This short story revolves around rural villagers' misunderstanding the nature of a checkbook when a visitor pays for a house by writing a check. Originally published in The New Yorker, this is..... More
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1938. First U.S. printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [iv], 283 pages. The authentic autobiography of a London prostitute. Very well written account of London's sexual underworld in the 1930s by a firsthand observer. This work has sometimes been attributed to Graham Greene. It was suppressed..... More
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1984. Limited Edition, one of 200 copies. Hardcover. Small octavo. 25 pages. This is one of 200 copies signed by Crumley. A wonderful fragment, a least some of which went on to become "Mexican Tree Duck. ". Issued without a dust jacket. More
London: J. and R. Tonson, S. Draper, and R. Dodsley, 1749. Second edition. Engraved plates. Hardcovers. Octavos. Over 800 pages. Nice early edition of this foundational work of Western literature. Don Quixote is considered the first modern novel, and on par with the works of Shakespeare. Translated from..... More
[Rochester?]: (S.n.), [1899]. Black and white illustrations. Single sheet. 4" x 9 1/4" This small broadside is a rare piece of ephemera from the unveiling of this monument to Frederick Douglass in 1899. The Rochester monument to Douglass was the first in the nation to honor a particular African American..... More
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
(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
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
Hicksville: The Gnome Press, Inc., (1959). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 255 pages. First edition of the collection of eight science fiction stories by one of the biggest names in the genre. A handsome copy, housed in an attractive custom slipcase. 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
Austin: 1969. A nice letter on Johnson's post-Presidential stationery with a clear, bold signature. Includes the original free franked mailing envelope. Johnson expresses his gratitude for a very complimentary letter from a private citizen who states that: "Historians will surely regard you as the president most conscientious about the needs..... More
London: Charles Dilly, 1781. Third Edition. Half calf over marbled paper boards. Duodecimo. xx, 415 pages. Knox was an educator, having succeeded his father as headmaster of Tonbridge School. Here are 40 interesting essays in which he gives his views on education--everything from learning classics by heart to developing a...... 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
London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1832. First printing. Modern marbled paper over board, leather spine. Octavo. iv, 108 pages. Lewis was a highly regarded chess player and teacher in his time. He is believed to be the first person to be described as a Grandmaster of the game. He..... 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
[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