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[Baton Rouge]: [Army and Navy Publishing Company, Inc.], 1941. Black and white photographs, one color cartoon. Hardcover. Folio. [vi], 89, [26] pages. Uncommon book on this California coastal defense regiment during World War II. Camp McQuaide was located near Watsonville, California, and the site is now occupied by Monterey Bay..... More
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, [1960?]. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 285 pages. Alexander Belyaev was Russia's first sci-fi writer, sometimes called the Russian Jules Verne. Here he spins the story of a reclusive doctor on the coast of South America who gives his son shark gills in a life-saving operation. The son..... 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
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
New York: David Longworth, 1808. Disbound. Octavo. 56 pages. The courtroom proceedings as a Black man is charged with bastardy in New York at the beginning of the 19th century. Alexander Whistelo was claimed by the mother herself to be the father of her female bastard child, which she had..... More
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
(Glendale): (Poetry X/Change, [1968]. First printing. Centerfold drawing. Wrappers. Octavo. [16] pages. This first edition of this collection of poetry by Bukowski is one of about 400 copies published in the summer of 1968. Cover illustration is a reproduction of P. David Horton's "Self-Portrait." The poem "Cows in..... 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
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1865. Half leather with marbled paper sides. Duodecimos. Over 1,600 pages. A beautiful edition of Don Quixote, a work widely regarded as the first modern novel. A pinnacle of world literature, on par with the work of Shakespeare--with whom Cervantes was a contemporary. Includes a...... More
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
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
[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: 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
[San Francisco]: Soheyl Dahi/Sore Dove Press, 2014. Limited edition, one of 30 copies. Portfolio. 10 1/4" x 12" Here is Ferlinghetti's scathing 1962 letter to TIME in defense of Jack Kerouac and his then-latest-book "Big Sur." TIME had reviewed the book in what Ferlinghetti here calls a "...snide, sneering, condescending..... More
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
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1871. 1st Edition. Original cloth. Duodecimos. 152 pages. First state of the first edition, with correct issue points on spine, title page, and page 136, together with a second state copy. The pair are housed together in a custom half morocco slipcase. 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
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
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]: 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
Barre: Barre Publishers, 1971. Limited edition. `. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 92, [1] pages. A fine collection of Lamb's essays on fly-fishing for trout and salmon and other outdoor sporting adventures. Edition limited to 1500, this copy is SIGNED by Lamb but not numbered. Lacks the slipcase... 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
(S.l.): (E. P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence), (1986). Advance Reading Copy. Self-wraps. Octavo. [54] pages. An advance printing of the title story in the collection "To Skin a Cat," published in October of 1986. This is copy #28 of 250, signed by McGuane on front cover. Letter from publisher dated June 19..... More