New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition. Black and white plates. Hardcover. Octavo. xxii, 307, [blank], viii pages. Biography of the Temperance firebrand, Carry Nation, whose signature was attacking liquor kegs with a hatchet. This copy is signed by the author and has a printed "Seasons Greetings" card..... More
[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
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
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
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
Easton, MD: The Easton Publishing Company, Inc., 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 165 pages. Collection of Gilbert Byron's poems on themes of the Chesapeake Bay, sailing, and more. Inscribed and signed by Byron on front free endpaper, with an additional inscription by Byron on a laid in card..... More
Glasgow: James Hedderwick & Son, 1837. From the Fourth Boston Edition. Morocco-backed marbled boards. Duodecimo. 52 pages. Channing was a prominent Unitarian clergyman and very much opposed to the annexation of Texas, which he believed would in essence amount to a deliberate spreading of slavery in the nation. Channing blamed..... More
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, (1982). First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. x, 671 pages. Robert Creeley was an important poetic voice in post-World War II American literature. This collection gathers his poetry of thirty years, exhibiting his development and the singular inventiveness that made him a...... 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
Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke, 1822. First edition. Engravings. Paper over boards with leather spine. Duodecimo. 155 pages. This manual is an early attempt to introduce a uniform system cavalry of exercise and movements for the U. S. military. Illustrated with eight copper-plate engravings. Includes significant instruction on swords. More
Wilmington: R. France & Co., 1861. Broadside. 7 3/4" x 19" A fantastic 1861 promotional handbill for a lottery to augment public finance. The Consolidated Lottery of Delaware was authorized by the legislature in January, 1859 as an act for the encouragement of internal improvements in the State of Delaware..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 179 pages. First printing of this posthumous collection. There is a previously unpublished essay and ten previously uncollected science fiction short stories. 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
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1933). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. vi, 112 pages. A scarce drinking guide, published the year Prohibition was repealed. Separate sections for beer, wine, and cocktails with mixing instructions for the latter. Particular attention is also given to what foods should be served with each..... 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
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
[New York?]: (Gill Engraving Company?), [c.1905?]. One of a series of illustrations by E. M. Gill which were featured in Artemas Ward's advertising trade journal, "Fame," around the turn of the 20th century. Nicely matted and framed. More
(New York): Privately Printed for the Angler's Club of New York, 1926. Limited Edition, #209 of 350 copies. Black and white maps and plates. Paper over boards with cloth spine. Octavo. [xviii], 139 pages. An early attempt to outline the problems of trout stream ecology and conservation. Designed..... More
Brooklyn: Historical Printing Club, 1891. Limited edition, #84 of 250 copies. Black and white frontispiece photo. This copy extra-illustrated. Leather and marbled paper over boards. Tall octavo. 111 pages plus 8 pages of publisher ads. The period covered in this orderly book of the Maryland Loyalists begins with the evacuation..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1914). First printing. Tan-gray laid paper over boards. Octavo. 75 pages. Alfred Joyce Kilmer was an American poet, editor, critic, and Roman Catholic lecturer who contemporary critics often compared to G. K. Chesterton and Hillaire Belloc. Today Kilmer is remembered as the..... 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
[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
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1907. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xxii, [2], 193 pages [+1 page ad]. Text includes articles and an address by Capt. Mahan, plus two articles by other authors. The pieces by Mahan are: - The Moral Aspect of War - The Practical Aspect..... More
Baltimore: Sands & Neilson, 1837. First edition. Original wraps. Octavo. 90 pages. Scarce pamphlet on the Maryland Constitutional crisis of 1836. The Maryland Senate was chosen by an electoral college at this time, and the crisis arose when the state's 19 Democrat electors, angry that they were in the minority..... More
Philadelphia: Rufus C. Hartranft, Publisher, 1891. First Edition. Black and white plates. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. xxiv, 264 pages. Mrs. Maynard's personal recollections of séances conducted in the Lincoln White House. She claims Lincoln used spirit counsel in such matters as the Emancipation Proclamation and the Freedmen's Bureau... More