Washington: Printed by William A. Davis, 1817. Disbound. Quarto. 14 pages. A listing of 24 post-roads across various states that were deemed unproductive as of February 20th, 1817. The criteria were that the road had been established for more than two years and that it had not, within the preceding..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1922). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 328 pages. Mencken's acerbic wit and good sense. A nice looking copy. Errata slip tipped in. More
New York: Random House, (1934). Limited edition. Cloth over boards with leather spine and fore corners. Octavo. 157 pages. Beautiful edition of this play by Eugene O'Neill. This is copy #220 of a stated limitation of 325 copies. Binding by Bayntun of Bath. More
Boston: Beacon Press, [2004] and (2005). First editions thus. Hardcovers. Octavos. xii, 255 pages and [xii], 178 pages. Fantastic collection of work from this master poet of the natural world and the fundamental questions of life and death. Selected by Mary Oliver herself, with volume two containing 42 new poems..... More
New York: James Miller, [1860]. Hand colored. Single sheet. Approximately 17 1/4" x 29 1/4" Street map of New York City that was drawn by Humphrey Phelps in 1857. Wards are shaded in different colors. Also included are parts of Brooklyn, Hoboken, and Jersey City. Includes a guide to locate..... More
Washington: Navy Department, 1919. Navy Department Letterhead plus a single blank sheet. 8" x 10 1/2" A fine 2 paragraph letter in which future President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his role as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, gently denies a request from a founder of the American Legion for a...... More
Rochester: The Du Bois Press, 1928. Pictorial map. Folded sheet, 25 3/4" x 38 5/8" Large colorful pictorial map showing downtown Cleveland in 1928. Cartoons and historic vignettes decorate the map, which also gives the layout of the streets, railroad lines, and wharves along Lake Erie. Comes with original..... More
[Liverpool]: [City of Liverpool], [1974]. Single sheet. 20" x 28 7/8" This rarely seen poster of the Beatles was part of a promotional package commissioned by the City of Liverpool in 1974 to promote tourism based on the Beatles. Though the Beatles had been broken up for four years by..... More
New York: Creative Age Press, (1947). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [iv], 305 pages. Struggles of mulatto Beau Beauchamp in a racially intolerant New Orleans. First novel by this African American author. This copy inscribed and signed by Thomas on preliminary blank leaf. Ref.: Blockson #5367; Whiteman..... More
New York: Grove Press, (1954). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 174 pages. A collection of related stories about a small West African boy who ends up in the ghost-inhabited wilderness after fleeing armed slave traders. This was Tutuola's second book, following "The Palm Wine Drinkard." More
New York: The Tea & Coffee Journal Company, 1935. Limited edition. Color frontispiece, numerous black and white illustrations in text. Cloth over boards. Quarto. xiv, 818 pages. The first independent work to fully cover all aspects of coffee, including the historical, technical, scientific, commercial, social, and artistic. Everything from early..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917. Black and white halftone photographs. Stapled wraps. Octavo. 28 pages. Summarizes the anti-aircraft weapons and capabilities of Italy, France, Germany, England, and the United States in World War I as of April, 1917. Draws conclusions based thereupon this information and what had been learned about..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1968. First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xvi, [1-2], 3-226 [227-237] pages. Inscribed and signed by Watson on preliminary blank leaf. Here is Watson's story of his work with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins--the three merging data from chemistry, physics, and biology--to solve the molecular structure of..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1982). First printing. Black and white illustrations. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 326 pages. Welchman was a mathematician working at Bletchley Park, analyzing Nazi German Enigma intercepts. Some progress had been made, but the decoding process took so long that the information was of little use by..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1923. Limited edition. Original cloth over boards. Quarto. x, 175 pages. A comedic Prohibition entertainment set in Ancient Greece. The Preface is by "Samuel Johonson," then dead for 139 years. Copy #426 of a limited edition, signed by Owen Wister on limitation page. Several bold full..... More