1946-1954. Loose sheets. 8 1/2" x 11" and smaller. 8 individual items. This group of items originated with the impact Nimitz's 1946 speech had on one member of the USNA class of 1947. That graduate obtained a copy of the speech, and years later wrote to Nimitz and requested that..... More
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., (1952). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 276 pages. Scarce first printing of this highly influential early self-help book. Norman Vincent Peale's suggested methods were a combination of self-hypnosis and religious faith, and certainly had detractors, but this book forever stamped the nascent self-help genre. More
(S.l.): The Walpole Society, 1929. Limited edition. Black and white plates. Full cloth, octavo, xviii, 325 pages. Useful reference that gives brief sketches of a wide variety of craftsmen and manufacturers, including silversmiths, cabinet makers, stone cutters, sign painters, engravers, glass ware makers, upholsterers, clock makers, and much more. One..... More
[Philadelphia?]: (Democratic National Committee?), [1937?]. Limited Edition. Color and b&w illustrations, ads. Full leather. Folio. 384 pages. The signed limited edition of the souvenir book that recapped Roosevelt's reelection victory and Democrat gains in the 1936 national election. A souvenir book recapping President Roosevelt's victory and Democrat gains in the..... More
[Washington]: (S.n.), 1908. Broadside. 16" x 19" This commission appointed Alva B. Court an Assistant Naval Constructor with the rank of Lieutenant, junior-grade, in the U.S. Navy. Theodore Roosevelt remains one of America's most popular presidents, even after more than a century since leaving office, and this is a very..... More
(Shanghai): (North-China Daily News & Herald, Ltd), (1937). First edition. Cartoons. Softcover. Quarto. Not paginated [36 leaves]. Rare collection of cartoons and humor from the Japanese attack on Shanghai in 1937. "Sapajou" was the pen name of Russian cartoonist Georgii Sapojnikoff, whose cartoons began appearing in the North-China Daily News..... More
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., (1956). First edition. Illustrated by Lamar Dodd. Full cloth. Octavo. x, 435 pages. The 51st volume in the Rivers of America Series, here is the story of the Santee, which drains the Carolinas east of the Appalachian Mountains. Peopled with rugged individualists of the..... More
(Philadelphia): Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad Company, 1883. First edition. Engraved cuts, fold-out map. Printed wrappers. Duodecimo. 96 pages. Rather scarce booklet which describes the fishing and waterfowling delights to be found on the Delaware and Maryland peninsula in the Chesapeake Bay, with many engraved cuts of different species and..... More
[New York?]: National Basketball Association? 1949. 1st Edition. Black & white photographs. Wrappers. Octavo. 96 pages. The 1949-1950 basketball season was the first for the NBA, which had been formed in the summer of 1949 by the merger of the 12 year old National Basketball League and the 4 year..... More
[New York]: 1893. Single sheet, 5 3/4" x 8 7/8" Suffragist pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton here responds to Ohio manuscript collector Dr. Charles Elmer Rice, who had apparently requested of her letters of noteworthy individuals. He seems to have sent her an abolitionist's letter, possibly to entice her to accede..... More
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, (1865). Woodcuts. Disbound. Octavo. 79, [I] pages. Perhaps the first book on the Lincoln assassination, originally published about a month after the event. George Alfred Townsend was a pioneering war correspondent during the Civil War, and covered the Lincoln assassination and its aftermath for..... More
(Tokyo): Suntory Ltd., (1976). Black and white illustrations. Oak boards, leather spine, housed in a clamshell box. Tall octavo. 362 pages. A fantastic production to commemorate Suntory's 50th anniversary as the originator of quality whisky production in Japan. The book consists of 20 works from well known authors from 5..... More
Washington: J. & G. S. Gideon, 1845. Wood engravings. Disbound. Octavo. 24 pages. Vail was an engineer and inventor who collaborated with Samuel B. Morse in the development and practical application of the telegraph. Some have argued it was actually Vail who invented the telegraphic alphabet named after Morse, but..... More
[New York]: (S.n.), [1813?]. Broadside. 5 1/4" x 7 7/8" Blank printed form to certify ownership of shares in the privateer Yorktown during the War of 1812. The Yorktown operated out of New York against British ships beginning in 1813. This scrip is for her second cruise. She did manage..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1912. First Edition. Black & white frontispiece portraits. Original cloth. Octavo. xvi, 580 & x, 582 pages. Exciting memoir of Wilson's entire military career, with the majority being devoted to the Civil War. Wilson served on Thomas W. Sherman's staff in the South Atlantic..... More