Prejudices, Third Series
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
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Life Story and Picture Album of Ray R. Myers, World's Famous Armless Musician (Signed)
(S.l.): (S.n.), [1940s]. Black & white halftones from photographs. Saddle-stapled wrappers. Octavo. [8] pages. Interesting booklet on Ray R. Myers, born without arms. Though a circus sought to employ him at age 3, his parents chose to give him as normal a life as they could. He learned to play..... More
A Tale of Love and Darkness (Signed)
Orlando: Harcourt, Inc., (2004). First U.S. printing. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 1-538 pages. Amos Oz grew up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the 1940s and 1950s, and his extraordinary memoir is simultaneously tragic, comic, and utterly honest. It is the magical self-portrait of a gifted writer who witnessed the birth of..... More
The Hidden Persuaders
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., (1957). First edition. Full cloth. Octavo. viii, 275 pages. A fascinating guide to the dawn of the Age of Manipulation, when motivational researchers were learning all sorts of things about people's subconscious urges, fears, frustrations, and wish fulfillments, and the Mad Men employed this..... More
The Arts and Crafts in Philadelphia, Maryland, and South Carolina 1721-1785, Gleanings from Newspapers
(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
Manual for Agents
[Pittsburgh]: Office of Administrator, Prohibition District No. 4, [1925]. Cloth over flexible boards. Sixteenmo. [ii], 53 pages. A rare manual issued by Prohibition District No. 4, Pittsburgh as a pocket guide to help its Revenue and Prohibition agents build strong cases as they enforced the Volstead Act in the field..... More
Dark Companion
New York: National Travel Club, (1947). Cloth over boards. Octavo. [xx], 266 pages. An uncommon biography of Matthew Henson--the African American explorer who was Robert Peary's indispensable man on his polar expeditions--and who actually reached the North Pole before Peary did. Henson was highly respected among other explorers..... More
Shanghai's Schemozzle
(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
The Original Account of Capt. John Lovewell's "Great Fight" with the Indians, at Pequawket, May 8, 1725
Concord: P. B. Cogswell, Printer, 1861. Map. Wrappers. Octavo. 48 pages. Mid-19th century reprint of the narrative of this battle between British colonists and the Abenaki at present-day Fryeburg, Maine. Includes a map of the locality drawn by George B. Barrows, popular ballads related to the incident, etc. More
Walden; Or, Life in the Woods
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1854. First Edition. Map. Original cloth. Octavo. 357, ads. pages. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came..... More
Establishment of Diplomatic Relations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - The Department of State, Eastern European Series, No. 1
Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1933. First printing. Stapled wrappers. Octavo. iv, 22 pages. The correspondence, initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which led to the first official U. S. diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik takeover of Russia in the October Revolution of 1917... More
The Parson of the Islands: A Biography of the Late Rev. Joshua Thomas, with Sketches of Many of His Contemporaries, and an Account of the Origin of Methodism on the Islands of the Chesapeake and the Eastern Shores of Maryland and Virginia
Philadelphia: Published at the office of The Methodist Home Journal, 1870. Woodcut illustrations. Original cloth. Octavo. 412 pages. Joshua Thomas was a Tangier and Deal Island waterman-turned-minister who was largely responsible for the spread of Methodism on Maryland's Eastern Shore and Tangier Island. This account by Wallace is based on..... More
CONFIDENTIAL—FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY - Notes on Anti-Aircraft Guns - Compiled at the Army War College From the Latest Available Information – April, 1917
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
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