Newburyport: Press of Hiram Tozer, 1838. Wrappers. Octavo. 18 pages. A sermon likely in response to the February 24, 1838 pistol duel between two members of the U.S. Congress, resulting in the death of newly elected Representative Jonathan Cilley of Maine. Cilley had taken to the House floor and made..... More
Washington: (S.n.), 1863. Wraps. Octavo. 8 pages. Frederick Law Olmsted--pioneering American landscape architect and co-designer of New York's Central Park--here gives a very interesting report in his role as General Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. Olmsted gives a good outline of the activities..... More
[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
San Bernardino: Southern California Tourist Association, Inc., 1963. Pictorial map. Measures approximately 22" x 35". Single sheet. Colorful perspective pictorial map of Los Angeles and Southern California, looking east-northeast over Catalina Island. Border vignettes, portraits of Father Junipero Serra and Juan Batista de Anza, and many other figures decorate the..... More
New York: Vantage Press, Inc., (1951). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 90 pages. An African American woman's semi-autobiographical novel of overcoming discouragement from her mother and oppression from society to achieve her dreams of happiness and success as a writer. Rosebrough was born in Alabama and became..... 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
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1784. Third edition, with additions. Speckled calf over boards. Octavos. 1) viii, 499; 2) vi, 518, Appendix [5]; and 3) v, [blank], 465, [blank], Index [45], [1 (ad)] pages. An uncommon but particularly interesting and important edition of "Wealth of Nations," whose..... More
San Francisco: Sore Dove Press, (2006). Limited edition, #6 of 75. Four pieces of original art. Hardcover portfolio with three ribbon ties. Folio. A portfolio of 22 individually letterpress-printed poems by Beat poets such as Diane di Prima, Neeli Cherkovski, Harold Norse, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and others. This is portfolio #6..... 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
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
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: 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
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
Annapolis: 1865. Folded sheets, with original envelope. Incredible 6 page manuscript letter from a Civil War Chaplain posted at Annapolis, discussing St. John's College Hospital Chapel, visiting hospitals, and the work of the U.S. Christian Commission in Annapolis during the war. Partial transcript: "At 2 P.M. I preached..... 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