(moline, Il): (Desaulniers & Co. , Printers), (1908). First Edition. Black and White Plates. Wrappers. Octavo. 53 pages. Uncommon booklet on Lincoln as a ferryman, boatbuilder, advocate of waterway improvements, and believer in Captain John Ericsson's "monitor" naval vessel. There is also information on Lincoln's visit to Niagara Falls, his... More
[Berkeley]: Privately Printed, [1947]. Limited Edition. Single sheet pages. Single unbound sheet from a 1947 collaboration between Henry Miller and Palestinian artist Bezalel Schatz. The sheet is SIGNED by both Miller and Schatz. The edition was entirely illustrated and printed in serigraph by Schatz. The text, reproduced in Miller's hand... More
(Evanston): (Row, Peterson and Co.), (1941). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 64 pages. The author spent time "on the road" himself to learn what happened to young people who were tramps and hobos. This down-to-earth story is the fruit of these efforts at gathering information on their thinking and way of... More
Chicago: National Board Of Fire Underwriters, [1940s]. Wrappers. Octavo. [ii], 29 pages. Scarce World War II booklet highlighting vulnerabilities of ports, piers and wharves in the U. S. , and suggesting many improved practice requirements. The primary threat was fire--either by accident or sabotage--with the danger being greatly multiplied by... More
(s. L. ): (S. N. ), [1945]. Limited Edition. Wrappers. Octavo. 24 pages. This racist satire originally appeared shortly after publication of Elizabeth Keckley's "Behind the Scenes or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House" in 1868. This is #69 of a 1945 facsimile edition limited... More
Baltimore: John Murphy Company, (1908). First Edition. Frontispiece Portrait. Full cloth. Duodecimo. 180 pages. James Ryder Randall, a native Marylander, was a 22 year-old teacher living in New Orleans when the Civil War broke out in 1861. His sympathies were definitely with the South, and his inspiration for "Maryland, My... More
Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company, 1894. Third Edition. Hardcover. Sixteenmo. 218 pages. Important, author-annotated early edition of the most widely used manual of parliamentary procedure in the United States. This copy is inscribed and signed by the author to his wife: "Mrs. Helen M. Robert / from her affectionate... More
[New York]: (The Harbor Press), 1933. Hardcover. Octavo. 15 pages. The true first edition of FDR’s first Inaugural Address. He made a number of last-minute changes to the text after it had already been delivered to the Government Printing Office for printing, and even then deviated somewhat from his amended... More
Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1961. First Edition. Color Frontispiece. Full cloth. Duodecimo. x, 178 pages. One of 250 copies. Comprehensive reference to the series, including chronological and numerical lists of the volumes published plus indexes by contributor and subject. Errata page bound in at rear. Grey cloth over boards with... More
Philadelphia: Ferguson Bros. & Co., 1880. Engraved Plates. Quarter cloth. Quartos. 595 & 600 pages. Rev. Smith was the first provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia, first president of Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, secretary of the American Philosophical Society, etc. His great-grandson here presents a heavily documented... More
Springfield: Phillips Bros. [1929]. First Edition. Black and White Photographs. Hardcover. Octavo. 56 pages. Commemorative book produced for the 40th annual convention of the Sons of the American Revolution. Includes many interesting anecdotes of the Lincolns' lives in Springfield. There is an informative analysis of the newspaper coverage of the... More
Cincinnati: American Reform Tract And Book Society, 1854. Wrappers. Thirty-twomo. 15 pages. Uncommon Cincinnati imprint of this tract from Stowe, whose "Uncle Tom's Cabin" had appeared two years before. Hymn "Nearer My God To Thee" printed on rear cover. Bound in printed self wraps with sewn binding. Light foxing, contemporary... More
(s. L. ): (S. N. ), 1869. First Edition. Wrappers. Duodecimo. 46 pages. The first printed appearance of the popular play that Lincoln was watching when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1865. Laura Keene had acquired the rights to Tom Taylor's "Our American Cousin" in 1858, and... More
(albrighton): Waine Research Publications, (1995). First Edition. Color and Black & White Photographs, Drawings. Hardcover. Quarto. [ii], 114 pages. Well illustrated study of the merchant and naval ships' figureheads of Great Britain and the men who carved them. Includes directories of carvers and an appendix on the sources from which... More
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
![Abraham Lincoln Incidents in His Life Relating to Waterways [Binder's Title: Abraham Lincoln on Waterways]. William Meese, Ugustus.](/images/noimage-req.png)
