Nashua: J. W. Pease, [1868?]. Single leaf, approximately 5.25" x 5.75" Nineteenth century advertising notice for patent medicine hair product. Pease, of Nashua, New Hampshire, claimed his product would restore gray hair to its natural color, More
Concord: Republican Press Association, 1885. Third Edition. Wrappers. Duodecimo. 96 pages. Parker Pillsbury, prominent abolitionist and male feminist, first published this tract about 1847. In it he argues that the ruling influence of church and pulpit are on the side of the oppressor throughout the United States. Pillsbury's nephew, Albert..... More
Detroit: Detroit Free Press Publishing Company, 1885. First Edition. First Printing. Black & white engravings, cuts. Full cloth. tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall. viii, 520 pages. Subtitle continues..."Including Many Incidents and Circumstances Never Before Published in Any Form." Beautiful copy of this uncommon Civil War history. Two volumes were..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1901. First Edition. Flexible leather. Octavo. 141 [+14] pages. An important study of Governor Hicks and his crucial efforts to shape Maryland's loyalties on the eve and in the early years of the Civil War. Includes chapters on Hicks's early political career, rumors of plots against..... 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
Caldwell: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1948. Limited edition. Color frontispiece, black and photographs, maps. Full cloth. Tall octavo. 366 pages. History of the western cattle empire, with first hand recollections on its twilight. Includes material on the hanging of Cattle Kate, the Johnson County War, Tom Horn and the Wild..... More
Washington, D. C. 1901. 6.50" by 8.25". 1 pages. A rather early Theodore Roosevelt letter as President, having succeeded to the office upon the death of President William McKinley just 17 days earlier. Roosevelt, having received a letter from John G. Winter, Jr., here asks his Acting Secretary of War..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Limited edtiion. Illustrated by Everett Henry. Bound in cloth over boards with gilt-stamped leather spine, top edge gilt. Quarto. xx, 257 pages. Beautiful edition of Mary Shelley's classic horror story. This is copy #313 of 1500. Illustrated with plates and chapter heads by Everett..... More
New York: The Bradstreet Company, 1882. Colored maps, advertising cuts. Flexible leather. Oblong twenty-fourmo. [x], 50, [vi] pages. Scarce pocket atlas published exclusively for Boston haberdashers Macullar, Parker & Company. In addition to the colored maps of the states and territories, there are 15 maps of mining districts within various..... More
Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1913. First edition. Frontispiece Portrait of Bishop Claggett. Original full cloth. Octavo. viii, 184 pages. Utley uses Bishop Thomas Claggett's (1743-1816) letters and journals to assemble an interesting picture of contemporary life and thought in the southern counties of Colonial Maryland. His focus..... 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
(s.l.): (s.n.), [1919]. Black & white photographs, cartoons. Full cloth. Quarto. 56 pages. Scarce World War I aerial unit history. Formed at Kelly Field, Texas in late December, 1917, the 174th "Black Cat" Aero Squadron then trained in England before arriving in France on October 28, 1918. The Squadron provided..... More
New York: Columbia Jester, 1932-1933. Cartoons, vintage advertising. Bound volume, full cloth. Quarto, approximately 200 pages. Nice collection of 8 issues of this student publication of Columbia University, bound with the colorful covers intact. 18 year old Herman Wouk appears on the masthead--initially as a lowly member of the associate..... More