Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press, 1929. First edition. Black and white frontispiece. Octavo, full cloth, 66 pages. A tribute to Col. Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment of United States Colored Troops in the Civil War. The author, who was married to an officer in a U.S.C.T. regiment, identifies..... More
Washington: Printed by William A. Davis, 1817. Disbound. Quarto. 14 pages. A listing of 24 post-roads across various states that were deemed unproductive as of February 20th, 1817. The criteria were that the road had been established for more than two years and that it had not, within the preceding..... More
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(S.l.): (S.n.), [1920s?]. Diagrams, some tipped in photographic illustrations. Cloth over boards with vellum spine and fore corners. Folio. 100 pages [and] 127 pages [and] 113 pages. Three instructive texts, all in Italian, concerning the accurate use of mounted machine guns and the dropping of bombs from airplanes. These are..... More
Boston: Beacon Press, [2004] and (2005). First editions thus. Hardcovers. Octavos. xii, 255 pages and [xii], 178 pages. Fantastic collection of work from this master poet of the natural world and the fundamental questions of life and death. Selected by Mary Oliver herself, with volume two containing 42 new poems..... More
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
Bristol: Mount Hope Bridge Corporation, 1933. Lithographed by J. C. Hall. Folded sheet. 17 3/4" x 26" This pictorial map was created to publicize the recently opened Mount Hope Bridge connecting Aquidneck Island and Newport with mainland Rhode Island. Researched by John W. Haley and designed by H. W. Hetherington..... More
Annapolis: Printed by J. Hughes, 1822. First edition. Two fold-out tables. Modern quarter Morocco and cloth over boards. Octavo. 92 pages. Scarce report on the affairs of the Potomac Company in 1821, as investigated by a joint commission appointed by Maryland and Virginia. Here Maryland Governor Samuel Stevens formally transmits..... More
Akron: Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, 1917. First edition. Scaled drawings, plans, black and white photographs. Hardcover. Quarto. Course book on ballooning from Goodyear's Aeronautical School in Akron, Ohio. Includes chapters on: I. Parts of the Free Balloon II. Physical Properties of Gases and Atmosphere III. Gases Used in..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1904. Signed Limited Edition, #46 of 100 copies. Black and white plates. Three quarter leather. Octavo. [xiv], 439 pages. Winfield Scott Schley graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1860, served in the Civil War and several other naval operations in his lengthy..... More
[Washington]: [Museum of African Art], [1965]. Limted edition, #106 of 250 sets. Prints in black and raw umber. Four prints on individual sheets, 16 3/4" x 22" Suite of four prints by Ben Shahn, each signed and numbered by him, depicting Frederick Douglass at a different stage of his monumental..... 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: [1895]. Single sheet, 8" x 9 7/8", folded once. Suffragist pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton here writes to a Mrs. Thomas, one of the 26 women on the "Revising Committee" who, along with Stanton, wrote "The Woman's Bible." The letter is dated October 20, from Stanton's address at 26..... More
New York: Charles B. Norton, 1853. First edition. Chromolith frontispiece, numerous plates. Cloth over boards. Folio. 216, (22 ads) pages. A well-illustrated chronicle of the origin, rise, progress, and triumphs of American marine steam engineering to the mid-19th century, by the Engineer-in-Chief of the U.S. Navy. Includes diagrams and statistics..... More
[Liverpool]: [City of Liverpool], [1974]. Single sheet. 20" x 28 7/8" This rarely seen poster of the Beatles was part of a promotional package commissioned by the City of Liverpool in 1974 to promote tourism based on the Beatles. Though the Beatles had been broken up for four years by..... More
New York: (New York American, Inc.), 1929. First edition. Black and white illustrations. Publisher's cloth over boards. Octavo. xxii, 397 pages. Anti-Prohibition book that looks at the American national reaction against the 18th Amendment by 1929. The $25,000 prize-winning plan by Judge Franklin Chase Hoyt is reprinted herein, followed by..... More