New York: The John Day Company, Inc., (1947). Second printing. Publisher's cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 248 pages. Insightful and important book, the first to identify the Cold War. Burnham's opening sentences describe the relatively minor revolt of Greek sailors and soldiers against the British at Alexandria in April, 1944..... 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
(New York): Privately Printed for the Angler's Club of New York, 1926. Limited Edition, #209 of 350 copies. Black and white maps and plates. Paper over boards with cloth spine. Octavo. [xviii], 139 pages. An early attempt to outline the problems of trout stream ecology and conservation. Designed..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1932. Early printing. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. [i]-[viii], 1-289 pages. A collection of alternative histories of famous events and people, proposed by the likes of G. K. Chesterton, Emil Ludwig, Hilaire Belloc, Harold Nicolson, and, of course, Winston Churchill. Contributions include such..... More
New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910. First Edition. Frontispiece portrait. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 206 pages. In the spring of 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt sent a Commission abroad in an attempt to interest the prominent nations of Europe in putting China's finances on the gold standard..... More
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1938. Limited Edition, #317 of 800 sets. Full calf. Octavos. xxviii, 415 and viii, 389 pages. Rousseau's "Confessions" is notable as one of the first major autobiographies ever written. Unlike other early autobiographies which focused on religious experiences, Rousseau shares his worldly experiences and personal feelings..... More
Philadelphia: Rufus C. Hartranft, Publisher, 1891. First Edition. Black and white plates. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. xxiv, 264 pages. Mrs. Maynard's personal recollections of séances conducted in the Lincoln White House. She claims Lincoln used spirit counsel in such matters as the Emancipation Proclamation and the Freedmen's Bureau... More
Richmond: Wm. Ellis Jones' Sons, Inc., Printers, 1915. First Edition. Printed wraps. Octavo. 59 pages. A vigorous account of the Chancellorsville Campaign in the spring of 1863. McIntosh had just been promoted to major and was in command of a battalion of Confederate artillery during these actions. Uncommon pamphlet... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1881-82. Publisher's cloth over boards. Octavo. 382 pages. First printing of the famous "suppressed Boston edition," seventh edition overall. Rather scarce edition of Whitman's monumental work, due to the short time it was available for sale. The publisher, Osgood, was acting as go-between for..... More
London: Heinemann, (1960). First British Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Harper Lee's novel of racial injustice in the South in the 1930s, as seen through the eyes of a young girl. Lee won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 for this debut novel, which has become a classic of modern American literature. This..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1900. First Edition. Illustrations by E. W. Kemble. Publisher's decorated cloth over boards. Small octavo. 362 pages. Beautiful copy of this Dunbar collection of 20 stories. Dunbar slips brilliantly into dialect throughout these stories. A fine and underappreciated piece of Dunbar, who was primarily..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856. First edition. Frontispiece engraved portrait, woodcut plates. Three quarter leather with pebbled cloth sides. Octavo. 356 pages. Campaign biography of the first Republican Presidential nominee. Frémont had been born in Georgia, yet was opposed to slavery. He had led several expeditions to explore the West..... 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
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New York: The Abbey Press, (1902). First Edition. Original cloth. Duodecimo. [iv], 81 pages. Haggerty lays out his "Guarantee Plan" for the Democrats to deal justly with the trusts and defeat Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. Scarce. OCLC locates just 9 copies as of October 2019, none in commerce. More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1907. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xxii, [2], 193 pages [+1 page ad]. Text includes articles and an address by Capt. Mahan, plus two articles by other authors. The pieces by Mahan are: - The Moral Aspect of War - The Practical Aspect..... More
London: William Pickering, 1836. First Nicolas edition. Black and white engravings throughout. 3/4 leather and marbled boards. Quartos. ccxii, 129 and [130]-436, [32] pages. A handsome set of the large paper first Nicolas edition of Walton, acclaimed as the finest "Angler" ever published. Sir Harris Nicolas not only secured excellent..... More
Raleigh: Printed at the "Daily Confederate" Office, 1865. Stitched without wrappers. Octavo. 102 pages. The Grand Lodge met in Raleigh the first week of December, 1864. In his address herein Grand Master Eli Faucette Watson, alluding to the Civil War and the Confederacy, notes that the ancient fraternity of Free..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. Illustrations in color and black & white. Hardcover. Quarto. xxvi, 155 pages. The ambitious project, edited by Edith Wharton, to benefit civilians displaced by World War I. Contains essays, poetry, art, and music from nearly 60 contributors, including the likes of Sarah Bernhardt, Rupert..... More
New York: Covici Friede Publishers, (1936). Second edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [x], 269 pages. Historical fiction based on the life of Sir Henry Morgan, and Steinbeck's first novel, originally published by McBride in 1929. This copy is the second edition according to the standard Steinbeck reference by Goldstone..... 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
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Princeton: Students of Princeton University, 1917. Advertising. Printed wrappers. Octavo. [x], [297]-346, [vi] pages. Two early F. Scott Fitzgerald print appearances, one story and one poem, in Princeton's undergraduate literary magazine. His short story "The Spire and the Gargoyle" occupies this issue's first eleven pages of content, and the college-angsty..... More
Lincoln: The Woodruff Press, 1913. First edition. Black and white photographic frontispiece plus 15 other plates (16 in total). Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 311 pages. Scarce, heavily autobiographical first novel by Oscar Micheaux, relating his experiences as a homesteader in Gregory County, South Dakota and the failure of his..... More
Cincinnati: Wilstach, Baldwin, & Co., 1875. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Octavo, 276 pages. Rather harsh criticism of Sherman's Memoirs, arguing that in them he belittles the contributions of other generals and blames them for his own failures. Some of Boynton criticism appears justified when he compares selected incidents..... 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
Washington: Privately Printed, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 92 pages. A delightful volume of fishing reminiscences by a prominent Yale geologist and petrologist. Pirsson writes of fishing for trout in New England, ouananiche in Quebec, grayling in Montana, and salmon in the Atlantic. Written during Pirsson's last illness and..... More