London: William Heinemann, Ltd., (1972). Color plates, black and white illustrations in text. Half leather. Octavo. 162 pages. A particularly handsome copy of Alice featuring the groundbreaking 1907 illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Rackham's work on Alice was controversial at the time. Purists felt that none but the original drawings by..... More

New York: Essential Books, (1945). Black and white photographs. Cloth over boards. Quarto. 246 pages. Gritty collection of Weegee's famous street photographs of New York City in the 1940s. Weegee worked at night with a 4x5 Speed Graphic press camera, closely following a police scanner. He specialized in crime and..... More

New York: Modern Library, (2002). First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. vi, 471 pages. McCarthy's fourth novel, reputedly semi-autobiographical, set in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1951. Cornelius Suttree leaves his prominent family to live, estranged from normal society, in a dilapidated houseboat along the Tennessee River. Reviewer Stanley Booth has suggested..... More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1932). First edition. Drawings by Edwin Tunis. Half leather. Octavo. xxiv, 326 pages. The classic collection of old Maryland recipes for everything from oysters, crabs, terrapin and fowl, to breads, cakes, puddings, beverages and desserts. Each of the 500 plus recipes in Frederick Stieff's..... More

(S.l.): (S.n.), [c.1940?]. Black & white photograph. Flyer, folded once, opens to 8.5" x 11" Vintage sideshow promotional flyer for Al and Jeanie Tomaini. Al was once the tallest man in the world at 8' 4", while Jeanie, who was born without lower limbs, measured just 2" 4" tall. They..... More

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 294 pages. Gogarty, who was James Joyce's model for Buck Mulligan in the opening chapter of Ulysses, here presents a satire on English social mores. It is the story of one Ouseley, an Irishman, advised by..... More

New York: Arno Press, 1968. American Bible Society Edition. Hardcovers. Duodecimos. 2 volumes. A painstaking facsimile of the first complete Bible known to be printed in North America in English. Aitken's is the only Bible in the history of the United States to have been given Congressional approval. This edition..... More

[Pittsburgh]: Monument Press, (1974). Limited edition, #42 of 50. Portfolio of loose prints. Folio. [14 unpaginated leaves]. A suite of 10 boldly printed linoleum cuts by American artist George Nama, each depicting an ordinary household object constrained from its normal function by wire or cord binding the critical part of..... More

Buffalo: Wheeler, Matthews & Warren, 1863. First edition. Disbound. An interesting and well-reasoned discourse on the state of the Civil War about a month after the Battle of Gettysburg, from the Union perspective. Rev. Smith concludes with answers to objections such as that the aim of the war had shifted..... More

(New York): New Directions, (2008). Limited edition. Full cloth. Octavo. 94 pages. The 50th Anniversary edition of Ferlinghetti's influential poetry collection, which includes a 45-track CD in unopened plastic publisher's sleeve on rear pastedown. Copy #117 of 200, boldly signed by Ferlinghetti on limitation page. In publisher's slipcase. 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

New York: Nicholas L. Brown, Inc., 1932. Limited edition. Illustrations by Hugo Gellert. Hardcover. Octavo. 73 pages. Stanley Kimmel is better known for "The Mad Booths of Maryland" and other historical works, but was a very talented World War I era poet and friend of Ernest Hemingway. This..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. Full leather. Sixteenmo. 483 pages. A genuine American classic. Dana was a gifted observer and writer, and his memoir paints a colorful portrait of Mexican California in the 1830s, including the ports of San Diego, San Pedro (Los Angeles), Santa Barbara, Monterey, and San..... More