PIttsburgh: H. H. Tuttle, 1933. Poster. 14" x 22" Vibrant original poster from Pittsburgh, promoting the Buy American Act of 1933. The BAA, passed by Congress in 1933, required that the Federal Government give preference to American products in its procurements. President Hoover signed the Act into law on his..... More
(S.l.): (S.n.), [c.1950s]. Black and white photographic portrait of Adams. Poster. 18.5" x 22.5" Fantastic poster featuring groundbreaking Black radio DJ and Annapolis native, Charles W. "Hoppy" Adams. The Annapolis radio station WANN, founded by Morris Blum in 1948, is thickly intertwined with the story of the beginnings of Black..... More
Frederick County: Matthias Bartgis at Pleasant Dale Paper Mill, 1823. Woodcut frontispiece portrait of Washington. Original calf. Duodecimo. Sixteenmo. Scarce imprint of this Revolutionary War history, originally published at the turn of the 19th century. Richard Snowden was a New Jersey school teacher whose works were mostly aimed at a...... More
[Lowell]: Stone & Huse, Printers, [1861]. First printing. Single sheet. 5" x 8" Rare broadside program for the funerals of the first two Union soldiers killed in action during the Civil War. Addison and Ladd, both of Company D, 6th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, were killed in mob violence as..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Second printing before publication. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 434 pages. Sterling Hayden was a very successful actor with a multi-film contract when he suddenly walked away from Hollywood. This is his own story of that revolt and his defiance of federal courts to sail..... More
New York: Hafner Publishing Company, 1951. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. xvi, 244 pages, + ads. A study of the principles of experimentation, aiming to supply the machinery for unambiguous interpretation by analyzing the structure of successful experiments. For example, a simple experiment is devised to test the veracity of a lady's..... More
(London): Honey Dun Press, (1975). Limited edition. Six hand-colored plates by John Simpson. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi],32, 6 plates. A study of one of the rarest books in angling literature. There are six hand-colored plates by John Simpson depicting 30 flies. The frontispiece is an actual countersunk Black Gnat fly tied..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [xii], 364 pages. Includes the following items in addition to the book: - a typed letter signed by Collier, addressed to a fan who had requested an autographed photograph. - part of the original mailing envelope for the..... More
(Burton, MI): Subterranean Press, 2007. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 389 pages. Ray Bradbury's "I Sing the Body Electric" was first published in 1969. The title story was adapted from a 1962 episode of the Twilight Zone which Bradbury had written. This limited edition includes 11 additional stories that had appeared..... 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
[Liverpool]: [City of Liverpool], [1974]. Single sheet. 16" x 18" A scarce pictorial map commissioned by the City of Liverpool's Public Relations Office in 1974, highlighting the Beatles landmarks in their native city. This important map was part of a promotional package that launched the Beatles tourism industry, albeit four..... More
New York: International Publishers, (1938). First printing. Black and white frontispiece photographic portrait. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 222 pages. Jim Ford was an African American activist and Vice-Presidential candidate for the Communist Party USA in 1932, 1936, and 1940. He wrote these articles in the heat of the struggles for..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1884. First printing. Black and white drawings. Pictorial cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 262 pages. An important and very readable account of a cruise in the Chesapeake Bay and its environs in the summer of 1883. Joseph Rothrock was a professor of botany at the..... More
Los Angeles: Sawyer Press, 1967. Color cartoon. Poster. 22 1/2" x 33 1/8" Ron Cobb began freelancing as a cartoonist for the radical Los Angeles Free Press in 1965, and was regarded as one of the finest political cartoonists of the mid-1960s to early 1970s. This poster was done..... More
London: J. Almon, 1766. Second edition. Disbound. Octavo. [vi], 81, [1] pages. Daniel Dulany's highly influential pamphlet in opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765. He argued that while inhabitants of England were properly represented by members of Parliament (elected by other inhabitants of England), the same was not be..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1912. First printing. Black and white plates. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xxii, 200 pages. Matthew Henson was an African American explorer who was Robert Peary's indispensable right-hand man on his seven Arctic expeditions over nearly 23 years. It is now generally acknowledged (as he..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1927). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 317 pages. Mencken's acerbic wit and good sense applied to topics like journalism in America, metaphysicians, faith, poets, sex hygiene books, Ambrose Bierce and much more. A nice looking copy. Errata slip tipped in. More
Washington: (S.n.), 1863. Wraps. Octavo. 8 pages. Frederick Law Olmsted--pioneering American landscape architect and co-designer of New York's Central Park--here gives a very interesting report in his role as General Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. Olmsted gives a good outline of the activities..... More
(Washington): (Government Printing Office), (1950). Samples of black and color inks. Comb-bound boards. Octavo. About 200 pages (not paginated). This book was compiled to show the basic ink colors stocked by the Government Printing Office Ink Section, with each given a unique number. The idea was to simplify requests for..... More
Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Company, 1919. First printing. Profusely illustrated, including eight color plates of flies. Cloth hardcover. Duodecimo. xvi, 264 pages. Contents include selection, care, and rigging of the rod, the art of casting, trout habits, the angler's flies and how to tie them, description of trout-fly patterns, and..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, [c.1935]. Color plates of flies by Alma W. Froderstrom, black and white illustrations. Original cloth, in slipcase. Octavo. xxii, 190 pages. The first reprint of the original Derrydale edition. Jennings' work represented a giant step forward in American fly-fishing literature, in terms of identifying insects and..... More
Sauk City: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Limited edition. Original cloth. Octavo. xii, 432 pages. Arkham House collection containing Lovecraft's three horror novels, along with shorter masterpieces. Colophon states 3,000 copies in this first printing. More
San Francisco: Louis Roesch Co., Printers, [1898]. Broadside. 8 7/8" x 5 7/8" An 1898 handbill advertising swimming races at San Francisco's famous Sutro Baths. The teams from Nevada, Georgia, Tennessee, Montana, and Washington were volunteer soldiers in the Spanish-American War, encamped near San Francisco in the summer of 1898..... More
Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, (1961). First printing. Black and white photographs. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 206 pages. The International Christian Leadership Movement, founded by Abraham Vereide, is perhaps best known for its sponsorship of the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC. Every President since Dwight D. Eisenhower has..... More
1971. Limited edition, #926 of 1000. Serigraph. Poster, 22" x 30" Sir Eduardo Paolozzi was a native of Scotland, born of Italian immigrants. He studied art at the Edinburgh College of Art and Slade School of Fine Art. He was a founder of Pop Art, and his seminal 1947 collage..... More