Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1957). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 330 pages. Byron's autobiographical novel of the life of a Chesapeake Bay waterman. Dust jacket illustration by Jack Lewis. Nice first edtion copies in dust jackets are surprisingly uncommon. More
Norfolk/Virginia Beach: Donning Company Publishers, (1989). Black and White Photographs. Hardcover. Quarto. 191 pages. The best compilation of historic photographs of Anne Arundel County. Includes over 300 generously captioned photographs of Annapolis, Glen Burnie, Severna Park, Fort Meade, Odenton, and South County, along with historical narrative by Kelly for each... More
Washington, D. C. Privately Printed, 1976. First Edition. Full cloth. Quarto. i-xxiii, 1-560, xxiv-xxvii pages. An essential Maryland title. Extensively researched account of the Puritans who were exiled from Virginia by Governor Berkeley after their break with the Anglican Church. Their settlement of Providence, near Annapolis, was the first on... More
(Annapolis): (Property Owners of Arundel-on-the-Bay), (2018). Photographs, maps. Hardcover. Quarto. xvi, 220 pages. History of what was one of the oldest summer communities on the western Chesapeake shore. Many historic photographs illustrate this work. More
London: Samuel Bagster, 1808. Seventh Edition. 3/4 leather. Octavo. Beautiful 200 year old copy of this great English fishing classic. Binding by Root & Son. More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1891. Full cloth. Octavos. Nice two volume edition of great classic on fishing, with an Introduction by James Russell Lowell. More
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1854. First Edition. Map. Original cloth. Octavo. 357, ads. pages. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came... More
Paris: Chez les Citoyens Esnauts et Rapilly, [1793]. Broadside. 38.5 cm by 25.5 cm. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1793 enumerates 35 very progressive rights, including such as the right to public education and the right of the poor to public support. Indeed, the most... More
![The Vinegar Works: Three Volumes of Moral Instruction [Title from slipcase] Gashlycrumb Tinies; The Insect God; The West Wing. Edward Gorey.](/pictures/thumb/11553.jpg?v=1545276639)
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963. Hardcover. Octavos. Three of Edward Gorey's delightful books issued in a slipcase under the collective title "The Vinegar Works." All are first printings. More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887. First Edition. Black & white plates, maps, engravings. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv, 678 pages. McClellan's posthumously published memoir of the Civil War, accompanied by a Brady CDV photograph of Gen. McClellan with his autograph attached to its lower margin. McClellan's memoir, honestly, is... More
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1981. First edition, later state. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. (xii), 196 pages. Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla was a sort of laboratory of penal reform in the 1960s and 1970s, with the result being a permissiveness that lead to near breakdown in prison security. This... More
![Works of Theodore Roosevelt [Sagamore Edition]. Theodore Roosevelt.](/pictures/thumb/11548.jpg?v=1544483542)
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. Frontispiece portraits. 3/4 leather. Duodecimos. The handsome 15 volume Sagamore Edition of Roosevelt's works published right after his vice-presidential nomination at the 1900 Republican National Convention. The set consists of: Vol. 1 - American Ideals (with biographical sketch by Francis Winton Greene); Vol. 2 -... More
New York: The Century Co., 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv, 234 pages. Allen and Sachtleben graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1890 and immediately set sail for Liverpool. There began this amazing bicycle journey of some 15,044 miles which they completed in just under 3 years. Nice... More
S.l. S.n., 1936. Ephemera. 3.5 x 5.5 inches. This postcard was carried on board the Hindenburg on her inaugural flight from Germany to Lakehurst, New Jersey in May, 1936. It was a souvenir created by Veedol Motor Oil of Pennsylvania when the company mailed these postcards from Hamburg, Germany to... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1875. Hardcover. Folio. 247 pages. A fantastic collection of over 60 etchings of historic buildings and place in New York City, along with lengthy descriptive texts for each. Etchings produced by H. Thatcher from original pen drawings of Eliza Greatorex. Bound in leather over... More
[New York]: (National Urban League), [1963]. Scarce souvenir portfolio of collages by Lo Monaco, "created specifically as a memento for those who participated in the historic March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs on August 28, 1963." In all, there are six collage images by Lo Monaco: one printed on... More
[Berkeley]: Privately Printed, [1947]. Limited Edition. Single sheet pages. Single unbound sheet from a 1947 collaboration between Henry Miller and Palestinian artist Bezalel Schatz. The sheet is SIGNED by both Miller and Schatz. The edition was entirely illustrated and printed in serigraph by Schatz. The text, reproduced in Miller's hand... More
New York: E. M. Blunt, (Proprietor,) and Samuel A. Burtus, 1817. 1/2 leather. Octavo. xvi, [2], 274, 280, [555]-597, [13] pages. Early edition of this important work on navigation. The extensive tables have in this edition been stereotyped for the first time, at significant expense. This is the first and... More
[New York]: (The Harbor Press), 1933. Hardcover. Octavo. 15 pages. The true first edition of FDR’s first Inaugural Address. He made a number of last-minute changes to the text after it had already been delivered to the Government Printing Office for printing, and even then deviated somewhat from his amended... More
[New York]: (s.n.), (1961). Softcover. Octavo. 42 pages. Taylor Mead, beat film actor, poet, muse of Andy Warhol... This is the first and most scarce of his published diaries. Photographs of Mead on front and rear covers by Lenora Miller. Prior owner gift inscription on inside front cover reads "... More
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, (1931). First American Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 109 pages. Rare book by the Father of the Boy Scouts, reviewing the positive roles played by such organizations in fostering healthy, happy, and helpful citizens of nations and the world. Bound in black cloth over boards... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1938). Hardcover. Octavo. xx, 408 pages. First published book by a man who became one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers and futurists. Buckminster Fuller took a comprehensive view of the world's problems and devoted his life to innovative solutions to do more with... More
London: Offices of Engineering, 1932. Stapled wraps. Quarto. 7 pages pages. Interesting article reprinted from "Engineering," April 15 and 22, 1932. Includes photographs and an unpaged centerfold showing various scaled elevation drawings of the catapult from different perspectives. More
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811. Sixth Edition. 3/4 leather. Octavos. The revised and augmented sixth edition. Beautiful 4 volume (complete) set in 3/4 leather over boards with marbled paper sides. Gilt stamped spines. Bindings tight, gilt bright. More
Morningside House, 1997. Hardcover. Octavo. 842 pages. Bachelder was the most important 19th century historian of the Battle of Gettysburg. He arrived on the field soon after the battle and spent the next 23 years talking to veterans of both armies, collecting and organizing their stories, researching reports, and organizing... More