[Boston]: (S.n.), 1862. Broadside. 6 1/8" x 14 5/8" John Wilkes Booth, following in his father's and siblings' footsteps, tried his hand at acting and found some success in stock companies in Philadelphia, Richmond, and other provincial theaters. Still, he performed under the name "J. Wilkes" because he lacked the...
[Baltimore]: (Printing Bureau, Police Department), 1925. Flexible cloth. Sixteenmo. 158 pages. 1925 pocket handbook for Baltimore Policemen with detailed descriptions of over 50 rules of expected conduct in a variety of situations. Pencilled ownership inscription on front pastedown: "Officer Michael J. Moloney / Northeastern District." There is a $5.00 receipt...
[Mexico City]: 1861. Manuscript. 10.50" x 8.25" The Juarez government had recaptured Mexico City on January 1, 1861, and he was elected President in the month following this letter. His declaration of a 2-year suspension of interest payments on international debts related to the Mexican Revolution led to an invasion...
New York: Lee Keedick, 1913. First Edition. First Printing. Maps, b&w photographs. Original cloth. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xxv, 392 & x, 449 pages. Amundsen's expedition was the first to reach the geographic South Pole, achieving the feat on December 14, 1911. They were 8 weeks ahead of the...
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1995). First Edition. First Printing. B&W Photographs. Hardcover. Octavo. 514 pages. Bradlee's candid memoir of his life in the newspaper business. He became a national figure during the Watergate scandal when, under his executive editorship, the Washington Post brought down President Richard Nixon. . Signed...
Easton: Eastern Shore Publishers' Associates, (1975). Limited Edition. First Printing. B&W Photographs, scale drawings. Hardcover. Quarto. xiv, 402 pages. Forman began work on this--his largest book--in 1935. Gives a full account of Eastern Shore life, customs, gardens, artifacts, and yes, buildings, linking these with their British origins. Illustrated with over...
Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1856. Woodcuts. Original cloth. Duodecimo. [iv], 239, [12] pages. "With an account of various interesting contemporaneous events which occurred in the early settlement of America." Illustrated with woodcuts and a tissue-guarded, engraved title page and frontispiece. Several pages of publisher ads at front and rear.
New York: The Bradstreet Company, 1882. Colored maps, advertising cuts. Flexible leather. Oblong twenty-fourmo. [x], 50, [vi] pages. Scarce pocket atlas published exclusively for Boston haberdashers Macullar, Parker & Company. In addition to the colored maps of the states and territories, there are 15 maps of mining districts within various...
Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1963. First Edition. Black & White Photographs, Endpaper Maps. Full cloth. Quarto. x, 146 pages. An essential study of the reasons underlying the Puritans' 1654 seizure of the colonial government of Maryland, as well as the Quakers' subsequent role in that government and the settlement of...
Cambridge & Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1894. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [50] pages. Scarce Lincoln item. The poem was read before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Sanders Theatre, Harvard College. One of 450 copies. MONAGHAN 1155.
Baltimore: Baltimore Department of Education, 1935. B&W Photographs. Softcover. Oblong octavo. 31 pages. Scarce 1935 booklet on education for special needs children in Baltimore in the 1930s. Front cover illustration of the William S. Baer School for Physically Handicapped Children No. 301, Warwick and Wheeler Avenues. Photographs on every page...
[Bruceton Mills]: Old Hemlock, 1985. Limited Edition. B&W Photographs. Hardcover. Octavo. [x], 302 pages. George Bird Evans was one of the world's foremost authorities on upland gunning and bird dogs. He bred the Old Hemlock line of English Setters, the descendants of which are much prized for their birding abilities...
Washington: Vantage Press, (1968). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 126 pages. The author alleges that a German man he knew in Baltimore around 1930 was actually Adolf Hitler living in the United States under an assumed name. Hance spent quite a bit of time with "Hitler" as he courted American business...
Detroit: Detroit Free Press Publishing Company, 1885. First Edition. First Printing. Black & white engravings, cuts. Full cloth. tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall. viii, 520 pages. Subtitle continues..."Including Many Incidents and Circumstances Never Before Published in Any Form." Beautiful copy of this uncommon Civil War history. Two volumes were...
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1867. First Edition. First Printing. Full cloth. Octavo. xvi, [17]-492 pages. Early account which tends to mythologize Mosby, but which also contains valuable personal insights into the man, his rangers, and their part in pioneering the tactics of harassment during the Civil War.
New York: 1880. Manuscript. 8.5" x 5.5" Chester A. Arthur was the Republican James A. Garfield's vice-presidential running mate at the time of this letter, apparently dealing with some internal matter within the New York State Republican Party. Within a month he would be elected vice-president. Within a year Garfield's...
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., (1930). First US Edition. Lead engravings. Hardcover. Octavo. [207] pages. Pioneering graphic novel capturing the crisis of capitalism in the early 20th century. The story is the tragic tale of a girl from the lower classes told entirely through pictures. Nückel, an artist working...
Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1834. Full cloth. Octavo. 211 [+ads] pages. The publication and fairly wide circulation of a spurious "Crockett memoir" by someone else compelled Crockett to produce the genuine article. He was careful to put "Written by Himself" on the title page.
New York: J. L. Taylor & Co., [1916]. Hardcover. Folio. [80] pages. "Tailors by Appointment to His Majesty the American Citizen." This spectacular sample book from J. L. Taylor & Co. of New York and Chicago shows the latest in men's custom suits and accessories just months before the United...
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1883. First Edition. First Printing. Black & white plates. Hardcover. Octavo. 240 pages. An important Whitman book, though more of an anthology of documents about Whitman than a conventional biography. Its importance arises from the major contributions of Whitman himself, who wrote the account of his birthplace...
[Washington]: (S.n.), 1908. Broadside. 16" x 19" This commission appointed Alva B. Court an Assistant Naval Constructor with the rank of Lieutenant, junior-grade, in the U.S. Navy. Theodore Roosevelt remains one of America's most popular presidents, even after more than a century since leaving office, and this is a very...
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, (1957). First English Edition. First Printing. Black & white photographs. Hardcover. Octavo. 196 pages. Account of the exciting ascent of Cho Oyu, the seventh highest mountain in the world, by Austrian Herbert Tichy and his small party. Lovely copy.
New York: Random House, (1985). First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 337 pages. McCarthy's masterpiece, which critics now acknowledge as one of the greatest American novels to date and likely to retain that status. Set in the American Southwest between 1849-1850 and based on historical events, McCarthy brings some unforgettable...
[New York?]: (Gill Engraving Company?), [c.1905?]. One of a series of illustrations by E. M. Gill which were featured in Artemas Ward's advertising trade journal, "Fame," around the turn of the 20th century. Nicely matted and framed.
