New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925. Black and white portraits, pictures, and diagrams. Publisher's original cloth. Octavos. xix, 406 and xiii, 409 pages. Tarbell was a pioneer in the field of investigative journalism, and this is her famous and meticulous exposé of the aggressive anti-competitive tactics employed by Standard Oil..... More
Chicago: R. S. Peale & Company, 1888. First Edition. Black and white illustrations. Cloth hardcovers. Tall octavos. [i-iv], v-ix, [x-xii], 502 and [i-ii], [503-504], 505-998 pages. An elaborate and eccentric argument that Francis Bacon was the actual author of the plays attributed to William Shakespeare. Donnelly claimed that Bacon had..... More
Clarksburg, WV: Saucerian Books, (1970). First Edition. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. 151 pages. First book to deal with the mysterious "Mothman" sightings and their possible connection to the 1967 collapse of the Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. A cornerstone book of American UFO-ology. More
Manchester, NH: Wm. H. Fisk, 1856. Calligraphic text surrounding a full length portrait of George Washington. Single sheet, approximately 23" x 28" Gilman R. Russell, a professor of penmanship, designed and executed the original of this work entirely with a pen. Gilman's calligraphic text of the Declaration surrounds a lithographed..... More
New York: Random House Inc., 1928. Limited edition, copy #186 of 980. Colored wood block illustrations designed and engraved by Valenti Angelo. Cloth over boards with leather spine. Quarto. [viii], 363 pages. A lovely limited edition of Hawthorne's most famous book, in which Hester Prynne, condemned by her Puritan New..... More
London: Watts & Co., (1949). First edition thus. Hardcover. Sixteenmo. xii, 162, [2 ads] pages. Originally published in 1926, this is Wallas's classic study of human thought and the creative process. A foundational text that bridges psychology and art. The present edition was prepared by Wallas's daughter in..... More
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, (1936). Color illustrations by the quthor. Hardcover. Octavo. 105 pages. Colorfully illustrated retelling of an old Hawaiian legend of courage, destiny, and transformation. The story follows young Umi, a commoner whose curiosity and quest for adventure lead him into forbidden places--and ultimately toward his..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., (1938). First Edition. Illustrated with 31 black and white plates and a fold-out map. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. viii, 322 pages. The famous Swedish Explorer's account of his expedition, undertaken at the direction of the Chinese government, to survey possible highway routes to..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937. First Edition. Black and white plates, endpaper maps. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. xvi, 224 pages. An authentic and carefully documented account of the Lone Star Republic's thirteen men-of-war and their often-overlooked importance in the control of the Gulf of Mexico in Alamo-San Jacinto campaign of..... More
New York: Harmony Books, (1980). First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 215 pages. Douglas's cosmic comic classic in its true first printing in the United States. Join Earthman Arthur Dent, his intergalactic friend Ford Prefect, and a cast of characters on their journey through the galaxy after Earth is demolished..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publsihers, (1938). Illustrated with drawings and maps. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xxxviii, 280 pages. This was America's first look into the indoctrination program of the Hitler Youth in Nazi Germany, published here as a warning to the U.S. in 1938. It is a translation of..... More
New York: Equinox Cooperative Press Inc., (1935). First Edition. Thirty lithographs by Lynd Ward. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [v], [60] pages. Biography of John Reed told through images paired with biographical narratives. Reed was the author of 'Ten Days that Shook the World,' a war correspondent, and first American ambassador..... More
London: Trübner & Co., 1880. First Edition. Frontispiece plus 6 plates intended to show various means of book illustration. Engraved typographic ornaments. Marbled paper over boards with leather spine and fore corners. Octavo. xvi, 110 pages. A charming and influential bibliophilic essay of the Victorian era, whose author mounts a...... More
![Item #2139 Golf and Golfing: A Practical Manual [Golf in America]. James Lee, arrish](https://backcreekbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2139_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781975702)
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1895. Retitled Second Edition of "Golf in America" Original cloth over boards. Sixteenmo. [i-iii], iv, [v], vi, [5]-194 pages. A landmark golf book whose first edition, published earlier the same year (1895) under the title 'Golf in America,' was the first book on the..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. Marbled paper over boards with leather spine and fore corners.. 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..... More
Carbonnek {London]: Privately printed, 1923. Limited Edition, #545 of 1050. Hardcover. Octavo. 331 pages. A collection of short stories actually by Machen himself, though presented as having been translated by him from an archaic text. This was Machen's first book, originally published in 1888. Signed by Machen on..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1872. First Edition. Illustrated with black and white woodcuts, maps. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 255 pages (plus 4 leaves of ads). One of the more effective early books promoting the economic and agricultural development of California. Nordhoff devotes the first part of the..... More
Boston: W. Elliot Woodward, 1869. First Edition, limited to 275 copies. Typographical ornaments. Hardcover. Octavo. 306 pages. A chronologically arranged compendium of colonial witchcraft accusations and trials, drawn from court records, sermons, early pamphlets, etc. A fascinating look at the evolution of superstition and the legal system in New England..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1862. 24 drawn plates. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 118 pages plus 24 plates. Originally published in 1852 when McClellan was a young cavalry officer fresh out of West Point, this edition was published during the narrow window when he was Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Army during..... More
New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, 1908. Revised Edition. Two black and white photographic plates and a large fold-out map. Original cloth hardcover. Octavo. xxxiii, [1], 1-225 pages. The infamous partisan ranger leader here vigorously defends fellow Confederate cavalry commander Jeb Stuart's actions in the lead up to Gettysburg. Early..... More
![Item #2132 An Introduction to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, or, The Whale [1851] (Signed)....](https://backcreekbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2132_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781277305)
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1924. Limited Edition, #206 of 250 copies. Hardcover. Octavo. [ii], 9 pages. A thoughtful, sincere, and well written essay on Melville's greatest book by America's greatest rare book dealer. Rosenbach was a pioneer in the early 20th century revival of interest in 'Moby Dick,' having recently..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., (1973). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], [1]-308 pages. First Edition of this beloved fairy tale parody--presented as an abridgment of an imaginary Florinese epic--and the basis of Rob Reiner's 1987 Oscar-nominated film of the same title. More
[New York]: [National Council of Young Men's Christian Associations], [c.1946]. First Edition. Black and white photographs, drawings. Stapled pictorial wraps. Quarto. [36] pages including covers. Col. Greening was one of the 'Doolittle Raiders' who was shot down later in the war on a bombing mission over Naples, Italy. Sgt. Spinelli..... More
New York: Independent Book Associates, (1945). First printing. Black and white photographic illustrations. Pictorial wraps. Quarto. 32 pages. Scarce and hastily produced booklet published shortly after the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945. It provides a brief history of the development of nuclear physics and the Manhattan Project, as well..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1866. First Edition. 3/4 leather and marbled paper over boards. Duodecimo. [i-vii], viii-x, [xi-xiv], 15-272 pages. Melville's collection of Civil War poetry dedicated "to the memory of the three hundred thousand who in the war for the maintenance of the Union fell devotedly under..... More