New York: T. B. Harms Company, [1922]. Decorated title page. Full leather. Quarto. 149+ pages. Inscribed and signed copy of the music for "Good Morning Dearie," in presentation binding. Jerome Kern was perhaps the early 20th century's most influential theatrical composer. He has inscribed this copy to his good friends..... More
[Montana]: [1920s-1940s]. Spiral bound with pictorial covers. Quarto. Al Madson was a traveling salesman of school classroom furniture whose territory seems to have been Rocky Mountain and Midwestern states. His scrapbook contains lots of colorful and illuminating bits related to his working travels. There are letters, ticket stubs, newspaper clippings..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1944. First edition. Illustrations by Rafaello Busoni. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 31 pages. Scarce first edition of the story that was adapted into the beloved holiday classic film, "It's a Wonderful Life." Philip Van Doren Stern was an accomplished Civil War historian and author but perhaps his most..... More
[Tenafly, NJ]: [1885]. Single leaf, 5.5" x 8.5" Handwritten letter by pioneering suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, mentioning fellow activists Lucy Stone and Lucretia Mott. Mrs. Stanton is responding to a gentleman named Greene who apparently had requested contacts from her. The letter is penned in a dark blue..... More
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[Quincy, Massachusetts?]: [c.1847]. Single 10" x 15.25" sheet, folded. Fictional story of an infantry officer whose regiment supported the artillery commanded by Capt. Braxton Bragg at the Battle of Buena Vista. This composition was submitted as an assignment at Quincy High School by one S. A. Nightingale--possibly Solomon Nightingale of..... More
(s.l.): NASA, 1980-1983. Loose leaf pages, generally 8.5 x 11 inches, punched at left margins for 3-ring binder. A treasure trove of information on the early operational space shuttle program, in the form of materials intended for the press. Separate pieces include "Space Shuttle News Reference," STS-5 Fifth Space Shuttle..... More
New York: Howard Lockwood & Co., 1894. First edition. Black & white engraved plates, in text diagrams. Full cloth. Tall octavo, vi, 517 pages [+ads]. Practical and authoritative resource on the chemical arts in making paper. Illustrated throughout, and with some interesting ads for alum, alkali, etc., at rear. More
New York: Privately printed, 1928. First edition. Frontispiece caricature portrait of Peirce, by Rockwell Kent. Hardcover, quarto. The rare suppressed 1928 edition of Peirce's satiric poem on Rockwell Kent. Of the 100 copies printed, all but 13 were reputedly destroyed because of the many typos in the text. This..... More
Chicago: H. J. Bohn & Co., 1880. Wood engravings. Approximately 11" x 15.5", 16 pages. Complete issue of this illustrated 19th century hospitality trade journal. The Hotel World of Chicago merged with the Hotel and Travelers' Journal of New York, making it then the oldest and largest circulating journal for..... More
Nashua: J. W. Pease, [1868?]. Single leaf, approximately 5.25" x 5.75" Nineteenth century advertising notice for patent medicine hair product. Pease, of Nashua, New Hampshire, claimed his product would restore gray hair to its natural color, More
(S.l.): (S.n.), [1942?]. One map, one diagram. In flexible folder affixed with three brass split-pins. Quarto, 32 pages. The USS Wakefield (former the luxury liner SS Manhattan) was a World War II transport ship that caught fire 200 miles off Halifax, Nova Scotia on the evening of September 3, 1942..... More
[Brooklyn]: (S.n.), [c.1848]. Woodcuts. Wrappers, octavo, [16] pages. Interesting and uncommon patent medicine piece featuring one of the earliest claims of "Indian" cures. The first 4 pages of this promotional pamphlet recount a thwarted Indian ambush of a cattle drive from Niagara to Detroit at the end of the 18th..... More
Philadelphia: J. Magee, 1864. Single sheet, folded. Union Civil War songsheet commemorating the Battle of Cedar Creek. Printed in red and blue, with double-line border and two flags at top corners. Folded once along short dimension. WOLF 97b. More
New York: William Farquhar Payson, (1931). Limited edition. Black and white sketches. Hardcover, quarto, xii, 127 pages. Copy #13 of 47 autographed copies of this collection of sketches of sailing ships and life aboard them. Boldly signed by Grant on limitation page. Comes in the original box, with title label..... More
Salem: Marine Research Society, 1928. Limited edition. Black and white plates. Vellum backed boards, quarto, 478 pages. A history of shipbuilding in Massachusetts, followed by 215 plates taken from ship portraits from the Peabody Museum and private collections. This is copy #43 of 97 on American Vellum. Handsome nautical bookplate..... More
(S.l.): The Walpole Society, 1929. Limited edition. Black and white plates. Full cloth, octavo, xviii, 325 pages. Useful reference that gives brief sketches of a wide variety of craftsmen and manufacturers, including silversmiths, cabinet makers, stone cutters, sign painters, engravers, glass ware makers, upholsterers, clock makers, and much more. One..... More
(S.l.): Wisconsin History Commission, 1911. First edition. Maps. Hardcover, octavo, xiv, 255 pages. Account of the important battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga in late 1863, by an active participant from Wisconsin. More
Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press, 1929. First edition. Black and white frontispiece. Octavo, full cloth, 66 pages. A tribute to Col. Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment of United States Colored Troops in the Civil War. The author, who was married to an officer in a U.S.C.T. regiment, identifies..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Limited edtiion. Illustrated by Everett Henry. Bound in cloth over boards with gilt-stamped leather spine, top edge gilt. Quarto. xx, 257 pages. Beautiful edition of Mary Shelley's classic horror story. This is copy #313 of 1500. Illustrated with plates and chapter heads by Everett..... More
[Berkeley]: [State Earthquake Investigation Commission], [1906]. First edition. Wrappers. Tall octavo. 20 pages. The first report of the Commission constituted by California Governor George C. Pardee three days after the San Francisco Earthquake of April 18, 1906. This preliminary report, issued May 31, 1906, lays out "some of the more..... More
[Chicago]: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., [1970]. Facsimile. Broadside, 15 3/4" x 19 1./2" In the early hours of July 5, 1776, Philadelphia printer John Dunlap set the Declaration of Independence in type under the supervision of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams. He printed a small number..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1929]. Limited edition. Color plates, black and white drawings. Vellum over boards. Quarto. 232 pages. Beautiful copy of this classic, with 12 full page color plates by Arthur Rackham. This is #38 of 200 copies in the American edition, and is SIGNED by Rackham under the..... More
Albany: C. Van Benthuysen, Printer to the Legislature, 1853. First edition. Printed wrappers over sewn binding. Octavo. 37 pages. Original New York Senate document relating to the establishment of Central Park. Opens with background on two proposed locations, followed by testimony. More
London: Henry Stevens, Son, and Stiles, 1905. First edition. Full cloth. Octavo. viii, 41 pages. An important analysis of ten early editions and piracies of the famous Map of the Middle British Colonies in America, by Welsh surveyor Lewis Evans (c.1700-1756). Henry Stevens, famous Americana bookseller, was prompted on his..... More
[1941]. #10 of 10. Black and white photograph. Photograph mounted on board. 1931 Walker Evans photograph, sometimes known as "Bed and Stove, Truro, Massachusetts," printed by Evans in 1941 for the exhibition "American Photographs at $10" at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. SIGNED twice on the mount..... More