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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
Dover, MA: Hired Hand Press, 1979. Limited Edition. Black & White Photographs. Full cloth. Square octavo. 87 pages. Premier reference and complete study of the photographs of John Wilkes Booth. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by both authors on half title, SIGNED by both on limitation page at rear. The book reproduces... More
Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. First Edition. Original cloth. Octavos. Laid in is a prospectus of the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe which she has signed, and which is in its original mailing envelope apparently addressed by Stowe. Two volumes in custom slipcase. More
[Atlanta]: Ku Klux Press, 1918. Wrappers. Octavo. 8 pages. Indicated as being "Document No. 1 of Imperial Instructions, Series AD. 1918, AK. LII. " Early publication of the reincarnated KKK, which was founded in 1915 by William Joseph Simmons in Georgia. Describes the various conduct expected of members. Simmons was... More
Baltimore: Prentiss & Cole, 1802. 3/4 cloth. Duodecimo. 53 pages. Keene (a Democrat) had wooed and wed Martin's (a Federalist) 15 year old daughter. Martin had printed and distributed an absolutely scathing attack on the couple as a result. This is Keene's able response. This is the stuff of daytime... More
Charleston: John Russell, 1864. First Edition. Frontispiece Portrait in Volume I. Full vellum. Octavos. xvi, 287 and viii, 314 pages. Confederate imprint. Attractive set of this account of Breton knight and French military commander du Guesclin's daring deeds. Brave and chivalrous knights in battle would have appealed to Confederate gentlemen... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. Full cloth. Octavo. [vi], 311 pages. SIGNED by Mann on preliminary blank. Translated from the German for the first time by Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter. Bound in black cloth over boards with gilt-titled spine, upper board stamped in black, decorated endpapers, and yellow topstain. Cloth... More
Cincinnati: American Reform Tract And Book Society, 1854. Wrappers. Thirty-twomo. 15 pages. Uncommon Cincinnati imprint of this tract from Stowe, whose "Uncle Tom's Cabin" had appeared two years before. Hymn "Nearer My God To Thee" printed on rear cover. Bound in printed self wraps with sewn binding. Light foxing, contemporary... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1968). First American Edition. Quarter cloth. Octavo. vi, 170 pages. Novella and eight short stories by which Garcia Marquez was introduced to the English-speaking public. Beautiful copy of the first American printing in unclipped, first state dust jacket. Bound in yellow paper over boards... More
(s. L. ): (S. N. ), [1945]. Limited Edition. Wrappers. Octavo. 24 pages. This racist satire originally appeared shortly after publication of Elizabeth Keckley's "Behind the Scenes or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House" in 1868. This is #69 of a 1945 facsimile edition limited... More
London: Simpkin And Marshall, 1832. Second Edition. Black & White Plates, Colored Map. Hardcover. Duodecimo. xii, 288 pages. Illustrated with numerous lithographic and wood engravings and a double spread map. Bound in original paper over boards with title label at head of spine. Minor wear and rubs to extremities. "From... More
New York: Smith & Stanton, 1895. First Edition. Drawings. Full cloth. Oblong quarto. 500 pages. Superb collection of drawings depicting a century's worth of American steamers, from Robert Fulton's Clermont in 1807 to the St. Louis, built by William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, in 1894-1895. Stanton reproduced the older vessels... More