New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 229 pages. Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon, lays out his "Mellon Plan" for reducing the national debt following World War I while simultaneously reducing taxes on the highest earners. The book is a first printing..... More
Canton: The Watts Printing Co., [1901]. Black and white photographic illustrations. Oblong duodecimo (about 5" x 7"). Black cord binding, 51 leaves. This scarce souvenir album contains about 50 leaves, printed on rectos only, with captioned photographs of the funeral events honoring the slain McKinley in his hometown of Canton..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1908. First edition. Black and white photographs, drawings, and seven maps. Two volumes, half green morocco by Bayntun-Riviere. Octavos. lii, 518 and xii, 542 pages. English botanist Richard Spruce was one of the great Victorian era botanical explorers, and this is the record of his..... More
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., (1948). First Edition. First Printing. Black & white photos, data tables. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi, 541 pages. The scarce first edition of the account of efforts by the Office of Strategic Services to get control of their recruiting of operatives in the middle of World..... More
Philadelphia: The Young Friends Movement of the Philadelphia Yearly Meetings, [1949]. First printing. Softcover. Duodecimo. 32 pages. The scarce first printing of a lecture by noted Harlem Renaissance writer, Jean Toomer. His first book, the novel "Cane," had burst on the scene in 1923 and was hailed by both white..... More
San Francisco: Wine Advisory Board, c.1965. Color offset lithography. Poster, 28 3/8 x 40", mounted on linen to 31 1/4" x 43" Amado Gonzalez was born in Mexico but immigrated to San Francisco in 1927 and studied at the California School of Fine Arts. He painted murals for the WPA..... More
(S.l.): [South Western Railroad], 1868. Single sheet. 11" x 16" Original 1868 broadside promoting a series of meetings in Noble County, Ohio, to secure stock subscriptions sufficient to fund construction of the railroad through the county. Meetings to be addressed by the Hon. Wm. Cutler, President of the company. "Turn..... More
(S.l.): [Printed by 29th Engineers, U.S. Army], 1918. Stapled wrappers. Octavo. 16 pages. This interesting pamphlet contains translations of several captured German documents from the Ludendorff Offensive on the Western Front in World War I, showing how the Germans were dealing with airplane and gas attacks. The first document shows..... More
New York: E. D. Barker, 1862. Wrappers. [79]-102 pages, plus 2 page ad. Scarce speech from the first year of the American Civil War. Mr. Conway is quite critical of slaveholders both North and South who sought to preserve the Union. His concern was that any effort to preserve the..... More
New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1949. Border vignette portraits. Map. 22 1/8" x 27 3/4", mounted on linen 25" x 30 5/8" This uncommon literary pictorial map of the United States is labeled with prominent book titles and authors in each state. There are many vignettes depicting local scenes..... More
Cleveland: Arthur B. Suchy, [1940s?]. Pictorial map. Map. 22" x 17 3/4" A well designed pictorial map by Cleveland graphic artist Arthur B. Suchy, who spent winter vacations in Florida. This is the second edition of this map, printed in red. The first edition was a bit larger, limited to..... More
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, (2011). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 143 pages. Jim Harrison was a very versatile and gifted writer, producing masterful fiction but also some fine poetry. This collection of poems explores his own atavistic, primitive, totemistic thinking that he says can be "disturbing to one fairly learned."..... More
New York: Grove Press, (2013). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 198 pages. A pair of previously unpublished novellas: "The Land of Unlikeliness" and "The River Swimmer." In each story, a man, one old and one young, confronts inconvenient loves and the encroachment of urbanity on nature. Written with Harrison's characteristic wit..... More
New York: Grove Press, (2013). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 525 pages. Harrison was a master of the novella. This collection contains all the Brown Dog novellas, including the previously unpublished "He Dog." This first printing of the first edition is signed by Harrison directly on the half title..... More
New York: Grove Press, (2015). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 341 pages. Harrison's follow up to his very successful "The Great Leader." Here that novel's protagonist, Detective Sunderson, has fled domestic strife and is living in a hunting cabin in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. He becomes involved in another case that has..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [xii], 364 pages. John Collier was an English writer and master of weird and fantastic stories. His stories appeared in The New Yorker in the 1930s to 1950s and he spent much time in Hollywood writing for film and..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1922. Illustrated by Walter Crane. Half green morocco over boards, marbled paper sides. Octavo. x, 269 pages. A very handsome little edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales, as originally translated from the German by Lucy Crane. Illustrated in black and white throughout, including plates, chapter head-..... More
Washington: Printed by William Duane & Son, 1803. Disbound. Octavo. 11 pages. Robert Elliott was a contractor supplying the United States Army in its attempts to subdue Native American tribes in the Northwest Territory in the late 18th century. Elliott was killed by hostile Indians on October 6, 1794, as..... More
Washington: Printed by William A. Davis, 1817. Disbound. Quarto. 14 pages. A listing of 24 post-roads across various states that were deemed unproductive as of February 20th, 1817. The criteria were that the road had been established for more than two years and that it had not, within the preceding..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., [1926]. First edition. Original cloth. Octavo. 352 pages. Elizabeth Goudge's first novel, set in the Channel Islands in the late 19th century. The story of Rachell du Frocq who rescues a shipwrecked stranger to save her farm and her family. More
[Salt Lake City]: (S.n.), [1925]. Stapled wrappers. Duodecimo. 24 pages. Contains addresses by then Secretary of the Interior Dr. Hubert Work, Commissioner of Reclamation Dr. Elwood Mead, Director of National Parks Stephen T. Mather, Bishop C. W. Nibley, and President Anthony W. Ivins of the Mormon Church. The three U.S...... More
New York: Random House, (1967). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 278 pages. First edition of Thompson's first book, based on a year spent in close association with the notorious outlaw motorcycle gang, Hell's Angels. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1957). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 330 pages. Byron's autobiographical novel of the life of a Chesapeake Bay waterman. Certainly an essential book in any collection on the Bay. Dust jacket illustration by Jack Lewis. More
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1965. First edition. Original cloth. Octavo .x, 413 pages. A collection of Lovecraft's secondary tales, selected with an Introduction by August Derleth. Also included here is Lovecraft's impressive essay, "Supernatural Horror in Literature." Colophon states 3,500 copies in this first printing. More
Wilmington: R. France & Co., 1861. Broadside. 7 3/4" x 19" A fantastic 1861 promotional handbill for a lottery to augment public finance. The Consolidated Lottery of Delaware was authorized by the legislature in January, 1859 as an act for the encouragement of internal improvements in the State of Delaware..... More