Philadelphia: Published for the Subscribers, 1848. First Edition. 2 facsimile letters by George Washington. Quarter leather. Octavo. 302 pages. Little known episode of the Revolutionary War in which several prominent Quaker citizens of Philadelphia were arrested and banished to Virginia when their pacifism ran afoul of the Supreme Executive Council... More about Exiles in Virginia: With Observations on the Conduct of the Society of Friends During the...

Newburyport: Press of Hiram Tozer, 1838. Wrappers. Octavo. 18 pages. A sermon likely in response to the February 24, 1838 pistol duel between two members of the U.S. Congress, resulting in the death of newly elected Representative Jonathan Cilley of Maine. Cilley had taken to the House floor and made... More about The Sin of Duelling: A Sermon Preached at Marblehead, on the Fifth of April, 1838:--A Day of...

[1940]: (Charles P. Everitt Associates), [1940]. Reprint. 1 double leaf folded map. Wrappers. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. 3, xxx, 46 pages. History of the raid of Shelbourne, NH by Tomhegan and his band in 1781--considered the last "Indian raid" in New England. Here Segar was captured, along with another... More about A Brief Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Lt. Nathan'l Segar, Who was Taken Prisoner...

Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co. Publishers, 1850. First Edition. Frontispiece dual portrait. Original cloth. Octavo. 432 pages. John Quincy Adams gave masterful eulogies of both James Madison and James Monroe upon their deaths. This volume preserved both together in a permanent form shortly after Adams's own death in 1848. The... More about The Lives of James Madison and James Monroe, Fourth and Fifth Presidents of the United...

Boston: David Clapp, 1847. First Edition. Wrappers. Octavo. 29, [iii], xviii pages. Scarce pamphlet concerning the Jackson-Morton dispute over the discovery of ether's effectiveness as a surgical anesthetic in 1846. More about A Statement of the Claims of Charles T. Jackson, M.D., to the Discovery of the Applicability of...

Greenwich: Seabury Press, 1963. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 60 pages. Intensely personal account of Lewis's reactions to the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, in 1960. First published in England in 1961, Lewis chose a pseudonym to avoid publicity. Lewis himself died later shortly after the appearance of this first American edition. More about A Grief Observed

New York: Pantheon Books, (1976). First American Edition. Full cloth. Octavo. xiv, 481 pages. A guided tour through 10 centuries of fairies good and bad, including their appearance, customs, food, sports, and their varying sizes and powers. The first reference work of its kind. More about An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and Other Supernatural Creatures

New York: David Mckay, 1937. First Edition. First Printing. Full cloth. Octavo. 243 pages pages. Fictionalized memoir of a Southern "mammy," tracing her story from early life and capture in Africa, being sold in America, her "happy childhood on a southern plantation, and her unhappy girlhood; her role as "Mammy"... More about That was a Time

[Philadelphia?]: (Democratic National Committee?), [1937?]. First Edition. Color and b&w illustrations, ads. Softcover. Folio. 384 pages. A souvenir book recapping President Roosevelt's victory and Democrat gains in the 1936 national election. Contains campaign speeches, profiles of candidates and cabinet members, records of accomplishment for departments in Roosevelt's first term, and... More about The Democratic Book 1936 [cover title

New York: Macmillan Company, 1925. Limited Edition. Illustrated by Allen Tupper True. Hardcover. Octavo. 231 pages. Neihardt had been working on an Epic Cycle of the West for eleven years, having completed two parts prior to this one. "The Song of the Indian Wars deals with the last great fight... More about The Song of the Indian Wars

[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... More about Boston Museum, Fourth Night of Mr. J. Wilkes Booth! as Richard III (Playbill for May 15, 1862

[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... More about Signed Letter to Edgar Conkling of Cincinnati, Dated February 26, 1861, Mexico City

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... More about The Virginia Eastern Shore and Its British Origins: History, Gardens and Antiquities