[New York?]: Major Julius I. Peyser, [1928]. Wrappers. Octavo. 14 pages. Rare campaign pamphlet for Herbert Hoover's presidential candidacy in 1928, distributed by Major Julius I. Peyser of the American Jewish Congress. Promotes Hoover's past humanitarian efforts on behalf of Jews and other minorities. Hoover and his humanitarian efforts on..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., (1940). First edition. Illustrated by Aaron Bohrod. Full cloth. Octavo. x, 355 pages. The 11th volume in the Rivers of America Series, as planned and begun by Constance Lindsay Skinner. The story of the Illinois River, from the early French explorers to the mid-20th..... More
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., (1956). First edition. Illustrated by Lamar Dodd. Full cloth. Octavo. x, 435 pages. The 51st volume in the Rivers of America Series, here is the story of the Santee, which drains the Carolinas east of the Appalachian Mountains. Peopled with rugged individualists of the..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, (1945). First edition. Illustrated by Walter K. Fisher. Full cloth. Octavo. xviii, 316 pages. The north-flowing Salinas River rises in the hills near San Luis Obispo and winds its way to the Monterey Bay, never more than a few miles from the ocean. This..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., (1966). First edition. Full cloth. Octavo. 250 pages. Uncommon biography of the charming and tormented ex-pat writer, William Seabrook. His 1929 book on Haitian voodoo, "The Magic Island," introduced zombies into popular culture. Seabrook once paid an accomplice to steal a chunk of..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First American edition, Review Copy. Full cloth. Octavo. 446 pages. An extraordinary novel set in the midst of political upheaval at the beginning of the Irish War of Independence in the summer of 1919. Was awarded the Lost Man Booker for 1970 in 2010..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1983). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 178 pages. Collection of 12 stories set in the mountain hollows of West Virginia, by an uncannily observant and tremendously promising young writer. Breece D'J Pancake's bright flame was brief, however, as he took his own life at age 27..... More
New York: Greenberg : Publisher, (1935). First printing. Full cloth. Octavo. 249 pages. A scarce novel of the struggles and successes of immigrants in the United States. More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1963). First printing, first state. Full cloth. Octavo. 492 pages. Pynchon's innovative first novel, whose appearance in 1963 caused a stir, and had George Plimpton calling Pynchon "a young writer of staggering promise." Pynchon made some final revisions to the text for the subsequent..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1973). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 176 pages. Harrison's second novel, featuring a poet who loves only fishing (and girls), a Vietnam vet who loves only violence (and drugs), and beautiful long-legged girl who loves only one of them (at first). This trio of innocents sets..... More
London: R. Carlile, 1819. First edition. Wrappers. Octavo. 28 pages. Richard Carlile was a publisher and political agitator who was charged and ultimately convicted of blasphemy and seditious libel for publishing material that might incite British subjects to hate their government--among these publications being Thomas Paine's "Age of Reason," which..... More
London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1839. First edition. Steel and wood engraved black & white plates and text illustrations. Expertly rebacked original cloth over boards. Octavo. xii, 327 pages. Illustrated treatise on fox-hunting, by the Master of Hounds at the Hertfordshire Hunt Club. More
(S.n.): [early 1800s?]. Single leaf, about 5" x 7 3/4" Old ink handwritten recipe for oysters, which reads: Strain you oysters put the liquor on and stew it well and skim it untill you get all the liqur clear then add some whole grains of cloves salt and read..... More
Washington: The Associated Publishers, Inc., (1930). First edition. Full cloth. Octavo, viii, 199 pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Jackson on front pastedown. Algernon B. Jackson was an African American physician, surgeon, columnist and author. This is his fascinating account of the 1928 automobile tour he and his wife took from..... More
Pikeville: Pikeville College Press, 1979. First edition. Black & white photographs, facsimile of manuscript. Full cloth. Octavo. [vi], 181 pages. Big Sam McCoy was a nephew of Randolph McCoy, a leader of the famous feud between the Hatfields and McCoys. Big Sam also happened to be present at most of..... More
(Boston): (The Barta Press), [c.1920]. First edition. Black & white photographs. Hardcover. Quarto. 120 pages. Scarce history of this World War I hospital unit, organized at Harvard University in February, 1916 and mobilized in May, 1917. Sailing for France on the Saxonia, the unit arrived at Boulogne, France on May..... More
New York: Columbia Jester, 1932-1933. Cartoons, vintage advertising. Bound volume, full cloth. Quarto, approximately 200 pages. Nice collection of 8 issues of this student publication of Columbia University, bound with the colorful covers intact. 18 year old Herman Wouk appears on the masthead--initially as a lowly member of the associate..... More
Springfield: William C. Hazelton, 1922. 2nd Edition. Photographs. Original cloth. Octavo. [xvi], 138 pages. Contributions by Thomas Dixon, Jr., George L. Hopper, John B. Thompson, Clyde B. Terrell, Dr. Edmund W. Weis, and several others. Stories of waterfowling from the Chesapeake to California, Manitoba to Lousiana. There is a contribution..... More
[New York]: (S.n), [before 1872]. Broadside. 11 cm x 18 cm. Henry Maillard had emigrated from France in the late 1840s and established a confectionary and catering business, in Long Island City. Shortly thereafter he moved and started the chocolate factory and retail store at the location indicated on this..... More
Takoma Park: Review and Herald Publishings Association, (1898). black & white plates, text illustrations. 1/2 leather. Octavo. xvi, [iv], 19-866 pages. Early edition of one of the most important books by religious pioneer and co-founder of the Seventh Day Adventist church, Ellen G. White. Mrs. White claimed to have received..... More
Philadelphia: Key and Biddle, 1836. 1st Edition. Tables, diagrams. 1/2 leather. Octavo. vii, 216, 174, 16 pages. The first book by this pioneering oceanographer and astronomer. Maury's extensive work charting ocean currents would earn him the nickname "Pathfinder of the Seas." He served in the Confederate Navy during the Civil..... More
Edinburgh: J. Hay and Co., 1818. 1st Edition. 1/2 leather. Duodecimo. cxxix, 244 pages. Robert MacGregor and his brothers were tried for the kidnapping of heiress Jean Key in 1752. Ultimately convicted, Robert was executed by hanging in 1754. This incident is fictionalized and adapted into Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped."..... More
New York: (Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, Printers), 1893. Original cloth. Octavo. 60 pages. Joseph Edwards had designed the ship-mounted "Edwards Cataract Pump" for hydraulic dredging, and was called upon to deepen the southern entrance to New York Harbor. The work was completed so satisfactorily that Edwards was inundated with requests by..... More
[Boston?]: [1908]. Manuscript. 6.25" x 8" This is an endearing letter from the aged social activist, suffragist, and poet just days before her 89th birthday. Julia Ward Howe is perhaps best known as the writer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," but was also a prominent abolitionist and women's..... More
(s.l.): (s.n.), [1919]. Black & white photographs, cartoons. Full cloth. Quarto. 56 pages. Scarce World War I aerial unit history. Formed at Kelly Field, Texas in late December, 1917, the 174th "Black Cat" Aero Squadron then trained in England before arriving in France on October 28, 1918. The Squadron provided..... More