Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Company, 1916. First printing. Black and white photographic plates. Cloth hardcover. x, 205 pages. This is an account of a hunting expedition to the St. Elias Range in the region of the Donjek and White Rivers. the quarry was caribou, mountain sheep, goat, bear, and moose..... More
Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Company, 1919. First printing. Profusely illustrated, including eight color plates of flies. Cloth hardcover. Duodecimo. xvi, 264 pages. Contents include selection, care, and rigging of the rod, the art of casting, trout habits, the angler's flies and how to tie them, description of trout-fly patterns, and..... More
(Baltimore): (Meyer & Thalheimer), (1938). First printing. Photographs by the author. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xviii, 127 pages. The author spent ten years researching and photographing this fascinating history of St. Mary's County--Maryland's "Mother County." He sought out unusual and obscure anecdotes, legends, and traditions not found in ordinary historical..... More
Boston: The Merrymount Press, 1935. Color pictorial map. Single sheet, approximately 34" x 25" Schruers was a graduate of Harvard and created this architectural bird's-eye view of his alma mater in celebration of its tercentenary in 1936. It is therefore less comical than other college pictorial maps of the era..... More
New York: New York City Transit Authority, 1972. First printing. Color-coded route map. Single sheet approximately 18" x 21" printed on both sides. Folds to about 3 1/2" x 7" Here is the important first printing of Massimo Vignelli's 1972 NYC Transit Authority map. Vignelli sacrificed geographic accuracy for simplicity..... More
[New Market, NJ]: [Sons of Liberty], [1960s]. Diagrams. Comb bound softcover. Octavo. [vi], 40 pages. This odd and rare little booklet is essentially a handbook on the practical operations of resistance movements through guerilla warfare. It seems to be contemplating a Communist invasion of the United States and what patriotic..... More
New York: (S.n.), 1813. Broadside. Approximately 5" x 8 1/8" An accomplished certificate for 1 share in the privateer Paul Jones, in the amount of $250, signed by Samuel Adams and others. More
Philadelphia: 1795. Framed item. 21 1/8" x 27" overall. Robert Morris, the influential financier of the American Revolution and signer of the United States' three most important documents--the Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution--here signs a stock certificate as President of The North American Land Company..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, [c.1935]. Color plates of flies by Alma W. Froderstrom, black and white illustrations. Original cloth, in slipcase. Octavo. xxii, 190 pages. The first reprint of the original Derrydale edition. Jennings' work represented a giant step forward in American fly-fishing literature, in terms of identifying insects and..... More
Boston: Privately Printed, 1902. Limited edition. Color and black & white plates. Original cloth over boards. Folio. 402 pages. Detailed, nicely illustrated, and well documented history of the origin and early races in the America's Cup yacht racing event. Some hostility to the New York Yacht Club is evident here..... More
Sauk City: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Limited edition. Original cloth. Octavo. xii, 432 pages. Arkham House collection containing Lovecraft's three horror novels, along with shorter masterpieces. Colophon states 3,000 copies in this first printing. More
[New Castle?]: R. Porter, Printer, [c.1809]. Single sheet approximately 10" x 15 1/2", folded once, to 7 3/4" x 10". Printed on both sides. The New-Castle and French-Town Turnpike was chartered in Delaware in 1809 and in Maryland in 1810. It constructed and maintained a road between New Castle, Delaware..... More
San Francisco: Louis Roesch Co., Printers, [1898]. Broadside. 8 7/8" x 5 7/8" An 1898 handbill advertising swimming races at San Francisco's famous Sutro Baths. The teams from Nevada, Georgia, Tennessee, Montana, and Washington were volunteer soldiers in the Spanish-American War, encamped near San Francisco in the summer of 1898..... More
Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, (1961). First printing. Black and white photographs. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 206 pages. The International Christian Leadership Movement, founded by Abraham Vereide, is perhaps best known for its sponsorship of the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC. Every President since Dwight D. Eisenhower has..... More
1971. Limited edition, #926 of 1000. Serigraph. Poster, 22" x 30" Sir Eduardo Paolozzi was a native of Scotland, born of Italian immigrants. He studied art at the Edinburgh College of Art and Slade School of Fine Art. He was a founder of Pop Art, and his seminal 1947 collage..... More
(S.l.): (S.n.), [1940s]. Black & white halftones from photographs. Saddle-stapled wrappers. Octavo. [8] pages. Interesting booklet on Ray R. Myers, born without arms. Though a circus sought to employ him at age 3, his parents chose to give him as normal a life as they could. He learned to play..... 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
(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
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. 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
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