Chicago: Time Inc., 1956. Color drawings by Chamberlain, other magazine illustrations. Magazines. Folios. The first print appearance of excerpts from Chamberlain's self-illustrated diary of his adventures before, during, and after the Mexican War. The unpublished manuscript had been discovered in a Connecticut antiques shop in the 1940s and LIFE had..... More
Seattle: Incunabula, 2021. 40th Anniversary Edition, limited to 2,800 copies. Black and white illustrations by Peter Milton. Cloth hardcover. Quarto. [i-viii], [1-14], 15-779 pages. Beautiful fortieth anniversary limited edition of one of the greatest works of the imagination created in the last century. Brilliant pairing of the artwork of Peter..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 344 pages. Scarce debut novel by this Harlem Renaissance writer. Turpin was a native of Maryland's Eastern Shore, and that is the primary setting of this saga of four generations of African Americans dealing with slavery and its..... More
(New York): (Scanlan's Literary House, Inc.), 1970. Color and black and white illustrations. Magazine. Folio. 77 pages. Contains Hunter S. Thompson's "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved," which is widely considered the first published piece of "Gonzo journalism." This article is also the beginning of the legendary relationship between..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First Edition, #322 of 350 copies signed by Olson. Color photographs by J. Arnold Bolz, monochromatic chapter heads, maps. Cloth hardcover, in slipcase. Quarto. xxii, 233, [xii] pages. Olson selected the best of his prior writings for inclusion in this special edition, based in..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1939. First U.S. Edition. Black and white photographic plates, fold-out map. Full leather over boards. Quarto. xv, 296 pages. Account of the adventurous expedition to Graham Land Antarctica in the years 1934-1937, by its leader and surveyor, John Riddoch Rymill. Two chapters..... More
London. Oxford University Press. 1928. First Edition. Tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait. Cloth over boards. Octavo. viii, 151 pages. Account of Granville Sharp (1735-1813) and his efforts as an early British campaigner for the abolition of the slave trade. It was Sharp's plan to settle liberated Blacks in Sierra Leone, and he..... More
Chicago. Regan Publishing Corporation. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x,174 pages. Vivid and colorful tale of the California Gold Rush's most famous Mexican outlaw, portraying Murrieta as a wronged Sonoran miner who becomes a legendary avenger of his people against the gold-seekers who flooded California from around the world in..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, Publishers, (1951). First Edition. Drawings by Richard Floethe. Hardcover. Octavo. [iv], 281 pages. Magical children's novel set in a small Welsh town where the boundary between the everyday and the enchanted disappears for young Margaret after she is entrusted with a simple errand. As she is drawn..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1870. Early printings. Black and white illlustrations. Cloth over boards. Duodecimos. 341 (+ads) and 359 (+ads) pages. The classic coming-of-age novel about four sisters in New England during the Civil War, by Louisa May Alcott. These are early printings of both volumes, within two years of each..... More
Windsor, VT: Thomas M. Pomroy, 1814. First Edition. Half leather. Octavo. [1-3], 4-48 pages. An impassioned commemoration of Washington and his military and political leadership during the Revolutionary War. Delivered while the United States was again at war with England during the War of 1812, Dunham takes the opportunity to..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [i-x], [1-2], 3-276 pages. Savage's stark Western set on a 1920s Montana ranch. It charts the clash between Phil, brilliant and cruel, and his gentler brother George after George marries a widow who provokes Phil’s cruelty while her son provokes..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Limited Edition, copy #1412 of 1500. Full green Morocco. Octavo. 184 pages. Machiavelli’s masterpiece on gaining, wielding, and retaining political power, written in the form of a realistic instruction manual for rulers. It has provoked controversy from its inception, admired by some for its..... More
New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. First Edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait and two plates. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. [i-v], vi-viii, [ix], x-xvi, [xvii], xviii-xxxi, [xxxii], [33], 34-467 pages, 4 leaves of publisher ads. This autobiography by Frederick Douglass (his second) is one of the most important..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1955. Limited Edition, one of 180 copies. Illustrated by Mary Grabhorn. Hardcover. Quarto. [iv], 109 pages. A beautiful edition, with the text taken from the First Folio of 1623, six linoleum block illustrations by Mary Grabhorn, and the elegant typography of the Grabhorn Press... More
(New York): A New Directions, (2012). First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 274 pages. First novel by the winner of the 2025 Novel Prize for Literature. Originally published in Hungary in 1985, this postmodernist work is set in an isolated village with few remaining inhabitants and unfolds over the course..... More
London: Printed for the author, 1792. First Edition. Contemporaneous leather over boards. Octavo. [50], 455 pages. William Eddis arrived in Annapolis in 1769, having secured a position as surveyor of customs through the patronage of Maryland's last Royal Governor, Sir Robert Eden. His letters back to England are one of..... More
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1886. First Trade Edition, second state. Black and white engraved plates. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [i-vi], vii, [viii], ix, [x], xi-xiii, [xiv], xv-xvi, 1-347 pages, [4] publisher ads. Roosevelt's second regularly published book (excluding privately printed items). Here TR recounts his time..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1882. First Edition. Black and white drawings, diagrams, battle plans. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [i-ii], iii-vii, [viii], ix-xi, [xii], xiii-xviii, [1], 2-498 pages, [2] publisher ads. Scarce first printing of Theodore Roosevelt's remarkable first book. He began research on this while a student at..... More
Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1941. Limited Edition, #24 of 270 copies. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 35 pages. MacDonagh's first solo book of poetry, published in this small edition, of which this is hand-numbered copy 24. Published by Elizabeth Yeats's Cuala Press, with support from her brother, William Butler Yeats... More
Garden City: Published for the Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. First Edition. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. [x], 278 pages. First edition of this scarce "locked room" mystery from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. The plot centers on the 'Salem Spook,' a thief and..... More
Quakertown: The Philosophical Publishing Company, (1924). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 184 pages. Presents Freemasonry as a spiritual tradition rooted in the Ancient Mysteries of Egypt's pharaohs, pyramids, and symbols. A scarce book on Masonic lore. More
(New York): Pantheon Books, (1949). First Edition. Black and white illustrations. Hardcover. Octavo. xxiv, 416 pages. First edition of Cambell's groundbreaking study of the composite hero found throughout human civilization. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1929). First printing. Black and white drawings by Alexander King. Cloth over boards. Octavo. x, 336 pages. This is the book that introduced zombies into American pop culture. Just three years after its publication Hollywood released "White Zombie," the first of many zombie movies..... More
New York: Random House, (1957) [1967]. Tenth Anniversary Limited Edition. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 1168, [3] pages. Tenth Anniversary edition of Rand's most important book, with original clear acetate dust jacket and slipcase. This is copy #1,138 of 2,000 and is signed by Ayn Rand on the limitation page preceding..... More