Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., (1877). First Edition. Woodcuts. Wrappers. Octavo. [i,ii], 19-64 pages. The Molly Maguires were believed to have incited Irish immigrant miners to violence in the anthracite coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania in the 1870s, and 20 alleged Mollies were convicted of murder and other crimes and hanged... More

New York: Thompson & Pearson, Publishers, 1867. Woodcuts. Newspaper. Folio. 12 pages. A lovely issue of the The Ball Players' Chronicle, which was the first periodical devoted to the game of baseball. Its editor, Henry Chadwick, was a great promoter and popularizer of the game and is considered by some... More

New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, (1865). Woodcuts. Disbound. Octavo. 79, [I] pages. Perhaps the first book on the Lincoln assassination, originally published about a month after the event. George Alfred Townsend was a pioneering war correspondent during the Civil War, and covered the Lincoln assassination and its aftermath for... More

Washington: Infantry Journal, (1943). First Edition. Black & white photographs, illustrations. Paperback. Octavo. 103 pages. Fitness program developed by women for women. The Foreword recognizes that "American women are not amazons and don't want to be amazons," so the goal here is building the strength, stamina, and coordination to support... More

New York: Pynson Printers, 1937. Limited Edition. Black & white cuts, some color. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 83 pages. Beautiful little collection of Rockwell Kent's distinctive bookplates, initials, and marks. A first collection was printed in 1929 in an edition of 1250 copies, and quickly sold out. This companion volume was published... More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1918. First Edition. Fold-out plans, tables, photographs. Original cloth. Octavo. 96 pages. Scarce, Confidential manual on the weaponry associated with U. S. Army aircraft and pilots in World War I. Sections on the Marlin, the Lewis, and the Vickers aircraft machine guns, synchronizing gears, machine gun... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. 1st US Edition Thus. Maps and plans, some folding. Full cloth. Octavo. xvi, 381 pages. Winston Churchill's detailed military history of the operations directed by Lord Kitchener on the Upper Nile between April 1896 and November 1899. Churchill was a participant in the decisive... More

Washington, D. C. 1901. 6.50" by 8.25". 1 pages. A rather early Theodore Roosevelt letter as President, having succeeded to the office upon the death of President William McKinley just 17 days earlier. Roosevelt, having received a letter from John G. Winter, Jr., here asks his Acting Secretary of War... More

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

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

[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

Baltimore: John D. Toy, Printer, 1838. Disbound. Octavo. 45 pages. Speeches in support of colonization and in adamant opposition to abolition, by President of the Senate Richard Thomas, Speaker of the House William H. Tuck, J. H. Culbreth, William F. Giles, and Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge. This Maryland branch of... More

[Albany]: (Weed, Parsons & Co., Printers), [1863]. First Edition. Wrappers. Octavo. 16 pages. A pro-Union Democrat attack on the Copperhead wing of their party. The Copperheads sought to let the Confederate states peacefully secede from the Union, and this pamphlet refutes them with testimony and opinions of many prominent Democrats... More