Philadelphia: Moss & Co., 1864. Black and white diagrams and cuts. Flexible covers with tab fore-edge tab enclosure. 32mo. 284 pages. A very nice 19th century pocket Masonic manual, with manuals for Knights of the Red Cross and Knights Templar in separate sections. Numerous illustrations throughout. More

[Liverpool]: [City of Liverpool], [1974]. Single sheet. 20" x 28 7/8" This rarely seen psychedelic poster of the Beatles comes from a promotional package done by the City of Liverpool in 1974. Urged by then Deputy PR Officer for the City, Ron Jones, the City of Liverpool produced a souvenir..... More

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, Inc., (1929). Early reprint. Black and white drawings by Alexander King. Cloth over boards. Octavo. x, 3-336 pages. Willie Seabrook, born in Westminster, Maryland, was an adventurer, World War I ambulance driver, occultist, and ex-pat writer whose friends included Aleister Crowley, Ernest Hemingway, and e.e...... 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

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

New York: [Isaac Goldmann Co, Printers], 1911. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 48 pages. Mr. Canfield conducted public exhibitions of card tricks and cheats in an effort to demonstrate that gambling doesn't pay and that casual but habitual gamblers will always ultimately lose. He observes that in the end "...men will..... 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

(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: 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

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

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

San Bernardino: Southern California Tourist Association, Inc., 1963. Pictorial map. Measures approximately 22" x 35". Single sheet. Colorful perspective pictorial map of Los Angeles and Southern California, looking east-northeast over Catalina Island. Border vignettes, portraits of Father Junipero Serra and Juan Batista de Anza, and many other figures decorate the..... More