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
Salt Lake City]: (S.n.), [1925]. Stapled wrappers. Duodecimo. 24 pages. Contains addresses by then Secretary of the Interior Dr. Hubert Work, Commissioner of Reclamation Dr. Elwood Mead, Director of National Parks Stephen T. Mather, Bishop C. W. Nibley, and President Anthony W. Ivins of the Mormon Church. The three U.S...... More
New York: Random House, (1967). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 278 pages. First edition of Thompson's first book, based on a year spent in close association with the notorious outlaw motorcycle gang, Hell's Angels. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1957). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 330 pages. Byron's autobiographical novel of the life of a Chesapeake Bay waterman. Certainly an essential book in any collection on the Bay. Dust jacket illustration by Jack Lewis. More
New York: The Albertype Co., 1896. Black & white photographs. Paper over boards. Oblong octavo. [ii], [18 leaves]. Scarce collection of photographs around Annapolis at the end of the 10th century. There are 20 photographic images on 18 leaves. Primary subjects are interior and exterior views of the State House..... More
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1965. First edition. Original cloth. Octavo .x, 413 pages. A collection of Lovecraft's secondary tales, selected with an Introduction by August Derleth. Also included here is Lovecraft's impressive essay, "Supernatural Horror in Literature." Colophon states 3,500 copies in this first printing. More
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. First printing. Jacket illustration by George Barrows. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 313 pages. Signed first edition of Ray Bradbury's first book, a collection of 21 tales of the weird and fantastic, published by Arkham House. Publisher's jacket blurb compares the young Bradbury to H...... More
[Washington?]: [1837]. Measures approximately 17" x 21" An unusual commemorative printing of an executive order by President Andrew Jackson. In one of his last acts as President, Jackson expunges the brevet promotion given to Robert Butler following the Defense of New Orleans during the War of 1812. Jackson does so..... More
London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1938). First UK edition. Black & white photographs, drawings. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 199 pages. An enlightening portrait of John Wilkes Booth written by the person who probably knew and loved him best--his sister, Asia. While Edwin Booth and other family members tried to blot..... More
Wilmington: R. France & Co., 1861. Broadside. 7 3/4" x 19" A fantastic 1861 promotional handbill for a lottery to augment public finance. The Consolidated Lottery of Delaware was authorized by the legislature in January, 1859 as an act for the encouragement of internal improvements in the State of Delaware..... More
Washington: Office of War Information, 1943. Single sheet, approximately 20" x 28" Original World War II domestic propaganda poster from the controversial Office of War Information. The warning and message from J. Edgar Hoover's FBI requests the aid of every American in rooting out spies and saboteurs with information they..... More
New York: Counterattack, (1950). First edition. Paperback. Octavo. 213 pages. A landmark in McCarthy-era blacklisting in the entertainment industry. Published in June of 1950, Red Channels listed the names of 151 actors, musicians, authors, and entertainers who it deemed to be Communist sympathizers or liberal dupes. People like Dorothy Parker..... More
Philadelphia: The Franklin Press, 1909. First edition. Black & White Photographs, 1 fold-out map. Full cloth. Octavo. [x], 276, [2] pages. A Chesapeake Bay classic. The first book to draw significant attention to the Bay as ideally suited for pleasure boating. The Barrie brothers were members of the Corinthian Yacht..... More
London: William Heinemann, Ltd., (1972). Color plates, black and white illustrations in text. Half leather. Octavo. 162 pages. A particularly handsome copy of Alice featuring the groundbreaking 1907 illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Rackham's work on Alice was controversial at the time. Purists felt that none but the original drawings by..... More
Fishkill: New York Society of the Cincinnati, 2004 & 2008. Color frontispieces, maps. Hardcovers. Quartos. xlii, 659 & xxiv, 359 pages. A pair of extensive references to American Revolutionary War officers, comprising a volume of biographies of every Cincinnati-eligible officer and a second volume detailing the actions of each of..... More
New York: Essential Books, (1945). Black and white photographs. Cloth over boards. Quarto. 246 pages. Gritty collection of Weegee's famous street photographs of New York City in the 1940s. Weegee worked at night with a 4x5 Speed Graphic press camera, closely following a police scanner. He specialized in crime and..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, (1956). Limited Edition, #421 of 450. Paintings, some color. Hardcover. Octavo. [12], vii-x, 302 pages. Chamberlain's memoir details his personal adventures in Mexico and the American Southwest before, during, and after the Mexican War. It is the primary source for Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece, Blood..... More
New York: Modern Library, (2002). First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. vi, 471 pages. McCarthy's fourth novel, reputedly semi-autobiographical, set in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1951. Cornelius Suttree leaves his prominent family to live, estranged from normal society, in a dilapidated houseboat along the Tennessee River. Reviewer Stanley Booth has suggested..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1932). First edition. Drawings by Edwin Tunis. Half leather. Octavo. xxiv, 326 pages. The classic collection of old Maryland recipes for everything from oysters, crabs, terrapin and fowl, to breads, cakes, puddings, beverages and desserts. Each of the 500 plus recipes in Frederick Stieff's..... More
North Montpelier: Driftwind Press, 1943. Second printing. Watercolors by Jack Lewis. Original cloth. Octavo. 170 pages. Gilbert Byron's first book, with lovely tipped-in color illustrations by Jack Lewis. Here are the people and wildlife of the Chesapeake Bay, captured in verse by the region's answer to Thoreau. This copy..... More
(S.l.): (S.n.), [c.1940?]. Black & white photograph. Flyer, folded once, opens to 8.5" x 11" Vintage sideshow promotional flyer for Al and Jeanie Tomaini. Al was once the tallest man in the world at 8' 4", while Jeanie, who was born without lower limbs, was just 2' 4". They met..... More
(S.l.): (S.n.), [1900]. Cartoon on rear cover. Wrappers. Duodecimo. 16 pages. Williams Jennings Bryan, the Democratic nominee for President in 1900, delivers a speech against the reign of monopolies he saw as having been abetted by McKinley and the Republicans. Bryan ultimately would lose to the incumbent, McKinley, who would..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 294 pages. Gogarty, who was James Joyce's model for Buck Mulligan in the opening chapter of Ulysses, here presents a satire on English social mores. It is the story of one Ouseley, an Irishman, advised by..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Limited edition, #280 of 350. Leather. Octavo. 285 pages. Limited edition, printed on special paper and specially bound each signed by García Márquez and numbered. This is copy #280 of the special edition, In original map-illustrated slipcase. More
New York: Arno Press, 1968. American Bible Society Edition. Hardcovers. Duodecimos. 2 volumes. A painstaking facsimile of the first complete Bible known to be printed in North America in English. Aitken's is the only Bible in the history of the United States to have been given Congressional approval. This edition..... More