New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First U.S. printing. Black and white frontispiece portrait, drawings. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 320 pages. An intra-war collection of Churchill's essays on a wide variety of topics, from U-boats to espionage, from politics to the effects of modern life. This volume is bibliographically..... More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, [1966]. Black and white photographs. Softcover. Square quarto. 341, [2] pages. Kaprow's important book on the then emerging field of performance art. It has the special merit of documenting this movement from within, at the beginning, in real time. He had originally written..... More

[New York]: [Mail and Express Job Print], [1912]. Stapled pamphlet. Octavo. 16 pages. Campaign piece from Theodore Roosevelt's unsuccessful bid for reelection to the Presidency in 1912. Here he confronts racial issues as nominee of the Progressive or "Bull Moose" party. Roosevelt founded the party after losing the Republican nomination..... More

New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, (1935). First edition. Illustrated by Roy C. Nelson. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [72 pages]. A collection of 30 cocktail recipes contributed by noteworthy writers of the early 20th century. The title is a spoof on Stark Young's 1934 Civil War novel, "So Red the Rose." The..... More

New York: Random House, (1972). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 305 pages. Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter Sy Hersh tells the story of the origins and cover-up of this tragic incident in the Vietnam War. Hersh had many well-placed sources, and also combed the 25,000 pages of the Army's undisclosed..... More

New York: E. Laub Publishing Co., 1943. First printing. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Thin velvet-covered boards. Octavo. 159 pages. Poems of political struggle, published while Balabanoff was in exile in New York during World War II. She was a Russian-born Italian Jew who had worked with Lenin, Trotsky, and..... More

[Havana}: (S.n.), [c.1960]. Black and white photographs. Softcover. Oblong duodecimo. 41 unnumbered leaves. Album commemorating the 1956 invasion of Cuba by revolutionaries under Fidel Castro in the yacht Granma. The album consists of individual photographs of the participants in the invasion, opening with the photographs of 27 men who were..... More

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, (1901). First printing. Black and white photographs, illustrations. Cloth over boards with printed paper sides. Tall octavo. 176 pages. Beautiful depiction of child life in China, revealing something of their nursery's, school rooms, and playgrounds. Numerous photographs throughout, along with old prints, to illustrated..... More

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1844. First printing. Unbound, tied with string. Octavo. iv, 44 pages. Thom was a British Crown judicial officer, and makes a very able argument in favor of British ownership of the Oregon Territory. He refutes the American claims advanced by Robert Greenhow in his 1840..... More

London: Printed for Philemon Stephens the younger, at the Kings-Arms, 1661. Marbled paper over boards with leather spine. Quarto. [24], 1-108, 1-96, 1-83, [9] pages. Controversial work by Anglican Bishop of Ossory, Griffith Williams, in which he identifies the Westminster Assembly of Divines as the "mystical soul" and the Long..... More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1904. Signed Limited Edition, #46 of 100 copies. Black and white plates. Three quarter leather. Octavo. [xiv], 439 pages. Winfield Scott Schley graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1860, served in the Civil War and several other naval operations in his lengthy..... More

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1932. Early printing. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. [i]-[viii], 1-289 pages. A collection of alternative histories of famous events and people, proposed by the likes of G. K. Chesterton, Emil Ludwig, Hilaire Belloc, Harold Nicolson, and, of course, Winston Churchill. Contributions include such..... More

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1938. Limited Edition, #317 of 800 sets. Full calf. Octavos. xxviii, 415 and viii, 389 pages. Rousseau's "Confessions" is notable as one of the first major autobiographies ever written. Unlike other early autobiographies which focused on religious experiences, Rousseau shares his worldly experiences and personal feelings..... More