Philadelphia: David McKay, 1883. First Edition. First Printing. Black & white plates. Hardcover. Octavo. 240 pages. An important Whitman book, though more of an anthology of documents about Whitman than a conventional biography. Its importance arises from the major contributions of Whitman himself, who wrote the account of his birthplace... More about Walt Whitman
[Washington]: (S.n.), 1908. Broadside. 16" x 19" This commission appointed Alva B. Court an Assistant Naval Constructor with the rank of Lieutenant, junior-grade, in the U.S. Navy. Theodore Roosevelt remains one of America's most popular presidents, even after more than a century since leaving office, and this is a very... More about Signed Naval Commission
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, (1957). First English Edition. First Printing. Black & white photographs. Hardcover. Octavo. 196 pages. Account of the exciting ascent of Cho Oyu, the seventh highest mountain in the world, by Austrian Herbert Tichy and his small party. Lovely copy. More about Cho Oyu: By Favour of the Gods
New York: Random House, (1985). First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 337 pages. McCarthy's masterpiece, which critics now acknowledge as one of the greatest American novels to date and likely to retain that status. Set in the American Southwest between 1849-1850 and based on historical events, McCarthy brings some unforgettable... More about Blood Meridian, Or the Evening Redness in the West
[New York?]: (Gill Engraving Company?), [c.1905?]. One of a series of illustrations by E. M. Gill which were featured in Artemas Ward's advertising trade journal, "Fame," around the turn of the 20th century. Nicely matted and framed. More about Episodes in the Life of Ye Printer...9. - Ye New Installation
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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891. Hardcover. Octavo. 152 pages. Only a handful of Emily Dickinson's poems were published during her lifetime, all anonymously and likely without her knowledge. The extent of her poetic output was unknown until after her death in 1886. This first collection of her poems was selected and... More about Poems [First Series
Lyon: A. Bordet & Cie. 1914. Black & white plates. 1/2 leather. Octavo. 240 pages. Reproduces in facsimile much of the French propaganda and official documents produced in relation to the outbreak of World War I. Preface by Edouard Herriot, Mayor of Lyon, where these documents were accumulated. Several tissue-guarded... More about La Guerre Européene: Bulletin des Communes et Documents Officiels
[New York]: (S.n.), [1813?]. Broadside. 5 1/4" x 7 7/8" Blank printed form to certify ownership of shares in the privateer Yorktown during the War of 1812. The Yorktown operated out of New York against British ships beginning in 1813. This scrip is for her second cruise. She did manage... More about Yorktown Scrip, for Shares in Privateer During the War of 1812
[Nashua]: (S.n.), 1865. Broadside. 9 5/8" x 11 1/2" Poem on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln composed by George G. B. DeWolfe--the Wandering Poet of Nashua, New Hampshire. Boldly printed title "MURDER!" as if a newspaper headline, with the subtitle and 20 line poem in 5 stanzas printed beneath. Dated... More about MURDER! President Lincoln Assassinated
Washington: J. & G. S. Gideon, 1845. Wood engravings. Disbound. Octavo. 24 pages. Vail was an engineer and inventor who collaborated with Samuel B. Morse in the development and practical application of the telegraph. Some have argued it was actually Vail who invented the telegraphic alphabet named after Morse, but... More about Description of the American Electro Magnetic Telegraph: Now in Operation Between the Cities of...
Concord: Republican Press Association, 1885. Third Edition. Wrappers. Duodecimo. 96 pages. Parker Pillsbury, prominent abolitionist and male feminist, first published this tract about 1847. In it he argues that the ruling influence of church and pulpit are on the side of the oppressor throughout the United States. Pillsbury's nephew, Albert... More about The Church as it is: or the Forlorn Hope of Slavery
Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company, 1894. Third Edition. Hardcover. Sixteenmo. 218 pages. Important, author-annotated early edition of the most widely used manual of parliamentary procedure in the United States. This copy is inscribed and signed by the author to his wife: "Mrs. Helen M. Robert / from her affectionate... More about Pocket Manual Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies (Signed
(s. L. ): (S. N. ), [1942]. Black & White Cuts, Map Drawings. Wrappers. Twenty-fourmo. 31 pages. Handbook for new recruits to the Coast Artillery Replacement Training Center which operated at Camp McQuaide from 1942-1943. There is information on the facilities and activities at the post as well as a.... More about CARTC Camp McQuaide
(Evanston): (Row, Peterson and Co.), (1941). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 64 pages. The author spent time "on the road" himself to learn what happened to young people who were tramps and hobos. This down-to-earth story is the fruit of these efforts at gathering information on their thinking and way of... More about Lonesome Road: The Way of Life of a Hobo
(Wilmington): (S. N. ), (1946). First Edition. Black and White Frontispiece Photos. Full cloth. Octavo. 72 pages. Scarce biography of this prolific Victorian journalist and writer. "Gath, " as Townsend signed himself, was the youngest war correspondent during the American Civil War. His dispatches from the Battle of Five Forks... More about George Alfred Townsend: One of Delaware's Outstanding Writers (Signed
Norfolk/Virginia Beach: Donning Company Publishers, (1989). Black and White Photographs. Hardcover. Quarto. 191 pages. The best compilation of historic photographs of Anne Arundel County. Includes over 300 generously captioned photographs of Annapolis, Glen Burnie, Severna Park, Fort Meade, Odenton, and South County, along with historical narrative by Kelly for each... More about Anne Arundel County: A Pictorial History
London: Samuel Bagster, 1808. Seventh Edition. 3/4 leather. Octavo. Beautiful 200 year old copy of this great English fishing classic. Binding by Root & Son. More about The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds,...
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1854. First Edition. Map. Original cloth. Octavo. 357, ads. pages. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came... More about Walden; Or, Life in the Woods
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008). First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 131 pages. When Lee Israel's celebrated writing career took a sudden downturn she embarked on an astonishing one-woman forgery racket run out of her Upper West Side studio. Using old typewriters, she fabricated hundreds of letters from... More about Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger
Paris: Chez les Citoyens Esnauts et Rapilly, [1793]. Broadside. 38.5 cm by 25.5 cm. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1793 enumerates 35 very progressive rights, including such as the right to public education and the right of the poor to public support. Indeed, the most... More about Déclaration des Droits de L'Homme et du Citoyen (Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887. First Edition. Black & white plates, maps, engravings. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv, 678 pages. McClellan's posthumously published memoir of the Civil War, accompanied by a Brady CDV photograph of Gen. McClellan with his autograph attached to its lower margin. McClellan's memoir, honestly, is... More about McClellan's Own Story: The War for the Union: The Soldiers Who Fought It; The Civilians Who...
New York: The Century Co., 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv, 234 pages. Allen and Sachtleben graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1890 and immediately set sail for Liverpool. There began this amazing bicycle journey of some 15,044 miles which they completed in just under 3 years. Nice... More about Across Asia on a Bicycle The Journey of Two American Students from Constantinople to Peking
S.l. S.n., 1936. Ephemera. 3.5 x 5.5 inches. This postcard was carried on board the Hindenburg on her inaugural flight from Germany to Lakehurst, New Jersey in May, 1936. It was a souvenir created by Veedol Motor Oil of Pennsylvania when the company mailed these postcards from Hamburg, Germany to... More about On Board the Hindenburg Postcard flown aboard the Hindenburg on her first flight between Germany...
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1875. Hardcover. Folio. 247 pages. A fantastic collection of over 60 etchings of historic buildings and place in New York City, along with lengthy descriptive texts for each. Etchings produced by H. Thatcher from original pen drawings of Eliza Greatorex. Bound in leather over... More about Old New York, from the Battery to Bloomingdale
