New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. Limited edition, #965 of 1500. Wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Hardcovers in slipcase. Folios. 3 volumes. Handsome edition of this chivalric classic, which was originally printed by William Caxton in 1485. Striking wood engravings by Robert Gibbings decorative margins and chapter heads throughout. Gibbings..... More
[Pittsburgh]: Monument Press, (1974). Limited edition, #42 of 50. Portfolio of loose prints. Folio. [14 unpaginated leaves]. A suite of 10 boldly printed linoleum cuts by American artist George Nama, each depicting an ordinary household object constrained from its normal function by wire or cord binding the critical part of..... More
New York: Random House, 1930. Rockwell Kent. Hardcover. Duodecimo. xxxii, 825 pages. A stunning copy of what is widely regarded as the definitive edition of Moby Dick. Melville's great book was not well received when published in 1851, and languished in relative obscurity through the rest of the 19th century..... More
Buffalo: Wheeler, Matthews & Warren, 1863. First edition. Disbound. An interesting and well-reasoned discourse on the state of the Civil War about a month after the Battle of Gettysburg, from the Union perspective. Rev. Smith concludes with answers to objections such as that the aim of the war had shifted..... More
New York: Aero Club of America, 1919. Broadside. 8.5" x 14". Printed both sides. Scarce entry form for the $25,000 Ortieg Cross-Atlantic Flight Prize, which was ultimately won by Charles Lindbergh in 1927. Augustus Post of the Aero Club of America approached hotelier Raymond Orteig to sponsor the prize, which..... More
(New York): New Directions, (2008). Limited edition. Full cloth. Octavo. 94 pages. The 50th Anniversary edition of Ferlinghetti's influential poetry collection, which includes a 45-track CD in unopened plastic publisher's sleeve on rear pastedown. Copy #117 of 200, boldly signed by Ferlinghetti on limitation page. In publisher's slipcase. More
Richmond, MA: Mad River Press, 2009. Limited edition. Broadside. 15" x 22" Broadside printing of a poem by Beat icon Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Copy #84 in an edition of 90, designed by Julio Granda. Color silkscreen by Jon Ahlen. Boldly signed in ink by Ferlinghetti, and signed and numbered in pencil..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917. Black and white halftone photographs. Stapled wraps. Octavo. 28 pages. Summarizes the anti-aircraft weapons and capabilities of Italy, France, Germany, England, and the United States in World War I as of April, 1917. Draws conclusions based thereupon this information and what had been learned about..... More
London: Faber and Faber, (1944). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 54 pages. The first collection of poems by this important but obscure Welsh wartime poet. Lynette Roberts was born in Argentina to Welsh parents, but lived her adult life in Wales. Her work began to appear in magazines and anthologies in..... More
New York: Nicholas L. Brown, Inc., 1932. Limited edition. Illustrations by Hugo Gellert. Hardcover. Octavo. 73 pages. Stanley Kimmel is better known for "The Mad Booths of Maryland" and other historical works, but was a very talented World War I era poet and friend of Ernest Hemingway. This..... More
Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1929. Limited edition. Colored engravings. Full leather. Octavo. x, 631 pages. A beautiful copy of this collection of Walton, done in an edition of 1100 copies, of which this is #905. On laid paper with portraits engraved by Charles Sigrist and color-stencilled drawings by Thomas L. Poulton..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. Full leather. Sixteenmo. 483 pages. A genuine American classic. Dana was a gifted observer and writer, and his memoir paints a colorful portrait of Mexican California in the 1830s, including the ports of San Diego, San Pedro (Los Angeles), Santa Barbara, Monterey, and San..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912. First edition. Black and white plates. Original cloth. Octavo. xii, 185 pages. Probably the first book to analyze the naval architecture and design shortcomings in the Titanic, published within a few months of the Titanic disaster. Walker demonstrates that the much earlier ship..... More
[Annapolis?]: [1865?]. Photograph, signed by King. Single card, approximately 7.5" x 5" Oval photographic portrait of Nurse Ruth S. Ellis of Bridgewater, MA, mounted on a printed card. Text gives brief biographical information on Mrs. Josselyn and her time in Annapolis from August 1863 to May 1865. She apparently worked..... More
Annapolis: 1865. Folded sheets, with original envelope. Incredible 6 page manuscript letter from a Civil War Chaplain posted at Annapolis, discussing St. John's College Hospital Chapel, visiting hospitals, and the work of the U.S. Christian Commission in Annapolis during the war. Partial transcript: "At 2 P.M. I preached..... More
Skagway: Case & Draper, 1899. Photograph is 4 3/4" x 6 3/4", mounted on thin board of 7" x 9" Lovely photograph showing a string of 30 trout caught on the Skagway River, April 20, 1899. The fishermen, posing at each end of the string, are F. F. Clark and..... More
Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1934. First edition. Photographs, cartoons, some with color. Hardcover. Folio. 88 pages. A stunning collection of photographs of people and sights in early 1930s Peking, augmented with charming drawings by the Austrian expat cartoonist, Friedrich Schiff. Scarce, particularly so in the original dust jacket. Contemporaneous..... More
(Shanghai): (North-China Daily News & Herald, Ltd), (1937). First edition. Cartoons. Softcover. Quarto. Not paginated [36 leaves]. Rare collection of cartoons and humor from the Japanese attack on Shanghai in 1937. "Sapajou" was the pen name of Russian cartoonist Georgii Sapojnikoff, whose cartoons began appearing in the North-China Daily News..... More
Wilmington: 1787. Single sheet, folded once to approximately 7 1/2" x 9 1/4" Charming letter from Founding Father John Dickinson to a Daniel Clymer, then a member of the Pennsylvania State Assembly. In the letter, Dickinson acknowledges a prior gift of books from Clymer and belatedly presents a gift of..... More
[New York]: 1893. Single sheet, 5 3/4" x 8 7/8" Suffragist pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton here responds to Ohio manuscript collector Dr. Charles Elmer Rice, who had apparently requested of her letters of noteworthy individuals. He seems to have sent her an abolitionist's letter, possibly to entice her to accede..... More
North East and Annapolis: 1864. Loose sheets. Dr. Charles T. Simpers and his wife, Eliza, lived in the town of North East, in Cecil County, Maryland. This group of letters from late 1864 opens a window into the trials and feelings of a couple separated by the Civil War. Eliza..... More
Washington: Mathew Brady, [1862-1863]. Black and white photograph. Mounted on a 2" x 4" card. Original albumen photographic profile vignette of a seated General Hooker, facing left. Imprint of Brady Studio, Washington, in bottom margin. Inscribed on back of the mount "Joseph Hooker / Maj. Genl." General Hooker's aggressive..... More
Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1886. First edition. Original cloth. Octavo. 283 pages. Reverend Bigham went to California as a missionary in the early years of the Gold Rush. The dramatized scenes and sketches here are loosely based upon his actual experiences as a preacher and miner. HOWES B444. More
Baltimore: Sands & Neilson, 1837. First edition. Original wraps. Octavo. 90 pages. Scarce pamphlet on the Maryland Constitutional crisis of 1836. The Maryland Senate was chosen by an electoral college at this time, and the crisis arose when the state's 19 Democrat electors, angry that they were in the minority..... More
(Philadelphia): Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad Company, 1883. First edition. Engraved cuts, fold-out map. Printed wrappers. Duodecimo. 96 pages. Rather scarce booklet which describes the fishing and waterfowling delights to be found on the Delaware and Maryland peninsula in the Chesapeake Bay, with many engraved cuts of different species and..... More