(S.l.): (S.n.), [1940s]. Black & white halftones from photographs. Saddle-stapled wrappers. Octavo. [8] pages. Interesting booklet on Ray R. Myers, born without arms. Though a circus sought to employ him at age 3, his parents chose to give him as normal a life as they could. He learned to play..... 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
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., (1948). First Edition. First Printing. Black & white photos, data tables. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi, 541 pages. The scarce first edition of the account of efforts by the Office of Strategic Services to get control of their recruiting of operatives in the middle of World..... 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: E. D. Barker, 1862. Wrappers. [79]-102 pages, plus 2 page ad. Scarce speech from the first year of the American Civil War. Mr. Conway is quite critical of slaveholders both North and South who sought to preserve the Union. His concern was that any effort to preserve the..... 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
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, (2011). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 143 pages. Jim Harrison was a very versatile and gifted writer, producing masterful fiction but also some fine poetry. This collection of poems explores his own atavistic, primitive, totemistic thinking that he says can be "disturbing to one fairly learned."..... 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 This collection contains all the Brown Dog novellas, including the previously unpublished "He Dog."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
Washington: Printed by William A. Davis, 1817. Disbound. Quarto. 14 pages. A listing of 24 post-roads across various states that were deemed unproductive as of February 20th, 1817. The criteria were that the road had been established for more than two years and that it had not, within the preceding..... 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
[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
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
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
(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
[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
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