Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, (1966). First Edition. Black & white photographs, diagrams. Full cloth. Quarto. xxvi, 569 pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Swearengen on front free endpaper. A detailed textbook for police on various non-lethal weapons available to maintain the public peace. Published at a time of increasing civil... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933. First Edition. First Printing. Black & white photographs, map. Full cloth. Octavo. 198 pages. Vivid account of an American woman's trek through the Forbidden Land, crossing the Himalaya twice--from the Eastern and Western sides--accompanied only by native servants. Ms. Merrick was the most... More
New York: David Mckay, 1937. First Edition. First Printing. Full cloth. Octavo. 243 pages pages. Fictionalized memoir of a Southern "mammy," tracing her story from early life and capture in Africa, being sold in America, her "happy childhood on a southern plantation, and her unhappy girlhood; her role as "Mammy"... More
[Philadelphia?]: (Democratic National Committee?), [1937?]. Limited Edition. Color and b&w illustrations, ads. Full leather. Folio. 384 pages. The signed limited edition of the souvenir book that recapped Roosevelt's reelection victory and Democrat gains in the 1936 national election. A souvenir book recapping President Roosevelt's victory and Democrat gains in the... More
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[Philadelphia?]: (Democratic National Committee?), [1937?]. First Edition. Color and b&w illustrations, ads. Softcover. Folio. 384 pages. A souvenir book recapping President Roosevelt's victory and Democrat gains in the 1936 national election. Contains campaign speeches, profiles of candidates and cabinet members, records of accomplishment for departments in Roosevelt's first term, and... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910. First Edition. Original cloth. Octavo. xlii, 249, [iv ads] pages. Uncommon book of speeches Roosevelt gave while traveling after he left the presidency in 1909. Most notably, this is the first book appearance of "Citizenship in a Republic"-- Roosevelt's deservedly famous 'man in... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1901. First Edition. Flexible leather. Octavo. 141 [+14] pages. An important study of Governor Hicks and his crucial efforts to shape Maryland's loyalties on the eve and in the early years of the Civil War. Includes chapters on Hicks's early political career, rumors of plots against... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1925. Limited Edition. Illustrated by Allen Tupper True. Hardcover. Octavo. 231 pages. Neihardt had been working on an Epic Cycle of the West for eleven years, having completed two parts prior to this one. "The Song of the Indian Wars deals with the last great fight... More
[Bruceton Mills]: Old Hemlock, 1986. Limited Edition. Black & white drawings. Hardcover. Octavo. [x], 182 pages. Sketches from the gun diaries of George Bird Evans, who was one of the world's foremost authorities on upland gunning and bird dogs. He perfected the Old Hemlock line of English Setters, the descendants... More
[Boston]: (S.n.), 1862. Broadside. 6 1/8" x 14 5/8" John Wilkes Booth, following in his father's and siblings' footsteps, tried his hand at acting and found some success in stock companies in Philadelphia, Richmond, and other provincial theaters. Still, he performed under the name "J. Wilkes" because he lacked the... More
[Baltimore]: (Printing Bureau, Police Department), 1925. Flexible cloth. Sixteenmo. 158 pages. 1925 pocket handbook for Baltimore Policemen with detailed descriptions of over 50 rules of expected conduct in a variety of situations. Pencilled ownership inscription on front pastedown: "Officer Michael J. Moloney / Northeastern District." There is a $5.00 receipt... More
[Mexico City]: 1861. Manuscript. 10.50" x 8.25" The Juarez government had recaptured Mexico City on January 1, 1861, and he was elected President in the month following this letter. His declaration of a 2-year suspension of interest payments on international debts related to the Mexican Revolution led to an invasion... More
New York: Lee Keedick, 1913. First Edition. First Printing. Maps, b&w photographs. Original cloth. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xxv, 392 & x, 449 pages. Amundsen's expedition was the first to reach the geographic South Pole, achieving the feat on December 14, 1911. They were 8 weeks ahead of the... More
Easton: Eastern Shore Publishers' Associates, (1975). Limited Edition. First Printing. B&W Photographs, scale drawings. Hardcover. Quarto. xiv, 402 pages. Forman began work on this--his largest book--in 1935. Gives a full account of Eastern Shore life, customs, gardens, artifacts, and yes, buildings, linking these with their British origins. Illustrated with over... More
New York: The Bradstreet Company, 1882. Colored maps, advertising cuts. Flexible leather. Oblong twenty-fourmo. [x], 50, [vi] pages. Scarce pocket atlas published exclusively for Boston haberdashers Macullar, Parker & Company. In addition to the colored maps of the states and territories, there are 15 maps of mining districts within various... More
Cambridge & Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1894. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [50] pages. Scarce Lincoln item. The poem was read before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Sanders Theatre, Harvard College. One of 450 copies. MONAGHAN 1155. More
Baltimore: Baltimore Department of Education, 1935. B&W Photographs. Softcover. Oblong octavo. 31 pages. Scarce 1935 booklet on education for special needs children in Baltimore in the 1930s. Front cover illustration of the William S. Baer School for Physically Handicapped Children No. 301, Warwick and Wheeler Avenues. Photographs on every page... More
Washington: Vantage Press, (1968). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 126 pages. The author alleges that a German man he knew in Baltimore around 1930 was actually Adolf Hitler living in the United States under an assumed name. Hance spent quite a bit of time with "Hitler" as he courted American business... More
Detroit: Detroit Free Press Publishing Company, 1885. First Edition. First Printing. Black & white engravings, cuts. Full cloth. tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall. viii, 520 pages. Subtitle continues..."Including Many Incidents and Circumstances Never Before Published in Any Form." Beautiful copy of this uncommon Civil War history. Two volumes were... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., (1930). First US Edition. Lead engravings. Hardcover. Octavo. [207] pages. Pioneering graphic novel capturing the crisis of capitalism in the early 20th century. The story is the tragic tale of a girl from the lower classes told entirely through pictures. Nückel, an artist working... More
New York: J. L. Taylor & Co., [1916]. Hardcover. Folio. [80] pages. "Tailors by Appointment to His Majesty the American Citizen." This spectacular sample book from J. L. Taylor & Co. of New York and Chicago shows the latest in men's custom suits and accessories just months before the United... More
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
[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
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
