[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
New York: Counterattack, (1950). First edition. Paperback. Octavo. 213 pages. A landmark in McCarthy-era blacklisting in the entertainment industry. Published in June of 1950, Red Channels listed the names of 151 actors, musicians, authors, and entertainers who it deemed to be Communist sympathizers or liberal dupes. People like Dorothy Parker..... 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
New York: Essential Books, (1945). Black and white photographs. Cloth over boards. Quarto. 246 pages. Gritty collection of Weegee's famous street photographs of New York City in the 1940s. Weegee worked at night with a 4x5 Speed Graphic press camera, closely following a police scanner. He specialized in crime and..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, (1956). Limited Edition, #421 of 450. Paintings, some color. Hardcover. Octavo. [12], vii-x, 302 pages. Chamberlain's memoir details his personal adventures in Mexico and the American Southwest before, during, and after the Mexican War. It is the primary source for Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece, Blood..... More
New York: Modern Library, (2002). First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. vi, 471 pages. McCarthy's fourth novel, reputedly semi-autobiographical, set in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1951. Cornelius Suttree leaves his prominent family to live, estranged from normal society, in a dilapidated houseboat along the Tennessee River. Reviewer Stanley Booth has suggested..... 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
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
New York: Arno Press, 1968. American Bible Society Edition. Hardcovers. Duodecimos. 2 volumes. A painstaking facsimile of the first complete Bible known to be printed in North America in English. Aitken's is the only Bible in the history of the United States to have been given Congressional approval. This edition..... 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
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