(S.l.): (S.n.), 1948. Colored map and illustrations. Single sheet. 22" x 30". Laid down on thin pasteboard. Original watercolor and pencil pictorial map of a New England coastal cruise. Well executed, with several charming vignette illustrations which collectively reveal the story of this summer adventure. On board were Herbert N...... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1967. First printing. Diagrams and maps. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xxviii, 710 pages. In the wake of the JFK assassination, the Kennedy family sought someone to write a history of the awful event in hopes of ending the need to keep revisiting the painful..... More
New York: Bloomsbury, (2014). First U.S. printing. Hardcover. Octavo. [iv], 279 pages. This was Abdulrazak Gurnah's eighth novel, and centers on an east African immigrant named Abbas, who has raised a family in England and now reflects on the past he has never told anyone about. A stroke has now..... More
Boston: Beacon Press, (1974). First edition thus. Drawings by E. Simms Campbell. Paperback. Octavo. xxxvii,135 pages. Inscribed and signed copy of this authorized reprint of Sterling Brown's first book, originally published in 1932. This collection presents the lives of poor rural Black folks with dignity and poignancy, often in dialect..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1962). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 230 pages. Yate's first collection of stories, published the year after his critically acclaimed debut novel, "Revolutionary Road." These stories also received positive critical attention, being compared favorably with James Joyce's "Dubliners." More
London: J. and R. Tonson, S. Draper, and R. Dodsley, 1749. Second edition. Engraved plates. Hardcovers. Octavos. Over 800 pages. Nice early edition of this foundational work of Western literature. Don Quixote is considered the first modern novel, and on par with the works of Shakespeare. Translated from..... More
New York: Privately printed by the Knickerbocker Press, 1905. First printing. Black and white photographs, fold-out map. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 41 pages. Stimson owned the Burgess-designed schooner Fleur-de-Lys, and hired Capt. Thomas Bohlin of Gloucester to fit her out and command her for the 1905 racing season. This is..... More
(S.l.): (S.n.), [1942]. Black and white illustrations, map drawings. Wrappers. Twenty-fourmo. 31 pages. This was a handbook for newly arrived recruits at Camp McQuaide during World War II. Camp McQuaide was on the coast of the Monterey Bay just west of Watsonville, California, and home to the Coast Artillery Replacement..... More
Washington: Navy Department, 1919. Navy Department Letterhead plus a single blank sheet. 8" x 10 1/2" A fine 2 paragraph letter in which future President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his role as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, gently denies a request from a founder of the American Legion for a...... More
New York: John Day Company, (1943). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xvi, 262 pages. With this book, Rose Wilder Lane helped reignite a passion for classical liberal ideas in America. She is considered one of the "Founding Mothers" of Libertarianism, along with Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson, each of..... More
New York: Creative Age Press, (1947). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [iv], 305 pages. Struggles of mulatto Beau Beauchamp in a racially intolerant New Orleans. First novel by this African American author. This copy inscribed and signed by Thomas on preliminary blank leaf. Ref.: Blockson #5367; Whiteman..... More
Philadelphia: Insurance Company of North America, 1937. Color map, illustrations. Single sheet. Approximately 21" x 30" A great looking 1930s pictorial map of circa 1792 Philadelphia. In addition to the map and illustrations of old fire engines there are illustrations of early insurance fire marks, fire company emblems and border..... More
Washington: The Associated Publishers, Inc., (1948). First printing. Black & white frontispiece, plates. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xii, 378 pages. The first definitive biography of Frederick Douglass. Noted African American scholar Benjamin Quarles objectively treats all phases of Douglass's life in this well researched and footnoted study. Includes a Bibliography..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. First printing. Black & white photographs, illustrations. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xii, 372 pages. Stetson Kennedy's highly critical yet hopeful look at the South and its institutions and traditions. A native Southerner, Kennedy infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan, Sons of Dixie, and the..... More
Berea, KY: Berea College Press, 1923. Limited edition, copy #226 of 325. Stapled wrappers. Octavo. [16 pages]. Barton's lecture discusses Lincoln's youth and education in Kentucky. Among other points Barton makes a convincing case that because Lincoln grew up in the mountains of Kentucky he knew about anti-slavery and anti-secession..... More
Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1933. First printing. Stapled wrappers. Octavo. iv, 22 pages. The correspondence, initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which led to the first official U. S. diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik takeover of Russia in the October Revolution of 1917... More
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. First American edition, one of 3,000 copies. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xii, 639 pages. William Hope Hodgson produced a large body of work in horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction in his relatively short life. He was killed in World War I. This collection presents..... More
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1954. First printing, one of 1,200 copies. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. [ii], 123 pages. A supernatural horror story of a young English boy who falls under the spell of a vampiric being while on a visit to Auvergne, France. The only book published by Arkham House..... More
New York: Grove Press, (1954). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 174 pages. A collection of related stories about a small West African boy who ends up in the ghost-inhabited wilderness after fleeing armed slave traders. This was Tutuola's second book, following "The Palm Wine Drinkard." More
London: Elkin Mathews, 1905. First printing. Illustrations by S. H. Sime. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 94 pages. Signed by Dunsany on the front free endpaper. Lord Dunsany's first book. A collection of pioneering fantasy stories linked by an invented pantheon of deities who inhabit Pegāna. Critics view Dunsany's early..... More
Santa Monica: Earth Books, 1977. First issue. Black and white photographs by Lawrence Robbin. Two 33 1/3 records in sleeve. Scarce album of Charles Bukowski recording his poetry in his Hollywood apartment in 1966. The recording, "90 Minutes in Hell" was finally released as this limited edition LP record in..... More
San Francisco: Sore Dove Press, (2006). Limited edition, #6 of 75. Four pieces of original art. Hardcover portfolio with three ribbon ties. Folio. A portfolio of 22 individually letterpress-printed poems by Beat poets such as Diane di Prima, Neeli Cherkovski, Harold Norse, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and others. This is portfolio #6..... More
San Francisco: Sore Dove Press, (2007). Limited edition. Original paintings, color photographs. Hardcover portfolio with three ribbon ties. Folio. A portfolio by Sore Dove Press of San Francisco celebrating Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 2007 poem "Pity the Nation." There are two letterpress copies of the poem in different formats, each signed and..... More
New York: Vantage Press, Inc., (1951). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 90 pages. An African American woman's semi-autobiographical novel of overcoming discouragement from her mother and oppression from society to achieve her dreams of happiness and success as a writer. Rosebrough was born in Alabama and became..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1962). First printing. Black and white photographs. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. [x], 177 pages. An account of the tragic loss of the school-ship Albatross in a sudden squall on May 2, 1961. Chuck Gieg was one of the teenaged students on board who survived the..... More