Lyon: A. Bordet & Cie. 1914. Black & white plates. 1/2 leather. Octavo. 240 pages. Reproduces in facsimile much of the French propaganda and official documents produced in relation to the outbreak of World War I. Preface by Edouard Herriot, Mayor of Lyon, where these documents were accumulated. Several tissue-guarded...
[East Aurora]: (Roycroft Shop), (1899). Limited Edition. Limp suede. Octavo. 92 pages. A handsome edition of Kipling poems produced by Elbert Hubbard at his Roycroft Shop in East Aurora, New York. This is #711 of 950 copies on unmarked handmade paper, and is signed by Hubbard on the limitation page...
[New York]: (S.n.), [1813?]. Broadside. 5 1/4" x 7 7/8" Blank printed form to certify ownership of shares in the privateer Yorktown during the War of 1812. The Yorktown operated out of New York against British ships beginning in 1813. This scrip is for her second cruise. She did manage...
[Nashua]: (S.n.), 1865. Broadside. 9 5/8" x 11 1/2" Poem on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln composed by George G. B. DeWolfe--the Wandering Poet of Nashua, New Hampshire. Boldly printed title "MURDER!" as if a newspaper headline, with the subtitle and 20 line poem in 5 stanzas printed beneath. Dated...
Washington: J. & G. S. Gideon, 1845. Wood engravings. Disbound. Octavo. 24 pages. Vail was an engineer and inventor who collaborated with Samuel B. Morse in the development and practical application of the telegraph. Some have argued it was actually Vail who invented the telegraphic alphabet named after Morse, but...
Concord: Republican Press Association, 1885. Third Edition. Wrappers. Duodecimo. 96 pages. Parker Pillsbury, prominent abolitionist and male feminist, first published this tract about 1847. In it he argues that the ruling influence of church and pulpit are on the side of the oppressor throughout the United States. Pillsbury's nephew, Albert...
Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company, 1894. Third Edition. Hardcover. Sixteenmo. 218 pages. Important, author-annotated early edition of the most widely used manual of parliamentary procedure in the United States. This copy is inscribed and signed by the author to his wife: "Mrs. Helen M. Robert / from her affectionate...
[Washington, DC]: Union Republican Congressional Committee, [1872]. Wrappers. Octavo. 8 pages. Republican campaign piece in support of incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant in the 1872 election. After detailing common abuses suffered by immigrants, particularly in New York, the pamphlet presents the case that President Grant has gone to the verge...
(s. L. ): (S. N. ), [1942]. Black & White Cuts, Map Drawings. Wrappers. Twenty-fourmo. 31 pages. Handbook for new recruits to the Coast Artillery Replacement Training Center which operated at Camp McQuaide from 1942-1943. There is information on the facilities and activities at the post as well as a....
(Evanston): (Row, Peterson and Co.), (1941). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 64 pages. The author spent time "on the road" himself to learn what happened to young people who were tramps and hobos. This down-to-earth story is the fruit of these efforts at gathering information on their thinking and way of...
New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1863. Wrappers. Octavo. 16 pages. American Civil War pamphlet by a pro-Union frenchman. Laboulaye argues that the North MUST fight to preserve the Union at all cost, and scolds Europe--particularly England--for appearing indecisive as to which side they support. Laboulaye later became the promoter of...
(Wilmington): (S. N. ), (1946). First Edition. Black and White Frontispiece Photos. Full cloth. Octavo. 72 pages. Scarce biography of this prolific Victorian journalist and writer. "Gath, " as Townsend signed himself, was the youngest war correspondent during the American Civil War. His dispatches from the Battle of Five Forks...
Norfolk/Virginia Beach: Donning Company Publishers, (1989). Black and White Photographs. Hardcover. Quarto. 191 pages. The best compilation of historic photographs of Anne Arundel County. Includes over 300 generously captioned photographs of Annapolis, Glen Burnie, Severna Park, Fort Meade, Odenton, and South County, along with historical narrative by Kelly for each...
(Annapolis): (Property Owners of Arundel-on-the-Bay), (2018). Photographs, maps. Hardcover. Quarto. xvi, 220 pages. History of what was one of the oldest summer communities on the western Chesapeake shore. Many historic photographs illustrate this work.
London: Samuel Bagster, 1808. Seventh Edition. 3/4 leather. Octavo. Beautiful 200 year old copy of this great English fishing classic. Binding by Root & Son.
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1854. First Edition. Map. Original cloth. Octavo. 357, ads. pages. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came...
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008). First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 131 pages. When Lee Israel's celebrated writing career took a sudden downturn she embarked on an astonishing one-woman forgery racket run out of her Upper West Side studio. Using old typewriters, she fabricated hundreds of letters from...
Paris: Chez les Citoyens Esnauts et Rapilly, [1793]. Broadside. 38.5 cm by 25.5 cm. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1793 enumerates 35 very progressive rights, including such as the right to public education and the right of the poor to public support. Indeed, the most...
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887. First Edition. Black & white plates, maps, engravings. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv, 678 pages. McClellan's posthumously published memoir of the Civil War, accompanied by a Brady CDV photograph of Gen. McClellan with his autograph attached to its lower margin. McClellan's memoir, honestly, is...
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. Frontispiece portraits. 3/4 leather. Duodecimos. The handsome 15 volume Sagamore Edition of Roosevelt's works published right after his vice-presidential nomination at the 1900 Republican National Convention. The set consists of: Vol. 1 - American Ideals (with biographical sketch by Francis Winton Greene); Vol. 2 -...
New York: The Century Co., 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv, 234 pages. Allen and Sachtleben graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1890 and immediately set sail for Liverpool. There began this amazing bicycle journey of some 15,044 miles which they completed in just under 3 years. Nice...
S.l. S.n., 1936. Ephemera. 3.5 x 5.5 inches. This postcard was carried on board the Hindenburg on her inaugural flight from Germany to Lakehurst, New Jersey in May, 1936. It was a souvenir created by Veedol Motor Oil of Pennsylvania when the company mailed these postcards from Hamburg, Germany to...
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1875. Hardcover. Folio. 247 pages. A fantastic collection of over 60 etchings of historic buildings and place in New York City, along with lengthy descriptive texts for each. Etchings produced by H. Thatcher from original pen drawings of Eliza Greatorex. Bound in leather over...
[New York]: (National Urban League), [1963]. Scarce souvenir portfolio of collages by Lo Monaco, "created specifically as a memento for those who participated in the historic March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs on August 28, 1963." In all, there are six collage images by Lo Monaco: one printed on...
[Berkeley]: Privately Printed, [1947]. Limited Edition. Single sheet pages. Single unbound sheet from a 1947 collaboration between Henry Miller and Palestinian artist Bezalel Schatz. The sheet is SIGNED by both Miller and Schatz. The edition was entirely illustrated and printed in serigraph by Schatz. The text, reproduced in Miller's hand...
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