Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [xii], 364 pages. Includes the following items in addition to the book: - a typed letter signed by Collier, addressed to a fan who had requested an autographed photograph. - part of the original mailing envelope for the..... More
(Burton, MI): Subterranean Press, 2007. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 389 pages. Ray Bradbury's "I Sing the Body Electric" was first published in 1969. The title story was adapted from a 1962 episode of the Twilight Zone which Bradbury had written. This limited edition includes 11 additional stories that had appeared..... More
[Liverpool]: [City of Liverpool], [1974]. Single sheet. 20" x 28 7/8" This rarely seen poster of the Beatles was part of a promotional package commissioned by the City of Liverpool in 1974 to promote tourism based on the Beatles. Though the Beatles had been broken up for four years by..... More
New York: International Publishers, (1938). First printing. Black and white frontispiece photographic portrait. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 222 pages. Jim Ford was an African American activist and Vice-Presidential candidate for the Communist Party USA in 1932, 1936, and 1940. He wrote these articles in the heat of the struggles for..... More
Los Angeles: Sawyer Press, 1967. Color cartoon. Poster. 22 1/2" x 33 1/8" Ron Cobb began freelancing as a cartoonist for the radical Los Angeles Free Press in 1965, and was regarded as one of the finest political cartoonists of the mid-1960s to early 1970s. This poster was done..... More
London: J. Almon, 1766. Second edition. Disbound. Octavo. [vi], 81, [1] pages. Daniel Dulany's highly influential pamphlet in opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765. He argued that while inhabitants of England were properly represented by members of Parliament (elected by other inhabitants of England), the same was not be..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1912. First printing. Black and white plates. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xxii, 200 pages. Matthew Henson was an African American explorer who was Robert Peary's indispensable right-hand man on his seven Arctic expeditions over nearly 23 years. It is now generally acknowledged (as he..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1927). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 317 pages. Mencken's acerbic wit and good sense applied to topics like journalism in America, metaphysicians, faith, poets, sex hygiene books, Ambrose Bierce and much more. A nice looking copy. Errata slip tipped in. More
Washington: (S.n.), 1863. Wraps. Octavo. 8 pages. Frederick Law Olmsted--pioneering American landscape architect and co-designer of New York's Central Park--here gives a very interesting report in his role as General Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. Olmsted gives a good outline of the activities..... More
(Washington): (Government Printing Office), (1950). Samples of black and color inks. Comb-bound boards. Octavo. About 200 pages (not paginated). This book was compiled to show the basic ink colors stocked by the Government Printing Office Ink Section, with each given a unique number. The idea was to simplify requests for..... More
Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Company, 1919. First printing. Profusely illustrated, including eight color plates of flies. Cloth hardcover. Duodecimo. xvi, 264 pages. Contents include selection, care, and rigging of the rod, the art of casting, trout habits, the angler's flies and how to tie them, description of trout-fly patterns, and..... More
Sauk City: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Limited edition. Original cloth. Octavo. xii, 432 pages. Arkham House collection containing Lovecraft's three horror novels, along with shorter masterpieces. Colophon states 3,000 copies in this first printing. More
San Francisco: Louis Roesch Co., Printers, [1898]. Broadside. 8 7/8" x 5 7/8" An 1898 handbill advertising swimming races at San Francisco's famous Sutro Baths. The teams from Nevada, Georgia, Tennessee, Montana, and Washington were volunteer soldiers in the Spanish-American War, encamped near San Francisco in the summer of 1898..... More
(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
(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
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