New York: William Farquhar Payson, (1931). Limited edition. Black and white sketches. Hardcover, quarto, xii, 127 pages. Copy #13 of 47 autographed copies of this collection of sketches of sailing ships and life aboard them. Boldly signed by Grant on limitation page. Comes in the original box, with title label..... More
Salem: Marine Research Society, 1928. Limited edition. Black and white plates. Vellum backed boards, quarto, 478 pages. A history of shipbuilding in Massachusetts, followed by 215 plates taken from ship portraits from the Peabody Museum and private collections. This is copy #43 of 97 on American Vellum. Handsome nautical bookplate..... More
(S.l.): The Walpole Society, 1929. Limited edition. Black and white plates. Full cloth, octavo, xviii, 325 pages. Useful reference that gives brief sketches of a wide variety of craftsmen and manufacturers, including silversmiths, cabinet makers, stone cutters, sign painters, engravers, glass ware makers, upholsterers, clock makers, and much more. One..... More
(S.l.): Wisconsin History Commission, 1911. First edition. Maps. Hardcover, octavo, xiv, 255 pages. Account of the important battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga in late 1863, by an active participant from Wisconsin. More
Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press, 1929. First edition. Black and white frontispiece. Octavo, full cloth, 66 pages. A tribute to Col. Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment of United States Colored Troops in the Civil War. The author, who was married to an officer in a U.S.C.T. regiment, identifies..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Limited edtiion. Illustrated by Everett Henry. Bound in cloth over boards with gilt-stamped leather spine, top edge gilt. Quarto. xx, 257 pages. Beautiful edition of Mary Shelley's classic horror story. This is copy #313 of 1500. Illustrated with plates and chapter heads by Everett..... More
[Berkeley]: [State Earthquake Investigation Commission], [1906]. First edition. Wrappers. Tall octavo. 20 pages. The first report of the Commission constituted by California Governor George C. Pardee three days after the San Francisco Earthquake of April 18, 1906. This preliminary report, issued May 31, 1906, lays out "some of the more..... More
[Chicago]: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., [1970]. Facsimile. Broadside, 15 3/4" x 19 1./2" In the early hours of July 5, 1776, Philadelphia printer John Dunlap set the Declaration of Independence in type under the supervision of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams. He printed a small number..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1929]. Limited edition. Color plates, black and white drawings. Vellum over boards. Quarto. 232 pages. Beautiful copy of this classic, with 12 full page color plates by Arthur Rackham. This is #38 of 200 copies in the American edition, and is SIGNED by Rackham under the..... More
Albany: C. Van Benthuysen, Printer to the Legislature, 1853. First edition. Printed wrappers over sewn binding. Octavo. 37 pages. Original New York Senate document relating to the establishment of Central Park. Opens with background on two proposed locations, followed by testimony. More
London: Henry Stevens, Son, and Stiles, 1905. First edition. Full cloth. Octavo. viii, 41 pages. An important analysis of ten early editions and piracies of the famous Map of the Middle British Colonies in America, by Welsh surveyor Lewis Evans (c.1700-1756). Henry Stevens, famous Americana bookseller, was prompted on his..... More
[1941]. #10 of 10. Black and white photograph. Photograph mounted on board. 1931 Walker Evans photograph, sometimes known as "Bed and Stove, Truro, Massachusetts," printed by Evans in 1941 for the exhibition "American Photographs at $10" at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. SIGNED twice on the mount..... More
Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1913. First edition. Frontispiece Portrait of Bishop Claggett. Original full cloth. Octavo. viii, 184 pages. Utley uses Bishop Thomas Claggett's (1743-1816) letters and journals to assemble an interesting picture of contemporary life and thought in the southern counties of Colonial Maryland. His focus..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. [xiv], 365 pages. Robbins' whimsical second novel, starring the large-thumbed protagonist SIssy Hankshaw. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Robbins on halt-title. More
Ilchester: College Press, 1904. First edition. Black and white illustrations. Full cloth. Octavo. xxiv, 253 pages. In 1853 the Redemptorist Order inherited the Annapolis mansion of Charles Carroll of Carrollton--the longest surviving Signer of the Declaration of Independence. This is a history of that religious community during its first 50..... More
New York: Andy Warhol Books / Grosset & Dunlap, (1979). First edition. Black and white photographs by Andy Warhol. Full cloth. Square quarto. 255 pages. Andy Warhol's book of profiles and good photographs of his many famous friends. "Good photographs" being defined by Warhol as "one that's in focus and..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1959). First edition. Black and white photographs. Hardcover. Octavo. vi, 248 pages. History of the horrific night club fire that struck Boston's Cocoanut Grove on the night of November 28, 1942. At least 490 people lost their lives in 12 minutes. More
Caldwell: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1948. Limited edition. Color frontispiece, black and photographs, maps. Full cloth. Tall octavo. 366 pages. History of the western cattle empire, with first hand recollections on its twilight. Includes material on the hanging of Cattle Kate, the Johnson County War, Tom Horn and the Wild..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1903. First edition. Black and white photographs. Full cloth. Small quarto. xiv, 492 pages. Observations and impressions by an American woman's who was with Ambassador Horace Porter's party on a diplomatic visit to Turkey. Dodd stayed at the Sultan's Yildiz Palace at Constantinople. Illustrated..... More
[Rock Creek?]: 1786. Single sheet, laid paper. The document reads: "We whose names are hereunto subscribed do promise & bind ourselves to pay to the Reverend Mr. John Stewart, his order or assigns, the several sums annexed to our [crossed out word "names"] respective names, in consideration for his services..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. First edition. Black and white illustrations. Full cloth. Octavo. x, 375 pages. The authors went to original source material in this effort to present an objective analysis of Lincoln's policies in the distribution of public offices, government contracts, and other political favors during his..... More
London: (S.n.), 1888. Hardcover. Octavo. 90 pages. The Preface contends that the goal of this work, taken largely from the "very rare work of the Abbe Boileau," is to record for posterity these strange practices that would otherwise not be believed to have been at one time in common practice..... More
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., (1956). First edition. Illustrated by Lamar Dodd. Full cloth. Octavo. x, 435 pages. The 51st volume in the Rivers of America Series, here is the story of the Santee, which drains the Carolinas east of the Appalachian Mountains. Peopled with rugged individualists of the..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., (1966). First edition. Full cloth. Octavo. 250 pages. Uncommon biography of the charming and tormented ex-pat writer, William Seabrook. His 1929 book on Haitian voodoo, "The Magic Island," introduced zombies into popular culture. Seabrook once paid an accomplice to steal a chunk of..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First American edition, Review Copy. Full cloth. Octavo. 446 pages. An extraordinary novel set in the midst of political upheaval at the beginning of the Irish War of Independence in the summer of 1919. Was awarded the Lost Man Booker for 1970 in 2010..... More