Bath: L. Leake and E. Curll, 1741. Engraved frontispiece. Half leather with marbled paper sides. Duodecimo. [viii], xvi, 48 pages. A clever and amusing piece of 18th century libertine literature that describes the female anatomy in terms of topography, geography, commerce, cultivation, etc. Satirizes contemporaneous pamphlets that promoted British Colonies..... More
Salem: Marine Research Society, 1927. First printing. Black and white plates. Cloth over boards. Quarto. xxxviii, 349, [ad] pages. A well-illustrated volume on the Atlantic slave trade, with contributions from a variety of sources. This was Publication Number Fifteen of the Marine Research Society. More
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, [1960?]. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 285 pages. Alexander Belyaev was Russia's first sci-fi writer, sometimes called the Russian Jules Verne. Here he spins the story of a reclusive doctor on the coast of South America who gives his son shark gills in a life-saving operation. The son..... More
New York: Book Collectors Society, [1948]. Limited edition. Black and white photographs, drawings. Leather over boards. Octavo. xxxii, 349 pages. An amazing document of discovery as G. Rachel Levy helps uncover a group of archaeological sites in Iraq prior to World War II. Importantly, Ms. Levy speculates as to links..... More
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1784. Third edition, with additions. Speckled calf over boards. Octavos. 1) viii, 499; 2) vi, 518, Appendix [5]; and 3) v, [blank], 465, [blank], Index [45], [1 (ad)] pages. An uncommon but particularly interesting and important edition of "Wealth of Nations," whose..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1963. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 244 pages. This penetrating study was the first book on jazz by an African American writer, and Jones came to some new and provocative conclusions which are bolstered by both history and sociology. This is the..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1903. Limited edition, #44 of 100 copies on large paper. Photographic frontispiece plus 19 black and white plates, all with tissue guards. Leather and marbled paper over boards. Tall Octavo. x, 598 pages. Handsome volume on the natural history and hunting of ducks, geese, swans, rail..... More
[Annapolis]: Maryland State Archives, 2009. First printing. Well illustrated in color and black and white. Softcover. Quarto. [ii], 46 pages. The only detailed account of Abraham Lincoln's passage through Annapolis on his way to and from the Hampton Roads Conference in early February, 1865. The extensive research for..... More
London: Printed for Burgess and Hill, 1820. First printing. Cloth over boards with leather spine. Octavo. xv, [errata], 410 pages, vi Appendix. James Wilson was a pupil of the eminent Scottish surgeon, John Hunter, and took over Hunter's position as Professor of Anatomy at the Hunterian School in London. These..... More
[Pittsburgh]: Office of Administrator, Prohibition District No. 4, [1925]. Cloth over flexible boards. Sixteenmo. [ii], 53 pages. A rare manual issued by Prohibition District No. 4, Pittsburgh as a pocket guide to help its Revenue and Prohibition agents build strong cases as they enforced the Volstead Act in the field..... More
New York: Random House, (1934). Limited edition. Cloth over boards with leather spine and fore corners. Octavo. 157 pages. Beautiful edition of this play by Eugene O'Neill. This is copy #220 of a stated limitation of 325 copies. Binding by Bayntun of Bath. More
New York: David Longworth, 1808. Disbound. Octavo. 56 pages. The courtroom proceedings as a Black man is charged with bastardy in New York at the beginning of the 19th century. Alexander Whistelo was claimed by the mother herself to be the father of her female bastard child, which she had..... More
(New York): (New Directions Publishing Corp.), (1975). Limited edition. Facsimile notebook pages (some color). Cloth over boards. Quarto. About 200 unnumbered pages. Signed and numbered by Henry Miller, this is #152 in an edition limited to 700 copies. This is a near-facsimile of Miller's holographic "Notebook of American Tour" housed..... More
London: Trübner & Co., 1864. First British edition. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 91 pages. This anonymously published pamphlet first appeared in New York. This is the London edition from the same year. The title is a coined word in this work to describe intermixing of races. While this is the..... More
[London]: G. W. Bacon & Co., Ltd, 1914. Single sheet. 22" x 30". Folds into paper covers. A rare seriocomic pictorial map of Europe at the outbreak of World War I. Likely designed in September 1914, after the German advance on Paris had been halted with the aid of the..... More
London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1934). First printing. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. 68 pages. Three lectures delivered by Eliot at the University of Virginia in 1933--The Page-Barbour Lectures that year. He asserts that the weakness of modern literature is a religious weakness. This copy is signed and dated 22..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1922). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 328 pages. Mencken's acerbic wit and good sense. A nice looking copy. Errata slip tipped in. More
New York: The Derrydale Press, (1939). Limited edition. Copy #362 of 950 sets. Color and black and white illustrations, fold-out map. Cloth hardcovers Quartos. xviii, 200 pages and x, 192 pages. Haig-Brown was an Englishman who spent most of his adult life on British Columbia's Campbell River. This fine Derrydale..... More
Austin: 1969. A nice letter on Johnson's post-Presidential stationery with a clear, bold signature. Includes the original free franked mailing envelope. Johnson expresses his gratitude for a very complimentary letter from a private citizen who states that: "Historians will surely regard you as the president most conscientious about the needs..... More
London: Charles Dilly, 1781. Third Edition. Half calf over marbled paper boards. Duodecimo. xx, 415 pages. Knox was an educator, having succeeded his father as headmaster of Tonbridge School. Here are 40 interesting essays in which he gives his views on education--everything from learning classics by heart to developing a...... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1933). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. vi, 112 pages. A scarce drinking guide, published the year Prohibition was repealed. Separate sections for beer, wine, and cocktails with mixing instructions for the latter. Particular attention is also given to what foods should be served with each..... More
New York: National Travel Club, (1947). Cloth over boards. Octavo. [xx], 266 pages. An uncommon biography of Matthew Henson--the African American explorer who was Robert Peary's indispensable man on his polar expeditions--and who actually reached the North Pole before Peary did. Henson was highly respected among other explorers..... More
Hicksville: The Gnome Press, Inc., (1959). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 255 pages. First edition of the collection of eight science fiction stories by one of the biggest names in the genre. A handsome copy, housed in an attractive custom slipcase. More
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Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841 and 1844. First printings. Original cloth. Duodecimos. [vi], 303 pages and [iv], 313 pages, [2] pages ads. A nice set of first editions of Emerson's Essays (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844). These writings represent the core of Emerson's thought, and read as well..... More
[Philadelphia]: [Moses Thomas], [1814]. First edition. Marbled paper and leather over boards. Octavo. [i], 353-440 pages. A very early printing of the poem that became the National Anthem of the United States. Francis Scott Key wrote: "Defence of Fort McHenry" as he witnessed the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in..... More