(s.l.): (s.n.), [1919]. Black & white photographs, cartoons. Full cloth. Quarto. 56 pages. Scarce World War I aerial unit history. Formed at Kelly Field, Texas in late December, 1917, the 174th "Black Cat" Aero Squadron then trained in England before arriving in France on October 28, 1918. The Squadron provided..... More
New York: James Miller, 1867. 1st Edition. Black & white illustrations. Full cloth. Octavo. 162 pages. Mrs. Browning was nearly as popular in America as she was in her native Britain during her lifetime. This is a handsome first American edition of this posthumous collection, illustrated with 13 drawings by..... More
[New York?]: National Basketball Association? 1949. 1st Edition. Black & white photographs. Wrappers. Octavo. 96 pages. The 1949-1950 basketball season was the first for the NBA, which had been formed in the summer of 1949 by the merger of the 12 year old National Basketball League and the 4 year..... More
[Meudon]: Chalais-Meudon, [1918]. Scale drawings. Wrappers. Octavo. [vii] 29 pages. This is a scarce World War I era manual on piloted, tethered observation balloons for use on land or at sea. Indeed, these balloons, tethered to destroyers, were very effective U-boat spotters. There are 6 fold-out drawings of various aspects..... More
New York: Grafton Press, 1909. 1st Edition. Full cloth. Octavo. 279 pages. Gertrude Stein's first published book. Consists of three independent stories, all set in a fictionalized Baltimore. There were 500 copies in this edition, which Stein printed at her own expense. Laid into this copy is a 1934 announcement..... More
[New York?]: American Airlines, Inc., [1937]. Black & white photographs. Brochure. 18" by 8.25". [6] pages. American Airlines and the German Zeppelin Transportation Co. partnered in 1936 to provide the first regular air service between the United States and Europe. American Airlines provided exclusive service to and from Lakehurst, NJ..... More
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1948. 1st Edition. B&W Photographs, illustrations. Hardcover. Octavo. xx, 291 pages. Report on the series of rocket experiments which began in the fall of 1929 and ended 12 years later, in October, 1941. This comprises the entire Goddard rocket development from the time of Dr. Goddard's..... More
New York: Derrydale Press, 1931. Limited Edition. Black & white photos, drawings. Full cloth. Octavo. [xvii], 125 pages. One of the best practical books on jumping. Capt. Littauer was a graduate of the Nicholas Cavalry School in St. Petersburg before heading a large riding school in America. Edited by Phyllis..... More
Cambridge: Cornell Maritime Press, 1963. Charts, drawings, photos. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv, 319 pages pages. Landmark hull design book by Lindsay Lord. During prohibition he was commissioned by rumrunners to design boats fast enough to outrun law enforcement. He went on to revolutionize this aspect of naval architecture during World War..... More
(s.l.): (s.n.), [1860]. Pamphlet. Octavo. 16 pages. An early post-nomination printing of what is arguably Lincoln's greatest speech. In it he makes a brilliant argument that a majority of the nation's founders intended that slavery not be allowed to expand into new territories as the country grew. The research he..... More
Chicago: Era Publishing Co., 1900. 1st Edition. Black & white photographs. Original cloth. Octavo. 339, [iii], viii, ads pages. Cap Anson's memoir of his record 27 seasons of professional baseball (1871-1897), finishing his career as captain, then manager of the team that became the Chicago Cubs. More
Hartford: D. F. Robinson & Co. and Norton & Russell, 1826. 1st Edition. 3/4 leather. Octavo. 426 pages. It contains eulogies by future President John Tyler, Daniel Webster, William Wirt, Caleb Cushing, and several others. Samuel Smith of Baltimore mentions Charles Carroll of Carrollton as the lone surviving Signer following..... More
North Montpelier: Driftwind Press, 1942. 1st Edition. Illustrated by Jack Lewis. Watercolors. Hardcover. Octavo. 170 pages. Gilbert Byron's first book, printed in an edition of 300 copies with lovely tipped-in color illustrations by Jack Lewis. Here are the people and wildlife of the Chesapeake Bay, captured in verse by the..... More
![The Mystery of Edwin Drood [in six parts, as issued]. Charles Dickens](/pictures/thumb/11524_1.jpg?v=1584060080)
London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. 1st Edition. Wrappers. Octavos. A very clean and bright set of the serialized first appearance of Dickens's last novel. The story was planned for twelve parts but only these six parts were published when his death left the story half-told and the mystery unsolved. The..... More
![The Jungle Book [with] the Second Jungle Book. Rudyard Kipling](/pictures/thumb/11522_1.jpg?v=1584060245)
London: MacMillan And Co., 1894, 1895. 1st Edition. Original cloth. Duodecimos. 212 & 238 pages. Kipling's classic collection of stories set in India, featuring the young boy Mowgli and a cast of mostly animal characters that illustrate human nature. Beautiful set of both books in first edition. More
![Poems [first and second issues]. Bret Harte](/pictures/thumb/11521_1.jpg?v=1584060244)
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1871. 1st Edition. Original cloth. Duodecimos. 152 pages. First state of the first edition, with correct issue points on spine, title page, and page 136, together with a second state copy. The pair are housed together in a custom half morocco slipcase. More
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. 1st Edition. Original cloth. Octavo. 366 pages. A very nice first edition of one of the most important books in American literature. Hemingway believed that "American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.” This..... More
(s.l.): (s.n.), [c.1913]. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [51 ] pages. Humorous collection of both historic illustrations and Stevens' own drawings, accompany this spoof of a classic American almanac. Part of January's entry: "1/1/4004 B. C. Annapolis Created; 1/1/4004 B. C. Rest of Maryland; 1/3/4004 B. C. Out of scraps left over, remainder..... More
[Annapolis]: Maryland Republican, [c.1880s]. Broadside. 4.5" x 7" Joseph Basil was one of the foremost merchants of Annapolis in the mid to late 19th century. He had started out as a carpenter, save a little money, and with $75 started a small grocery business on Market Space in Annapolis. This..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1912. First Edition. Black & white frontispiece portraits. Original cloth. Octavo. xvi, 580 & x, 582 pages. Exciting memoir of Wilson's entire military career, with the majority being devoted to the Civil War. Wilson served on Thomas W. Sherman's staff in the South Atlantic..... More
![How to Treat the Trusts and How to Win in 1904 [for Democrats (cover title)]. John Haggerty](/pictures/thumb/11666_1.JPG?v=1571171943)
New York: The Abbey Press, (1902). First Edition. Original cloth. Duodecimo. [iv], 81 pages. Haggerty lays out his "Guarantee Plan" for the Democrats to deal justly with the trusts and defeat Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. Scarce. OCLC locates just 9 copies as of October 2019, none in commerce. More
San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1919. First Edition. Black & white photographs. Original cloth. Octavo. 117 pages. Interesting and often witty collection of letters from a young Californian to his parents and wife back home. Lt. Britton sailed for France in July, 1918. He participated in the Battle of Argonne. He..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, (1956). Limited Edition. 1 of 50. Paintings, some color. Leather. Octavo. [12], vii-x, 302 pages. Chamberlain's memoir details his personal adventures in Mexico and the American Southwest before, during, and after the Mexican War. It is the primary source for Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece, Blood..... More
Annapolis: Thomas J. Wilson, Printer, 1862. Wrappers. Octavo. 15 pages. Augustus W. Bradford, as the Union Party candidate for governor, defeated Democrat Benjamin C. Howard by nearly 30,000 votes on November 6, 1861. Maryland had seemed to teeter on the brink of secession just 6 or 7 months earlier. Bradford's..... More
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, (1865). Woodcuts. Disbound. Octavo. 79, [I] pages. Perhaps the first book on the Lincoln assassination, originally published about a month after the event. George Alfred Townsend was a pioneering war correspondent during the Civil War, and covered the Lincoln assassination and its aftermath for..... More