London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, (1971). First edition. Illustrated. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 224 pages. The fascinating tale of science, engineering wizardry, and commercial skullduggery that produced the engines which made powered flight possible. A good balance of technical material and characters in this excellent history. More
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, (1982). First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. x, 671 pages. Robert Creeley was an important poetic voice in post-World War II American literature. This collection gathers his poetry of thirty years, exhibiting his development and the singular inventiveness that made him a...... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First edition. Full cloth. Octavo. xii, 331, i-xix pages. Mencken's thoughts toward an understanding of ethics, adopting an essentially scientific approach. This copy is SIGNED by Mencken and dated in the year of publication. More
[London]: [The Bayard Press], 1940. First edition. Printed wrappers. Octavo. 16 pages. Winston Churchill was a master orator, able to fire the courage and will of his countrymen through the shear force of his eloquence. And this particular speech may be the best example of that. It is the famous..... More
Boston: American Stationers Co., 1837. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 334 pages (with 4 pages ads at front, 12 pages ads at back). Hawthorne's third publication in book form and the first to bear his name. This collection of 18 stories won immediate recognition for its author, though..... More
Brooklyn: Historical Printing Club, 1891. Limited edition, #84 of 250 copies. Black and white frontispiece photo. This copy extra-illustrated. Leather and marbled paper over boards. Tall octavo. 111 pages plus 8 pages of publisher ads. The period covered in this orderly book of the Maryland Loyalists begins with the evacuation..... More
Philadelphia: 1795. Framed item. 16" x 25 3/8" overall. Document approximately 9 5/8" x 12 1/2" Robert Morris, the influential financier of the American Revolution and signer of the United States' three most important documents--the Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution--here signs a stock certificate as..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition. Black and white plates. Hardcover. Octavo. xxii, 307, [blank], viii pages. Biography of the Temperance firebrand, Carry Nation, whose signature was attacking liquor kegs with a hatchet. This copy is signed by the author and has a printed "Seasons Greetings" card..... More
London: The Argonaut Press, 1928. Limited edition of 975 copies, this copy not numbered. Frontispiece portrait, 2 folding maps. Hardcover. Quarto. cvi, 182 pages. A superb edition of Sir Walter Ralegh's Guiana expedition in search of the golden city of El Dorado. Appendices A and B contain Spanish official dispatches..... More
Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, (1946). First edition. Photographic plates, endpaper maps. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [xii], 153 pages. This scarce little book is a personal narrative of the least known U. S. Naval operations--those against the Philippine Insurrectos in 1899 and 1900. The author commanded the U.S.S. Panay in these operations..... More
San Francisco: The Wine Advisory Board, [1942?]. Pictorial map. Singe sheet 31 1/2" x 41", professionally mounted on linen to 35" x 44 3/4" One of the more famous of the colorful pictorial maps by brilliant artist of the genre, Ruth Taylor White. In this gorgeous map, commissioned by California's..... More
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1927. Limited edition, #288 of 500 sets. Illustrated by E. Œ. Somerville. Cloth over boards. Octavos. "Somerville and Ross" was the joint pen name of the female writing team of Edith Anna Œnone Somerville and Violet Florence Martin. This special edition of their foxhunting stories..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. Daniel Boone Edition, #138 of 200 sets. Black and white plates, maps, some folding. Full leather over boards. Quartos. Over 1,500 pages. Roosevelt's historical account of the exploration and settlement of the United States, from the Alleghanies to the Pacific Ocean... More
New York: Chemical Publishing Company, Inc., 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 464 pages. A wealth of information on the properties and production of pyrotechnic materials, including sections on flame and glow, light, smoke, noise, and more. Also includes a manufacturing formulary, extensive glossary, and complete reference section. More
Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke, 1822. First edition. Engravings. Paper over boards with leather spine. Duodecimo. 155 pages. This manual is an early attempt to introduce a uniform system cavalry of exercise and movements for the U. S. military. Illustrated with eight copper-plate engravings. Includes significant instruction on swords. More
Washington: Microcard Editions Books, 1973. First edition thus. Cloth over boards. Quarto. xxxviii, 336 pages. A detailed photographic facsimile of Fitzgerald's handwritten manuscript of "The Great Gatsby" located in the Princeton University Library. The Introduction by Bruccoli sets the stage for this visual exploration of Fitzgerald's composition process. Includes sample..... More
[Annapolis?]: (S.n.), [1832]. Single sheet, folded in half to 7 5/8" x 12 1/4" Typeset and printed draft of a substitute bill which was adopted by the Maryland General Assembly on March 8, 1832. The bill was to supplement to Maryland's law regarding elections, originally enacted in 1812... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873. First edition. Engraved plates. Original cloth over boards. Quarto. viii, [2], 10-444 pages. Detailed report which is inscribed and signed by Gustavus Fox on a preliminary blank leaf. The inscription reads: "Miss S. L. Tucker / with the regards of / G. V...... More
London: Printed for the author, 1792. First edition. Morocco and marbled paper over boards. Octavo. [50], 455 pages. William Eddis arrived in Annapolis in 1769, having secured a position as surveyor of customs through the patronage of Maryland's last Royal Governor, Sir Robert Eden. His letters back to England are..... More
Loncon: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797. First edition. Leather over boards. Octavo. [6], cxiv, [errata leaf], 596 pages. Jonathan Boucher was staunch Loyalist yet a friend of George Washington's, and his is an important perspective on the American Revolution. Boucher came to America from England in 1759..... More
Hartford, Conn: Park Publishing Co., 1882. 18 engraved plates (2 steel, 16 wood). Original cloth over boards. Octavo. [i-iii], iv-xx, [xxi-xxii], (13)-518 pages. Frederick Douglass's third, final, and most complete autobiography. His earlier books were published prior to the Civil War, while still technically a fugitive slave, and therefore still..... More
London: Luke Hansard & Sons, 1812. Second edition. Original cloth over boards. Octavos. xxxii, 344 and [iv], 499 pages. Thomas Twining had produced the first useable English translation of Aristotle's Poetics in 1789. This is the second edition of 1812, edited by his nephew. This 2-volume set has..... More
Cambridge: Moses King, Publisher, 1883. Second edition. Over 200 original illustrations by various artists. Original decorative cloth over bevelled boards. Octavo. x, 276, xi-xxix pages. Profusely illustrated Victorian era travel guide to Boston and environs. Both illustrations and text are indexed at the front. Contains numerous advertisements at front and..... More
[Philadelphia]: Privately printed, 1929. Edition limited to 950 copies. Black and white frontispiece portrait, facsimile letters. Hardcover. Quarto. [viii], 39 pages. Why did Thomas Hardy, at the height of his career as a novelist, give up fiction and devote the last 30 years of his life to writing poetry? Famous..... More
Albany: Edward Leslie, Printer, 1865. First edition. Disbound. Octavo. 20 pages. Rev. Dyer was the chaplain at the Albany Penitentiary. His memorial sermon, given in the prison's chapel, coincided with Lincoln's funeral in Washington on April 19th. He finds the circumstances of Lincoln's death to be "of a painfully instructive..... More