Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1983). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 178 pages. Collection of 12 stories set in the mountain hollows of West Virginia, by an uncannily observant and tremendously promising young writer. Breece D'J Pancake's bright flame was brief, however, as he took his own life at age 27..... More
New York: Greenberg : Publisher, (1935). First printing. Full cloth. Octavo. 249 pages. A scarce novel of the struggles and successes of immigrants in the United States. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1973). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 176 pages. Harrison's second novel, featuring a poet who loves only fishing (and girls), a Vietnam vet who loves only violence (and drugs), and beautiful long-legged girl who loves only one of them (at first). This trio of innocents sets..... More
London: R. Carlile, 1819. First edition. Wrappers. Octavo. 28 pages. Richard Carlile was a publisher and political agitator who was charged and ultimately convicted of blasphemy and seditious libel for publishing material that might incite British subjects to hate their government--among these publications being Thomas Paine's "Age of Reason," which..... More
London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1839. First edition. Steel and wood engraved black & white plates and text illustrations. Expertly rebacked original cloth over boards. Octavo. xii, 327 pages. Illustrated treatise on fox-hunting, by the Master of Hounds at the Hertfordshire Hunt Club. More
Pikeville: Pikeville College Press, 1979. First edition. Black & white photographs, facsimile of manuscript. Full cloth. Octavo. [vi], 181 pages. Big Sam McCoy was a nephew of Randolph McCoy, a leader of the famous feud between the Hatfields and McCoys. Big Sam also happened to be present at most of..... More
(Boston): (The Barta Press), [c.1920]. First edition. Black & white photographs. Hardcover. Quarto. 120 pages. Scarce history of this World War I hospital unit, organized at Harvard University in February, 1916 and mobilized in May, 1917. Sailing for France on the Saxonia, the unit arrived at Boulogne, France on May..... More
New York: Columbia Jester, 1932-1933. Cartoons, vintage advertising. Bound volume, full cloth. Quarto, approximately 200 pages. Nice collection of 8 issues of this student publication of Columbia University, bound with the colorful covers intact. 18 year old Herman Wouk appears on the masthead--initially as a lowly member of the associate..... More
Springfield: William C. Hazelton, 1922. 2nd Edition. Photographs. Original cloth. Octavo. [xvi], 138 pages. Contributions by Thomas Dixon, Jr., George L. Hopper, John B. Thompson, Clyde B. Terrell, Dr. Edmund W. Weis, and several others. Stories of waterfowling from the Chesapeake to California, Manitoba to Lousiana. There is a contribution..... More
Edinburgh: J. Hay and Co., 1818. 1st Edition. 1/2 leather. Duodecimo. cxxix, 244 pages. Robert MacGregor and his brothers were tried for the kidnapping of heiress Jean Key in 1752. Ultimately convicted, Robert was executed by hanging in 1754. This incident is fictionalized and adapted into Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped."..... More
New York: (Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, Printers), 1893. Original cloth. Octavo. 60 pages. Joseph Edwards had designed the ship-mounted "Edwards Cataract Pump" for hydraulic dredging, and was called upon to deepen the southern entrance to New York Harbor. The work was completed so satisfactorily that Edwards was inundated with requests by..... More
[Boston?]: [1908]. Manuscript. 6.25" x 8" This is an endearing letter from the aged social activist, suffragist, and poet just days before her 89th birthday. Julia Ward Howe is perhaps best known as the writer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," but was also a prominent abolitionist and women's..... More
(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: 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
(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
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
![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