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 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
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
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
New York: Pynson Printers, 1937. Limited Edition. Black & white cuts, some color. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 83 pages. Beautiful little collection of Rockwell Kent's distinctive bookplates, initials, and marks. A first collection was printed in 1929 in an edition of 1250 copies, and quickly sold out. This companion volume was published..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1918. First Edition. Fold-out plans, tables, photographs. Original cloth. Octavo. 96 pages. Scarce, Confidential manual on the weaponry associated with U. S. Army aircraft and pilots in World War I. Sections on the Marlin, the Lewis, and the Vickers aircraft machine guns, synchronizing gears, machine gun..... More
![The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan [Sudan]. Winston S. Churchill](/pictures/thumb/11648_1.JPG?v=1570921703)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First US Edition. Maps and plans, some folding. Full cloth. Octavo. xvi, 381 pages. Winston Churchill's detailed military history of the operations directed by Lord Kitchener on the Upper Nile between April 1896 and November 1899. Churchill was a participant in the decisive battle..... More
Oyster Bay: 1901. 8" x 10". 2 pages. Letters from Theodore Roosevelt as Vice-President are rarely seen, as he only served in that office for about six months before succeeding to the Presidency upon the assassination of President William McKinley. This letter is on two separate sheets, the first of..... More
Fort Worth: Western Heritage Press, (1971). First Edition. Black & white photos, facsimiles, etc. Hardcover. Octavo. 202 pages. History of New Mexico's rugged frontier rangers and their fight for law and order in the territory. In addition to his other research, Hornung was able to gather personal recollections from the..... More
Boston: Tappan & Dennet, 1844. Wrappers. Octavo. 132 pages. Frustrated by Rhode Island's outdated landed property ownership requirement for voting, and by the inability to change the system legislatively, Thomas Dorr and his supporters essentially tried to set up a separate state government and capture the arsenal at Providence. These..... More
Newburyport: Press of Hiram Tozer, 1838. Wrappers. Octavo. 18 pages. A sermon likely in response to the February 24, 1838 pistol duel between two members of the U.S. Congress, resulting in the death of newly elected Representative Jonathan Cilley of Maine. Cilley had taken to the House floor and made..... More
Concord: P. B. Cogswell, Printer, 1861. Map. Wrappers. Octavo. 48 pages. Mid-19th century reprint of the narrative of this battle between British colonists and the Abenaki at present-day Fryeburg, Maine. Includes a map of the locality drawn by George B. Barrows, popular ballads related to the incident, etc. More
[1940]: (Charles P. Everitt Associates), [1940]. Reprint. 1 double leaf folded map. Wrappers. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. 3, xxx, 46 pages. History of the raid of Shelbourne, NH by Tomhegan and his band in 1781--considered the last "Indian raid" in New England. Here Segar was captured, along with another..... More
New York: John A. Gray, Printer, 1860. Wrappers. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. 29 pages. Correspondence related to accusations of libel made by Gerrit Smith against Royal Phelps and Watts Sherman of the New York Democratic Vigilant Association. The dispute arose from the latter publishing a "Manifesto" in which it..... More
Baltimore: John D. Toy, Printer, 1838. Disbound. Octavo. 45 pages. Speeches in support of colonization and in adamant opposition to abolition, by President of the Senate Richard Thomas, Speaker of the House William H. Tuck, J. H. Culbreth, William F. Giles, and Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge. This Maryland branch of..... More
Boston: David Clapp, 1847. First Edition. Wrappers. Octavo. 29, [iii], xviii pages. Scarce pamphlet concerning the Jackson-Morton dispute over the discovery of ether's effectiveness as a surgical anesthetic in 1846. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933. First Edition. First Printing. Black & white photographs, map. Full cloth. Octavo. 198 pages. Vivid account of an American woman's trek through the Forbidden Land, crossing the Himalaya twice--from the Eastern and Western sides--accompanied only by native servants. Ms. Merrick was the most..... More
New York: David Mckay, 1937. First Edition. First Printing. Full cloth. Octavo. 243 pages pages. Fictionalized memoir of a Southern "mammy," tracing her story from early life and capture in Africa, being sold in America, her "happy childhood on a southern plantation, and her unhappy girlhood; her role as "Mammy"..... More