Washington: Government Printing Office, 1890. First Edition. Original cloth. Octavos. over 1,900 pages. Three volume report on this conference of international maritime powers. The aim was to revise and amend rules, regulations and practice of vessels at sea and navigation generally; to adopt a uniform system of marine signals with... More

[washington, D. C. ]: [Government Printing Office], [1884]. Black and White Engraved Plates, Plans. Hardcover. Quarto. 276 pages. Very detailed statistics and information gathered for the 10th U. S. Census. The information was collected mostly by personal visits to the many shipyards in the United States rather than by correspondence... More

New York: Bidwell Publishing Company, 1889. Black & White Frontispiece Portrait, Illus. Full cloth. Octavo. 560 pages. Bidwell recounts his Puritan upbringing, successful struggles against poverty, his career as a merchant, his commercial misfortunes and temptations, and his ultimate fall. Well illustrated with a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and many woodcut... More

Chicago: National Board Of Fire Underwriters, [1940s]. Wrappers. Octavo. [ii], 29 pages. Scarce World War II booklet highlighting vulnerabilities of ports, piers and wharves in the U. S. , and suggesting many improved practice requirements. The primary threat was fire--either by accident or sabotage--with the danger being greatly multiplied by... More

Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1943-45. Black and White Plates. Full cloth. Octavos. xlvi, 519 and xii, 560 pages. Still the standard Lincoln bibliography, describing nearly 4, 000 items, including over 200 in languages other than English, published through 1939. Bound in slate blue cloth over boards. Spine lettering is... More

Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1961. First Edition. Color Frontispiece. Full cloth. Duodecimo. x, 178 pages. One of 250 copies. Comprehensive reference to the series, including chronological and numerical lists of the volumes published plus indexes by contributor and subject. Errata page bound in at rear. Grey cloth over boards with... More

Gloucester: Procter Brothers, 1873. First Edition. Black & White Engraved Cuts. Original cloth. Octavo. iv, 172 + ads pages. Subtitle continues: "…Containing a list of vessels and their crews, lost from the Port of Gloucester from the year 1830 to October 1, 1873, embracing a period of nearly half a.... More

(london): Conway Maritime Press, Ltd., (1981). First Edition. Black & White Illustrations, Plans. Hardcover. Quarto. 128 pages. Deane was a Master Shipwright at Harwich and Portsmouth in the late 17th century, and this treatise was originally commissioned by Samuel Pepys to explain the intricacies of designing a major warship of... More

[New York?]: (S. n.), 1869. First Edition. Wrappers. Duodecimo. 46 pages. The first printed appearance of the popular play that Lincoln was watching when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1865. Laura Keene had acquired the rights to Tom Taylor's "Our American Cousin" in 1858, and opened it... More

Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1992. First Edition. Black & White Photographs, Illustrations. Full cloth. Octavo. xx, 214 pages. Descriptions of 679 croquet books, ephemera, pamphlets, and other items from this unique collection housed at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont, Ohio. Good annotations. Appendices list books on... More

(danville, Ill): (Illinois Printing Co. ), (1907). First Edition. Black and White Drawings. Full cloth. 9½" x 8". [23 ] pages. James Judson Lord's poem, read at the dedication of Abraham Lincoln's tomb and memorial in 1874. Printed on rectos only. Illustrated with sketches by W. Jerome Willoughby. MONAGHAN #1538... More

Pleasantville: Reader's Digest Assoc. , Inc., 1944. Magazine. Duodecimo. 128 pages. Complete issue of Reader's Digest magazine containing John Hersey's story of John F. Kennedy and PT-109. To put it simply, this is the article that launched Kennedy's political career. Hersey, a Kennedy family friend, first published this flattering account... More

Northridge: Lord John Press, 1984. Limited Ed. Hardcover. Small octavo. 25 pages. This is one of 200 copies signed by Crumley. A wonderful fragment, a least some of which went on to become "Mexican Tree Duck. ". Issued w/o DJ. More