[Washington City]: [National Executive Committee], [1860]. Folded but not bound or opened. Octavo. 8 pages. Campaign pamphlet for the candidacy of John C. Breckinridge and John Lane for President and Vice President in 1860. Breckinridge was then Vice President under James Buchanan. These were the nominees of a Southern, pro-slavery..... More
Baltimore: Kelly & Piet, Publishers, 1866. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 94 pages. This scarce volume of Confederate poetry was originally published in Richmond in 1865, but most of that edition went up in flames when the city fell at the end of the Civil War. This is the second edition..... More
Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publication Association, 1889. First edition. Wrappers. Duodecimo. .x, 104 pages + 1 leaf publisher ads. The first part of this manual gives a history of National Prohibitory Amendments and Congressional action in relation to them, including arguments, indorsements of organizations and newspapers, etc. The second part consists..... More
New York: [1895]. Single sheet, 8" x 9 7/8", folded once. Suffragist pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton here writes to a Mrs. Thomas, one of the 26 women on the "Revising Committee" who, along with Stanton, wrote "The Woman's Bible." The letter is dated October 20, from Stanton's address at 26..... More
Havana: Francisco Rojo Garcia, [c.1940s]. Color map, monochrome vignettes. Single sheet. 25 1/8" x 35 1/4", folds into 5" x 8 3/4" printed covers. A very attractive map of Havana, printed in blue and yellow, bordered photographic vignettes of important buildings and sites in monochrome. Reverse has a complete road..... More
Baltimore: The Patapsco Land Company, (1874). First edition. Large fold-out map. Hardcover. Octavo. 100 pages. This is a detailed prospectus seeking investment in the newly reorganized Patapsco Land Company, which intended to turn its holdings at Curtis Bay into a major seaport and railhead. The background information included therefore gives..... More
Philadelphia: William Bradford, [1746]. First edition. Modern leather over boards. Octavo. viii, 253 pages. Scarce first edition of David Brainerd's famous account of missionary work among the Native Americans of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Jonathan Dickinson is the person who encouraged Brainerd to become a Presbyterian missionary..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. First printing. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. xiv, 261 pages. Important Christian Pacifist book in the wake of World War I. Reverend Brewster was an Episcopal clergyman in California. More
London: Printed by J. Watts, 1737. First edition. Half leather. Octavos. [xii], 420 pages and [ii], 369, [xxx] pages. A detailed 18th century study of the Jewish people of Biblical times, designed to aid in the reading and understanding of the Holy Bible. Title pages printed in red..... More
Boston: Munroe & Francis, 1802. First edition. Octavo. 44 pages. Loose signatures. Two Jeffersonians--Bacon of Massachusetts and Nicholson of Maryland--argue in favor of the repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801, which stacked the federal judiciary with Federalists appointed by the departing President John Adams. Joseph Hopper Nicholson..... More
Buenos Aires: Peuser Ltda. 1942. Limited edition. Numerous drawings throughout, with a section of black and white photographic plates. Vellum over beveled boards. Quarto. 224 pages. A classic on the traditions, methods, and folklore of northern Argentina's cowboys. Winner of first prize in regional literature and folklore awarded by Argentina's..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 179 pages. First printing of this posthumous collection. There is a previously unpublished essay and ten previously uncollected science fiction short stories. More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. First edition. Marbled paper over boards with leather spines and fore corners. Duodecimos. xii, 322 (2 pp ads) and viii, 344 pages. Anne MacVicar's father was an officer in the British army during the French and Indian War. As a young child she..... More
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, (1967). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 261 pages. This Edgar Award nominee is Raab's exposé on police methods during investigation of the 1963 "Career Girls" murder case in New York City. A confession was coerced from a young African American man named..... More
[Paris]: (Fryam Press), 1936. First edition. This is copy #643 of 700, of a total edition of 1,026 copies. Line drawings, typographic page borders throughout. Printed wrappers. Octavo. 182 pages. A rather scarce original cocktail mixing guide by Frank Meier, legendary bartender at the Ritz Bar in Paris beginning in..... More
Easton, MD: The Easton Publishing Company, Inc., 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 165 pages. Collection of Gilbert Byron's poems on themes of the Chesapeake Bay, sailing, and more. Inscribed and signed by Byron on front free endpaper, with an additional inscription by Byron on a laid in card..... More
Paris: Lecram Press, 1927. First edition. Black and white photos, cartoons by Wynn. Hardcover. 6 1/4" high. [iv], 112 pages. An important and scarce cocktail mixing guide by one of the 20th century's most influential bartenders, Harry McElhone. Harry had tended bar at the Plaza in New York and Ciro's..... More
Pleasantville: Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1944. Magazine. Duodecimo. This is a complete issue of Reader's Digest magazine containing the article that launched John F. Kennedy's political career. John Hersey, a Kennedy family friend, had gotten this flattering account of the PT-109 incident into the 'New Yorker' two months..... More
[Liverpool]: [City of Liverpool], [1974]. Single sheet. 16" x 18" This scarce pictorial map is a guide to all sites of Beatles interest in their native city of Liverpool. It is featured in the book "A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps," by Tim Bryars and Tom Harper..... More
Bristol: Mount Hope Bridge Corporation, 1933. Lithographed by J. C. Hall. Folded sheet. 17 3/4" x 26" This pictorial map was created to publicize the recently opened Mount Hope Bridge connecting Aquidneck Island and Newport with mainland Rhode Island. Researched by John W. Haley and designed by H. W. Hetherington..... More
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1839. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimos. 242 and 228 pages. Frederick Marryat was a British naval officer and pioneering nautical fiction writer. He traveled to America in 1836-1837, and this is the first American edition of his account of that visit. It is an..... More
Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1849. Original cloth over boards. An important publication on baptism from the period of the Second Great Awakening. The Appendix discusses the common reasons and arguments by which infant baptism is urged and defended, and evidence in favor of full immersion as the mode of..... More
[San Francisco]: Soheyl Dahi/Sore Dove Press, 2014. Limited edition, one of 30 copies. Portfolio. 10 1/4" x 12" Here is Ferlinghetti's scathing 1962 letter to TIME in defense of Jack Kerouac and his then-latest-book "Big Sur." TIME had reviewed the book in what Ferlinghetti here calls a "...snide, sneering, condescending..... More
Detroit: The Griswold Press, 1926. Pictorial map. Single sheet. 22 1/2" x 35" McCandlish's famous 1926 Bootlegger's Map satirizing Prohibition. All manner of alcoholic beverages are celebrated through comical drawings and puns of various place names, such as "BAR-Harbor," "Chi-KEG-o," and "Missis-SIP-i." A very attractive copy of this iconic..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2003). First printing of the revised edition. Drawings by Maurice Sendak. Hardcover. Square duodecimo. [viii], 334 pages. A superb selection of 27 stories chosen from Grimm's tales. In addition to several familiar standards there are many that will be new to most readers, such..... More