New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1855-6. Black & White Engraved Cuts, Plates, Fold-Out Map. Original cloth. Sixteenmo. viii, [9]-188 pages. Handsome traveller's guidebook well-illustrated with 136 engravings by Lossing and Barritt. This is the 8th edition revised, enlarged, and corrected to 1856. Fold-out map at frontispiece is in excellent... More

Westerville, OH: American Issue Publishing Company, (1910). First Edition. Black and White Portrait. Original cloth. Duodecimo. 165 + ads pages. Jackson was a Methodist minister and in later life edited The American Issue, which was the official organ of the Anti-Saloon League. He had enlisted, at age 15, in Company... More

London: [George Philip & Son, Ltd. ], (1914). First Edition. Black and White Photographs, Diagrams. Original cloth. Octavo. viii, 150, [vi] pages. Interesting look at early 20th century British petroleum use and its production and distribution from the British-controlled Mexican oil fields of the Anglo-Mexican Petroleum Products Company, Ltd. Photos... More

Harrison, NY: Robert Allan Green, Publisher, 1972. Limited Edition. Black and White Photographs, Text Figures. Full cloth. Quarto. xiv, 324 pages. SIGNED by publisher Robert Alan Green. The definitive study of Maryland silver with substantial biographies of the craftsmen, examples of their work, and their marks along with information on... More

Ayer, MA: E. B. Butterfield, 1890. First Edition. Numerous Black & White Cuts. Cloth spine, printed boards. Octavo. 39 pages. Directories for Plymouth and the adjoining town of Kingston, Massachusetts bound together with individual title pages thus: "Directory and History of Plymouth, Mass. 1890. Containing: General Directory of the Citizens... More

Brooklyn: Theo. Gaus, Ltd., (1977). First Edition. Full cloth. Octavo. xii, 315 pages. History and reminiscences of sailing, yacht clubs, and yacht racing around Long Island Sound. Anecdotes of the Larchmont, Port Washington, Knickerbocker, American, Riverside, and Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht clubs. MORRIS & HOWLAND p. 33. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by... More

Salem: Marine Research Society, 1924. First Edition. Black & White Plates. Full cloth. Quarto. 51 , [208] leaves of plates pages. An excellent pictorial record of New England shipping along with an interesting introduction on Donald McKay, builder of clipper ships. One interesting anecdote concerns the Trent Affair early in... More

[east Bridgewater]: Baggia Press/Elmwood Bookshop, 1972. Limited Edition. Stage Diagram. Wrappers. Duodecimo. [iv], 35 pages. Copy #130 of 500 in this limited edition. One of a few plays penned by Cape Cod's most famous and beloved author of the early 20th century. Bound stiff card covers over a saddle-stapled binding... More

(s. L. ): (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... 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