[Stoneham?]: (Prohibition Party), [1886]. Broadside. 4.75" x 12.50" The Prohibition Party is the nation's oldest third party, and this broadside presents the party's slate of candidates for the state and local elections of 1886 in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Thomas J. Lothrop ran as the Prohibition candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in..... 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
Washington, D. C. 1901. 6.50" by 8.25". 1 pages. A rather early Theodore Roosevelt letter as President, having succeeded to the office upon the death of President William McKinley just 17 days earlier. Roosevelt, having received a letter from John G. Winter, Jr., here asks his Acting Secretary of War..... 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
![Country Before Party. The Voice of Loyal Democrats [Union Campaign Docs., No. 4]. Civil War](/pictures/thumb/11630.jpg?v=1567733408)
[Albany]: (Weed, Parsons & Co., Printers), [1863]. First Edition. Wrappers. Octavo. 16 pages. A pro-Union Democrat attack on the Copperhead wing of their party. The Copperheads sought to let the Confederate states peacefully secede from the Union, and this pamphlet refutes them with testimony and opinions of many prominent Democrats..... 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
[Philadelphia?]: (Democratic National Committee?), [1937?]. Limited Edition. Color and b&w illustrations, ads. Full leather. Folio. 384 pages. The signed limited edition of the souvenir book that recapped Roosevelt's reelection victory and Democrat gains in the 1936 national election. A souvenir book recapping President Roosevelt's victory and Democrat gains in the..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1901. First Edition. Flexible leather. Octavo. 141 [+14] pages. An important study of Governor Hicks and his crucial efforts to shape Maryland's loyalties on the eve and in the early years of the Civil War. Includes chapters on Hicks's early political career, rumors of plots against..... More
[Bruceton Mills]: Old Hemlock, 1986. Limited Edition. Black & white drawings. Hardcover. Octavo. [x], 182 pages. Sketches from the gun diaries of George Bird Evans, who was one of the world's foremost authorities on upland gunning and bird dogs. He perfected the Old Hemlock line of English Setters, the descendants..... More
[Boston]: (S.n.), 1862. Broadside. 6 1/8" x 14 5/8" John Wilkes Booth, following in his father's and siblings' footsteps, tried his hand at acting and found some success in stock companies in Philadelphia, Richmond, and other provincial theaters. Still, he performed under the name "J. Wilkes" because he lacked the..... More
[Baltimore]: (Printing Bureau, Police Department), 1925. Flexible cloth. Sixteenmo. 158 pages. 1925 pocket handbook for Baltimore Policemen with detailed descriptions of over 50 rules of expected conduct in a variety of situations. Pencilled ownership inscription on front pastedown: "Officer Michael J. Moloney / Northeastern District." There is a $5.00 receipt..... More
[Mexico City]: 1861. Manuscript. 10.50" x 8.25" The Juarez government had recaptured Mexico City on January 1, 1861, and he was elected President in the month following this letter. His declaration of a 2-year suspension of interest payments on international debts related to the Mexican Revolution led to an invasion..... More
New York: The Bradstreet Company, 1882. Colored maps, advertising cuts. Flexible leather. Oblong twenty-fourmo. [x], 50, [vi] pages. Scarce pocket atlas published exclusively for Boston haberdashers Macullar, Parker & Company. In addition to the colored maps of the states and territories, there are 15 maps of mining districts within various..... More
Cambridge & Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1894. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [50] pages. Scarce Lincoln item. The poem was read before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Sanders Theatre, Harvard College. One of 450 copies. MONAGHAN 1155. More