Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. [xiv], 365 pages. Robbins' whimsical second novel, starring the large-thumbed protagonist SIssy Hankshaw. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Robbins on halt-title. More
Ilchester: College Press, 1904. First edition. Black and white illustrations. Full cloth. Octavo. xxiv, 253 pages. In 1853 the Redemptorist Order inherited the Annapolis mansion of Charles Carroll of Carrollton--the longest surviving Signer of the Declaration of Independence. This is a history of that religious community during its first 50..... More
New York: Andy Warhol Books / Grosset & Dunlap, (1979). First edition. Black and white photographs by Andy Warhol. Full cloth. Square quarto. 255 pages. Andy Warhol's book of profiles and good photographs of his many famous friends. "Good photographs" being defined by Warhol as "one that's in focus and..... More
Caldwell: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1948. Limited edition. Color frontispiece, black and photographs, maps. Full cloth. Tall octavo. 366 pages. History of the western cattle empire, with first hand recollections on its twilight. Includes material on the hanging of Cattle Kate, the Johnson County War, Tom Horn and the Wild..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1903. First edition. Black and white photographs. Full cloth. Small quarto. xiv, 492 pages. Observations and impressions by an American woman's who was with Ambassador Horace Porter's party on a diplomatic visit to Turkey. Dodd stayed at the Sultan's Yildiz Palace at Constantinople. Illustrated..... More
[Rock Creek?]: 1786. Single sheet, laid paper. The document reads: "We whose names are hereunto subscribed do promise & bind ourselves to pay to the Reverend Mr. John Stewart, his order or assigns, the several sums annexed to our [crossed out word "names"] respective names, in consideration for his services..... More
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., (1956). First edition. Illustrated by Lamar Dodd. Full cloth. Octavo. x, 435 pages. The 51st volume in the Rivers of America Series, here is the story of the Santee, which drains the Carolinas east of the Appalachian Mountains. Peopled with rugged individualists of the..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First American edition, Review Copy. Full cloth. Octavo. 446 pages. An extraordinary novel set in the midst of political upheaval at the beginning of the Irish War of Independence in the summer of 1919. Was awarded the Lost Man Booker for 1970 in 2010..... More
New York: Greenberg : Publisher, (1935). First printing. Full cloth. Octavo. 249 pages. A scarce novel of the struggles and successes of immigrants in the United States. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1973). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 176 pages. Harrison's second novel, featuring a poet who loves only fishing (and girls), a Vietnam vet who loves only violence (and drugs), and beautiful long-legged girl who loves only one of them (at first). This trio of innocents sets..... More
London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1839. First edition. Steel and wood engraved black & white plates and text illustrations. Expertly rebacked original cloth over boards. Octavo. xii, 327 pages. Illustrated treatise on fox-hunting, by the Master of Hounds at the Hertfordshire Hunt Club. More
Pikeville: Pikeville College Press, 1979. First edition. Black & white photographs, facsimile of manuscript. Full cloth. Octavo. [vi], 181 pages. Big Sam McCoy was a nephew of Randolph McCoy, a leader of the famous feud between the Hatfields and McCoys. Big Sam also happened to be present at most of..... More
Springfield: William C. Hazelton, 1922. 2nd Edition. Photographs. Original cloth. Octavo. [xvi], 138 pages. Contributions by Thomas Dixon, Jr., George L. Hopper, John B. Thompson, Clyde B. Terrell, Dr. Edmund W. Weis, and several others. Stories of waterfowling from the Chesapeake to California, Manitoba to Louisiana. There is a contribution..... More
New York: (Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, Printers), 1893. Original cloth. Octavo. 60 pages. Joseph Edwards had designed the ship-mounted "Edwards Cataract Pump" for hydraulic dredging, and was called upon to deepen the southern entrance to New York Harbor. The work was completed so satisfactorily that Edwards was inundated with requests by..... More
[Boston?]: [1908]. Manuscript. 6.25" x 8" This is an endearing letter from the aged social activist, suffragist, and poet just days before her 89th birthday. Julia Ward Howe is perhaps best known as the writer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," but was also a prominent abolitionist and women's..... More
Minneapolis: Athletic Publications, Inc., 1949. Black & white photographs. Wrappers. Octavo. 96 pages. The 1949-1950 basketball season was the first for the NBA, which had been formed in the summer of 1949 by the merger of the 12 year old National Basketball League and the 4 year old Basketball Association..... More
[Meudon]: Chalais-Meudon, [1918]. Scale drawings. Wrappers. Octavo. [vii] 29 pages. This is a scarce World War I era manual on piloted, tethered observation balloons for use on land or at sea. Indeed, these balloons, tethered to destroyers, were very effective U-boat spotters. There are 6 fold-out drawings of various aspects..... More
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
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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
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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