London: Horace Cox, The Field Office, 1900. Engraved Cuts. Original cloth. Quarto. xii, 667 + ads pages. Kemp's classic work on selecting, inspecting, and building a yacht along with detailed instruction on seamanship and sailing in open yachts, steam yachts, ice boats, and much more. This edition was published in... More about A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing. Ninth Edition (Volume I Only
[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 about Report on the Ship-Building Industry of the United States [From the 10th U. S. Census, 1880
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 about Harper's New York and Erie Rail-Road Guide Book Containing a Description of the Scenery, Rivers,...
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 about Forging His Chains. the Autobiography of George Bidwell, the Famous Ticket-Of-Leave Man…his...
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 about Grant's Strategy and Other Addresses
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 about Safeguarding Waterfront Properties
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 about Mexican Fuel Oil
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 about Lincoln Bibliography, 1839-1939, Volumes I and II Complete (Collections of the Illinois State...
Prescot: T. Stephenson & Sons Ltd., (1955). First Edition. Color Frontispiece, Black & White Plates. Full cloth. Octavo. xxxii, 639 pages. A superb reference arranged by passenger line and giving details on some 1, 300 vessels. Illustrations include numerous photographs and 150 silhouettes to scale by J. H. Isherwood. ALBION... More about North Atlantic Seaway An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with...
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 about Plymouth and Kingston [Massachusetts] Directory, 1890 [Binder's Title
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 about Early California Travels Series A Chronological Summary Index and Descriptive List
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 about Land's End, Water's Edge Long Island Sound (Inscribed and Signed
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 about The Fishermen's Memorial and Record Book…
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 about The Sailing Ships of New England, Series Two (Publication Number Five of the Marine Research Society
(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 about Deane's Doctrine of Naval Architecture, 1670
[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 about The Managers A Comedy of Cape Cod
[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 about Our American Cousin: A Drama, in 3 Acts
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. , Inc., 1942. First Edition. Black & White Photographs, Facsimiles. Full cloth. Octavo. 244 + appendix pages. Uncommon book capturing impressions of Abraham Lincoln by African Americans who personally knew and interacted with him. The historical record is weak in regard to Lincoln's... More about They Knew Lincoln (Inscribed and Signed
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 about Croquet An Annotated Bibliography from the Rendell Rhoades Croquet Collection
Catonsville, MD: American Bicentennial Committee Of Catonsville, (1983). Second Printing. Black & White Photographs, Prints, Drawings and Ma. Full cloth. Quarto. [viii], 188 pages. Well researched local history of the village of Catonsville, near Baltimore. Focuses on the pre-Revolutionary period and gathers many interesting facts, anecdotes, and genealogical threads from... More about Colonial History of Catonsville
(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 about Lincoln Monument Dedication Poem, Delivered At Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois, October...
Paris & Nancy: Berger-Levrault & Co., 1899. Folded Tables and Maps. Folio. x, 47 pages. Detailed comparison study of two important battles between France and Prussia--Jena in 1806 and Sedan in 1870. In October of 1806 the French under Napoleon routed the Prussians at Jena [Iéna] and Auerstadt, and inflicted... More about Étude De Marches (Iéna - Sedan) Nouvelle Édition Refondue Et Augmentée [Study of the Battles...
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 about Survival From a PT Base in the Solomons Comes This Nightmare Epic of the Will-To-Live (Reader's...
Livorno/milan: Graphis Arte/Toninelli Arte, 1974. Limited Edition. B&w and Color Plates. Hardcover. Folio. xiv, 133 pages. One of 500 copies in English. Translation by Dermot T. Cooke. Introduction by Enzo Carli. Primarily a catalogue of Marini's work, with notes and captions. Red textured paper over boards with gilt stamped spine..... More about Marino Marini Etchings 1914-1970
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 about The Muddy Fork A Work in Progress