Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1937. First printing. Black and white photographic plates. Original cloth. Octavo. xii, 500 pages. Forrester vividly shares her family memories, traditions, and relics in this account of Booth's escape and survival after the Lincoln assassination. She argues that Booth was a tool of the Knights..... More
New York: Charles Magnus, [1863?]. Colored woodcut headpiece. Single leaf approximately 5" x 8" Union Civil War songsheet with Copperhead sentiments. "Abraham Lincoln...stop this war, It's all played out..." Also references the Conscription Act which was passed in March, 1863: "The Conscription act it now is passed, and we'll be..... More
[Brooklyn]: (S.n.), [c.1848]. Woodcuts. Wrappers, octavo, [16] pages. Interesting and uncommon patent medicine piece featuring one of the earliest claims of "Indian" cures. The first 4 pages of this promotional pamphlet recount a thwarted Indian ambush of a cattle drive from Niagara to Detroit at the end of the 18th..... More
Philadelphia: J. Magee, 1864. Single sheet, folded. Union Civil War songsheet commemorating the Battle of Cedar Creek. Printed in red and blue, with double-line border and two flags at top corners. Folded once along short dimension. WOLF 97b. More
(S.l.): The Walpole Society, 1929. Limited edition. Black and white plates. Full cloth, octavo, xviii, 325 pages. Useful reference that gives brief sketches of a wide variety of craftsmen and manufacturers, including silversmiths, cabinet makers, stone cutters, sign painters, engravers, glass ware makers, upholsterers, clock makers, and much more. One..... More
Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press, 1929. First edition. Black and white frontispiece. Octavo, full cloth, 66 pages. A tribute to Col. Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment of United States Colored Troops in the Civil War. The author, who was married to an officer in a U.S.C.T. regiment, identifies..... More
London: Henry Stevens, Son, and Stiles, 1905. First edition. Full cloth. Octavo. viii, 41 pages. An important analysis of ten early editions and piracies of the famous Map of the Middle British Colonies in America, by Welsh surveyor Lewis Evans (c.1700-1756). Henry Stevens, famous Americana bookseller, was prompted on his..... More
[1941]. #10 of 10. Black and white photograph. Photograph mounted on board. 1931 Walker Evans photograph, sometimes known as "Bed and Stove, Truro, Massachusetts," printed by Evans in 1941 for the exhibition "American Photographs at $10" at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. SIGNED twice on the mount..... More
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
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
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
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
[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: 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
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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