Los Angeles: Conference Publishing Company, [1950]. Black and white photos. Softcover. Octavo. [iv], 44 pages. An important history of the Hollywood labor struggles of 1945-1946 written by a Jesuit priest. It is a story of rival unions in the film industry, organized crime, the violent 1945 "Hollywood Bloody Friday" riot..... More
[Baltimore]: [Democratic City Convention], [1848]. Broadside. Approximately 13" x 18 3/4". Single sheet. Democratic broadside from Baltimore attacking the Whigs and their Presidential candidate, Zachary Taylor, in the 1848 campaign. The Whigs had nominated Taylor for President and Millard Fillmore for Vice-President at their convention in June. This broadside presumably..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1933). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. vi, 112 pages. A scarce drinking guide, published the year Prohibition was repealed. Separate sections for beer, wine, and cocktails with mixing instructions for the latter. Particular attention is also given to what foods should be served with each..... More
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Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841 and 1844. First printings. Original cloth. Duodecimos. [vi], 303 pages and [iv], 313 pages, [2] pages ads. A nice set of first editions of Emerson's Essays (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844). These writings represent the core of Emerson's thought, and read as well..... More
New York: International Publishers, (1938). First printing. Black and white frontispiece photographic portrait. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 222 pages. Jim Ford was an African American activist and Vice-Presidential candidate for the Communist Party USA in 1932, 1936, and 1940. He wrote these articles in the heat of the struggles for..... More
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: M. Barrows and Company, 1941. First printing. Drawings by Rea Irvin. Full cloth. Octavo. 223 pages. Not just a fine compilation of cocktail recipes from the early 20th century, but also a wise and witty look at the philosophy of drinking, the arts of sociability, and a snapshot..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. First edition. Marbled paper over boards with leather spines and fore corners. Duodecimos. xii, 322 (2 pp ads) and viii, 344 pages. Anne MacVicar's father was an officer in the British army during the French and Indian War. As a young child she..... More
[New York]: [City of New York?], [1856]. Single sheet. Approximately 7 1/4" x 10 3/4" This map was originally produced circa 1813 by David Grim, and this hand-colored facsimile was reprinted in the "Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York for 1856." More
Annapolis: Treasury Office, 1818. Single sheet, approximately 9 1/4" x 11 3/4" Statement of expenses related to the construction and first few years of the Maryland Penitentiary in Baltimore. Issued by Benjamin Harwood, Treasurer of the Western Shore of Maryland, and dated December 16th, 1818. Over $160,000 in expenditures are..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1912. First printing. Black and white plates. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xxii, 200 pages. Matthew Henson was an African American explorer who was Robert Peary's indispensable right-hand man on his seven Arctic expeditions over nearly 23 years. It is now generally acknowledged (as he..... More
Washington: Mathew Brady, [1862-1863]. Black and white photograph. Mounted on a 2" x 4" card. Original albumen photographic profile vignette of a seated General Hooker, facing left. Imprint of Brady Studio, Washington, in bottom margin. Inscribed on back of the mount "Joseph Hooker / Maj. Genl." General Hooker's aggressive..... 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
Austin: 1969. A nice letter on Johnson's post-Presidential stationery with a clear, bold signature. Includes the original free franked mailing envelope. Johnson expresses his gratitude for a very complimentary letter from a private citizen who states that: "Historians will surely regard you as the president most conscientious about the needs..... More
Baltimore: Printed by W. M. Innes, 1863. Later card covers. Octavo. 48 pages. Interesting and uncommon pamphlet published in Baltimore during the Civil War which is highly critical of Abraham Lincoln, New England, and Abolitionists. The author sees disunion and the Civil War as resulting from self-righteous New Englanders too..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1963. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 244 pages. This penetrating study was the first book on jazz by an African American writer, and Jones came to some new and provocative conclusions which are bolstered by both history and sociology. This is the..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. First printing. Black & white photographs, illustrations. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xii, 372 pages. Stetson Kennedy's highly critical yet hopeful look at the South and its institutions and traditions. A native Southerner, Kennedy infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan, Sons of Dixie, and the..... More
New York: Brewer & Warren, 1930. First printing. Black & white chapter heads, cuts. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 281 pages. Rockwell Kent had just finished illustrating his famous edition of Moby Dick for the Lakeside Press when he set out on a voyage to Greenland with a couple of friends. The..... More
New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1857. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. [xii], 203 pages, plus 12 page publisher catalogue. The first published collection of poetry by Francis Scott Key. "The Star Spangled Banner" is the first poem in the book, appearing on pp. 31-33 after an introductory..... More
[Philadelphia]: [Moses Thomas], [1814]. First edition. Marbled paper and leather over boards. Octavo. [i], 353-440 pages. A very early printing of the poem that became the National Anthem of the United States. Francis Scott Key wrote: "Defence of Fort McHenry" as he witnessed the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in..... More
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, (1902). First printing. 15 Black & White Tissue-Guarded Plates. Full cloth. Octavo. xxiv, 407 pages. This handsome volume of poems contains the first book appearance of baseball's most famous poem--Casey at the Bat--in an anthology. The poem was written by Ernest Lawrence Thayer but is..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930. First Edition. Black and White Photographs, Illus. Full cloth. Quarto. xvi, 133 pages. Good account of this artistically gifted family and the portraits of many founding Americans produced from life. Much of the information herein is from the Frick Art Reference Library in New..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, (1932). First printing. Black and white frontispiece portrait. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. viii, 269 pages. The first biography of Abraham Lincoln by an African American. The author was an attorney in Chicago who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and educated at Howard University..... 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
[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