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My Cave Life in Vicksburg. With Letters of Trial and Travel
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1864. First printing. Extra engraved title page, 1 map. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 196, 8 (ads) pages. An important firsthand account by a woman who experienced the siege of Vicksburg by Union forces in 1863. Ref. Nevins vol II, p. 195. More
Gerrit Smith and the Vigilant Association of the City of New-York
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
Tastes Great, Smokes Mild! says Hoppy Adams, The Lively One on WANN. Poster for Chesterfield King Cigarettes
(S.l.): (S.n.), [c.1950s]. Black and white photographic portrait of Adams. Poster. 18.5" x 22.5" Fantastic poster featuring groundbreaking Black radio DJ and Annapolis native, Charles W. "Hoppy" Adams. The Annapolis radio station WANN, founded by Morris Blum in 1948, is thickly intertwined with the story of the beginnings of Black..... More
The Raymond Orteig $25,000 Prize: Paris - New York -- New York - Paris
New York: Aero Club of America, 1919. Broadside. 8.5" x 14". Printed both sides. Scarce entry form for the $25,000 Ortieg Cross-Atlantic Flight Prize, which was ultimately won by Charles Lindbergh in 1927. Augustus Post of the Aero Club of America approached hotelier Raymond Orteig to sponsor the prize, which..... More
El Tovar, Grand Canyon
c.1906. Chromolithograph. Framed dimensions 39 1/2" x 29 1/4" Large, scarce lithograph depicting the now legendary hotel El Tovar on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. Akin painted this scene in 1906--thirteen years prior to the area's National Park designation--to promote the new lodge. The El Tovar opened in..... More
1899 Photograph of Trout Fishermen with their Catch in Downtown Skagway, Alaska
Skagway: Case & Draper, 1899. Photograph is 4 3/4" x 6 3/4", mounted on thin board of 7" x 9" Lovely photograph showing a string of 30 trout caught on the Skagway River, April 20, 1899. The fishermen, posing at each end of the string, are F. F. Clark and..... More
History of the Redemptorists at Annapolis, Md., from 1853 to 1903. With a short historical sketch of the preceding one hundred and fifty years of Catholicity in the Capital of Maryland
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
Scouting and Youth Movements
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, (1931). First American Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 109 pages. Rare book by the Father of the Boy Scouts, reviewing the positive roles played by such organizations in fostering healthy, happy, and helpful citizens of nations and the world. Bound in black cloth over boards..... More
Cruises, Mainly in the Bay of the Chesapeake
Philadelphia: The Franklin Press, 1909. First edition. Black & White Photographs, 1 fold-out map. Full cloth. Octavo. [x], 276, [3] pages. A Chesapeake Bay classic. The first book to draw significant attention to the Bay as ideally suited for pleasure boating. The Barrie brothers were members of the Corinthian Yacht..... More
Forging His Chains. the Autobiography of George Bidwell, the Famous Ticket-Of-Leave Man…his Trial and Incarceration in English Prisons Fourteen Years on a Life Sentence for "The $5, 000, 000 Forgery on the Bank of England"
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
California Gold-field Scenes: Selections from Quien Sabe's Gold-field Manuscripts
Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1886. First edition. Original cloth. Octavo. 283 pages. Reverend Bigham went to California as a missionary in the early years of the Gold Rush. The dramatized scenes and sketches here are loosely based upon his actual experiences as a preacher and miner. HOWES B444. More
John Hay, Scholar, Statesman An Address Delivered before the Alumni Association of Brown University, June 19, 1906
Providence: (Standard Printing Company), 1906. Wrappers. Octavo. 29 pages. Memorial to Hay, Brown University class of 1858, secretary to Lincoln, diplomat, journalist, biographer, and Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt. Bound in tan paper covers stitched to textblock, Yapp edges, front cover titled in black. A few edge wrinkles..... More
The Panorama of Torquay, a Descriptive and Historical Sketch of the District Comprised between the Dart and Teign
London: Simpkin And Marshall, 1832. Second Edition. Black & White Plates, Colored Map. Hardcover. Duodecimo. xii, 288 pages. Illustrated with numerous lithographic and wood engravings and a double spread map. Bound in original paper over boards with title label at head of spine. Minor wear and rubs to extremities. "From..... More
Boston Museum, Fourth Night of Mr. J. Wilkes Booth! as Richard III (Playbill for May 15, 1862)
[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
Souvenir Program, Jack Dempsey vs. Jimmy Darcy, Exhibition Bout, July 26, 1922
New Bedford: The Arena, A.C., 1922. Black and white halftone photos, ads. Softcover. Octavo. 24 pages. Original program from this 1922 boxing event in New Bedford, Massachusetts between then World Champion, Jack Dempsey, and Jimmy Darcy of New York. The exhibition bout was held at The Arena, A. C. in..... More
I Sing the Body Electric, and Other Stories (Signed)
(Burton, MI): Subterranean Press, 2007. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 389 pages. Ray Bradbury's "I Sing the Body Electric" was first published in 1969. The title story was adapted from a 1962 episode of the Twilight Zone which Bradbury had written. This limited edition includes 11 additional stories that had appeared..... More
Inaugural Address of Hon. Augustus W. Bradford, Governor of Maryland, Delivered in the Senate Chamber, Annapolis, January 8th, 1862
Annapolis: Thomas J. Wilson, Printer, 1862. Wrappers. Octavo. 15 pages. Augustus W. Bradford, as the Union Party candidate for governor, defeated Democrat Benjamin C. Howard by nearly 30,000 votes on November 6, 1861. Maryland had seemed to teeter on the brink of secession just 6 or 7 months earlier. Bradford's..... More
Anti-Trust Speech of W. J. Bryan. Delivered at St. Louis, September 16, 1900
(S.l.): (S.n.), [1900]. Cartoon on rear cover. Wrappers. Duodecimo. 16 pages. Williams Jennings Bryan, the Democratic nominee for President in 1900, delivers a speech against the reign of monopolies he saw as having been abetted by McKinley and the Republicans. Bryan ultimately would lose to the incumbent, McKinley, who would..... More
Confidential_ Handbook of Aircraft Armament, August, 1918
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
These Chesapeake Men (Signed), with Typed Letter Signed by Byron
North Montpelier: Driftwind Press, 1943. Second printing. Watercolors by Jack Lewis. Original cloth. Octavo. 170 pages. Gilbert Byron's first book, with lovely tipped-in color illustrations by Jack Lewis. Here are the people and wildlife of the Chesapeake Bay, captured in verse by the region's answer to Thoreau. This copy..... More
Peking Studies
Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1934. First edition. Photographs, cartoons, some with color. Hardcover. Folio. 88 pages. A stunning collection of photographs of people and sights in early 1930s Peking, augmented with charming drawings by the Austrian expat cartoonist, Friedrich Schiff. Scarce, particularly so in the original dust jacket. Contemporaneous..... More
God's Judgments Teaching Righteousness. a Sermon Delivered on the National Fast Day, January 4, 1861, in St. Matthew's Parish, Prince George's County, MD.
Washington: E. A. Waters, 1861. Wrappers. Octavo. 13 pages. President James Buchanan declared January 4, 1861 a national day of fasting and prayer in an effort to calm both sides in the brewing secession crisis. This was the earnest sermon preached by Reverend Chew to his flock in Prince George's..... More
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The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan [Sudan]
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