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
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co. Publishers, 1850. First Edition. Frontispiece dual portrait. Original cloth. Octavo. 432 pages. John Quincy Adams gave masterful eulogies of both James Madison and James Monroe upon their deaths. This volume preserved both together in a permanent form shortly after Adams's own death in 1848. The..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, (1976). First American Edition. Full cloth. Octavo. xiv, 481 pages. A guided tour through 10 centuries of fairies good and bad, including their appearance, customs, food, sports, and their varying sizes and powers. The first reference work of its kind. More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, (1938). First Edition. Map, black & white cuts. Full cloth. Octavo. xii, 389, [13] pages. A beautiful copy of this volume 4 in the famed Rivers of America series, edited by Constance Lindsay Skinner, with her 13 page essay "Rivers and American Folk" included..... More
New York: David Mckay, 1937. First Edition. First Printing. Full cloth. Octavo. 243 pages pages. Fictionalized memoir of a Southern "mammy," tracing her story from early life and capture in Africa, being sold in America, her "happy childhood on a southern plantation, and her unhappy girlhood; her role as "Mammy"..... More
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[Albany]: (Weed, Parsons & Co., Printers), [1863]. First Edition. Wrappers. Octavo. 16 pages. A pro-Union Democrat attack on the Copperhead wing of their party. The Copperheads sought to let the Confederate states peacefully secede from the Union, and this pamphlet refutes them with testimony and opinions of many prominent Democrats..... More
Greenwich: Seabury Press, 1963. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 60 pages. Intensely personal account of Lewis's reactions to the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, in 1960. First published in England in 1961, Lewis chose a pseudonym to avoid publicity. Lewis himself died later shortly after the appearance of this..... More
Boston: Tappan & Dennet, 1844. Wrappers. Octavo. 132 pages. Frustrated by Rhode Island's outdated landed property ownership requirement for voting, and by the inability to change the system legislatively, Thomas Dorr and his supporters essentially tried to set up a separate state government and capture the arsenal at Providence. These..... More
Boston: David Clapp, 1847. First Edition. Wrappers. Octavo. 29, [iii], xviii pages. Scarce pamphlet concerning the Jackson-Morton dispute over the discovery of ether's effectiveness as a surgical anesthetic in 1846. More
Baltimore: Sun Printing Office, 1904. First Edition. Black & white frontispiece portrait. Full cloth. Octavo. 137 pages. Gill was an Annapolis native who "went south" in early May, 1861, and enlisted in the Confederate cavalry along with a company of Marylanders. He served throughout the war in various cavalry units..... More
Philadelphia: Published for the Subscribers, 1848. 1st Edition. 2 facsimile letters by George Washington. Quarter leather. Octavo. 302 pages. Little known episode of the Revolutionary War in which several prominent Quaker citizens of Philadelphia were arrested and banished to Virginia when their pacifism ran afoul of the Supreme Executive Council..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1915. First Edition. Black & white plates, cuts. Full cloth. Octavo. 181, [ads] pages. London's post-apocalyptic novel set in the year 2073, in which an epidemic called the Red Death has all but depopulated planet earth. More
Baltimore: John D. Toy, Printer, 1838. Disbound. Octavo. 45 pages. Speeches in support of colonization and in adamant opposition to abolition, by President of the Senate Richard Thomas, Speaker of the House William H. Tuck, J. H. Culbreth, William F. Giles, and Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge. This Maryland branch of..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933. First Edition. First Printing. Black & white photographs, map. Full cloth. Octavo. 198 pages. Vivid account of an American woman's trek through the Forbidden Land, crossing the Himalaya twice--from the Eastern and Western sides--accompanied only by native servants. Ms. Merrick was the most..... More
Newburyport: Press of Hiram Tozer, 1838. Wrappers. Octavo. 18 pages. A sermon likely in response to the February 24, 1838 pistol duel between two members of the U.S. Congress, resulting in the death of newly elected Representative Jonathan Cilley of Maine. Cilley had taken to the House floor and made..... More
(S. l. ): (S. n. ), [1945]. Limited Edition. Wrappers. Octavo. 24 pages. This racist satire originally appeared shortly after publication of Elizabeth Keckley's "Behind the Scenes or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House" in 1868. This is #159 of a 1945 facsimile edition limited..... More
[New York]: McClure's Magazine, (1912). Full cloth. Octavo. [vi], 243 pages. Originally published in 1898, this novel tells the story of a gigantic, unsinkable luxury steamship called the Titan. As she speeds recklessly across the North Atlantic on her maiden voyage, in April, she strikes an iceberg and sinks. The..... More
Full leather. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Bancroft founded the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis as Secretary of the Navy in 1845. He was also a prominent historian and advocate for secondary eduction in the United States. This is the catalogue of his library of historical manuscripts, etc., accumulated during..... More
[1940]: (Charles P. Everitt Associates), [1940]. Reprint. 1 double leaf folded map. Wrappers. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. 3, xxx, 46 pages. History of the raid of Shelbourne, NH by Tomhegan and his band in 1781--considered the last "Indian raid" in New England. Here Segar was captured, along with another..... More
Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, (1966). 1st Edition. Black & white photographs, diagrams. Full cloth. Quarto. xxvi, 569 pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Swearengen on front free endpaper. A detailed textbook for police on various non-lethal weapons available to maintain the public peace. Published at a time of increasing civil..... More
Concord: P. B. Cogswell, Printer, 1861. Map. Wrappers. Octavo. 48 pages. Mid-19th century reprint of the narrative of this battle between British colonists and the Abenaki at present-day Fryeburg, Maine. Includes a map of the locality drawn by George B. Barrows, popular ballads related to the incident, etc. More
Washington: E. B. Buzhardt Printer, 1906. Wrappers. Octavo. 54 pages. The Washington Navy Yard, dating to 1800, is the oldest shore installation of the U.S. Navy. This uncommon little history begins with the purchase of 40 acres of land in 1800 and a Congressional appropriation of $1,000,000 to build six..... More