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
(S.l.): Army Air Forces Training Command, [1944]. Black and white photographs, diagrams, graphs. Softcover. Quarto. Variously paginated in sections. Detailed instruction on the complexities of aerial bombing during World War II. Foreword by Lt. Gen. Barton Kyle Yount. Six sections plus a glossary covering everything from computations and bombsights to..... More
Boston: Beacon Press, (1970). Drawings. Hardcover. Folio. Not paginated (16 leaves). Reproduces in facsimile the prison art and poetry of these two Vietnam War protesters. Both Berrigan and Thomas were members of the "Catonsville Nine," a group of Catholic anti-war activists who broke into the U.S. Selective Service Branch 33..... More
[Washington]: [Buell & Blanchard, Printers], 1858-1890. Pamphlet. Octavo. 8 pages [+single sheet, card]. John Bingham was an important anti-slavery politician and lawyer before the Civil War. In this speech he vigorously opposes a bill that would have admitted Kansas as a state, provided they adopted the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution which..... More
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
North East and Annapolis: 1864. Loose sheets. Dr. Charles T. Simpers and his wife, Eliza, lived in the town of North East, in Cecil County, Maryland. This group of letters from late 1864 opens a window into the trials and feelings of a couple separated by the Civil War. Eliza..... More
Chicago: National Office Socialist Party, [1925]. Black and white photographs. Stapled wraps. Octavo. 64 pages. Eugene Debs was a five-time U.S. Presidential nominee of the Socialist Party between 1900 and 1920. His last campaign was run while he was in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, imprisoned for the speech reproduced herein..... More
Wilmington: 1787. Single sheet, folded once to approximately 7 1/2" x 9 1/4" Charming letter from Founding Father John Dickinson to a Daniel Clymer, then a member of the Pennsylvania State Assembly. In the letter, Dickinson acknowledges a prior gift of books from Clymer and belatedly presents a gift of..... More
[Annapolis?]: [1865?]. Photograph, signed by King. Single card, approximately 7.5" x 5" Oval photographic portrait of Nurse Ruth S. Ellis of Bridgewater, MA, mounted on a printed card. Text gives brief biographical information on Mrs. Josselyn and her time in Annapolis from August 1863 to May 1865. She apparently worked..... 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
New York: Taintor Brothers, 1867. Maps, woodcut advertising. Wrappers. Duodecimo. 79 pages plus many ads. Well preserved travel guide with two fold-out colored maps, detailed descriptive text, and many great advertisements illustrated with woodcuts. More
[New York]: [Pinkerton's National Detective Agency], 1907. First edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Original wraps over side-stapled binding. Sixteenmo. 84 pages. Scarce address illustrated with halftones of many famous outlaws of the late 19th century, including Jesse James, the Dalton brothers and members of their gang, the Sontag..... More
[Burnaby, BC]: Blackfish Press, 1976. Wrappers. Flower Wreath is a euphemism for "cemetery" in Japanese and Chinese. Noted Beat Generation influence, Rexroth, penned these short and exquisite pieces while living in the shadow of Mt. Hiei in Higashiyama 1974-1975. This copy is one of 2000. Inscribed and signed by Rexroth..... More
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, (1976). First edition. Brushwork by Carol Tinker. Softcover. A fine selection of elegant poetry. Rexroth--sometimes identified as the Father of the Beat Poets--spent 1974-1975 living in the shadow of Mt. Hiei in Higashiyama, Japan. Inscribed and signed by Rexroth on preliminary blank. One of 2000..... More
(Shanghai): (North-China Daily News & Herald, Ltd), (1937). First edition. Cartoons. Softcover. Quarto. Not paginated [36 leaves]. Rare collection of cartoons and humor from the Japanese attack on Shanghai in 1937. "Sapajou" was the pen name of Russian cartoonist Georgii Sapojnikoff, whose cartoons began appearing in the North-China Daily News..... More
Washington: Sold by Wilder & Campbell, 1825. First edition. Frontispiece by Charles Wilson Peale. Original binding, Octavo, viii, 364 pages. The first biography of John Paul Jones by then Register of the U.S. Navy, John Henry Sherburne. The frontispiece is the first reproduction of the famous portrait of Jones done..... More
[New York]: 1893. Single sheet, 5 3/4" x 8 7/8" Suffragist pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton here responds to Ohio manuscript collector Dr. Charles Elmer Rice, who had apparently requested of her letters of noteworthy individuals. He seems to have sent her an abolitionist's letter, possibly to entice her to accede..... More
Annapolis: 1865. Folded sheets, with original envelope. Incredible 6 page manuscript letter from a Civil War Chaplain posted at Annapolis, discussing St. John's College Hospital Chapel, visiting hospitals, and the work of the U.S. Christian Commission in Annapolis during the war. Partial transcript: "At 2 P.M. I preached..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First edition thus. Photographs, maps, diagrams. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi, 302, xiii pages. Covers all aspects of making good wine. Wagner was a very important figure in American winemaking, pioneering the French-American hybrid grapes that could withstand cold climates and high humidity. These hybrids formed..... More
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[Edgewood]: [Enlisted Men of Edgewood Arsenal], [1919]. Black and white photographs. Softcover. Oblong quarto. 158 pages. A fascinating and well-illustrated look at the U.S. production of chemical weapons for World War I. Numerous photographs showing the production shell-filling facilities, some in fold-out panoramas. Introductory text argues in favor of the..... More
[Paris]: [G. de Malherbe et cie, imp.], [1918]. Black and white photographs. Saddle stapled wrappers. oblong small octavo. 32 pages. Captioned halftone photographs showing French soldiers in World War I battlefield views, trenches, encampments, wearing gas masks, etc. The 22 pages of photos are preceded by Lavedan's meditation on the..... More