[Liverpool]: [City of Liverpool], [1974]. Single sheet. 16" x 18" This scarce pictorial map is a guide to all sites of Beatles interest in their native city of Liverpool. It is featured in the book "A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps," by Tim Bryars and Tom Harper..... More
Easton, MD: The Easton Publishing Company, Inc., 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 165 pages. Collection of Gilbert Byron's poems on themes of the Chesapeake Bay, sailing, and more. Inscribed and signed by Byron on front free endpaper, with an additional inscription by Byron on a laid in card..... More
[Del Monte]: [Del Monte Properties Co.], [c. 1925]. Illustrated in color and black and white. Brochure. 8 pages. Centerfold map is 9" x 24" Promotional brochure for the Hotel Del Monte near Monterey, California. Many illustrations, including several in color, along with text promoting this resort then being improved and..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 179 pages. First printing of this posthumous collection. There is a previously unpublished essay and ten previously uncollected science fiction short stories. More
(S.l.): (Walt Disney Productions), (1964). Illustrated throughout in color. Softcover. Quarto. [24 pages]. Official souvenir booklet from the debut of this beloved Disney attraction at the New York World's Fair in 1964. "It's a Small World" was an early use of Disney's Audio-Animatronics technology, making 300 dolls dance and sing..... More
(S.l.): (Walt Disney Productions), (1968). Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Softcover. Quarto. [50 pages]. The official souvenir booklet from the year after The Pirates of the Caribbean ride opened at Disneyland. This was the last Disneyland attraction that Walt Disney himself had envisioned, He had overseen its..... 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
Saint Louis: Printed only for private distribution by William K. Bixby, 1907. Limited edition, #344 of 487 copies. Frontispiece portrait, plates, facsimiles, and a large fold-out map. Cloth over boards with leather spine and fore corners. Tall octavo. xxvii, 263 pages. Dr. Alexander Hamilton travelled from his home in Annapolis..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by Henry Tuckniss for Mathew Carey, 1795. 3/4 calf with marbled paper sides. Duodecimo. iv, 283 pages. Commonly known as "The Jay Treaty," this treaty resolved certain issues between the United States and Great Britain outstanding since the end of the American Revolutionary War. It was designed by..... More
Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1865. Four black and white plates. Original wrappers. Twenty-fourmo. 72 pages. Frederick Johnson was a civil engineer and resident of Niagara, and his guide to the "world's wonder" of Niagara Falls aimed to be the most accurate on the market. Includes several pages on the..... More
Pleasantville: Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1944. Magazine. Duodecimo. This is a complete issue of Reader's Digest magazine containing the article that launched John F. Kennedy's political career. John Hersey, a Kennedy family friend, had gotten this flattering account of the PT-109 incident into the 'New Yorker' two months..... More
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1839. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimos. 242 and 228 pages. Frederick Marryat was a British naval officer and pioneering nautical fiction writer. He traveled to America in 1836-1837, and this is the first American edition of his account of that visit. It is an..... More
Paris: Lecram Press, 1927. First edition. Black and white photos, cartoons by Wynn. Hardcover. 6 1/4" high. [iv], 112 pages. An important and scarce cocktail mixing guide by one of the 20th century's most influential bartenders, Harry McElhone. Harry had tended bar at the Plaza in New York and Ciro's..... More
[Paris]: (Fryam Press), 1936. First edition. This is copy #643 of 700, of a total edition of 1,026 copies. Line drawings, typographic page borders throughout. Printed wrappers. Octavo. 182 pages. A rather scarce original cocktail mixing guide by Frank Meier, legendary bartender at the Ritz Bar in Paris beginning in..... More
New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1906. First edition. Bland and white photographic plates. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 326 pages. The story of Dr. Mudd's entanglement with the Lincoln assassination due to his medical treatment of John Wilkes Booth's broken leg as the assassin fled through Southern..... More
Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1849. Original cloth over boards. An important publication on baptism from the period of the Second Great Awakening. The Appendix discusses the common reasons and arguments by which infant baptism is urged and defended, and evidence in favor of full immersion as the mode of..... More
Bristol: Mount Hope Bridge Corporation, 1933. Lithographed by J. C. Hall. Folded sheet. 17 3/4" x 26" This pictorial map was created to publicize the recently opened Mount Hope Bridge connecting Aquidneck Island and Newport with mainland Rhode Island. Researched by John W. Haley and designed by H. W. Hetherington..... More
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, (1967). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 261 pages. This Edgar Award nominee is Raab's exposé on police methods during investigation of the 1963 "Career Girls" murder case in New York City. A confession was coerced from a young African American man named..... More
[New York]: McClure's Magazine, (1912). Full cloth. Octavo. [vi], 243 pages. The title story in this well-known but scarce collection eerily foreshadowed the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, though it was originally published in 1898. Morgan Robertston's novella "Futility" tells the story of a gigantic, "unsinkable" luxury..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1901. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [vi], 332 pages. A collection of Roosevelt's speeches and writings illustrating his philosophy that good things come to those who strive for them, not those who wait. These pieces show him advocating this idea one's personal life and also the..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910. First edition. Original cloth. Octavo. xlii, 249, [v ads] pages. Unaccountably scarce book of speeches given by Roosevelt while traveling after he left the White House in 1909. Most notably, this is the first book appearance of "Citizenship in a Republic"-- Roosevelt's deservedly..... More
Annapolis: Armbruster's, 1944. Framed to 19" x 25 5/8", sight 17" x 23 1/2" An attractive pictorial map of Annapolis showing its unique street layout. Thirty three historic houses, buildings, and one tree are marked on the map and identified in a numbered key at bottom margin. The tree was..... More
Buenos Aires: Peuser Ltda. 1942. Limited edition. Numerous drawings throughout, with a section of black and white photographic plates. Vellum over beveled boards. Quarto. 224 pages. A classic on the traditions, methods, and folklore of northern Argentina's cowboys. Winner of first prize in regional literature and folklore awarded by Argentina's..... More
New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam`, 1932. First edition. Frontispiece portrait after the painting by Charles Willson Peale, facsimiles. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 140 pages. An important early biography of John Hanson, a Marylander, who was the first person elected "President of the United States in Congress Assembled," on November 5..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1976). First printing. Drawings by Consuelo Hanks. Hardcover. Octavo. xiii, 304 pages. Warner's landmark work on the Atlantic Blue Crab and its primary habitat, the Chesapeake Bay. This was Warner's first book and it won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1977. More