Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publication Association, 1889. First edition. Wrappers. Duodecimo. .x, 104 pages + 1 leaf publisher ads. The first part of this manual gives a history of National Prohibitory Amendments and Congressional action in relation to them, including arguments, indorsements of organizations and newspapers, etc. The second part consists..... More

Dallas: Dealey and Lowe, 1936. First edition. Illustrations by Alexander Hogue. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [xii], 287 pages. Dobie was a major chronicler of everyday life and folklore of Texas during the days of the open range. This volume has much information on social history, manners and customs but also..... More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. Half leather and marbled paper over boards. Duodecimo. viii, 383 pages. A nicely bound 1860 volume of Emerson, including his famous essay on Nature and several lectures and addresses. Among the latter are "The American Scholar," "The Transcendentalist," and "The Young American." More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [vi], 226 pages. Here are fourteen short stories and six essays by Fitzgerald which were previously uncollected. These selections were chosen by the Friends of the Princeton Library from the extensive Fitzgerald collection in the Princeton University Library. It..... More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1928). First printing, first state. Frontispiece and 3 full page woodcut illustrations by J. J. Lankes. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 64 pages. A collection of Frost's poems that express his intent to be no slave to conformity. The title poem describes an actual brook near..... More

London: The Reprint Society, (1953). First illustrated edition. Illustrations by C. F. Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 118 pages. The fine piece of writing that finally won Hemingway a major literary prize--the Pulitzer in 1953. Here is the first illustrated edition, commissioned by The Reprint Society. The..... More

New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., (1948). First edition, first state. One map. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 721 pages. Mailer's first novel, and the first popular novel to come out of the experiences of World War II. An excellent portrayal of the American fighting man in that war, based in part..... More

[Hammersmith]: [Kelmscott Press], [1893]. First edition, third state. Full leather. Sixteenmo. [ii], 68 pages. William Morris delivered this lecture at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society's second exhibition in 1889 and it was printed, as one of the displays, at the fourth in 1893. Only the printing was..... More

Baltimore: Kelly & Piet, Publishers, 1866. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 94 pages. This scarce volume of Confederate poetry was originally published in Richmond in 1865, but most of that edition went up in flames when the city fell at the end of the Civil War. This is the second edition..... More

New York: Charles B. Norton, 1853. First edition. Chromolith frontispiece, numerous plates. Cloth over boards. Folio. 216, (22 ads) pages. A well-illustrated chronicle of the origin, rise, progress, and triumphs of American marine steam engineering to the mid-19th century, by the Engineer-in-Chief of the U.S. Navy. Includes diagrams and statistics..... More