New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1936. One black and white photo illustration. Stapled wraps. Octavo. 20 pages. This pamphlet deals with the central struggle between capital and labor in the United States, and the points at which labor's rights to peaceful agitation had recently been attacked. Compiled and printed..... More

[San Francisco]: [Black & Brown Trading Stamp Corporation], [c.1970]. Advertising illustrations. Stapled wraps. Oblong sixteenmo. [48 unnumbered pages]. Scarce African American community loyalty stamp album from the San Francisco area. Participating merchants in the community would give stamps with purchases. These stamps would then be pasted into one of these..... More

London: William Heinemann, 1896. Early London printing. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo.[viii], 194 pages, plus [i-xvi] pages of publisher ads. Stephen Crane's classic Civil War novel of cowardice and redemption. This is the sixth London printing. There is an illustrated front flyleaf decorated in green, yellow, and black oddly depicting..... More

Albany: Edward Leslie, Printer, 1865. First edition. Disbound. Octavo. 20 pages. Rev. Dyer was the chaplain at the Albany Penitentiary. His memorial sermon, given in the prison's chapel, coincided with Lincoln's funeral in Washington on April 19th. He finds the circumstances of Lincoln's death to be "of a painfully instructive..... More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911. First edition. Color frontispiece. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 327 pages plus 8 pages of ads. A collection of eight intense stories set in the turn-of-the-century colonial south Pacific, inspired by London's personal experiences and adventures. Nice first edition in blue cloth binding decoratively..... More

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., (1934). First U.S. edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 219 pages. A traumatized veteran of the First World War, Milne describes war as both wicked and very silly. Published in a critical moment between World War I and World War II, he makes..... More

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1852. First edition. Frontispiece illustration, cuts, diagrams, tables. Original leather over boards. Octavo. 302 pages plus 23 pages of ads at rear. Septimus Norris was a mechanical engineer and steam locomotive designer whose brother, William Norris, had built the first locomotive in the United States. At..... More

New York: New York City Transit Authority, 1972. First printing. Color-coded route map. Single sheet approximately 18" x 21" printed on both sides. Folds to about 3 1/2" x 7" Here is the important first printing of Massimo Vignelli's 1972 NYC Transit Authority map. Vignelli sacrificed geographic accuracy for simplicity..... More

New York: National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1889. Sewn wrappers. Sixteenmo. 32 pages. This is an interesting relic of the Temperance Movement, and a solid example of a political organization using a school curriculum to advance their agenda. Comprised of some brief instructions for teachers, followed by word..... More