Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., (1950). First Edition. Full cloth. Octavo. 222 pages. A beautiful first edition of Ray Bradbury's second book. This classic is a collection of linked stories about the exploration and colonization of Mars by Earthlings trying to avoid nuclear obliteration. Ref. CURREY p. 56;..... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First U.S. printing. Black and white frontispiece portrait, drawings. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 320 pages. An intra-war collection of Churchill's essays on a wide variety of topics, from U-boats to espionage, from politics to the effects of modern life. This volume is bibliographically..... More

(S.l.): (S.n.), [1912]. First printing. Saddle stapled wrappers. Duodecimo. 34 pages. Very uncommon first hand account of the sinking of the Titanic and the rescue of survivors. Washington Dodge was a medical doctor and prominent resident of San Francisco when he and his wife and their young son survived the..... More

Waldron Island: Brooding Heron Press, 1993. Limited Edition, one of 274 copies. Cloth over boards. Square Octavo. 35, [i], [i]-v pages plus colophon. Nicely printed selection of poems from this early Song Dynasty academic-turned-hermit. There were 300 copies of this book printed, with 26 being lettered and signed..... More

Washington: The Associated Publishers, Inc., (1930). First edition. Full cloth. Octavo, viii, 199 pages. Algernon B. Jackson was an African American physician, surgeon, columnist and author. This is his fascinating account of the 1928 automobile tour he and his wife took from Washington, DC through the segregated South. This uncommon..... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. First printing. Folding maps, plates. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. x, 267 pages, plus 2 leaves of publisher ads. Alfred Thayer Mahan was America's most important naval strategist at the end of the 19th century. Mahan became world famous with the publication of "The..... More

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1930. First edition thus, limited to 1,000 copies. Illustrated by W. A. Dwiggins. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [vi], 495 pages. A very handsome edition of 22 tales, illustrated throughout by W. A. Dwiggins, who also designed the book under the supervision of legendary typographer William A. Kittredge... More

New York: McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie, [c.1912]. Black and white frontispiece, endpaper maps. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. [iv], 243 pages. Originally published in 1898, the title story in this well-known but scarce collection eerily foreshadowed the sinking of the Titanic 14 years later. Morgan Robertston's novella "Futility" tells..... More

New York: Random House, (1971). First Edition, first printing. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 206 pages. Thompson's second and most famous book, which chronicles a drug-addled tour of Las Vegas told through the character of his alter ego, Raoul Duke. This is the book that made Gonzo journalism..... More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1954. Printed wrappers. Octavo. [iv], 67 pages. This government pamphlet contains letters and reports related to the revocation of the security clearance of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, who had played a major role in the development of the atomic bomb. The primary reason was Dr. Oppenheimer's..... More