New York: The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 1937. Pictorial map. Single sheet. 23" x 9" George Annand's famous pictorial map of Manhattan, produced for the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel after their move to Park Avenue. This delightful example of Annand's skilled work covers the entire borough of Manhattan, depicting principal sights, shopping districts, churches..... More
London: Ward, Lock & Co., [c.1870s]. Illustrated with wood engravings. Publisher's decorative cloth. Octavo. viii, 371, [5] pages. Book of recipes gathered by Isabella Mary Beeton, author of the highly influential "Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management." Full page period advertisements at front and rear. Text is illustrated with small..... More
Sauk City: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 69 pages. A collection of weird and macabre poems by Yale University librarian, Joseph Payne Brennan. This collection is a skilled exploration of the dark realms of horror and fantasy through poetry. Printed in England for Arkham House in..... More
London: Printed by Luke Howard & Sons, for Payne and Foss, 1816. First separate edition. Three engraved maps (2 folding). Marbled paper over boards with leather spine and fore corners. Quarto. xii, 326 pages. An exciting and accurate account of 17th-century buccaneering around the Americas, written by an experienced seaman..... More
New York: Cheshire House, 1931. Limited edition, #521 of 1,200 copies. Illustrated by Franklin Hughes. Cloth hardcover. Quarto. [vi], 1-129 pages. "Through the Looking-Glass" is the sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," and contains some of the most memorable scenes associated with Alice, including the Red Queen and the entire..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901. Half vellum over cloth. Duodecimo. [iv], 538 pages. A beautifully bound edition of both the First and Second Series of Emerson's Essays. These writings, originally published in the 1840s, represent the core of Emerson's thought and continue to resonate remarkably well today. The..... More
Milwaukee: The Casanova Press, 1932. First printing, limited to 525 copies. Faulkner portrait tipped to frontispiece. Flexible board. Octavo. 53, [1] pages. A collection of early articles and poems by Faulkner, all but one of which originally appeared in The Double Dealer magazine. Selected and published by Hemingway's friend, Paul..... More
New York: O. S. & L. N. Fowler, 1843. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 260 pages. The man who greatly popularized the pseudoscience of phrenology in the 19th century here turns his attention to eugenics. Fowler declares in his Preface his conviction that the disposition and mental powers of mankind are..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Cloth hardcover. Duodecimo. vi, 72 pages. Written while he was Secretary of Commerce, this is the future President's celebration of the essence of American civilization and the frontier spirit. He argues that individualism, rooted in equal opportunity and the demand for a fair..... More
Boston: Geo. C. Rand, 1854. Frontispiece engraving and preliminary engraved title page. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 264 pages. Harrowing account of American naval prisoners in England during the Revolutionary War. Compiled from the journal of Charles Herbert of Newburyport, Massachusetts, who was taken prisoner in December, 1776 on board..... More
New York: Equinox Cooperative Press Inc., 1934. First Edition, #354 of 1000 copies. Lithographs by Lynd Ward. Hardcover. Octavo. 61 pages. First appearance in English of three stories by Thomas Mann. Illustrated with lithographs by Lynd Ward. Signed by Mann at colophon. More
[New York or Washington]: 1876. Single sheet, folded. Untrimmed and uncut. Octavo. 8 pages. Pair of letters originally published in the New York Herald of August 12, 1876 discussing the upcoming Presidential election. Mosby had been a legendary Confederate partisan ranger and Tyler--son of US President John Tyler--had been a...... More
New York: Greenleaf, Fellows, and Wayland, 1794. First American Edition. Leather over boards. Sixteenmo. Charles Pigott was a late 18th century radical British political satirist inspired by the French Revolution. Here he takes aim at the women of British nobility and high society. His earlier book, "The Jockey Club" (1792)..... More
New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1907. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 300 pages. Price was born and raised on an Arkansas plantation and fondly reminisces about the "Old South," whose treatment of African Americans he attempts to vindicate here. He also spends time discussing the Confederacy..... More
Annapolis: Record Printing Office, 1887. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 395 pages. The classic popular history of Annapolis which was subscribed by the State of Maryland in 1886. Contains much interesting and valuable information extracted from the Maryland Gazette, but also much history that had not previously been..... More
New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1920. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavos. 403 and 435 pages. A scholarly examination of the legal and political dimensions of secession, shedding light on the complex interplay between states’ rights and the broader constitutional considerations. Numerous appendices. Indexed in volume II... More
Columbia: The State Company, 1924. First Edition. Frontispiece photographic portrait. Full cloth. Octavo. [x], 544 pages. Detailed, albeit determinedly favorable account of Bragg's service in the Civil War. Bragg's most notable victory was the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863, which was the most significant Confederate victory in the Western Theater..... More
Chico: Mach 1, Inc., (1991). Color photographs by the author. Hardcover. Folio. 151 pages. Legendary fighter pilot Brian Shul shares what it was like to fly the legendary SR-71 Blackbird--the fastest and highest-flying jet aircraft in the world. The “Sled” played a crucial role during the Cold War as the..... More
St. Paul: Webb Publishing Co., (1931). Limited edition, #235 of 400 copies. Illustrations by Howard Wandrei. Hardcover. Octavo. 47 pages. Collection of weird poetry by Donald Wandrei, and his second book. Wandrei was a member of H. P. Lovecraft's circle. Published in and edition of 400 copies. Illustrated..... More
Frederick: (Frederick County Historical Society), 1932. First Edition. Black and white plates and maps. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [x], 306 pages. The battle of Monocacy as recalled by a young eyewitness. A good portion of the Confederate army passed over Worthington's parent' property. This accurate account includes brief biographies of..... More
New York: The Womans Press, Y.W.C.A., 1933. First appearance in print. Hardcover bound volume. Quarto. 560 pages. Bound volume of all 12 issues (sans covers) of this monthly magazine of the Y.W.C.A. for 1933. The March issue contains the first appearance in print of the Serenity Prayer, in an article..... More