(s.l.): (S.n.), (1945). First Edition. Black and white cartoons throughout. Softcover. Oblong octavo. [84 pages]. Scarce wartime publication of 150 cartoons which had appeared in the base newspaper of APO 980 on the Aleutian Island of Adak. The three cartoonists each selected 50 of their own drawings for inclusion here..... More
New York: Bidwell Publishing Company, 1889. Black & White Frontispiece Portrait, Illus. Full cloth. Octavo. 560 pages. Bidwell recounts his Puritan upbringing, successful struggles against poverty, his career as a merchant, his commercial misfortunes and temptations, and his ultimate fall into crime. Well illustrated with a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and..... More
London: Simpkin And Marshall, 1832. Second Edition. Black & White Plates, Colored Map. Hardcover. Duodecimo. xii, 288 pages. Apparent presentation copy, with "From the Author" penned at top of title page. Illustrated with numerous lithographic and wood engravings and a double spread map. Contemporaneous prior owner Inscription on front free..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 350 pages. A collection of nine brilliant stories of speculative fiction, exploring themes like time travel, artificial intelligence, and the nature of humanity. This fine copy of the first edition is signed by Chiang on the title page. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [iv], 186 pages. Darkly humorous tale set in a home for the aged and involving a cast of eccentric characters. An exploration of aging, loneliness, and the human condition from a master of Southern Gothic literature. More
Mount Vernon: The Peter Pauper Press, [1946]. Wood engravings by Hans Alexander Mueller. Full leather, marbled endpapers. Quarto. 314 pages. Emerson's Essays were first published in the 1840s and were pivotal in American literature for their profound exploration of individuality, self-reliance, and the transcendental connection between mankind and nature... More
Livorno/milan: Graphis Arte/Toninelli Arte, 1974. Limited Edition. Illustrated in black and white, and color. Hardcover. Folio. xiv, 133 pages. One of 500 copies in English. Translation by Dermot T. Cooke. Introduction by Enzo Carli. Primarily a catalogue of Marini's work, with notes and captions. Contains an index to the etchings..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1871. First edition. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 86 pages. A critical examination of spiritualism through a scientific lens. Hammond explores the physiological and psychological aspects of spiritual experiences from a neurological perspective, aiming to debunk many spiritualist claims of the era. Dr. Hammond..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1952). First British Edition. Octavo. Cloth over boards. The fine piece of writing that finally won Hemingway a major literary prize--the Pulitzer in 1953. This title was specifically mentioned by Swedish Academy in awarding Hemingway the Nobel Prize in Literature the following year. The first..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, Publishers, [c.1909]. Black and white frontispiece. Hardcover. Sixteenmo. Unpaginated. Unusual autograph album in which wet signatures were transformed into ghostly inkblots along a vertically creased page. This copy has several signature ghosts within along with numerous unused blank leaves. The results are..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 213 pages. Highsmith's tenth novel is a psychological thriller that explores the harrowing effects of wrongful imprisonment. More
New York: International Workers Order, 1938. Front cover illustration by Joe Jones. Softcover. Octavo. 31 pages. A collection of 17 protest poems by Langston Hughes, published by The International Workers Order. According to Michael Gold in his Introduction, this was first of what was to be a series of literary..... More
(Danville): (Illinois Printing Co. ), (1907). First Edition. Black and White Drawings. Full cloth. 9½" x 8". [23 ] pages. James Judson Lord's poem, read at the dedication of Abraham Lincoln's tomb and memorial in 1874. In 1876, thieves would attempt to steal Lincoln's body from within this monument... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1976). First Edition. Black and white drawings by R. Williams. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv, 217 pages. The title novella is a beautifully written and poignant exploration of family, nature, and the passage of time, using the art of fly-fishing as a profound metaphor for life’s complexities..... More
Frederick: Beale H. Richardson, Printer, 1861. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 365, 6, 8 pages. Original record of the activities and votes of the Maryland Senate while meeting in Frederick during the Special Session of April to August, 1861. Governor Hicks called the session in Frederick because Annapolis was then occupied..... More
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Frederick: Elihu S. Riley (House) and Beale H. Richardson (Senate), 1861. Cloth over boards. Octavo. Variously paginated. Documents, reports, and proclamations generated by the Maryland General Assembly while meeting in Frederick rather than Annapolis during the Special Session of April to August, 1861. This session was called by Governor Hicks..... More
London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1799. Leather over boards. Duodecimos. xx, 302 and viii, 338 pages. More believed that women are naturally more religious than men, and that women’s education and conduct were vital to the nation’s moral state. This is her critique of what she..... More
New York: The Derrydale Press, (1938). Limited Edition, #772 of 950 copies. Illustrated with drawings by Paul Brown. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [viii], 144 pages. A collection of poetic musings that gallop through the fox chase and horse racing world--the thundering hooves, the wind in your hair, and the thrill of the..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944. First Edition. Black and white photo section. Hardcover. Duodecimo. xvi, 556 pages. Survival manual for U.S. Army Air Corps pilots flying missions over the Arctic during World War II. Prepared by the famed Arctic explorer Stefansson under the direction of the U.S. Army Air..... More
Cincinnati: American Reform Tract And Book Society, 1854. Wrappers. Thirty-twomo. 15 pages. Uncommon Cincinnati imprint of this tract from Stowe, whose "Uncle Tom's Cabin" had appeared two years before. Hymn "Nearer My God To Thee" printed on rear cover. More