Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing Company, 1941. Cover by Norman Rockwell. Magazine. Folio. Original issue of The Saturday Evening Post containing the famous article on Alcoholics Anonymous by Jack Alexander. This publicity sparked the first major public interest in AA. Its publication generated some 6,000 inquiries to AA's headquarters, resulting in a...... More
San Francisco: E. L. G. Steele, 1891. First Edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 300 pages. Ambrose Bierce fought at Shiloh and other Civil War battles as a member of the 9th Indiana Infantry, so when he wrote of the battlefield he knew of what he spoke. This..... More
[Philadelphia]: Daily News Job Office, [1861]. Broadside. 8 3/4" x 13 1/8" Story of a vivid dream Gen. George B. McClellan supposedly had within days of taking command of the United States Army in late 1861. In the dream McClellan is visited by the spirit of George Washington, who shows..... More
[Anaheim]: Walt Disney Productions, 1956. Color map. Single sheet, 15 5/8" x 18" Fantastic Disneyland brochure with colorful pictorial map of the park, within a year of its opening in 1955. Surrounding the map is a keyed listing of the various attractions and amenities inside the park. This..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1890. First Printing. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. vi, 201 pages. Lavinia Dock was a pioneer in nursing education and compiled here the first drug manual specifically for nurses. It quickly became the standard pharmacology text for nursing schools and had a profound impact..... More
[Washington]: [Bureau of Naval Personnel], [1949]. Black and white photographs, illustrations. Hardcovers. Quartos. xii, 273 and xiv, 372 pages. Detailed history of the Navy chaplaincy, from the founding of the service through World War II. Both volumes individually indexed. An envelope of additional items accompanies this two volume..... More
(S.l.): (S.n.), [1939]. First Edition. Black and white photographs, portraits. Wrappers. Duodecimo. 109 pages. Roy Gardner was a gun-runner, prize-fighter, and bank and train robber. His escapes from prison earned him the nickname "King of the Escape Artists" from law enforcement. In 1934 he became one of the first hardened..... More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885-1886. First printings. Black & White Engraved Plates, Maps, Facsimiles. Cloth over boards. Octavos. 584 & 647 pages. The greatest American military memoir, written by the financially ruined Grant in a race with death, and published with the savvy assistance of Mark Twain..... More
Washington: Office of War Information, 1943. Single sheet, approximately 20" x 28" Original World War II domestic propaganda poster from the controversial Office of War Information. The warning and message from J. Edgar Hoover's FBI requests the aid of every American in rooting out spies and saboteurs with information they..... More
(West Kingston): Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., (1985). Limited Edition, Signed by Dameron. Illustrated by Ned Dameron. Hardcover. Quarto. 247 pages. A striking edition of Robert E. Howard's stories of his brooding and introspective character, Kull, the pre-cataclysmic barbarian who rose to become the King of Atlantis. This..... More
Yo Semite Valley and Oakland: Published at the Old Cabin and at Pacific Press Publishing House, 1886. Numerous photographic plates, woodcuts, maps. Cloth over boards. Tall octavo. xii, 13-496 pages. Beautiful copy of this crowning achievement of J. M. Hutchings' career as the dominant pioneer of tourism in Yosemite. According..... More
New York: Saturday Review Press of E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., (1975). First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. [x], 269 pages. Noted UFOlogist John Keel's report on his investigations into the bizarre phenomena reported in West Virginia in the months before the tragic collapse of the Silver Bridge into the Ohio..... More
Garden City: Doubleday Page and Company, (1910). First separate edition. Leather over thin boards. Oblong sixteenmo. [16] pages. This is the first separate appearance of Kipling's most famous poem, "If", which had been published about a month earlier in the book "Rewards and Fairies." The poem achieved immediate, immense, and..... More
[Los Angeles}: Merrick & Ruddick, Inc., [c.1922-1926]. Color illustrated cover, black and white photographs, map. Single sheet, folded in half to 8 1/2" x 11" Real estate promotional brochure for a proposed Mulholland Hills development at the intersection of Franklin and Coldwater Canyon Roads above Beverly Hills. Folds open once..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster: Publishers, (1927). First printing. Wrappers. Octavo. 31 pages. Scarce early collection of important Harlem Renaissance poets Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, and Countee Cullen. Edited by the first African American Rhodes Scholar and founder of the Harlem Renaissance, Alain Locke. Ref. PORTER p. 58. More
Caldwell: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1964. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 322 pages. Paterson's exploration of the connection between the political system of the United States and its economic achievements over a relatively short national history. Originally published in 1943, this is a foundational work in the political philosophy of..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publsihers, (1938). Illustrated with drawings and maps. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xxxviii, 280 pages. Translation of the textbook prepared by the Nazis in 1937 for use by some 7,000,000 young people in the Hitler youth organization. Translator Harwood Childs contributes a Preface to this volume..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1964). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 216 pages. Candid interviews by Jackie Robinson of other African American major league baseball players, along with his commentary on racial integration in sports. Interviewees include Hank Aaron, Frank Robinson, Jim Gilliam, Vic Power, Ernie Banks, and others... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909. First Edition. Drawings by A. W. Bartlett. Hardcover. Octavo. 90 pages. Great vintage golf book that combines a calendar and weather predictions with a variety of golfing literature and humorous content. Includes lists of winners of various golf championships for both men..... More
[Chicago]: [Ken, Inc.], [1938]. Yardley. Approximately 10 3/8" x 13 3/8" Anti-fascist map by Baltimore Sun cartoonist Richard Q. Yardley and Peggy Yardley. The map depicts the growing threat of Hitler and Mussolini in Africa, with Hitler shown as an angry sun whose rays point at former German colonies lost..... More