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Item #1951 The American Shooter's Manual, Comprising, Such Plain and Simple Rules. as are...

A Gentleman of Philadelphia County [attr. Dr. Jesse Y. Kester]

The American Shooter's Manual, Comprising, Such Plain and Simple Rules. as are Necessary to Introduce the Inexperienced Into a Full Knowledge of all that Relates to the Dog, and the Correct Use of the Gun; Also a Description of the Game of this Country

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1827. First Edition, Second Issue. Illustrated with 3 engraved plates by Francis Kearney. Half calf and marbled boards. Duodecimo. xii, [13]-249, [1], [3] pages of ads. This is just the second shooting book published in America and the first comprehensive sporting manual. Published anonymously but..... More

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Item #1926 Traffic in Souls: A Novel of Crime and Its Cure. Eustace Hale Ball

Ball, Eustace Hale (1881-1931)

Traffic in Souls: A Novel of Crime and Its Cure

New York: G.W. Dillingham Company, Publishers, (1914). First Edition. Black and white stills from the film. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 289 pages. Based on the successful 1913 full length film of the same name, this book published the following year is widely recognized as the first American novelization of a...... More

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Item #1947 Tad Lincoln's Father. Julia Taft Bayne

Bayne, Julia Taft (1845-1933)

Tad Lincoln's Father

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1931. First edition. Black and white photographic plates. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. xiv, 206 pages. Julia Taft and her two young brothers were often in the White House as playmates of the two youngest Lincoln boys, beginning soon after President Lincoln's inauguration in 1861..... More

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Item #1941 "Dear Fatherland Rest Quietly": A Report on the Collapse of Hitler's "Thousand Years"...

Bourke-White, Margaret (1904-1971)

"Dear Fatherland Rest Quietly": A Report on the Collapse of Hitler's "Thousand Years"

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. First Edition. Black and white photographic plates. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 175 pages. Renowned journalist and photographer Margaret Bourke-White's stunning report on conquered Germany at the end of World War II. She was sent on assignment with LIFE Magazine to gain an understanding of the..... More

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Item #1954 Pilgrim's Progress. John Bunyan

Bunyan, John (1628-1688)

Pilgrim's Progress

London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. Illustrated by Charles Bennett. Full leather over boards. Octavo. xxxvi, 399 pages. Attractively illustrated edition of this classic Christian allegory. Illustrated throughout with portrait drawings of story's characters and other illustrations. Bound in full leather with all edges gilt and marbled..... More

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Item #1955 Autographs for Freedom [with Douglass's "The Heroic Slave"]. Frederick Douglass, on...

[Douglass, Frederick (c.1817-1895)] Edited by Julia Griffiths, on behalf of the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society

Autographs for Freedom [with Douglass's "The Heroic Slave"]

Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1853. First Edition. Three wood-engraved plates with tissue guards. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. viii, 263 pages. Important collection of anti-slavery testimonies by eminent authors. Includes facsimile signatures of most contributors, which include Horace Mann, William Seward, Charles Sumner, Annie Parker, Gerrit Smith, Miss..... More

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Item #1929 Alraune. Hanns Heinz Ewers, S. Guy Endore

Ewers, Hanns Heinz (1871-1943); translated by S. Guy Endore

Alraune

New York: The John Day Company, 1929. First U.S. Edition. Illustrated by Mahlan Blaine. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. viii, 342 pages. Ewers' decadent tale of horror that blends science and the ancient mandrake myth. Born of a grotesque experiment, the enigmatic Alraune is a beautiful, soulless woman—sexually magnetic and..... More

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Item #1960 "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character. Richard ....

Feynman, Richard P[hillips]. (1918-1988) as told to Ralph Leighton. Edited by Edward Hutchings

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 350 pages. First edition of this sharp, irreverent memoir from Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman, whose curiosity ranged from quantum theory to lock-picking, bongo drums, and deciphering ancient scripts. Feynman worked on the Manhattan Project during World War..... More

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Item #1933 The Man-Made World or, Our Androcentric Culture. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935)

The Man-Made World or, Our Androcentric Culture

Charlton Company, 1911. Gilman’s incisive feminist treatise, in which she dissects the cultural consequences of male-centered thought across art, ethics, politics, and industry. Gilman’s prose is lucid, satirical, and unflinching—arguing for a rebalancing of Western civilization through the lens of gender equity. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a leading figure..... More

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Item #1942 Forty-Two Years in the White House. Irwin H. Hoover, Ike

Hoover, Irwin H. (Ike) (1871-1933)

Forty-Two Years in the White House

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. First Edition. Black and white photographic plates. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xii, 332 pages. Colorful recollections of the personal characteristics, peculiarities, and intimate daily lives of ten presidents and their wives from Benjamin Harrison to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Ike Hoover first..... More

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Item #1958 Boatswain's Whistle (complete run in 10 issues). Julia Ward Howe, Thoreau Emerson,...

Howe, Julia Ward (Editor); contributions by Emerson, Thoreau, Whittier, Lowell, Holmes, et al

Boatswain's Whistle (complete run in 10 issues)

Boston: Alfred Mudge & Sons, Printers, 1864. Woodcut mastheads, occasional other woodcuts, and a map of the Fair venue laid in. Cloth over boards. Folio. 80 pages. The complete run of 10 issues of this newspaper from the National Sailors' Fair in Boston. The Fair ran from November 9 to..... More

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Item #1959 It's Me O Lord: The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent. Rockwell Kent

Kent, Rockwell (1882-1971)

It's Me O Lord: The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1955). First Edition. Drawings, reproductions of paintings by Rockwell Kent. Some color. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 617 pages. A sweeping, defiant autobiography from one of America's most iconic and uncompromising illustrators, adventurers, and writers. This copy is warmly inscribed and signed by Kent on front..... More

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Item #1928 The Fox and the Hound. Daniel Mannix, ratt

Mannix, Daniel P[ratt]. (1911-1997)

The Fox and the Hound

E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc., 1967. First Edition. Illustrated by John Schoenherr. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 255 pages. Award-winning tale of two adversaries engaged in a lifelong duel--a half-bred bloodhound and a red fox. Mannix submitted the unpublished manuscript to the Dutton Animal Book Award and won in 1967. The..... More

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Item #1961 The How and When. Marco's Liquors, published and, Hyman Gale, Gerald F. Marco

[Marco's Liquors] published and edited by Hyman Gale and Gerald F. Marco

The How and When

[Chicago]: Hyman Gale and Gerald F. Marco, 1937. First Edition. Black and white illustrations, including period advertising. Hardcover. Octavo. 203 pages. A striking post-Repeal cocktail manual produced by prominent Chicago spirits firm, Marco’s Liquors. Issued just four years after Prohibition’s end, it offers recipes, wine pairings, canapé suggestions, and blank..... More

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Item #1952 All the Pretty Horses. Cormac McCarthy

McCarthy, Cormac (1933-2023)

All the Pretty Horses

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. [iv], 302 pages. First novel in McCarthy's acclaimed Border Trilogy, and the breakout book which ended his undeserved obscurity. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 1992. More

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Item #1953 My Story (Signed). Anson Mills, C. H. Claudy

Mills, Anson (1834-1924) Edited by C. H. Claudy

My Story (Signed)

Washington: Published by the Author (Press of Byron S. Adams), 1918. First Edition. Black and white photographic portraits, illustrations, maps. Cloth over flexible card covers. Octavo. 412 pages. Rich narrative of Mills' youth in Texas, military service in the Civil War, Indian campaigns on the Western frontier, and various experiences..... More

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Item #1962 The American Way of Death. Jessica Mitford

Mitford, Jessica (1917-1996)

The American Way of Death

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 333 pages. Mitford's sharp, witty exposé of the U.S. funeral industry reads like a real-life counterpart to Evelyn Waugh's earlier satirical novel, "The Loved One." Both books were significantly inspired by the glossy, theatrical approach to death pioneered by Forest..... More

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Item #1957 The Holy Bible, Containing All the Books of the Old and New Testaments: King James...

Moser, Barry (designed and illustrated by)

The Holy Bible, Containing All the Books of the Old and New Testaments: King James Version (Signed by Moser)

(New York): Viking Studio, 1999. Limited Edition, one of 500 copies. 232 engravings by Barry Moser. Cloth over boards. Quarto. [xiv], 994, [10] pages. The Viking Studio edition of the beautifully designed and illustrated Bible originally printed by his Pennyroyal Caxton Press. In addition to Moser's 232 striking illustrations, he..... More

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Item #1949 The Tragedy of Lynching. Arthur Raper, ranklin

Raper, Arthur F[ranklin]. (1899-1979)

The Tragedy of Lynching

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1933. First Edition. Charts and graphs. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 499 pages. Dr. Raper was the chief of research and investigation for the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching, founded in 1930. This is his detailed report on twenty lynchings across the..... More

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Item #1956 Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies,...

Royal Society [Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon]

Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World. Vol. LVIII. For the Year 1768

London: Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, Printers for the Royal Society, 1769. Folding plates. Paper over boards with leather spine. Octavo. xii, 382, [2] pages. First publication of Mason and Dixon’s landmark geodetic paper: “Observations for Determining the Length of a Degree of Latitude, in the Provinces of..... More

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Item #1948 A Problem in Modern Ethics; Being an Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion....

Symonds, John Addington (1840-1893)

A Problem in Modern Ethics; Being an Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion. Addressed Especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists

London: (S.n.), 1896. Second pirated edition, #33 of 100 copies. Cloth over boards. Octavo. viii, 135 pages. Originally published in a tightly controlled edition of just 50 copies in 1891, this work contained the first print appearance of the word "homosexual" in English. The present copy is from an edition..... More

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Item #1944 The Secret History. Donna Tartt, b.1963

Tartt, Donna (b.1963)

The Secret History

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 524 pages. A brilliant debut novel about a group of students at a small liberal arts school who become ensnared in a web of obsession, secrets, and murder under the spell of their charismatic professor. A gripping psychological thriller..... More

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Item #1925 The Principles of Scientific Management. Frederick Winslow Taylor

Taylor, Frederick Winslow (1856-1915)

The Principles of Scientific Management

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1915. Early printing. Original full cloth. Octavo. 144 pages. Early printing of this groundbreaking work on labor efficiency. Taylor was the first to lay down principles of Scientific Management, which sought to increase industrial efficiency by studying and standardizing the movements of workers and..... More

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