New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., (1972). First American Edition. Illustrated with a map. Hardcover. Octavo. ix, [3], [1]-429 pages. A cornerstone modern classic of mythic adventure as a band of anthromorphized rabbits flee destruction to found a new warren. This first American edition is in the first..... More
London: Methuen and Co., 1893. Limited Edition, #29 of 56 copies. Hardcover. Octavo. xxii, [2], 1-54, [2] pages + [1]-20 page publisher catalogue. Lovely 1893 limited edition of the work Beever originally published in 1849 under his pseudonym "Arundo.' Beever was an avid and observant Lake District angler who was..... More
Easton, MD: The Easton Publishing Company, Inc., 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 165 pages. Byron captured the quiet beauty and sensitive lyric feeling as well as the virility, colloquial directness, and canny wit of the Chesapeake Bay watermen in this collection of poems. This copy is signed by..... More
New York: Longman's, Green, and Co., 1900. First American Edition. Black and white frontispiece, map diagrams. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xiv, 409 pages. Churchill's firsthand dispatches covering Lt. General Ian Hamilton's flanking column as it marched 400 miles through Boer-held territory from Bloemfontein to Pretoria during the Second Boer War..... More
New York: Longman's, Green, and Co., 1900. First American Edition. Frontispiece folding map, additional maps and plans. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xiv, 496 pages. The first collection of Churchill's dispatches to the Morning Post during the opening months of the Second Boer War. Churchill recounts his capture by Boer forces..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1937. First British Edition. Black and white illustrations. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, [2], 1-253 pages. Fisher’s first book in its first British edition. This elegant and quietly revolutionary work blends history, appetite, and wit into the foundational text that set the course for modern food writing... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 471 pages. Hall reimagines the mythos of Tombstone and the O.K. Corral, exposing the contested history beneath the Earp legend. A landmark of American fiction that helped inaugurate the modern revisionist Western. After this book, serious critics and..... More
San Francisco: Towne and Bacon, 1860. First Edition. Illustrated with 12 plates after sketches by noted San Francisco artist Charles Nahl. Leather. Duodecimo. [v]-vi, [1], [9]-378 pages. One of the great California frontier narratives in its beautiful first edition, chronicling the exploits of the legendary "Grizzly Adams" in the Sierra..... More
New York: The Century Co., (1884-1888). Illustrated throughout with black and white portraits, engravings, battlefield diagrams, maps, etc. Marbled paper over boards with leather spines. Quartos. Over 3000 pages in all. The monumental publication that gathers first-person accounts from Union and Confederate officers of their experiences during the Civil War..... More
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London: Macmillan and Co., 1894, 1895. First English Editions. Original cloth. Duodecimos. 212 & 238 pages. In custom box with chemises. Kipling's classic collection of stories set in India, featuring the young boy Mowgli and a cast of mostly animal characters that illustrate human nature. A beautiful set..... More
London: Printed by John Hughs for Olive Payne, 1738. Frontispiece engraving of Confucius, fold-out plates, table. Leather over boards. Octavo. [viii], 536 pages. Landmark account of Qing‑era China based on the detailed observations of Jesuit missionary and mathematician Louis le Comte while on the French Jesuit mission to China in..... More
(Crownsville): (Maryland Historical Trust Press), (2001). Black and white photographs, floor plans. Hardcover. Quarto. 222 pages. Detailed study of a broad range of extant 18th, 19th, and 20th century buildings in Historic Annapolis, Maryland. This revised and expanded edition of the 1998 edition includes additional information and subsequent discoveries and..... More
New York: The Derrydale Press, (1937). Limited Edition, one of 950 copies. Illustrated by Ogden M. Pleissner, Robert Nisbet, et al. Six of 42 plates in color with tissue guards. Two maps. Cloth over boards. Quarto. xx, [2], 1-193 pages. Lovely Derrydale limited edition on the pleasures of low-water salmon..... More
S.l. S.n., (1912). Black and White photograph. Approximately 7 3/4" x 10". Mounted on card stock. Photograph showing Roosevelt working his way through a crowd with several policemen close at hand. To Roosevelt's immediate right is a large man who could be his body-double from this angle, and to his..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. , Inc., 1942. First Edition. Black and white photographic illustrations. Full cloth. Octavo. 244 + appendix pages. Uncommon book which captures what African Americans thought of Abraham Lincoln in his time, based on numerous interviews with those who personally knew and interacted with..... More