New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1946. First Edition. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. [i-vi], vii-xiii, [xiv-xvi], 17-136 pages. Lucius Beebe's glamorous insider's tour of the Stork Club and the preferences, practices, and prejudices of its drinkers. The main book is in three parts: 'Morning at the Stork Club,' 'Noon at the..... More
Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1768-1770. First Editions of volumes 3 and 4. Fourth Editions of volumes 1 and 2. Full calf. Quartos. Over 2,000 pages in all. A striking quarto set of Blackstone’s Commentaries, preserved in their original 18th‑century bindings. This is the landmark work that rendered English..... More
[Burton]: Subterranean Press, 2006. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 194 pages. Bradbury's long-awaited return to Green Town in this sequel to 'Dandelion Wine' (1957), late-career ode to growing up and letting go. This is #12 of 250 copies, signed by Bradbury on a preliminary limitation page. More
Boston: Thomas Groom & Co., 1857. Ninth Edition, revised and corrected. Black and white engraved plates. Original cloth. Duodecimo. [2 ads], [i-iv], v-viii, [ix-xiii], 14-225, [2 ads] pages. The author of 'Two Years Before the Mast' drew upon his own hard-won experience at sea as well as his subsequent legal..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1882. First Edition. Black and white illustrations. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 480 pages. The foundational text of modern Atlantis lore, fusing Victorian science, comparative myth, and sweeping diffusionist theory into a bold case for a lost Atlantic civilization. Endlessly influential in occult, theosophical, and fringe‑archaeological circles..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1904. Black and white photographs, typographical decorations. Hardcover. Octavo. 127 pages. Paul Laurence Dunbar, born in 1872 to freed slaves, was an early influential African American poet, novelist, and playwright. Much of his popular work was written in the Negro dialect of the antebellum..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1905. Black and white photographs, typographical decorations. Hardcover. Octavo. [125] pages. Paul Laurence Dunbar, born in 1872 to freed slaves, was an early influential African American poet, novelist, and playwright. Much of his popular work was written in the Negro dialect of the antebellum..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1930. First Edition. Dust jacket and endpapers designed by Howard Willard. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. [i-viii], ix-x,[xi-xii, [1]-388 pages. Stunning first edition of Ferber’s frontier epic of the Oklahoma land rush—ambition, grit, and the making of a boomtown on raw prairie. It..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1983. Edition limited to 1,500 copies, of which this is #102. Silk screens by Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000). Leather over boards, in slipcase. Folio. Unpaginated. A finely produced edition of John Hersey's impactful account of six survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Originally published in..... More
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1967. First American edition, one of 2,500 copies. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xii, 639 pages. A collection of that includes all of William Hope Hodgson's shorter macabre tales of the sea. Hodgson was killed in World War I and his excellent work in fantastic..... More
New York: Hermitage House, (1950). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xxvii, 452 pages. Here is the first edition of the book that launched the Scientology movement in 1950, becoming a canonical text when the movement evolved into the Church of Scientology. Hubbard presents his description of the..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. Early printing. Original cloth. Octavo. [vi], 298 pages. Here is John Maynard Keynes's first major book, a blistering and prophetic economic analysis of the Treaty of Versailles which concluded World War I. Keynes had been Britain's official treasury representative at the Paris Peace..... More
London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd., (1928). First Edition. Black and photographs by the author and others, fold-out map at rear. Original cloth hardcover. Octavo. [i-iv], v-[xvi], 1-305 pages. A. Blayney Percival was a prominent safari guide and ranger in Kenya in the early 20th century. This is the scarcer of..... More
London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd., (1924). First Edition. Black and photographs by the author and Martin Johnson. Original cloth hardcover. Octavo. [i-iv], v-[xviii], 1-374 pages. Percival spent thirty years in Africa as safari guide and a member of the Kenya Colony Game Department. Here he shares numerous hunting adventures as..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1931. First Edition. Black and white photographs, maps, plus 29 separate official photographs from the U.S. Signal Corps. Cloth over boards. Octavos. xvi, 400 and xii, 436 pages. General Pershing's memoir of World War I, as commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). Provides..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First Editions thus. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. Hardcovers in publisher's slipcase. Octavos. x, 542 and x,[2], 543-1092 pages. Complete collection of Poe's literary works in a very handsome two volume boxed set. Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Arthur Hobson Quinn. Texts authoritatively established..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. First Edition. Black and white illustrations. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. [i-v], vi-[xii], [1]-300, [4 pp. ad] pages. Riis, author of 'How the Other Half Lives,' here focuses on the lives of the children of working-class immigrants in New York’s tenements. He combines reporting, statistics, and..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi],vii-xi, [xii], 366 pages. Important work that explores a vital contradiction in 18th century thought between the urge for individual liberty and the desire to organize a Utopian political order around it. Talmon finds the difficulty of reconciling the two to..... More
[New York]: Bernard Geis Associates, (1967). First Edition. Black and white photographs, sketches. Hardcover. Octavo. xx, 323 pages. One of the earliest and most credible refutations of the Warren Commission's conclusions regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Thompson tackles the ample photographic evidence of the assassination, which includes..... More
Boston: Privately Printed, 1902. Limited edition. Color and black & white plates. Cloth over boards. Folio. 402 pages. A detailed and handsomely illustrated history of the origins and early contests of the America’s Cup, written with some hostility toward the New York Yacht Club, which at the time, as custodians..... More