[Annapolis]: Maryland Republican, [c.1880s]. Broadside. 4.5" x 7" Joseph Basil was one of the foremost merchants of Annapolis in the mid to late 19th century. He had started out as a carpenter, save a little money, and with $75 started a small grocery business on Market Space in Annapolis. This..... More
Annapolis: Thomas J. Wilson, Printer, 1862. Wrappers. Octavo. 15 pages. Augustus W. Bradford, as the Union Party candidate for governor, defeated Democrat Benjamin C. Howard by nearly 30,000 votes on November 6, 1861. Maryland had seemed to teeter on the brink of secession just 6 or 7 months earlier. Bradford's..... More
San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1919. First Edition. Black & white photographs. Original cloth. Octavo. 117 pages. Interesting and often witty collection of letters from a young Californian to his parents and wife back home. Lt. Britton sailed for France in July, 1918. He participated in the Battle of Argonne. He..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1918. First Edition. Fold-out plans, tables, photographs. Original cloth. Octavo. 96 pages. Scarce, Confidential manual on the weaponry associated with U. S. Army aircraft and pilots in World War I. Sections on the Marlin, the Lewis, and the Vickers aircraft machine guns, synchronizing gears, machine gun..... More
New York: Thompson & Pearson, Publishers, 1867. Woodcuts. Newspaper. Folio. 12 pages. A lovely issue of the The Ball Players' Chronicle, which was the first periodical devoted to the game of baseball. Its editor, Henry Chadwick, was a great promoter and popularizer of the game and is considered by some..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, (1956). Limited Edition. 1 of 50. Paintings, some color. Leather. Octavo. [12], vii-x, 302 pages. Chamberlain's memoir details his personal adventures in Mexico and the American Southwest before, during, and after the Mexican War. It is the primary source for Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece, Blood..... More
![Item #11648 The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan [Sudan]. Winston S. Churchill](https://backcreekbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11648_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1623802407)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First US Edition. Maps and plans, some folding. Full cloth. Octavo. xvi, 381 pages. Winston Churchill's detailed military history of the operations directed by Lord Kitchener on the Upper Nile between April 1896 and November 1899. Churchill was a participant in the decisive battle..... More
![Item #11666 How to Treat the Trusts and How to Win in 1904 [for Democrats (cover title)]. John...](https://backcreekbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11666_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1571171898)
New York: The Abbey Press, (1902). First Edition. Original cloth. Duodecimo. [iv], 81 pages. Haggerty lays out his "Guarantee Plan" for the Democrats to deal justly with the trusts and defeat Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. Scarce. OCLC locates just 9 copies as of October 2019, none in commerce. More
Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliot and T. K. & P. G. Collins, 1840. 1st Edition. Black & white plates. Hardcover. Octavo. 93 pages. Campaign biography for William Henry Harrison in the 1840 presidential election. Harrison would win the election, but he died just a month after taking office. He was the..... More
Fort Worth: Western Heritage Press, (1971). First Edition. Black & white photos, facsimiles, etc. Hardcover. Octavo. 202 pages. History of New Mexico's rugged frontier rangers and their fight for law and order in the territory. In addition to his other research, Hornung was able to gather personal recollections from the..... More
(s.l.): (s.n.), [1865]. Wrappers. Octavo. 39 pages. A blistering critique of the Democratic Party's positions and actions during the Civil War and the secession crisis that immediately preceded it. More
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1795. Engraved map. Map. Uncommon hand-colored map example of the first American-produced atlas map of Maryland. Prominently features the Chesapeake Bay, and Potomac River. Georgetown and the City of Washington are shown, along with an inset "Continuation of the Potowmac River from Fort Cumberland." Engraved by William..... More
Washington: Infantry Journal, (1943). 1st Edition. Black & white photographs, illustrations. Paperback. Octavo. 103 pages. Fitness program developed by women for women. The Foreword recognizes that "American women are not amazons and don't want to be amazons," so the goal here is building the strength, stamina, and coordination to support..... More
Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., (1877). 1st Edition. Woodcuts. Wrappers. Octavo. [i,ii], 19-64 pages. The Molly Maguires were believed to have incited Irish immigrant miners to violence in the anthracite coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania in the 1870s, and 20 alleged Mollies were convicted of murder and other crimes and hanged..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1919. 1st Edition. Black & white photographs, diagrams. Original cloth. Octavo. 90, [2 folding plates] pages. Specifications, principles of operation, and other detailed information on this famous French revolving engine. The 80 horsepower Le Rhone 9C powered a number of military aircraft types in World War..... More
[Stoneham?]: (Prohibition Party), [1886]. Broadside. 4.75" x 12.50" The Prohibition Party is the nation's oldest third party, and this broadside presents the party's slate of candidates for the state and local elections of 1886 in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Thomas J. Lothrop ran as the Prohibition candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1901. First Edition. Flexible leather. Octavo. 141 [+14] pages. An important study of Governor Hicks and his crucial efforts to shape Maryland's loyalties on the eve and in the early years of the Civil War. Includes chapters on Hicks's early political career, rumors of plots against..... More
Oyster Bay: 1901. 8" x 10". 2 pages. Letters from Theodore Roosevelt as Vice-President are rarely seen, as he only served in that office for about six months before succeeding to the Presidency upon the assassination of President William McKinley. This letter is on two separate sheets, the first of..... More
Washington, D. C. 1901. 6.50" by 8.25". 1 pages. A rather early Theodore Roosevelt letter as President, having succeeded to the office upon the death of President William McKinley just 17 days earlier. Roosevelt, having received a letter from John G. Winter, Jr., here asks his Acting Secretary of War..... More
Louis Vincent Aronson, [1922?]. Handsome bronzed spelter bust of Theodore Roosevelt as President. This fine figure of TR stands about 8.75" tall on a base footprint of 6.50" x 3.50". Weighs just over 7 pounds. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875. 1st Edition. Original cloth. Octavo. 405 & 409 pages. Beautiful set of Sherman's memoirs. He gives some account of his early life--particularly West Point and life in and out of the army in California, New York, Kansas, and Louisiana--but the emphasis is clearly..... More
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, (1865). Woodcuts. Disbound. Octavo. 79, [I] pages. Perhaps the first book on the Lincoln assassination, originally published about a month after the event. George Alfred Townsend was a pioneering war correspondent during the Civil War, and covered the Lincoln assassination and its aftermath for..... More
Philadelphia: Printed for the Author, 1818. 3rd Edition. Engraved frontispiece. Disbound. Octavo. 48 pages. "Parson" Mason Locke Weems was born in Anne Arundel County and today is best known for his legend of George Washington and the cherry tree. Here Weems presents two moral tales on the sin of adultery--both..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1912. First Edition. Black & white frontispiece portraits. Original cloth. Octavo. xvi, 580 & x, 582 pages. Exciting memoir of Wilson's entire military career, with the majority being devoted to the Civil War. Wilson served on Thomas W. Sherman's staff in the South Atlantic..... More