Baltimore: W. J. Groeninger, 1904. Black and white photograph. Approximately 7 3/4" x 9 3/4" photograph on a 9 3/4" x 12 5/8" mount. Large format photograph showing 13 men standing amid the ruins of the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904. Each man is identified in the lower margin of..... More
[Baltimore]: (S.n.), [1924?]. First edition. Black and white photographs, map. Embossed paper covers over side-stapled binding. Oblong quarto. 68 leaves, printed on rectos only. A remarkable and quite scarce visual record of the western Chesapeake and Patapsco River shorelines from just north of Annapolis through the industrial and commercial docks..... More
(S.l.): (S.n.), [c.1836]. Broadside. 7 1/2" x 10 1/8" Satirical broadside poking fun at British politician and racehorse owner Lord George Bentinck for his move from the Whig Party to the Conservative Party with the Derby Dilly faction in Parliament. Bentinck represented the King's Lynn constituency in Norfolk and was..... More
Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1886. First edition. Original cloth. Octavo. 283 pages. Reverend Bigham went to California as a missionary in the early years of the Gold Rush. The dramatized scenes and sketches here are loosely based upon his actual experiences as a preacher and miner. HOWES B444. More
1766. Single sheet. Handwritten 18th century document authorizing future Founding Father, John Dickinson, to act on behalf of three men in the settlement of a debt in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The three men--James Martin, Samuel Martin, and Amos Jones all can be found as soldiers in Revolutionary War militia units..... More
Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1937. First printing. Black and white photographic plates. Original cloth. Octavo. xii, 500 pages. Forrester vividly shares her family memories, traditions, and relics in this account of Booth's escape and survival after the Lincoln assassination. She argues that Booth was a tool of the Knights..... More
[New York]: [City of New York?], [1856]. Single sheet. Approximately 7 1/4" x 10 3/4" This map was originally produced circa 1813 by David Grim, and this hand-colored facsimile was reprinted in the "Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York for 1856." More
Brunswick: 1923. Broadside. 6" x 9" President Warren G. Harding suffered a heart attack and died in San Francisco while on a tour of the western states. This broadside is the program for the memorial service held in Brunswick, Maine on August 10, 1923--the same day as Harding's funeral in..... More
Baltimore: Sands & Neilson, 1837. First edition. Original wraps. Octavo. 90 pages. Scarce pamphlet on the Maryland Constitutional crisis of 1836. The Maryland Senate was chosen by an electoral college at this time, and the crisis arose when the state's 19 Democrat electors, angry that they were in the minority..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First edition. Full cloth. Tall octavo. xiv, 1347 pages. Mencken's great collection of quotations, begun for his own use in 1918 as worthwhile quotes he did not find in existing quotation references. He eventually began to search out material for his collection, and ultimately..... More
(s.l.): NASA, 1980-1983. Loose leaf pages, generally 8.5 x 11 inches, punched at left margins for 3-ring binder. A treasure trove of information on the early operational space shuttle program, in the form of materials intended for the press. Separate pieces include "Space Shuttle News Reference," STS-5 Fifth Space Shuttle..... More
1946-1954. Loose sheets. 8 1/2" x 11" and smaller. 8 individual items. This group of items originated with the impact Nimitz's 1946 speech had on one member of the USNA class of 1947. That graduate obtained a copy of the speech, and years later wrote to Nimitz and requested that..... More
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., (1957). First edition. Full cloth. Octavo. viii, 275 pages. A fascinating guide to the dawn of the Age of Manipulation, when motivational researchers were learning all sorts of things about people's subconscious urges, fears, frustrations, and wish fulfillments, and the Mad Men employed this..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 362 pages. Dorothy Parker's third collection of stories, published while she was working in Hollywood following the breakup of the Algonquin Round Table. Includes three stories appearing here for the first time in book form--one of which had never..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1970). First edition. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Hardcover. Square duodecimo. [96 pages]. A work of art featuring text by Pintauro woven through Lalibertè's oddly juxtaposed images. There is something reminiscent of the art of Monty Python here. More
(Philadelphia): Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad Company, 1883. First edition. Engraved cuts, fold-out map. Printed wrappers. Duodecimo. 96 pages. Rather scarce booklet which describes the fishing and waterfowling delights to be found on the Delaware and Maryland peninsula in the Chesapeake Bay, with many engraved cuts of different species and..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. First edition. Black and white photographs, fold-out route map. Original cloth. Octavo. xx,188 pages. Hudson Stuck was an Episcopal archdeacon of the Yukon who co-led the first expedition to summit Denali in 1913. A British native, he immigrated to the United States in 1885..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1911. First edition. Original full cloth. Octavo. 144 pages. 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 machines. He famously systematized..... More
Hartford: [Pope Press], [c.1906]. Black and white photographic illustrations. Wrappers. Approximately 5 1/8" x 4 1/4". 40 pages. Illustrated trade catalogue and priced parts list for Colt handguns, circa 1906. The page for the Automatic Colt Pistol Military Model Calibre .45 is stamped at top "NOT READY FOR DELIVERY." This..... More
