New York: The Dial Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 122 pages. Important non-fiction title by Baldwin, consisting of two essays on race relations in America. The first, "My Dungeon Shook," is a letter to his nephew on the 100th anniversary of Emancipation, and the second, "Down at the Cross,"..... More
New York: Derby & Jackson, 1856. First edition. Tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait. Full cloth. Octavo. 131 pages, (ii) ads. Robert Field Stockton (1795-1866) served in the U.S. Navy during both the War of 1812 and the Mexican War, and captured California during the latter. Stockton was later elected to the..... More
Washington: McGill & WItherow, Printers and Stereotypers, 1864. First edition. Stitched signatures. Octavo. 68 pages, + [2] page Appendix. A group of eight vividly descriptive letters from the battlefield and from Washington during the Civil War. Bloor was an architect and a gifted writer, and travelled with the Army of..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. Full leather. Sixteenmo. 483 pages. A genuine American classic. Dana was a gifted observer and writer, and his memoir paints a colorful portrait of Mexican California in the 1830s, including the ports of San Diego, San Pedro (Los Angeles), Santa Barbara, Monterey, and San..... More
Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1933. Limited edition. Illustrated by John Austen. Full cloth. Quarto, 2 volumes, xxvi, 374 and x, 375-759 pages. Beautiful two-volume edition of this classic Dickens work that explores the real comedy of common life in his times. Presented here by the Limited Editions Club..... More
Naperville and Memphis: J. L. Nichols & Company, 1907. Black & white halftone portraits and plates. Original cloth. Octavo. 430 pages. Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the first African American writers to establish an international reputation. This is a lovely gathering of most of his important work, published just..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. Limited edition. Maps, black and white photographs. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi, 559 pages. General Eisenhower's own story of World War II in Europe, profusely illustrated with maps and with photographs selected by Edward Steichen. This limited edition is SIGNED by Eisenhower on a...... More
New York: Nicholas L. Brown, Inc., 1932. Limited edition. Illustrations by Hugo Gellert. Hardcover. Octavo. 73 pages. Stanley Kimmel is better known for "The Mad Booths of Maryland" and other historical works, but was a very talented World War I era poet and friend of Ernest Hemingway. This..... More
[London, for D. Henry]: [The Gentleman's Magazine], [1776]. Map. Framed, approximately 17 3/4" x 13". Map approximately 12 3/8" x 7 5/8" Original map, published in the October, 1776 issue of The Gentleman's Magazine in London. It shows the general area of operation during the important August, 1776 Battle of..... More
[New York]: [U.S. Army Corps of Engineers], [1946?]. Diagram, fold-out maps. Side-stapled leaves. Quarto. ii, [3] illustration + maps. Detailed early report on the effects of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, 1945. The Manhattan Project Atomic Bomb Investigating Group was dispatched just two days after..... More
Bradford, MA: LeBaron-Bonney Co., 1941. Measures 35" x 22 1/2" The famous cartoon map by Edward McCandlish, satirizing the Prohibition era. Filled with booze-related geographical puns, emphases, and comical misspellings. Originally created in 1926, this is a 1941 printing. This wonderful map is scarce in any printing and would make..... More
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., (1952). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 276 pages. Scarce first printing of this highly influential early self-help book. Norman Vincent Peale's suggested methods were a combination of self-hypnosis and religious faith, and certainly had detractors, but this book forever stamped the nascent self-help genre. More
(Tokyo): Suntory Ltd., (1976). Black and white illustrations. Oak boards, leather spine, housed in a clamshell box. Tall octavo. 362 pages. A fantastic production to commemorate Suntory's 50th anniversary as the originator of quality whisky production in Japan. The book consists of 20 works from well known authors from 5..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912. First edition. Black and white plates. Original cloth. Octavo. xii, 185 pages. Probably the first book to analyze the naval architecture and design shortcomings in the Titanic, published within a few months of the Titanic disaster. Walker demonstrates that the much earlier ship..... More
Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1929. Limited edition. Colored engravings. Full leather. Octavo. x, 631 pages. A beautiful copy of this collection of Walton, done in an edition of 1100 copies, of which this is #905. On laid paper with portraits engraved by Charles Sigrist and color-stencilled drawings by Thomas L. Poulton..... More