New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1906. First edition. Tissue-guarded frontispiece photographic portrait. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 445 pages. This scarce book gives a fascinating look at the local history of Washington, DC and the flavor of national events in the capital in the early post-Civil War era..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [xii], 364 pages. John Collier was an English writer and master of weird and fantastic stories. His stories appeared in The New Yorker in the 1930s to 1950s and he spent much time in Hollywood writing for film and..... More
New York: E. D. Barker, 1862. Wrappers. [79]-102 pages, plus 2 page ad. Scarce speech from the first year of the American Civil War. Mr. Conway is quite critical of slaveholders both North and South who sought to preserve the Union. His concern was that any effort to preserve the..... More
Fresno: Fresno County Chamber of Commerce, [c.1923]. Color map, black and white photographic border vignettes. Single sheet approximately 25 1/8" x 38 1/8", folds to 4 1/4" x 9 1/2" A large, colorful birds-eye map focused on Fresno County and the San Joaquin Valley in central California, but with extensive..... More
(S.l.): Biting Dog Press, 2002. Limited edition, #30 of 250. Wood engravings by George Walker. Black cloth over boards, in slipcase. Octavo. 64 pages. An alternate version of the story of Snow White in which she is a wicked and unremorseful vampire and her stepmother is the heroine. The wood..... More
(S.l.): [Printed by 29th Engineers, U.S. Army], 1918. Stapled wrappers. Octavo. 16 pages. This interesting pamphlet contains translations of several captured German documents from the Ludendorff Offensive on the Western Front in World War I, showing how the Germans were dealing with airplane and gas attacks. The first document shows..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., [1926]. First edition. Original cloth. Octavo. 352 pages. Elizabeth Goudge's first novel, set in the Channel Islands in the late 19th century. The story of Rachell du Frocq who rescues a shipwrecked stranger to save her farm and her family. More
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1922. Illustrated by Walter Crane. Half green morocco over boards, marbled paper sides. Octavo. x, 269 pages. A very handsome little edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales, as originally translated from the German by Lucy Crane. Illustrated in black and white throughout, including plates, chapter head-..... More
New York: Grove Press, (2015). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 341 pages. Harrison's follow up to his very successful "The Great Leader." Here that novel's protagonist, Detective Sunderson, has fled domestic strife and is living in a hunting cabin in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. He becomes involved in another case that has..... More
New York: Grove Press, (2013). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 525 pages. Harrison was a master of the novella. This collection contains all the Brown Dog novellas, including the previously unpublished "He Dog." This first printing of the first edition is signed by Harrison directly on the half title..... More
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, (2011). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 143 pages. Jim Harrison was a very versatile and gifted writer, producing masterful fiction but also some fine poetry. This collection of poems explores his own atavistic, primitive, totemistic thinking that he says can be "disturbing to one fairly learned."..... More
New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1949. Border vignette portraits. Map. 22 1/8" x 27 3/4", mounted on linen 25" x 30 5/8" This uncommon literary pictorial map of the United States is labeled with prominent book titles and authors in each state. There are many vignettes depicting local scenes..... More
New York: Grove Press, Inc., (1964). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 79 pages. First edition poetry volume by one the defining African American writers of his generation. This was Jones's second volume of poetry. LeRoi Jones changed his name to Amiri Baraka when Malcom X was assassinated in 1965..... More
Los Angeles: Wesley G. Lake, 1939. 19" x 24" Your map to the homes of your favorite 1939 Hollywood stars! Think Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, the Marx brothers, Marlene Dietrich, Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn, even Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford! How can you not love the advisory at..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1924. Limited edition. Twelve color plates, 245 halftone illustrations. Quarto. Original cloth over boards. xvi, 458 pages. A very detailed study of the evolution of wallpaper from the sixteenth century onward. Introduction by Henri Clouzot, Conservateur du Musee Galliera, Paris. Printed from type in a...... More
Washington: Printed by William A. Davis, 1817. Disbound. Quarto. 14 pages. A listing of 24 post-roads across various states that were deemed unproductive as of February 20th, 1817. The criteria were that the road had been established for more than two years and that it had not, within the preceding..... More
Washington: Printed by William Duane & Son, 1803. Disbound. Octavo. 11 pages. Robert Elliott was a contractor supplying the United States Army in its attempts to subdue Native American tribes in the Northwest Territory in the late 18th century. Elliott was killed by hostile Indians on October 6, 1794, as..... More
(S.l.): [South Western Railroad], 1868. Single sheet. 11" x 16" Original 1868 broadside promoting a series of meetings in Noble County, Ohio, to secure stock subscriptions sufficient to fund construction of the railroad through the county. Meetings to be addressed by the Hon. Wm. Cutler, President of the company. "Turn..... More
Cleveland: Arthur B. Suchy, [1940s?]. Pictorial map. Map. 22" x 17 3/4" A well designed pictorial map by Cleveland graphic artist Arthur B. Suchy, who spent winter vacations in Florida. This is the second edition of this map, printed in red. The first edition was a bit larger, limited to..... More
Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1974. First edition, limited to 1,000 of which this is #184. Black and white illustrations from photographs. Hardcover. Octavo. xxii, 657 pages. A meticulous genealogy that began as research into Col. Wilson's own family but expanded to also include the following families: Adams, Boston, Bedsworth-Betsworth, Chelton..... More