New York & London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911]. First American edition. Color plates by Dulac. Cloth over boards. Quarto. viii, 250 pages. Seven of Andersen's stories, including The Emperor's New Clothes, The Snow Queen, The Real Princess [and the Pea], and The [Little] Mermaid. A beautiful production, illustrated..... More
St. Michaels, MD: Comet Print, 1913. Framed broadside. Sight dimensions: 8 3/4" x 11 3/4". Frame dimensions: 13 3/4" x 16 3/4" Fantastic baseball broadside advertising a double-header in 1913 on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The team from St. Michaels hosted the Baltimore Yannigans (misspelled "Yanegans" on the broadside). The games..... More
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, [1960?]. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 285 pages. Alexander Belyaev was Russia's first sci-fi writer, sometimes called the Russian Jules Verne. Here he spins the story of a reclusive doctor on the coast of South America who gives his son shark gills in a life-saving operation. The son..... More
London: William Pickering, 1837. Second edition. Engraved plates. Russia leather over boards. Octavos. xvi, 618, [i] and vii, [1]-110, 69 plates, [111]-129 pages. William Buckland was a theologian and early geologist and paleontologist. He wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur, and his work with the fossils in..... More
Santa Monica: Earth Books, 1977. First issue. Black and white photographs by Lawrence Robbin. Two 33 1/3 records in sleeve. Scarce album of Charles Bukowski recording his poetry in his Hollywood apartment in 1966. The recording, "90 Minutes in Hell" was finally released as this limited edition LP record in..... More
Salem: Marine Research Society, 1927. First printing. Black and white plates. Cloth over boards. Quarto. xxxviii, 349, [ad] pages. A well-illustrated volume on the Atlantic slave trade, with contributions from a variety of sources. This was Publication Number Fifteen of the Marine Research Society. More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1898. First printing. Color plates by E. W. Kemble. Cloth over boards. Small octavo. 263 pages. A nice first edition of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry, with color illustrations by Kemble. More
San Francisco: Sore Dove Press, (2007). Limited edition. Original paintings, color photographs. Hardcover portfolio with three ribbon ties. Folio. A portfolio by Sore Dove Press of San Francisco celebrating Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 2007 poem "Pity the Nation." There are two letterpress copies of the poem in different formats, each signed and..... More
New York: Brentano's, 1905. First American edition. Black and white drawings of poker hands. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. xvi, 253 pages. History and rules of poker, along with chapters on strategies, bluffing, odds, poker calculations, luck and superstition, and more. Includes a bibliography and index. Title page printed in..... More
London: I. and J. Taylor, 1796. First ediion. 17 Black and white plates. Half calf and marbled boards. Quarto. xvi, 144, [1 leaf advertisement], 17 plates. Robert Fulton, American engineer and later inventor of the first successful river steamboat, here presents his grand plan for the development and operation of..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1962). First printing. Black and white photographs. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. [x], 177 pages. An account of the tragic loss of the school-ship Albatross in a sudden squall on May 2, 1961. Chuck Gieg was one of the teenaged students on board who survived the..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1907). Second edition. Color plates by Dulac. Cloth over boards. Quarto. xvi, 133 pages. Six of the classic Middle Eastern folk tales from One Thousand and One Nights, including Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, The Fisherman and the Genie, The Story of the Princess of..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1963. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 244 pages. This penetrating study was the first book on jazz by an African American writer, and Jones came to some new and provocative conclusions which are bolstered by both history and sociology. This is the..... More
New York: Book Collectors Society, [1948]. Limited edition. Black and white photographs, drawings. Leather over boards. Octavo. xxxii, 349 pages. An amazing document of discovery as G. Rachel Levy helps uncover a group of archaeological sites in Iraq prior to World War II. Importantly, Ms. Levy speculates as to links..... More
New York: Calvert Distillers Corp. [c.1940]. Color vignette of log cabin. Poster. Approximately 14" x 18" (framed dimensions 14 1/2" x 18 1/2"). Single sheet. A rare poster issued by the Calvert Distillers Corporation and in a campaign against anti-liquor forces following Prohibition. This apocryphal Lincoln quote had been used..... More
[Ripley, OK]: The Ripley Review, Publshers, 1937. First printing. A few monochrome illustrations. Wrappers. Octavo. 108 pages. A scarce firsthand account of cattle drives and ranching in Oklahoma. Has information on some outlaws such as Tulsa Jack Blake and Arkansas Tom Jones. William M. McGinty also rode with..... More
[Greenville]: Tri-State Coaches, [1940]. Route maps, other drawings. Saddle-stapled wraps. Square octavo. [10 pages, including covers]. Rare booklet from Tri-State Coaches promoting Greenville, Mississippi as a transportation hub for their bus service in 1940. This piece is printed from entirely hand-drawn copy, giving it a naive and charming feel, from..... More
New York: Vantage Press, Inc., (1951). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 90 pages. An African American woman's semi-autobiographical novel of overcoming discouragement from her mother and oppression from society to achieve her dreams of happiness and success as a writer. Rosebrough was born in Alabama and became..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1903. Limited edition, #44 of 100 copies on large paper. Photographic frontispiece plus 19 black and white plates, all with tissue guards. Leather and marbled paper over boards. Tall Octavo. x, 598 pages. Handsome volume on the natural history and hunting of ducks, geese, swans, rail..... More
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1784. Third edition, with additions. Speckled calf over boards. Octavos. 1) viii, 499; 2) vi, 518, Appendix [5]; and 3) v, [blank], 465, [blank], Index [45], [1 (ad)] pages. An uncommon but particularly interesting and important edition of "Wealth of Nations," whose..... More
New York: Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, 1977. First printing. Black and white photographic illustrations. Wrappers. Octavo. [8 unpaginated leaves]. This poem on Harry Houdini was originally written by Patti Smith in 1972, but this is its first published appearance. More
San Francisco: Sore Dove Press, (2006). Limited edition, #6 of 75. Four pieces of original art. Hardcover portfolio with three ribbon ties. Folio. A portfolio of 22 individually letterpress-printed poems by Beat poets such as Diane di Prima, Neeli Cherkovski, Harold Norse, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and others. This is portfolio #6..... More
Bath: L. Leake and E. Curll, 1741. Engraved frontispiece. Half leather with marbled paper sides. Duodecimo. [viii], xvi, 48 pages. A clever and amusing piece of 18th century libertine literature that describes the female anatomy in terms of topography, geography, commerce, cultivation, etc. Satirizes contemporaneous pamphlets that promoted British Colonies..... More
London: (S.n.), 1896. Limited edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. viii, 135 pages. A sympathetic consideration of homosexuality in the last years of the 19th century. The author believes homosexuality should not be criminalized. Indeed, Symonds is very receptive to alternate lifestyles and frowns on criminalizing any activity related to consensual..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1948). First printing. Charts, maps, and data tables. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xviii, 404 pages. A study of racial segregation in the North from an economic rather than a moral perspective. The author, a respected African American economist, begins with an exploration of the..... More