London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), Ltd., [1928]. First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 286 pages. Scarce collection of 12 ghost stories by E. F. Benson, including "Naboth's Vineyard," "And No Bird Sings," "The Corner House," and others. More

London: Educational Book Company Ltd, [1955]. Color frontispieces, black and white photographs, maps. Cloth over boards. Tall octavos. The unparalleled history of World War II. As he notes in his Preface, Winston Churchill was probably the only person to have gone through both World War I and World War II..... More

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. First American edition, one of 3,000 copies. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xii, 639 pages. William Hope Hodgson produced a large body of work in horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction in his relatively short life. He was killed in World War I. This collection presents..... More

(s.l.): (s.n.), [1860]. Pamphlet. Octavo. 8 pages. A very early printing of Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union speech--arguably his greatest. This is the speech--delivered to a tough and skeptical New York audience--that instantly transformed Lincoln from a frontier politician with a vague reputation as a decent stump speaker and debater into..... More

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1954. First printing, one of 1,200 copies. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. [ii], 123 pages. A supernatural horror story of a young English boy who falls under the spell of a vampiric being while on a visit to Auvergne, France. The only book published by Arkham House..... More

Philadelphia: Insurance Company of North America, 1937. Color map, illustrations. Single sheet. Approximately 21" x 30" A great looking 1930s pictorial map of circa 1792 Philadelphia. In addition to the map and illustrations of old fire engines there are illustrations of early insurance fire marks, fire company emblems and border..... More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 186 pages. Novel about an Old West gunfighter with terminal cancer, deciding how to wrap up his life. The book was made into the film of the same name starring John Wayne, Lauren Bacall and Jimmy Stewart... More

New York: Grove Press, (1954). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 174 pages. A collection of related stories about a small West African boy who ends up in the ghost-inhabited wilderness after fleeing armed slave traders. This was Tutuola's second book, following "The Palm Wine Drinkard." More

London: Torchstream Books, (1956). Limited edition. Black and white plates. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 267 pages, [i] ad. Part One traces the history of aphrodisiacs from ancient Jewish, Greek, and Roman cultures, through India and China, to Europe from the Middle Ages to 1800. Part Two discusses particular foods, diets..... More