Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1869 and 1870. Early printings. Black and white illlustrations. Cloth over boards. Duodecimos. 341 (+ads) and 359 (+ads) pages. The classic coming-of-age novel about four sisters in New England during the Civil War, by Louisa May Alcott. These are early printings of both volumes, within a year..... More
[Chicago]: Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, [1930?]. Single sheets. 6 1/8" x 9 1/8" Women in the early 20th century were assumed to favor Prohibition, and indeed had been a powerful force--in the form of the Women's Christian Temperance Union--in getting it passed. By the late 1920s, however, Pauline..... More
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1875. First printing. Numerous woodcut illustrations. Hardcover. Octavo. 486 pages. A comprehensive treatise on tobacco and smoking toward the end of the 19th century. The portion on the plant's early cultivation in Virginia is gathered from previously unpublished sources. Will illustrated with plates and in-text cuts..... More
Baltimore: For private circulation only (Press of Fleet, McGinley & Co.), 1898. First printing. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 177 pages. Excellent memoir of a young Maryland Confederate officer who participated in many battles and was wounded three times. Booth served as a staff officer for George H. Steuart and..... More
New York: The Outing Publishing Company, 1906. First printing. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Henry S. Watson. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. viii, 209 pages. Grover Cleveland--the only non-consecutive two-term President--was an enthusiastic outdoorsman. The ten sketches herein are in the best spirit of sport. Includes "A Defense of..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 327 pages. A collection of short stories by a master of the weird tale, John Collier. Here are two dozen "astonishing and memorable accounts of the ways in which the normal individual may run afoul of the bizarre, the..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., (1959). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. [iv], 313 pages. Condon's satirical novel about a U.S. soldier in the Korean War who was brainwashed, indoctrinated, and then released by Communist forces to become their mind-controlled assassin. The basis for the Oscar-nominated 1962 political thriller of the..... More
Boston: Parker Fraternity Rooms, 1870. Card stock. 2 13/16" x 4 1/2" An amazing piece of ephemera featuring Frederick Douglass and other big names in 19th century American civil rights activism. The front of the ticket lists the Parker Fraternity's lecture committee: John C. Haynes, Sarah B. Otis, and John..... More
[Baltimore]: [Democratic City Convention], [1848]. Broadside. Approximately 13" x 18 3/4". Single sheet. Democratic broadside from Baltimore attacking the Whigs and their Presidential candidate, Zachary Taylor, in the 1848 campaign. The Whigs had nominated Taylor for President and Millard Fillmore for Vice-President at their convention in June. This broadside presumably..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. First printing. Black and white plates. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [vi], 63 pages. William Ferguson, a native of Baltimore and family friend of John T. Ford, was working as a call-boy at Ford's Theatre the night of April 14, 1865. He was called upon to..... More
New York: Hermitage House, (1950). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xxvii, 452 pages. First edition of the book that launched the Scientology movement in 1950, becoming a canonical text when the movement later defined itself as a religion. Hubbard presents his description of the human mind, and..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1914). First printing. Tan-gray laid paper over boards. Octavo. 75 pages. Alfred Joyce Kilmer was an American poet, editor, critic, and Roman Catholic lecturer who contemporary critics often compared to G. K. Chesterton and Hillaire Belloc. Today Kilmer is remembered as the..... More
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, (1902). First printing. 15 Black & White Tissue-Guarded Plates. Full cloth. Octavo. xxiv, 407 pages. This handsome volume of poems contains the first book appearance of baseball's most famous poem--Casey at the Bat--in an anthology. The poem was written by Ernest Lawrence Thayer but is..... More
Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, & Co., 1825. Marbled boards and leather over boards. Octavo. 64 pages. This brief biography of Lafayette was published on the occasion of his tour of America in 1825. He had played a significant part in the two most important political revolutions to that time--the American and..... More
(S.l.): (E. P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence), (1986). Advance Reading Copy. Self-wraps. Octavo. [54] pages. An advance printing of the title story in the collection "To Skin a Cat," published in October of 1986. This is copy #28 of 250, signed by McGuane on front cover. Letter from publisher dated June 19..... More
Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1925. First printing. Well illustrated with black and white photographs. Cloth over boards. Tall octavos. xii, 305 and viii, 398 pages. The First Yale Unit was founded by Yale sophomore F. Trubee Davison in 1915, and is considered the origin of U.S. Naval Aviation. Davison and..... More
New York: The Viking Press, (1939). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [iv], 619 pages. Steinbeck's novel of Dust Bowl migrants to California during the Great Depression, for which he won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. First edition, first issue, with proper..... More
Harrisburg: The Military Service Publishing Company, 1944. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 99 pages. The tools of war may have changed dramatically since this work first appeared about 500 BC, but its focus on fundamentals and the influence of politics and human nature on military operations gives it a...... More
New York: The Tea & Coffee Journal Company, 1935. Limited edition. Color frontispiece, numerous black and white illustrations in text. Cloth over boards. Quarto. xiv, 818 pages. The first independent work to fully cover all aspects of coffee, including the historical, technical, scientific, commercial, social, and artistic. Everything from early..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1968. First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xvi, [1-2], 3-226 [227-237] pages. Inscribed and signed by Watson on preliminary blank leaf. Here is Watson's story of his work with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins--the three merging data from chemistry, physics, and biology--to solve the molecular structure of..... More