[Baton Rouge]: [Army and Navy Publishing Company, Inc.], 1941. Black and white photographs, one color cartoon. Hardcover. Folio. [vi], 89, [26] pages. Uncommon book on this California coastal defense regiment during World War II. Camp McQuaide was located near Watsonville, California, and the site is now occupied by Monterey Bay..... More
Washington: Judd & Detweiler, Printers, 1891. First prinring. Black and white plates. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. xvi, 168 pages. Biography of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland, and a renewal of her claim of having been an important advisor to President Lincoln and that she was responsible for the Union's..... More
Baltimore: N. Murray, Johns Hopkins University, 1887. First printing. Frontispiece map. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 176, [10 ads] pages. Baltimore's mayor at the time relates the events in the city during April, 1861. He covers much more than the violent clash between the 6th Massachusetts Infantry and a mob..... More
London: L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1765. Second Edition. Leather over boards. Octavo. 168 pages. Brown argues that laws alone (and their coerced observance) cannot sustain a civilized society, but that in addition there must be a foundation of virtuous manners and principles in the hearts and minds of the..... More
London: William Heinemann, Ltd., (1956). Color plates, black and white illustrations in text. Full leather. Octavo. 162 pages. A particularly lovely copy of this masterpiece, featuring the groundbreaking 1907 illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Rackham's work on "Alice" was controversial at the time. Purists felt that none but the original drawings..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1865. Half leather with marbled paper sides. Duodecimos. Over 1,600 pages. A beautiful edition of Don Quixote, a work widely regarded as the first modern novel. A pinnacle of world literature, on par with the work of Shakespeare--with whom Cervantes was a contemporary. Includes a...... More
[Winchester]: [Privately published], 1940. Pictorial map. Single sheet. 19" x 25" Ernest Dudley Chase was an illustrator and creator of elaborately decorated pictorial maps in the early 20th century, which he privately published from his studio in Winchester, Massachusetts. This is one of Chase's satirical maps, depicting a...... More
Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, [1893]. First edition. Black and white illustrations in text by James Greig and Paul Hardy. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 320 pages. First book appearance of this pair of short novels by Arthur Conan Doyle. Ref. GREEN & GIBSON, A13. More
[New York]: L. B. Fischer Publishing Corp. 1944. First printing. Black and white photographic plates. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 55 pages. Capt. Gentile shot down over thirty Nazi planes as a squadron commander in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II. This is his remarkable story... More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885-1886. First printings. Black & White Engraved Plates, Maps, Facsimiles. Half Morocco and cloth over boards. Octavos. 584 & 647 pages. The greatest American military memoir, written by the financially ruined Grant in a race with death, and published with the savvy assistance..... More
New York: Brewer & Warren, 1930. First printing. Black & white chapter heads, cuts. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 281 pages. Rockwell Kent had just finished illustrating his famous edition of Moby Dick for the Lakeside Press when he set out on a voyage to Greenland with a couple of friends. The..... More
Cambridge: Cornell Maritime Press, 1963. Charts, drawings, photos. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv, 319 pages. Landmark hull design book by Lindsay Lord. During prohibition he was commissioned by rumrunners to design boats fast enough to outrun law enforcement. He went on to revolutionize the naval architecture of small, fast, surface-skimming boats during..... More
(Sauk City): Arkham House Publishers, Inc., (1989). Cloth over boards. Octavo. xiv, 450 pages. This volume, edited by Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi, includes all of Lovecraft's known revisions and collaborations undertaken on behalf of his friends and clients. The texts reproduced herein scrupulously follow archival manuscripts, typescripts, or original..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1897. First printing. Two fold-out maps. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. x, 314 pages. A collection of eight articles by Mahan on various aspects of America's naval position in terms of strategy and geography, which appeared in various magazines between 1890 and 1897. One of..... More
[c.1980s?]. Original. Pastel on paper. Single sheet. Approximately 13 1/2" x 17" Untitled original art in pastels by award winning courtroom and journalistic sketch artist, Freda L. Reiter. The scene depicts an active Cuban cigar and rum market. Reiter studied drawing in Mexico City under Diego Rivera. She..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. First printings. Folding maps, plates. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimos. The three volumes in this series were published in quick succession in the spring of 1883, and give the whole narrative of Union naval operations from 1861 to 1865, illustrated with maps... More
New York: Summit Books, (1979). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 602 pages. First edition of Hunter S. Thompson's fourth book. Contains forty-six pieces of his best writing on everything from politics to the Kentucky Derby to the Super Bowl. More
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. First printing, one of 4,000. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 248 pages. A collection of 18 ghost stories by a British master of the genre. Wakefield's work in this vein has been favorably compared to that of M. R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Henry James..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., (1917). First edition. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. xiv, 141 pages. An indictment of what the author believed was America's woeful unpreparedness for World War I, followed by his solution--a program of Universal Military Training. Well documented, with a brief bibliography. Col. Jennings C...... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1923. Limited edition. Original cloth over boards. Quarto. x, 175 pages. A comedic Prohibition entertainment set in Ancient Greece. The Preface is by "Samuel Johonson," then dead for 139 years. Copy #426 of a limited edition, signed by Owen Wister on limitation page. Several bold full..... More