New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition. Black and white plates. Hardcover. Octavo. xxii, 307, [blank], viii pages. Biography of the Temperance firebrand, Carry Nation, whose signature was attacking liquor kegs with a hatchet. This copy is signed by the author and has a printed "Seasons Greetings" card..... More
Newport News: The Mariner's Museum, 1937. First printings. Black and white plates, scale drawings. Wraps. Octavo. 113 pages (Part I) and Wraps. Oblong folio. Unpaginated plates (Part II). Brewington's first book. An excellent study of the region's early log canoes, canoe building methods, sailing rigs, and log canoe racing..... More
North Montpelier: Published privately by The Driftwind Press, 1945. First edition. Frontispiece portrait. Hardcover. Octavo. 59 pages. Byron's third book of poetry. Includes the poem "Dawn Comes to the Eastern Shore." Signed by Byron on half title page. Ref. PRATT, EASTERN SHORE #1139. More
Danbury: Stiles Nichols, 1803. Modern 3/4 calf. Duodecimo. 274 pages. A standard work on early New England and the conflicts with native peoples. Ref. SABIN 33451; HOWES H756. More
Brooklyn: Historical Printing Club, 1891. Limited edition, #84 of 250 copies. Black and white frontispiece photo. This copy extra-illustrated. Leather and marbled paper over boards. Tall octavo. 111 pages plus 8 pages of publisher ads. The period covered in this orderly book of the Maryland Loyalists begins with the evacuation..... More
[Cleveland]: [World Publishing Company], [1965]. Limited edition, #1295 of 1500, in original slipcase. Leather over wood boards. Elephant folio. Not paginated. Made in Italy, this well-executed facsimile of the original King James Bible is very large, printed on laid paper, and bound in 17th century style. More
New York: The Modern Library, (2001). First edition thus. Hardcover. Octavo. [xx], 337 pages. The Modern Library first edition of McCarthy's masterpiece. Blood Meridian is set in the American Southwest just after the Mexican War, and based on actual historical events. McCarthy brings some unforgettable characters to life--including the landscape..... More
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Evanston: Northwestern University, 1980. First edition thus. Softcover. Octavo. 298 pages + [14] pages ads, etc. The first published appearance of any part of Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece, Blood Meridian. The 14 page extract here, "The scalphunters," mostly became Chapter 12. More
Philadelphia: 1795. Framed item. 16" x 25 3/8" overall. Document approximately 9 5/8" x 12 1/2" Robert Morris, the influential financier of the American Revolution and signer of the United States' three most important documents--the Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution--here signs a stock certificate as..... More
[Baltimore]: 1792. Single sheet. 6" x 7 3/4" This is a 1792 writ issued by the Justices of Baltimore County Court to then Sheriff, Rob Gorsuch, ordering the arrest of one John Perrigo for breaking into the property of one Josias Green and damaging his grass and trees... More
[Baltimore]: [Ken Magazine], [1938]. Yardley. Approximately 10 3/8" x 13 3/8" Anti-fascist map by Baltimore Sun cartoonist Richard Q. Yardley and Peggy Yardley. The map depicts the growing threat of Hitler and Mussolini in Africa, with Hitler shown as an angry sun whose rays point at former German colonies lost..... More
London: The Argonaut Press, 1928. Limited edition of 975 copies, this copy not numbered. Frontispiece portrait, 2 folding maps. Hardcover. Quarto. cvi, 182 pages. A superb edition of Sir Walter Ralegh's Guiana expedition in search of the golden city of El Dorado. Appendices A and B contain Spanish official dispatches..... More
Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, (1946). First edition. Photographic plates, endpaper maps. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [xii], 153 pages. This scarce little book is a personal narrative of the least known U. S. Naval operations--those against the Philippine Insurrectos in 1899 and 1900. The author commanded the U.S.S. Panay in these operations..... More
New York: Johnson, Fry, and Company, (1857). First edition. Steel engravings after Alonzo Chappel. Full leather. Tall quartos. 708 and 762 pages. Biography of George Washington in two large leather-bound volumes. Originally issued in 46 parts. Printed in double columns, with engraved plates with tissue guards, engraved title pages, and..... More
New York: T. J. Crowen, 1857. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 72 pages. An uncommon and amusing book of poetry about oysters. The "author's" name is a pun on the major English Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945. First edition. Black and white photographic plates. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. [xii], 264 pages. This is the first published appearance of the Smyth Report, following very small mimeograph and lithoprint versions circulated internally for corrections and additions. This Princeton University edition precedes by a...... More
Washington: Superintendent of Documents, 1945. First edition thus. Softcover. Octavo. [i]-vii, 1-182 pages. The Government Printing Office edition of the Smyth Report on the development of the atomic bomb. Foreword by Gen. Leslie Groves, Director of the Manhattan Project dated August 1945. Smyth's Preface is dated July 1, 1945. This..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904. Color sketches by Amelia M. Watson. 3/4 Morocco over boards. Duodecimos. 173 and 208 pages. A beautiful edition of this Thoreau title originally published in 1865. This two-volume set is filled with lovely color illustrations in the margins, at chapter heads..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1971). First edition. Black and white plates. Hardcover. Octavo. xlviii, 557 pages. This was the first scholarly study of the ideological basis and the activities of the KKK. It is based on tremendous research in primary sources and remains the most comprehensive treatment of..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. Frontispiece portrait, one black and white plate. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. vi, 374 pages. Theodore Winthrop was one of the first Union officers killed in the Civil War, falling at the Battle of Big Bethel near Newport News on June 10, 1861. He had..... More