London: G. Moreton, 1894. Frontispiece portrait, etc. Cloth over boards. Octavo. viii, 210 pages. Sir Thomas Browne's "Religio Medici" is a very candid self portrait of a 17th-century physician and his views on science and religion. The second work included here is a survey of funerary customs up to Browne's..... More
[London]: [The Bayard Press], 1940. First edition. Printed wrappers. Octavo. 16 pages. Winston Churchill was a master orator, able to fire the courage and will of his countrymen through the shear force of his eloquence. And this particular speech may be the best example of that. It is the famous..... More
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, (1982). First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. x, 671 pages. Robert Creeley was an important poetic voice in post-World War II American literature. This collection gathers his poetry of thirty years, exhibiting his development and the singular inventiveness that made him a...... More
Boston: American Stationers Co., 1837. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 334 pages (with 4 pages ads at front, 12 pages ads at back). Hawthorne's third publication in book form and the first to bear his name. This collection of 18 stories won immediate recognition for its author, though..... More
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1905. First edition. Frontispiece portrait, facsimiles. Hardcover. Octavo. 123 pages. A previously unpublished selection of letters by John Paul Jones. Two of the letters are reproduced herein in facsimile. This attractive volume captures the voice of the Revolutionary War naval hero. Includes substantial material..... More
[New York]: The Limited Editions Club, (1987). Limited edition, #259 of 800 copies. Lithographs by Michael Hafftka. Quarto. [iv], 53 pages. Kafka's famous short story of an island penal colony and its brutal execution device. Four lithographs by Hafftka printed on handmade Japanese paper. Signed by Hafftka at colophon. More
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1965. First edition. Original cloth. Octavo .x, 413 pages. A collection of Lovecraft's secondary tales, selected with an Introduction by August Derleth. Also included here is Lovecraft's impressive essay, "Supernatural Horror in Literature." One of 3,500 copies in this first printing. Ref. JOSHI 42.A.1. More
Sauk City: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Limited edition. Original cloth. Octavo. xii, 432 pages. Arkham House collection containing Lovecraft's three horror novels, along with shorter masterpieces. One of 3,000 copies in the first printing with the green dust jacket. Ref. JOSHI 39.a.1. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First edition. Full cloth. Octavo. xii, 331, i-xix pages. Mencken's thoughts toward an understanding of ethics, adopting an essentially scientific approach. This copy is SIGNED by Mencken and dated in the year of publication. More
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., (1981). First edition in English. Black and white photographs. Hardcover. Octavo. vi, 282 pages. Moczarski was a journalist who had fought the Nazis with Polish Home Army, but became a political prisoner under Stalinism immediately after the war. In 1949, as a means of psychological..... More
New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910. First edition. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. [viii], 143 pages. An "Address delivered to the survivors of the Eighth Virginia Regiment, while they were gathered about the graves of their fallen comrades, on the battle-ground of Manassas, July 21, 1910."... More
Annapolis: Record Printing Office, 1887. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 395 pages. The classic popular history of Annapolis which was subscribed by the State of Maryland in 1886. Contains much interesting and valuable information extracted from the Maryland Gazette, but also much history that had not previously been..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, (1971). First edition. Illustrated. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 224 pages. The fascinating tale of science, engineering wizardry, and commercial skullduggery that produced the engines which made powered flight possible. A good balance of technical material and characters in this excellent history. More
[Washington]: [Museum of African Art], [1965]. Limted edition, #106 of 250 sets. Prints in black and raw umber. Four prints on individual sheets, 16 3/4" x 22" Suite of four prints by Ben Shahn, each signed and numbered by him, depicting Frederick Douglass at a different stage of his monumental..... More
Glasgow: Jemes MacLehose and Sons, 1907. Limited edition, #95 of 100 sets. Folding plates, maps. Hardcovers. Octavos. xxxvi, 396 and xxii, 330 pages. A beautiful reprint of these important accounts of explorations in North America by the "Sometymes Governour in those Countryes and Admirall of New England." . Lots of..... More