New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1939. Black and white plates. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. viii, 432 pages. Bates was a cipher operator and the manager of the War Department Telegraph Office from 1861-1866, and thus saw Lincoln almost daily during his Presidency. The resulting portrait of Lincoln is a valuable..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1931. First edition. Black and white photographic plates. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. xiv, 206 pages. Julia Taft and her two young brothers were often in the White House as playmates of the two youngest Lincoln boys, beginning soon after President Lincoln's inauguration in 1861..... More
(Cambridge): (University Press), 1871. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 25 pages. Memorial volume to Commodore George S. Blake, the Superintendent who adroitly guided the U. S. Naval Academy through the Civil War. This volume is written by Blake's nephew, and discusses his naval career, including the dangers he..... More
New York: International Publishers, (1940). First edition. Black and white photographic plates. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 319 pages. The autobiography of "Mother Bloor"...lecturer, feminist, labor agitator, organizer of the Socialist Party, and one of the founders of the American Communist Party. Signed by Bloor on front free endpaper..... More
Cincinnati: Wilstach, Baldwin, & Co., 1875. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Octavo, 276 pages. Rather harsh criticism of Sherman's Memoirs, arguing that in them he belittles the contributions of other generals and blames them for his own failures. Some of Boynton criticism appears justified when he compares selected incidents..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1957). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 330 pages. Byron's autobiographical novel of the life of a Chesapeake Bay waterman. Certainly an essential book in any collection on the Bay. Dust jacket illustration by Jack Lewis. Ref. PRITCHETT & WOODCOCK 1068. More
New Orleans: Printed by Cook, Young & Co., 1862. Printed yellow wraps over stitched binding. Duodecimo. x, [blank leaf], 46, [blank leaf] pages. A rare detailed record of sugar produced by slave labor in Louisiana, ending with the Union Army invasion of the state in 1862. Pierre Champomier..... More
Raleigh: Printed at the "Daily Confederate" Office, 1865. Stitched without wrappers. Octavo. 102 pages. The Grand Lodge met in Raleigh the first week of December, 1864. In his address herein Grand Master Eli Faucette Watson, alluding to the Civil War and the Confederacy, notes that the ancient fraternity of Free..... More
New York and London`: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1925. Early printing. Decorative paper over boards with yellow cloth spine. Octavo. xviii, 108 pages. Countee Cullen's first published book, a collection of poetry on issues of race, the African American experience. Cullen was a prominent member of the Harlem..... More
[Anaheim?]: Walt Disney Productions, 1957. Map. Single sheet, 11" x 8 1/2" Tom Sawyer Island opened in 1956, just a year after Disneyland itself. This early promotional map brochure was produced in 1957, and features a great pictorial map of the island on one side and descriptions of its attractions..... More
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Princeton: Students of Princeton University, 1917. Advertising. Printed wrappers. Octavo. [x], [297]-346, [vi] pages. Two early F. Scott Fitzgerald print appearances, one story and one poem, in Princeton's undergraduate literary magazine. His short story "The Spire and the Gargoyle" occupies this issue's first eleven pages of content, and the college-angsty..... More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1938. First edition. Black and white photographic plates, scale drawings, maps. Hardcover. Quarto. xviii, 355 pages. Story of the found of Jamestown in Virginia (1607) and St. Mary's City in Maryland (1634) through the colonists' houses, pottery, hardware, and decorative tiles. In addition to 68..... More
Cincinnati: Jno. F. Uhlhorn, Steam Job Printer, 1866. Frontispiece portrait of George Rogers Clark. Three quarter gilt morocco and marbled boards. Quarto. 158 pages. Written in 1826 by a Maryland veteran of the Revolutionary War to refute the charge that Michael Cresap "was infamous for his many Indian murders," as..... More
Washington: Associated Publishers, Inc., [1947]. [Fourth Edition]. Black and white frontispiece, portraits throughout. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xxiv, 354 pages. Dr. Kerlin's last and most complete anthology and study of African American verse in the first half of the 20th century. Includes indexes, information of the poets, numerous photographic portraits..... More
Richmond: Whittet & Shipperson, 1915. First edition. Saddle-stapled printed wrappers. Octavo. 36 pages. Matthew Fontaine Maury's pioneering work in mine warfare for the Confederacy, written by his son. Maury, a Virginian, resigned from the U. S. Navy when Virginia seceded, becoming a Commander in the Confederate Navy. Ref. NEVINS..... More
Lincoln: The Woodruff Press, 1913. First edition. Black and white photographic frontispiece plus 15 other plates (16 in total). Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 311 pages. Scarce, heavily autobiographical first novel by Oscar Micheaux, relating his experiences as a homesteader in Gregory County, South Dakota and the failure of his..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, (1925). Limited edition, #123 of 450 copies. Numerous illustrations. Hardcover. Octavo. [xviii], 451 pages. Fourteen essays on books, book collecting, authors, and related topics by the famous early 20th century collector, A. Edward Newton. A large paper limited edition. Signed by Newton on limitation page..... More
Annapolis: Printed by J. Hughes, 1822. First edition. Two fold-out tables. Modern quarter Morocco and cloth over boards. Octavo. 92 pages. Scarce report on the affairs of the Potomac Company in 1821, as investigated by a joint commission appointed by Maryland and Virginia. Here Maryland Governor Samuel Stevens formally transmits..... More
New York: Covici Friede Publishers, (1936). Second edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [x], 269 pages. Historical fiction based on the life of Sir Henry Morgan, and Steinbeck's first novel, originally published by McBride in 1929. This copy is the second edition according to the standard Steinbeck reference by Goldstone..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. Illustrations in color and black & white. Hardcover. Quarto. xxvi, 155 pages. The ambitious project, edited by Edith Wharton, to benefit civilians displaced by World War I. Contains essays, poetry, art, and music from nearly 60 contributors, including the likes of Sarah Bernhardt, Rupert..... More