New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. Two portrait plates (including frontispiece), sketch maps by the author. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. xviii, 634 pages. An excellent account and critique of operations of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, with Alexander here recording his firsthand testimony of many critical points of the..... More
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. Limited Edition, set #556 of 1250. Black and white frontispieces. Original cloth over boards. Octavos. xix, [I], 1-220 pages and xix, [I], 1-217 pages. Excellent companion guides to food and cocktails, featuring recipes and concoctions gathered from the author's many travels. The cookery..... More
Baltimore: The Sun Printing Office, 1922. First edition. Map. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 107 pages. Cotten was an adventurer, army officer, writer, and noted collector of North Carolinaiana. He left his native North Carolina under the influence of "Klondike Fever," and this is his account of that adventure based on notes..... More
Baltimore: [Proof Press], 1935. Illustrations from eight drawings by the author. Stapled wraps. Duodecimo. 22 pages. Small pamphlet of racially offensive verses and cartoons inspired by the 1901 White House dinner at which President Roosevelt hosted Booker T. Washington. Dr. Washington was an advisor to Roosevelt and was invited to..... More
London: The Scientific Book Club, (1957). Hardcover. Octavo. x, 310 pages. William Osler noted, "The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals." Here is the fascinating story of mankind's relationship with mind-altering drugs, from the ice age to modern times. Includes..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1929]. Limited edition. Color plates, black and white drawings. Vellum over boards. Quarto. 232 pages. Beautiful copy of this classic, with 12 full page color plates by Arthur Rackham. This is #155 of 200 copies in the American edition, and is SIGNED by Rackham under the..... More
New York: William Farquhar Payson, (1932). First edition. Sketches by Grant throughout. Cloth over boards. Quarto. xiv, 127 pages. An excellent visual contribution to the history of whaling. Grant expertly combines strict accuracy of detail with vivacious presentation in the 64 sketches herein. Each full page illustration is accompanied by..... More
Baltimore: Printed [for the author] by Frederick G. Schaeffer, 1821. First edition. Frontispiece. Leather and marbled paper over boards. Octavo. 77 pages. Classic early 19th century history of Maryland. Frontispiece illustration of the State House at Annapolis. Ref. SABIN 28828; HOWES G425. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1945). Early printing. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 248 pages. Highly influential defense of classical liberalism and opposition to centralized planning schemes of government. Hayek argues that in abandoning classical liberalism and free markets, and instead trying to ensure continuing prosperity by centralized planning, governments necessarily require..... More
Philadelphia: Chilton Book Company, (1965). Book club edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxx, 507 pages. Herbert's epic tale of planetary feudalism in the distant future, and control of the important but inhospitable Arrakis--the desert planet known as Dune. Dune was rejected by several publishers before being published by Chilton Book..... More
New York: Random House, (1972). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 305 pages. Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter Sy Hersh tells the story of the origins and cover-up of this tragic incident in the Vietnam War. Hersh had many well-placed sources, and also combed the 25,000 pages of the Army's undisclosed..... More
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Eighteenmo. 219 pages. Henry James's first novel, originally published serially in the Atlantic Monthly in 1871, and here for the first time in book form. The simple and melodramatic plot caused James to essentially disown this..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, [1966]. Black and white photographs. Softcover. Square quarto. 341, [2] pages. Kaprow's important book on the then emerging field of performance art. It has the special merit of documenting this movement from within, at the beginning, in real time. He had originally written..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1915]. First U. S. edition. Color and black and white illustrations, maps. Cloth and leather over boards. Quartos. xxx, 349 and xiv, 338 pages. Sir Douglas Mawson, author of this account, was an Australian geologist who led the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1914. The expedition..... More
[Lakehurst?]: Clements, 1925. Silver gelatin photograph. Framed. Approximately 10 3/4" x 37 3/4", sight 6 5/8" x 31 1/4" Uncommon original silver gelatin panoramic photograph of the Ohio crash of the U. S. Navy's first rigid airship, the USS Shenandoah. The Shenandoah encountered a severe storm over Ohio on the..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, (1935). First edition. Illustrated by Roy C. Nelson. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [72 pages]. A collection of 30 cocktail recipes contributed by noteworthy writers of the early 20th century. The title is a spoof on Stark Young's 1934 Civil War novel, "So Red the Rose." The..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. Tissue-guarded frontispiece portraits, black and white plates. Green cloth over boards. Octavos. A very handsome collection of Poe's works, including the tales, poems, and literary criticism. Poe had marked up copies of a few volumes of his works with changes for future editions, and..... More
Baltimore: E. J. Coale, 1826. First edition. Marbled boards, leather spine and fore corners. Octavo. [6], 163 pages. A very observant outsider's portrayal of American society and government in the early 19th century. Poletika (Poletica) had lived in the United States from 1810 to 1812, and returned as the second..... More
[New York]: [Mail and Express Job Print], [1912]. Stapled pamphlet. Octavo. 16 pages. Campaign piece from Theodore Roosevelt's unsuccessful bid for reelection to the Presidency in 1912. Here he confronts racial issues as nominee of the Progressive or "Bull Moose" party. Roosevelt founded the party after losing the Republican nomination..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, (1939). First Edition, Limited, #268 of 525 sets. Black and white plates, cuts. Cloth over boards. Quartos. Sandburg's classic four-volume history of Abraham Lincoln's Presidency and the Civil War, told largely through the words of Lincoln and his contemporaries. This is the..... More
[Albany]: (S.n.), 1858. Diagrams, profiles of canals, some folding. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 192 pages. Detailed report for 1857 on the organization, finances, and ongoing improvements connected with some 900 miles of canals then in operation in New York. The state's major canals at this time were the Erie..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925. First edition. Frontispiece portraits. Publisher's cloth over boards. Octavos. [x], 650 and [viii], [651]-1283 pages. The life of James A. Garfield, as revealed in his own letters, journals, reminiscences, and speeches. Garfield's extensive papers were systematically organized and classified by his former secretary, Joseph..... More
Ithaca: The Thrift Press, [c.1937]. Stapled wraps. Sixteenmo. 52 pages. Interesting edition of the 20th century's most influential guide to good writing practices. The first edition was privately printed for Strunk in 1918, intended for use by his students at Cornell University. That edition comprised 43 pages. The first trade..... More
London: John Murray, 1826. Second edition. Marbled paper over boards with leather spine and fore corners. Octavo. [iv], 377 pages. Gleig's journal of the British army's invasion of the United States during the War of 1812. Describes the voyage over, military engagements, failures and successes on both sides, etc. There..... More
London: T. Longman and J. Buckland, etc. 1753. Half leather. Octavo. xvi, 362, [ii ads]. Isaac Watts' supplement to his classic treatise on logic. Here he delves into other areas of self improvement that are not strictly concerned with logic. There are chapters on observation, reading and books, the judgment..... More