First editions, rare books, and manuscript material from Columbus to the modern era. Specializing in works on African American history, the Civil War, the American Revolution, presidents, the Ivy League, slavery & abolition, Indians and New York City.
Washington: 1876. First edition. In the Yellowstone: "Such fishing I have never had before" One of the earliest... Read More about A Trip to the Yellowstone National Park in July, August and September, 1875. From the Journal of...
Price: $22,500
Princeton, NJ: 1947. The total edition was 356 examples of which 53 were destroyed. A very detailed etching typical of the meticulous style of Arms, renowned for his prolific printmaking, specifically of Gothic architecture. Julian P. Boyd was a librarian (1940-52), and later history professor at Princeton University. His preservation..... Read More about Etching of the Herbert Lowell Dillon Gymnasium at Princeton, NJ
Price: $350
Washington, D.C: Way, 1808. Read More about Papers relative to French Affairs communicated by...to Mr. Monroe
Price: $65
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. First Edition. Interesting inscription, "Purchased at a concert given by some of the students from Hampton .....Brooklyn" These concerts were a fund raising campaign for Virginia Hall. Read More about Hampton and Its Student by Two of Its Teachers With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, arranged by...
Price: $150
New Haven, Ct: Feb. 5, 1767. Arnold's ship denied entry. Written complaint lodged with the New Haven Customs House, in which two sailors, Rutherford Cooke and Caleb Comstock, protest the treatment of their ship at port - a ship of which Benedict Arnold was captain and owner. The two men..... Read More about Manuscript document, being a protest lodged against the New Haven customs house, after repeated...
Price: $5,500
Providence: Printed at…by Carter and Wilkinson, 1797. First edition. Included “The Last Words of Shalum; –or the Dying Indian” by Philip Freneau and “On Hearing a Partridge Drum” by his father Dr. Jonathan Arnold, one of the founders of St. Johnsbury, VT. The editor, Burrill, was the Attorney General of..... Read More about Poems by the late Josias Lyndon Arnold, Esq. of St. Johnsbury Vermont formerly of Providence and...
Price: $500
[Asbury Park, New Jersey]: 1924. Nicely produced club book, illustrated with portraits of members, photographs of fishing, line drawings, and a good group of articles. “New Record Tuna Catch” by Claude E. Holgate mentions Zane Grey. Van Campen Heilner (author of Salt Water Fishing, 1937) was president of the club..... Read More about Asbury Park Fishing Club 1924
Price: $750
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First Edition. "Headlines of other Days," is what this book may have been called, according the blurb on the dust jacket flap. "… Mr. Asbury has assembled here the most startling, exciting, and eccentric events in the history of New York City." Many of..... Read More about All Around the Town
Price: $75
New York: The Neale Publishing Co, 1914. First edition. Read More about The Life of Turner Ashby
Price: $300
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. Ashley, Clifford. First edition. One of only 1035 made of which 1000 were for sale. Read More about Whaleships of New Bedford
Price: $125
New York: April 6 1832. Olcott was the president of the Mechanics and Farmers' Bank of Albany, N.Y. and a prominent figure in New York State politics and finance. Reads in part: " I have your letter of 4st & regret---not get the loan of 1200$..." Read More about ALS. To Thomas W. Olcott. About a loan
Price: $750
New York: May 12, 1813. Concerning an indenture between the Columbian Insurance Company of New York and Astor, John Grant and John G. Coster, Merchants relating to lands taken by the British during the War of 1812. Read More about Document, signed (“John Jacob Astor”
Price: $2,000
Frankfort, KY: Printed for the Author by A.G. Hodges, 1842. First edition. Read More about Narrative of the Suffering & Defeat of the North-Western Army, Under General Winchester
Price: $250
120 Riverside Drive, New York: 24 December 1959. Fine note to photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt from Brooks Atkinson (1894-1984), New York Times journalist and dean of theater critics, and an early champion of Eugene O’Neill. “When you were working on me you said you were glad it was raining because it..... Read More about Typed Letter, Signed, to Alfred Eisenstaedt, thanking him for portrait prints
Price: $150
New York: Harper & Row, [1967]. First edition. Read More about The Reds and the Blacks. A Personal Adventure
Price: $100
1917- 1936. GROTON SCHOOL. A photographic chronicle of the first two decades in the life of Gordon Auchincloss from infancy to college. Highlights include the Groton School 50th Anniversary, June, 1934 with Fraklin D. Roosevelt pictured seated in the center of the porch, the Groton Football team of which Gordon..... Read More about 2 Photograph Albums of Gordon Auchincloss including images from his years at the Groton School...
Price: $1,500
New York: Thornhill Press, 1999. 125 of 175 numbered copies printed on handmade paper and signed by Auchincloss, Banfield & the publisher, Luke Pontifell. Read More about Civil Wars: Three Tales of Old New York. Illustrations by Elliott Banfield
Price: $750
New York: npub, 1831. Reprinted selections from a 1828 pamphlet published under the auspices of the New York Anti-Auction Committee, titled “Remarks upon the Aucstion System as practised in New-York....” Very reminiscent of the situation today. Read More about Facts, Important to be Known by the Manufacturers, Mechanics, and All Other Classes of the Community
Price: $300
A list of buyers and money spent. On p.5 is a summary-"Amount of the appraisal $462.61/Amount of the Vendue list $302.09/ less on sale $160.52." Read More about Manuscript of "A lis (sic) of the vendue led at the late residence of Abn. Emens, des. in...
Price: $250
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1917. First edition. Read More about Audubon the Naturalist. A History of His Life and Times
Price: $250
Cincinnati: Stewart and Kidd Company, 1916. First edition. Account of big game hunting in the St. Elias Range, Yukon Territory."- Arctic Bibliography. Read More about Camp Fires in the Yukon
Price: $150
N.p. [American]: ca. 1780s? A somewhat bleak collection of four sacred poems, accomplished in a neat manuscript hand with a lovely calligraphic title, and signed by Mary S. Austin. The titles include "On the Death of Miss Hamilton By a Lady of Hudson," "A. Hymm," "Maria," and "Mortality." Read More about Four Manuscript Poems
Price: $500
San Felipe de Austin: : Printed by G.B. Cotten, 1829. A Certificate of Admission to Austin's Colony: One of the Earliest Obtainable Texas Imprints. A rare imprint from the San Felipe de Austin press of Godwin Brown Cotten, an original certificate of admission to Austin's colony. "These grants were the..... Read More about El Ciudadano Estevan F. Austin, Empresario, Para Introducir Emigrados Estrangeros, En Las...
Price: $25,000
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1833. First Edition. Founder of the “New Colonization System”. Following imprisonment, Wakefield began to study colonial affairs of Australia with an eye towards immigration. Recognizing that the depressed condition of Australian affairs was due to a lack of efficiency and sensible handling he gathered..... Read More about England and America. A Comparison of the Social and Politcal State of Both Nations
Price: $650
Los Angeles: July 15 & November 17, 1939. The Singing Cowboy Signs with 20th-Century Fox. Following this agreement — due, it is said, to the intervention of 20th-Century Fox star Jane Withers — Western box-office star Gene Autry signed with the Hollywood giant, and made his first movie with them..... Read More about Two Typed Letters of Agreement, signed, to Twentieth-Century Fox, confirming two amendments...
Price: $850
