Chillicothe, Ohio: Mountain House Press, 1950. Number 2 of 210 copies (200 for sale), signed by the author. COPY #2. "The last work of the Mountain House Press and the author's magnum opus, this book provides a history of American papermaking by listing and describing the first paper mill in..... Read More about Papermaking by Hand in America

London: Printed for J. & P. Knapton, T. Longman, et al, 1747. First edition, second state. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. Signature A was reset to remove the address to Chesterfield on page 1, so that the text begins simply “My Lord”. Fleeman notes other changes (p. 34 in this copy has the..... Read More about The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language; Addressed to the Right Honourable Philip...

New York: Epstein & Carroll. Distributed by Random House, [1961]. First edition. Adam Gopnick, in his appreciation of the novel, called it "the closest thing that American literature has to an Alice in Wonderland of its own...with illustrations, by Jules Feiffer, that are as perfectly matched to Juster’s text as..... Read More about The Phantom Tollbooth

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First edition, Number 151 of 200 copies printed on Worthy Aurelian paper and signed by the author. Printed in Bodoni Type. Printed at the Plimpton Press. The Nobel Prize-winning author's greatest book, the story of Hans Castorp's bildung in a Davos sanitarium. Read More about The Magic Mountain [Der Zauberberg]. Translated from the Greman by H. T. Lowe-Porter

London: R. H. Porter, February 1889 - August 1902. First edition. The Foundation Work for Mayan Studies. Although the Mayan ruins of Central America were made famous by Stephens's and Catherwood's early explorations, scientific and serious archaeological study began with Alfred Maudslay. A Cambridge polymath who became intrigued by the..... Read More about Biologia Centrali-Americana; Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and...

New York: Julian Meissner, [1956]. First Edition. INSCRIBED TO HER AGENT AT PUBLICATION. Inscribed on the ffep to her agent: "To my dear friend Jacques – in gratitude for his patience, kindness and smart head. With love, Grace Metalious Sept 27, 1956." The book was published in late September, 1956..... Read More about Peyton Place

New York: Mail & Express, 1899. From Bowling Green to 59th Street. An ephemeral turn of the century depiction of both sides of Broadway from Bowling Green to 59th Street, valuable not only for the architectural renderings but also the locations and types of businesses. Rare, with OCLC recording only..... Read More about A Pictorial Description of Broadway by the Mail & Express [wrapper title

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. First edition, no. 7 of 50 copies only on Japan vellum stock, signed by Merle Johnson on the limitation page. The deluxe edition on Japan vellum of this collection of pirate tales and illustrations by Howard Pyle, compiled by Merle Johnson. Read More about Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. Compiled by Merle Johnson

Boston: Little Brown, [1990]. Special issue, advanced state, one of eight copies reportedly produced. Rare special issue. Pynchon's highly anticipated first new book after Gravity's Rainbow, which was published 17 years prior. Pynchon and his editor Ray Roberts made corrections to the proof up until press day, and no advance..... Read More about Vineland

New York: Abkco Music, 1975. First edition. SIGNED BY MICK JAGGER. Read More about Rolling Stones Anthology Vol. 2

London: Longmans, 1959. First edition. "I went to Southern Arabia only just in time." Signed on the title page. Arabian Sands is Thesiger's first and most important work, recounting his crossing of the Empty Quarter under the aegis of the Middle East Anti-Locust Unit: first in 1946-7, on a 2000..... Read More about Arabian Sands

London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd, 1939. First edition. In rare dust-jacket. Friedrich Von Hayek (1899-1992) was an Austrian-British economist who spent much of his career at the London School of Economics. With Gunnar Myrdal he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974 for work "on money and..... Read More about Profits, Interest and Investment and Other Essays on the Theory of Industrial Fluctuations

Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, [circa 1800]. Large Broadside Printing of Washington's Farewell Address. Written largely by Alexander Hamilton, Washington's famed Farewell Address was first printed in newspapers in September 1796 at the end of his second term as President, emphasizing the importance of unity and morality, the dangers of political..... Read More about Address of the late General George Washington, To the Citizens of the United States, on declining...