New York: June 28, 1955. Reproduced (from this print) in PORTRAITS: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978). Read More about Portrait photograph of Chester Himes

Paris: Charles Gosselin, 1831. Johannot, Tony. First edition, third issue. First edition, third issue, of Hugo's first great success as a novelist, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, in a fine retrospective binding by René Aussourd. Though styled the "Troisème Édition" on the title-page, this is in fact the third issue of..... Read More about Notre-Dame de Paris

Washington [D.C.]: Government Printing Office, 1861. First edition. Inscribed to Benjamin Silliman. William Goetzmann calls Lieutenant Ives's complete report, "The best by far of these individual reports...It is a long, carefully written journal, consciously literary but with a maximum amount of attention to scientific observation. John Strong Newberry's geological report..... Read More about Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C....

[Washington: n.d., 1960s]. A fine informal photograph of President Johnson with author and hunter Robert Ruark. Read More about Photograph of the President, seated in a chair beside author Robert Ruark and another official,...

Underwood, 55 Broad St., Stroudsburg, Monroe Co., Pa: Jan. 1947. Author's Corrected Typescript, Signed on Title. David H. Keller, M.D. (1880-1966), was born in Philadelphia and educated at the University of Pennsylvania. After practicing medicine for more than a decade, he became an neuropsychiatrist in 1914, and subsequently practiced in..... Read More about Corrected Typescript Signed of his novel, The Homunculus

New York: Derrydale Press, 1930. Kirmse, Marguerite. First edition, one of 750 copies. British-born Marguerite Kirmse (1866-1954) trained in London as a harpist and artist. Arriving in New York in 1910, she found herself unable to perform because oftroubles with the musicians’ union. She worked as an artist, and began..... Read More about Marguerite Kirmse's Dogs. Introduction by Reginald T. Townsend

Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. First American edition, one of 56 copies to secure copyright. One of 56 Copies. Poet and diplomat James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) burned bright and briefly. He joined the diplomatic service in 1908, trained for two years, and was posted to Constantinople in 1910, “but..... Read More about An Essay on Flecker

New York: George H. Doran Co, 1927. First American Edition, Number 209 of 250 copies on white laid watermarked paper. With line drawings from the 1926 ‘Seven Pillars’. Original price $30.00. Read More about Revolt in the Desert

Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud, 1903. Number 49 of 60 copies printed on Japan Paper, with the etched plates in three states, two of which are colored by hand, with an ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR FOLLOWING THE TITLE, SIGNED BY ROCHEGROSSE. Read More about Le Poison des Pierreries

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. Fifty-seventh edition. Inscribed to Ronald Colman. "To Ronald Colman In the hopes that some day, not in too far distant, our acquaintance will not be limited to screen and book. Sincerely yours H. C. McNeile 'sapper" Nov. 34." Read More about Bull-Dog Drummond

Pawlet, Vt: The Banyan Press, [1954]. First edition, copy no. 123 of 210 numbered copies. Merrill's extremely scarce early collection, this copy inscribed to Robert Wilson (owner of the famous Phoenix Book Shop in Greenwich Village) in 1964. Read More about Short Stories

London: Bohn, 1842; 1854. Second edition, corrected and enlarged. Superb Hand-Colored Plates. The "great work" (ODNB) of Samuel Meyrick (1783-1848), antiquary and leading historian and collector of arms and armor. Meyrick's Inquiry into Antient Armour was first published in 1824 and appears here in an expanded edition. Meyrick constructed Goodrich..... Read More about A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, as it existed in Europe, but particularly in England,...

London: T.C, Newby, 1845. First edition. Sporting Triple-Decker. "The aim has been simply to depicture ... those invigorating scenes connected with our national sports ... " - Preface "Like his contemporaries, 'Nimrod' (C.J. Apperley) and 'Yorkshireman' (Surtees), Mills deserves the foremost recognition amongst the ranks of those versatile scribes, pertaining..... Read More about The Old Hall; or, Our Hearth and Homestead ... In Three Volumes