Brockton, Mass: Harold C. Keith, April, 1931. First edition. ONLY COPY. Well written and nicely illustrated privately printed account of an Alaska hunting expedition. The party of four, organized by H. Wendell Endicott, comprised Endicott, George Perry, Latham Reed, and Harold C. Keith, whose diary for 14 August to 7..... Read More about Being the Diary of a Hunting Trip in the Interior of Alaska in the Summer of 1930. Printed...

Honolulu: Hardy Marks Publications, 1997. First edition. Candy says…. Of all Andy Warhol's superstars Candy Darling was arguably the brightest. This book compiles edited diary entries written at different times and in different journals with various letters and sketches. Includes a preface by filmmaker Mary Harron who directed 'I Shot..... Read More about My Face for the World to See: The Diaries, Letters, and Drawings of Candy Darling

Gates Mills: William G. Berner, [co. 1944]. Crehore was the inventor of the “Polarizing Photo-chronography,” (measures short intervals of time) of the “Synchronography (with G. O. Squier) which was used for high and low speed telegraphy, of the “Micrograph” which recorded heard actions and the “Interferometer Barography” which stydies waves..... Read More about Autobiography

London: 1880. Read More about Madame de Maintenon, A Memoir

A Leide: chez les Elzevirs, 1648. First Elzevier edition. The celebrated memoirs of the foremost French Renaissance historian (1445-1509), notable as an important analysis of 15th century culture, politics and personality. "...The graphic style of his narrative and above all the keenness of his insight into the motives of his..... Read More about Les Memoires de Messire Philippe de Commines, Sr. d'Argenton

[New York]: [William Edwin Rudge; The Viking Press], 1928-1937. One of 570 numbered copies, this being no. 252, designed by Bruce Rogers. This set was designed by Bruce Rogers in the last of his eight years at William Rudge's plant. The acquisition of the papers by Isham is itself a...... Read More about Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle in the collection of Lt.-Colonel Ralph...

Boston: From the Press of Isaac R. Butts; Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1839. First separate edition, half title. Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch, Inscribed. Inscribed on the upper cover to the American essayist "Henry H. Tuckerman from the Author." and then again on the limitation page [Printed]This copy is..... Read More about Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch. By His Son...Extract from: Mécanique Céleste

[N.p., Massachusetts: 1915]. Hunting in the Sheslay River, British Columbia, 1915. Superb record of an expedition by Harvard graduates of the class of 1915 Richard Bullock (of Fitchburg, Mass.) and Robert Winthrop Kean (of the prominent New Jersey family), in the Carriar district of British Columbia. The party went in..... Read More about Typescript diary and photograph album of a 1915 hunting expedition to British Columbia

Hanover, New Hampshire: Benjamin True [Vol. I]; Boston: Printed by E. Lincoln for Caleb Bingham [Vol. II], 1798-1804. First editions of both volumes. Notable account of an American scoundrel. Stephen Burroughs (1765-1840) was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, enlisted in the army at age 14. He soon deserted and was..... Read More about Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs

Shanghai: Printed at The "North China Herald" Office, 1873. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed from the author to Douglas Jones on first blank. “The immense tracts of country available for purposes of sport and well stocked with game, the entire absence of game laws, and the friendly disposition of the..... Read More about The Sportsman's Diary for Shooting Trips in Northern China

London: Printed by Baylis, Greville-Street and Sold by the Author, No. 29, Great Pulteney-Street, Golden Square, 1798. First edition in English, with half-title. Cléry was the faithful valet de chambre of Louis XVI during his imprisonment in the Tour du Temple, and thus an intimate witness to the days leading..... Read More about A Journal of Occurrences at the Temple, during the Confinement of Louis XVI, King of France. By...

Cleveland, Ohio: The Rowfant Club, 1944. First edition, 201 of 250 copies, printed by George Banta Publishing Company Menasha, Wisconsin. Read More about A Visit to Le Puy-en-Velay. An Illustrated Diary