Ohio: [circa 1900-1950]. Mostly includes candid shots posed in front of houses, in cars, in parks, in a restaurant, etc., plus a handful of studio images. Several include references to places in Ohio and several include later ink mostly first name identifications. Read More about Small group of mostly vernacular photographs of an African Americans, possibly from various...

Kowaliga, Alabama: August 22, 1912. The letter begins: "Imagine in a remote rural community of Alabama, one thousand colored men, women and children 'leveling up' by means of the school-life which the name at the top of this letter-head signifies ... The uplifting influence of this unique work is all..... Read More about Typed letter signed, to Miss C. Livingston of Manitou, NY, soliciting funds for the Kowaliga...

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First edition, edition of 950 copies, this copy unnumbered and marked for Review. Inscribed. First edition of one of the most beloved books of American sporting stories. The title story was first published in Recreation magazine in 1916, collected in John C. Phillips’ Classics..... Read More about De Shootinest Gent'man and other tales. Introduction by Col. Harold P. Sheldon

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho: The author, 1932. "Since the financial depression has thrown thousands of men out of employment, our attention is once more drawn to the possibilities offered by the more remote regions scattered thgroughout the north-west ... Because our information is obtained first-hand and from reliable sources, we do..... Read More about Fundamentals of Prospecting and Placer Mining and Opportunities Offered in the Clearwater and...

New York: The Macaualy Company, [1933]. First edition of the author's second novel. WITH 2 THURBER DRAWINGS. With pencil portrait of Malcolm Cowley by Thurber on the ffep, entitled "Portait of the Artist as a Young Man" signed by him, additionally signed by Cowley on the half-title and with a...... Read More about Yesterday's Burdens

Pittsburgh: John H. Campbell & Co. [The Armor Lithographing Company], 1883. The Golden Age of King Coal, Queen Coke and Princess Steel. A very rare and detailed cadastral map, identifying the land holdings in the coke producing region (including those of H.C. Frick Coke Co.) but also naming towns, railroad..... Read More about Connellsville Coal and Coke Region from Latrobe, Westmoreland County, PA to Fairchance, Fayete...

London: Richard Ware, 1733. Read More about An Appeal to the Genuine Records and Testimonies of Heathen and Jewish Writers in Defence of...

London: Bradbury & Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, 1850. Browne, H.K. First edition, bound from the parts, mixed issue, with engraved title dated 1850, p. 93 “controuled”, p. 132 corrected, dark plate “The River” at p. 482. Read More about The Personal History of David Copperfield

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1900. First edition. Author's First Book. Read More about Sister Carrie

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. First edition, second impression; (one of 3500 copies), without "First American Edition" on copyright page and without publisher's codes in brackets present in later impressions, with two later edition dustjackets with prices of $2.25 and nine titles on back panel, and $2.50 with..... Read More about Four Quartets

London: David Bogue, 1852. First edition. Choice English adaptation of the beast-headed people of French master J.J. Grandville, here in the light of the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace. The illustrations are wood-engravings, mainly drawn by H.G. Hine and engraved by various hands,including S. & A. Slader, H. Vizetelly..... Read More about Comical People. Illustrated with Sixteen Pictures taken from the Embroidered Tapestry contributed...

Montreal, P.Q., Canada: J.C. Hackett, 1932. Second edition. Who killed the Broadway Butterfly? In 1922 John Kearsley Mitchell, III, a millionaire and the president of the Philadelphia Rubber Works who was married to the daughter of Edward T. Stotesbury (a Philadelphia partner of J .P. Morgan) met Dorothy "Dot" King..... Read More about John Kearsley Mitchell, III. Millionaire Muderer- The Tragedy of the Big Rubber Man and the...

Boston: J. Buffum, 1856. INSCRIBED TO HELEN HAY (WHITNEY) FROM HER BROTHER. inscribed on the front free endpaper by John Hay "Ellie Hay/from her Brother/John/1857" and on the following page the signature of "Miss Helen J.[ulia] Hay, 1857 June 1." Helen Hay Whitney was named after her. Likely first edition..... Read More about The Little Esop

Philadelphia: G.B. Zieber & Co., and Carey & Hart, 1845, 1846. First editions. FIRST EDITIONS. First editions of Forester's famous novels, two of the most sought-after works of American sport. Both were originally issued in wrappers, of which only fragments survive, and both are rare in any condition. This is..... Read More about The Warwick Woodlands … By Frank Forester [together with:] My Shooting Box

Halifax, [Nova Scotia] and London: published by John B. Strong ... and Day & Son, 1860. First edition. A rare color-plate view book and authoritative fishing guide. This beautifully illustrated work is a record of a six week fishing and camping trip by the author from Bathurst, New Brunswick, along..... Read More about Sketches on the Nipisaguit, a river of New Brunswick, B.[ritish] N.[orth] America

New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1927. First edition. Read More about Down the Fairway. The Golf Life and Play of Robert T. Jones, Jr

New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1941]. First edition, stamped on front free endpaper: “Review Copy / Publication Date / April 3 1941.”. Weldon Kees’ Copy. Weldon Kees’ copy with his ownership inscription (name and New York / 1941) on front free endpaper. Presentation copy, inscribed by Gregory also on the front..... Read More about Poems 1930-1940

Chicago: Carbury and Reed, 1919. First and only edition, privately printed and subscription only, in an unknown limitation. Scarce, privately printed, Ring Lardner illustrated book. A collection of caricatures of friends and associates of Lardner accompanied with limericks. Includes notable Chicago figures; Charles Comiskey, the sports writer, golfer "Chick" Evans..... Read More about Regular Fellows I Have Met

Paris: Pierre Husson, 1706. From the collection of John Waldie (b.1781 - d.1862), who was the administrator of Hendersyde Park at Kelso, Roxburgshire, Scotland. Read More about Méthode abrégée et facile pour apprendre la géographie… avec un abrege de la sphere…

1880. A manuscript journal of a European vacation. A neatly written, and keenly observed account of a journey at sea. On board the summer maiden-voyage of the steamship Gallia, the narrator takes note of other passenger's conversations; a fumbling man attempting to impress a young lady with political conversation discovers..... Read More about Manuscript journal kept on board the Gallia, Cunard Line steamship, 1880

New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1945]. First edition. His First Book, Inscribed with a Sketch. Inscribed on the flyleaf beneath a pen-and-ink portrait of himself waving to the recipient: “For Maury with regards from a friend Bill Mauldin” UP FRONT was Mauldin's Pulitzer Prize-winning first book, featuring his immortal..... Read More about Up Front. Text and Pictures by

New York: George Wittenborn, Inc, 1961. Advance copy of the 1961 printing (using text of the 1946 revised and expanded edition) [issued as part of the series, The Documents of Modern Art]; publisher's pre-publication copy, "Sample: Sent for Approval" for in-house use [with printer's label, dated '8/30/61,' stating thus (on..... Read More about The New Vision, 1928, Fourth Revised Edition 1946/ and Abstract of an Artist by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

London: Sherratt & Hughes, 1907. First edition. Account of the life and adventures of Norwegian fishing guide Halsten Muri, who fished the Olden and Stryn. Editor J.A. Hutton notes, “there is not a single river in the Nord Fjord which he has not fished, and he was the first man..... Read More about Reminiscences of Halsten Muri. Edited by J. Arthur Hutton

[Newark, NJ]: 1804-1822. The initial entries from the summer of 1804 are largely recording his costs of boarding, followed by an accounting cabinet making done for Caleb Bruen, a cabinetmaker and distiller in Newark. This included the building of picture frames, trunk boxes, a portable desk, a bedstead, dining table..... Read More about Manuscript account book kept by Newark carpenter and cabinetmaker Aaron Ogden, recording sales...

Edinburgh and London: Young J. Pentland, 1895. Second edition, thoroughly revised. Read More about The Principles and Practice of Medicine. Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of...

Oxford; London, New York and Toronto: Clarendon Press; Henry Frowde, 1909. Second Impression. Dr. William Francis Rienhoff, Jr.'s copy. Osler's essays on John Bassett, the eponymous student; Thomas Dover, physician and buccaneer; Keats, the apothecary poet; John Locke as physician; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Sir Thomas Browne; and others. This copy..... Read More about An Alabama Student and Other Biographical Essays

[Philadelphia]: [Press of Loughead & Co.], 1898. Early Reach trade catalogue of baseball, boxing, football, fencing and golf equipment, with a lovely lithographed wrapper featuring an image of the Philadelphia Baseball Park. Read More about 1898. Catalogue of the A. J. Reach Co

London: L. Upcott Gill, 1885. Second edition. A revised edition with card tricks, palmistry, coin tricks, how to fake clairvoyance, and other fascinating parlor tricks. With one leaf's verso advertising the sale of conjuring tables and other equipment to be used by magicians. Read More about Sleight of Hand: A Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs and Others

Keene (N.H.): John Prentiss and sold at his Bookstore, 1806. First edition thus. Illustrated by Garret Lansing, a pupil of the famous Alexander Anderson. Anderson has always been regarded as the father of American wood-engraving. It was he who introduced the so-called Bewick method to America. That style is quite..... Read More about Seneca's Morals, by Way of Abstract. To Which is Added, A Discourse, under the Title of an...

London: Printed for Smith, Elder & Company, 1852. First edition. Thackeray's Only Triple-Decker, Rare in the Publisher's Cloth. Read More about The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Q. Anne. Written by...

New York: Knopf, [April, 1980]. Read More about Democracy in America. The Henry Reeve Text as revised by Francis Bowen. Now further corrected and...

New Haven: Printed by M. A. Moses, 1847. First edition (of this translation). Read More about Leaves of Antiquity; or The Poetry of Hebrew Tradition by Johann Gottfried Von Herder. Translated...

Newport, Rhode Island: February 20, 1793. Invitation to a Washington Birthday Celebration. Although first created as a federal holiday in 1889, public celebrations of Washington's birthday can be traced to as early as during the Revolutionary war. Nevertheless, this letterpress invitation to a ball in Newport is a very early..... Read More about President's Birth-Night ... [partly-printed card within a typographic border, accomplished in...

London: 1800s. A collection of sketches, prints, and letters from and to noted English portrait painter, Sir David Wilkie. Sir David Wilkie (b.1785 - d.1841) was a Scottish-born painter known for his historical scenes and portraits, and was Principal Painter in Ordinary to King William IV and Queen Victoria. Included..... Read More about Sir David Wilkie archive of letters, including 13 ALS from Wilkie, received letters, ephemera,...

10th Oct. 1932. "I'm afraid that I can give you very little information about George Gissing" A very straightforward and helpful letter by Woolf, written just before her public spat with Gissing's son, in response to Miss Middlebrook, who is intending to write a book about Gissing: "I am afraid..... Read More about Typed letter, signed, to Miss Middlebrook, about George Gissing