Art-Nonsense and Other Essays...
This is number 55 of 100 copies printed on large paper. Signed and numbered by Gill on the colophon.
This is number 55 of 100 copies printed on large paper. Signed and numbered by Gill on the colophon.
A powerful account of William Wilberforce’s introduction of the motion to immediately abolish the English slave trade in the British House of Commons, and a response to objections and counter-proposals, including “gradual abolition.” English Anglican priest, poet, and natural philosopher Thomas Gisborne (1758–1846) was a central figure in the Clapham.....
First edition, first printing. A note included here dated “9 February 1975” from previous seller indicates that this copy was purchased by fine press book collector Wyman Parker: “Dear Wyman, the Goudy portrait-watermarked program was evidently purchased for your own collection. You may want to add this photo that Burt.....
The scarce, first edition of this influential work advocating the use of whole grain flour for bread-making. Reverend Sylvester Graham (1794–1851) was a vegetarian and the inventor of “Graham bread,” known to us today in the rather corrupted form of the Graham cracker. His advocacy of whole grains and vegetables.....
A rare and impressive locomotive trade catalog illustrated with original photographs of engines and parts, providing comprehensive and detailed photographic documentation of locomotive construction. The photographs were taken by the firm of noted New York City photographer George Rockwood. Included here are portraits of the Lake Shore & Michigan Railroad.....
First edition of the second anthology of essays and narratives selected by the Rochester Ladies’ Antislavery Society, exploring the doctrine of a common brotherhood where “the chains of the Slave shall be broken, and the country redeemed from the sin and curse of Slavery.” Edited by Julia Griffiths, a British.....
One of the earliest detailed and comprehensive descriptions of the topography and physical geography of Mount Katahdin and its surrounding area, including a heliotype of Hamlin’s model of Katahdin and a map, and inscribed by the author. First published in the Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard.....
An exceptionally rare and important photographically-illustrated work documenting President Chester Arthur’s legendary trip to Yellowstone National Park at a critical moment in its history, featuring photographs by expedition member Frank Jay Haynes, who would subsequently become the official Yellowstone photographer. Just twelve copies of this album were made, one for.....
One of fifty numbered copies, signed by Hecht and Baskin. This is number 49. All the woodcuts are signed and numbered by Baskin. One of the more splendid productions of the Gehenna Press, with each of Hecht’s poems accompanied by a color woodcut of a flower.
First edition.
The first edition of the first book of this important genealogical history of the Habsburg dynasty. Herrgott, rather than delving into the pursuit of spurious ancestral lines tracing back to Imperial Rome, or even Troy, carefully explicated the connections between the Habsburg and Lorraine families in order to demonstrate the.....
A sammelband of five 18th century plays, four of them British imprints and one American, bound for Chauncey Whittlesey (1743-1812) of Middletown, Connecticut, whose name appears on the first two endpapers and each title-page. The one American imprint included here, the first American edition of Thomas Morton’s Secrets Worth Knowing.....
A travel guide and map issued by the Denver & Rio Grande and the Rio Grande Western railroads, with descriptions of numerous towns, cities, springs, resorts, boarding houses, roads, gorges, passes, and other points of interest located along the line. The map ranges from Chicago to California, and from Montana.....
An unsophisticated copy of this handsome book of hours, the earliest dated production of Anabat’s press. Anabat was a native of Brittany; his press was active in Paris between 1505 and 1510. All of the books that he printed were done for other publishers; the vast majority were books.....
An exceptionally rare color-plate folio of American racehorses, with handsome chromolithographs based on paintings by Henry Stull, Edwin Forbes, Scott Leighton, Harry Hall, and Maurice Scanlan. The horses portrayed include Volunteer, St. Julien, Parole, Ten Broeck, Maud S., Harold, Luke Blackburn, Nevada, Daniel Lambert, Smuggler, Leamington, Bonnie Scotland, Iroquois, Foxhall.....
Fifth edition of Hubbard’s guide to Moosehead Lake, originally published in 1879 under the title Summer Vacations at Moosehead Lake and Vicinity, then revised, enlarged and re-titled for the 3rd, 4th and 5th editions. It is described on the title-page as the fourth edition, but is stamped “Fifth Edition 1893”.....
First edition of Hubbard’s guide to Moosehead, later published under the title Hubbard’s Guide to Moosehead Lake and Northern Maine. Includes folding map in pocket at rear entitled Map of Moosehead Lake and Northern Maine, Embracing the Headwaters of the Penobscot, Kennebec and St. John Rivers and is supplemented (evidently.....
Second edition, revised, with no date on the title page, a copyright date of 1883 (the date of the first edition) on the copyright page, and a preface dated 1888. Hubbard notes in the introduction that his intent is to offer “a true and circumstantial delineation of the camper’s life.....
First edition, limited to 110 copies, of this sequence of “stray poems” from a larger series Hughes wrote on the subject of his wife, Sylvia Plath, most of which were published in his Birthday Poems. Signed by Hughes and Baskin. From the colophon: “One hundred & ten copies of Howls.....
One of 225 numbered copies, signed by Hughes and Baskin. This is copy 17. From the colophon: “Two hundred and fifty copies of this book were printed at The Gehenna Press, Lurley in Devon. The woodcuts were printed from the blocks; the paper is Dover, handmade at Maidstone, Kent, these.....
Limited to 369 copies signed by Huxley, this copy number 98. With illustrations by Eric Gill. REFERENCES: Rowman & Littlefield 282.
One of ninety-one copies signed by Huxley, this copy un-numbered; also inscribed by the binder, James Wells, as follows: “For Laurence Lee who has never known ‘an’ erratum from his friend James Wells August 15th 1933.”.
An Indian Rights Association pamphlet reproducing a letter by Prof. C. C. Painter, the representative of the IRA at Washington, addressing a “grave and pitiable” state of affairs concerning the Crow Creek and Winnebago Indian Reservations: “Three hundred thousand acres of land has been snatched from peaceable and well-disposed Indians.....
First edition, first printing of Berryman’s uncommon second book. Inscribed by Berryman to poet and Princeton professor Charles Bell: “Charles affectionately John” and “Princeton[,] so late as to say Merry Christmas Dec 1948.” Bell was a colleague of Berryman’s at Princeton and an influential poet/teacher. Among his students were W......
A pamphlet advocating for the enlistment of African-Americans in the Union army during the Civil War, citing historical precedent and addressing the bias against their service. This pamphlet opens urgently with the following pronouncement: “We are in the midst of a great war for the existence of free institutions. No.....