First edition. One of 300 copies signed by Shackleton and the entire shore party. This copy is number seventy-three. An unusually clean and attractive example of this work documenting Ernest Shackleton’s 1907-1909 attempt to reach the South Pole, known as the Nimrod Expedition or British Antarctic Expedition, arguably the most.....
First edition. One of 520 copies signed by Rackham; this copy number 45. Nos. 1 to 260 were for sale in Great Britain and Ireland and Nos. 261 to 520 for sale in the U.S. REFERENCES: Latimore & Haskell, p. 61. CONDITION: Very good, slight toning to edges of covers.....
A compelling, unrecorded film-script for a movie-that-never-was dramatizing the infamous assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico, with twenty-nine recommended changes in manuscript. In 1958, Hollywood director of low-budget Western films George Sherman (1908–1991) was in Mexico shooting the movie The Last of the Fast Guns (1958) when a journalist offered.....
An in-depth and exhaustive account of the actions and legal proceedings surrounding the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Case of 1858, an important event in abolitionist history. On 13 September 1858, a federal marshal in Oberlin, Ohio detained the runaway slave John Price from Kentucky in accordance with the Fugitive Slave Law of.....
A beautiful copy in original boards of the first printing of the first furniture finisher’s manual published in the United States, reprinted from the first British edition of the same year. Described on the title-page as a “New Edition, with considerable Additions,” this first American edition provides concise instructions on.....
Stated second edition. A rare farrier’s manual, first published in 1825. OCLC records only five copies of the first edition and no copies of this second edition. CONDITION: Very good, some rubbing and stains to covers, multiple previous owners’ names written on paste down and title page.
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A very fine and unusual typescript journal of the Northern Cavern and Fell Club of Yorkshire, including typescript accounts of spelunking adventures and sixteen striking original photographs. This remarkable journal consists of lists of the officers of the Northern Cavern and Fell Club (est. 1928); a list of over a......
A rare and quite remarkable stereoscopic view book, illustrated with 103 mounted views, constituting an unusually extensive photo-survey of the city of Syracuse, New York in the late 1870s. This is effectively a booster book, both the text and illustrations celebrating the advantages and beauties of the city and.....
First edition. One of Steele's two classic accounts of canoe expeditions through the Maine wilderness, the other title being Canoe and Camera (NY, 1880). Includes one of the first maps published specifically for the use of recreational canoeists, Map... of the Headwaters of the Aroostook, Penobscot & St. John Rivers.....
First edition. One of Steele's two classic accounts of canoe expeditions through the Maine wilderness, the other title being Paddle & Portage (NY, 1882). Canoe & Camera describes outings on Moosehead Lake, the West Branch of the Penobscot River, Chesuncook Lake, and elsewhere. Included here is one of the first.....
Handsomely bound edition of selected letters from Stevenson’s Student Days at Edinburgh, Life in Bournemouth, Winter in the Adirondacks, Pacific Voyages, Life in Samoa, etc. Edited by Stevenson’s friend, literary critic and print curator Sidney Colvin. CONDITION: Very good, some leaves slightly toned at edges, vol. 1 lacking tissue.....
First edition of the first children’s edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. A blend of narrative verse and extracts from the original, “this little work is designed to adapt Mrs. Stowe’s touching narrative to the understanding of the youngest readers and to foster in their hearts a generous sympathy for.....
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The first nine issues of this continuation in magazine form of Isaiah Thomas’ newspaper The Massachusetts Spy, a format to which Thomas resorted as a means of avoiding recently instituted tariffs on paper and taxes on newspaper advertisements. In a broadside he published addressing the matter Thomas observed “The tax.....
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Reprint edition of these two works, the standard carto-bibliography of Connecticut, first published in 1940 and 1942 respectively. CONDITION: Very good, some slight discoloration to covers but overall clean, bright, and attractive in a tight binding.
A comprehensive and authoritative bibliography. “Professor Thompson’s Printed Maps of the District and State of Maine—the first true bibliography of maps of the state—provides a visual and historical feast for generalists and scholars alike.” —From the preface by Matthew Edney, Osher Professor in the History of Cartography, University of Southern.....
A delightful unpublished manuscript of illustrated children's poetry by a noted Florida woman artist and arts-organizer centering on “what-you-may-call-ems”—fantastical creatures with names like the Wip-an-gee, Tottle-Ott, Go-Go Bird, Mug-Wumpus, and so forth. Each page of this book is devoted to one creature and features a short, whimsical poem followed.....
One of 492 copies “printed upon Japan paper for private distribution” of this sumptuous volume produced by Tiffany himself. According to the preface, Tiffany compiled this volume at the urging of his children. Most copies were distributed for promotional purposes. Included are chapters on Tiffany’s paintings, stained glass, favrile glass.....
An important volume containing the twelve issues for 1776 of this notable 18th century British periodical, featuring an early printing of the Declaration of Independence, signed in type by John Hancock and Charles Thompson, and also including several articles and maps of American interest. Among the more salient articles relating.....
Likely the first publication of the standardized Morse code—the first widely used modern data code. First Edition. This important pamphlet was published by Alfred Vail (1807–1859) after the successful test of a Congressionally approved experimental telegraph line spanning from Baltimore to Washington D.C. On 24 May 1844, Samuel F. B......
A scarce and vivid photographic portrait of Calcutta as seen through the eyes of an American G.I. photojournalist from Texas at the close of World War II. A member of the Houston Press before the war, Clyde Waddell served as personal photographer to Lord Mountbatten from 1943 to 1945. He.....
Editon limited to twenty-six lettered copies signed in pencil by the printer and the photographer, this copy letter B. Bound by Gray Parrot of Hancock, Maine, with his label affixed to the lower left corner of the rear paste-down. Consider the Lobster, a favorite essay among Wallace devotees, first appeared.....
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A marvelous two-volume Harvard University class album comprising 205 original photographs, picturing the administration, faculty, students, and campus scenes, including images of a number of notable figures. Vol. 1 features photographs of 124 members of the class; Vol. II comprises photographs of the administration, including the president, the ex-president, the.....
The first English and earliest obtainable edition of the young George Washington’s first published work, recounting his 900-mile excursion from Virginia to the Ohio Country and back to investigate French encroachment on British claims and deliver a letter from Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia to the French Commandant at Fort.....
Weld, an Irishman, arrived in Philadelphia in late 1795 at the age of nineteen. His observations during two years of travels through eastern North America and Canada, told through a series of letters, comprise one of the most popular narratives of the day. Story wrote that "his account of Canada.....
First and only edition of a rare American color plate natural history. With text divided into sections on birds, fishes, reptiles (with a sub-section on amphibians), and articulata or annulose animals (invertebrates), followed by twelve handsomely colored plates with multiple images per plate. Each section of text concludes with a......