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Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 261 pages. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Slight rubs and abrasions to binding extremities. Jacket has surface rubs and shallow chips at extremities. Binding remains sturdy. Clean and sound copy overall.. This Edgar Award nominee is Raab's exposé on police methods during investigation of the 1963 "Career Girls" murder case in New York City. A confession was coerced from a young African American man named George Whitmore, Jr., who was eventually exonerated and another suspect convicted. <br /> <br /> This case was cited by the Supreme Court when it issued the guidelines known as the Miranda Rights in 1966.

London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1839. First edition. Expertly rebacked original cloth over boards. Octavo. xii, 327 pages. Good. Bound in green cloth over boards with embossed ornamental designs, gilt-stamped spine title. The book has been expertly restored, retaining the original binding cloth as much as possible. Interior pages show some foxing to pre- and postliminary leaves, occasional paper repairs, and a short edge tear to an occasional leaf.. Steel and wood engraved black & white plates and text illustrations. Illustrated treatise on fox-hunting, by the Master of Hounds at the Hertfordshire Hunt Club.

London: The Argonaut Press, 1928. Limited edition of 975 copies, this copy not numbered. Hardcover. Quarto. cvi, 182 pages. Bound in tan cloth over boards with vellum spine, integral ribbon bookmark. Ralegh's coat of arms stamped in gilt on upper board, spine titled in gilt. Some spotting at lower fore corners of both boards and at bottom of lower board near spine. Old dampstain at bottom inner corners of rear endpapers. Later owner bookplate on front pastedown below Strachey's. Hinges sound. Very good overall.. Frontispiece portrait, 2 folding maps. A superb edition of Sir Walter Ralegh's Guiana expedition in search of the golden city of El Dorado. Appendices A and B contain Spanish official dispatches that had not seen the light of day for 300 years, and which make it possible to compare Ralegh's own account of the 1595 expedition with the narratives of contemporary Spaniards actually on the ground. <br /> <br /> This copy previously owned by Lytton Strachey, noted… Read More

1980. Original. Single sheet. Approximately 13 1/2" x 17. Fine condition. Pastel on paper. Untitled original art in pastels by award winning courtroom and journalistic sketch artist, Freda L. Reiter. The scene depicts an active Cuban cigar and rum market. <br /> <br /> Reiter studied drawing in Mexico City under Diego Rivera. She worked in Philadelphia and New York as a courtroom sketch artist for newspaper and television. Her most famous such sketches are her coverage of the Watergate trials.

[Havana}: (S.n.), 1960. Softcover. Oblong duodecimo. 41 unnumbered leaves. Black wrappers printed in green, quite worn with edge chips and rubbed wrinkles. Photographs inside are all in nice condition, with an occasional edge chip to scattered leaves but with no image loss.. Black and white photographs. Album commemorating the 1956 invasion of Cuba by revolutionaries under Fidel Castro in the yacht Granma. The album consists of individual photographs of the participants in the invasion, opening with the photographs of 27 men who were killed, labeling them martyrs. <br /> <br /> The album includes youthful photographs of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and Raul Castro as well as many others. An uncommon souvenir of the Cuban Revolution against the Batista government, which ultimately resulted in the establishment of a new government under Fidel Castro.

Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, Inc, 1992. First Edition. Full cloth. Octavo. xx, 214 pages. Fine. Black & White Photographs, Illustrations. Descriptions of 679 croquet books, ephemera, pamphlets, and other items from this unique collection housed at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont, Ohio. Good annotations. Appendices list books on croquet published between 1852-1966. A superb (if somewhat esoteric) sports history reference. Dark green cloth over boards with white stamped spine and upper board lettering. . Issued sans dust jacket.

[Lowell]: Stone & Huse, Printers, 1861. First printing. Single sheet. 5" x 8. Near fine. A few tiny rubs to black border, a tiny closed edge tear at top right corner.. Rare broadside program for the funerals of the first two Union soldiers killed in action during the Civil War. Addison and Ladd, both of Company D, 6th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, were killed in mob violence as their regiment changed trains in Baltimore en route to the reinforcement of Washington. <br /> <br /> Both young men worked in the textile mills at Lowell, Massachusetts. The town of Lowell had been rather pro-slavery in the antebellum era, due to its industrial interests in cotton production, but the killings of Whitney and Ladd instantly turned public opinion rabidly anti-Southern. <br /> <br /> A monument was dedicated to Whitney and Ladd in Lowell on June 17, 1865. The dedication had been planned for the 4 year anniversary of their deaths two months earlier, but was postponed… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 54 pages. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Bound buff cloth over boards with spine titled in dark blue. A few spots of foxing to endpapers. Minor edgewear to dust jacket, and a nickel-sized sticker stain to lower edge of rear panel.. The first collection of poems by this important but obscure Welsh wartime poet. Lynette Roberts was born in Argentina to Welsh parents, but lived her adult life in Wales. Her work began to appear in magazines and anthologies in the early 1940s, and was admired by T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Robert Graves, and others. Eliot, as editor at Faber, published this first collection of her poems. Roberts withdrew from writing following her divorce in 1948 and a religious conversion. Scarce.

New York: Munn & Company, 1898. First printing. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. vi, 148 pages, + 2 leaves publisher ads. Bound in maroon cloth over boards with spine and upper board titled in gilt, illustration to upper board in black. Boards show minor extremity rubs and mild soiling, but hinges sound. Interior has a short taped at top inner margin of title page, some mild foxing and toning, else clean. A very good copy overall.. Numerous black and white illustrations. Fascinating book by a magician who worked with Alexander Hermann and Prof. Kellar. Robinson had been raised as a spiritualist but no longer acknowledged the truth of its teachings.<br /> <br /> He was not hostile to spiritualism or those who believed in it, but was determined to expose those who would defraud believers seeking knowledge of deceased loved ones. His background in stage magic made him an ideal debunker of clever tricks.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. Daniel Boone Edition, #138 of 200 sets. Full leather over boards. Quartos. Over 1,500 pages. Near fine. All spines somewhat browned, a few light scuffs, otherwise a fine, sturdy, set of this spectacular edition.. Black and white plates, maps, some folding.. Roosevelt's historical account of the exploration and settlement of the United States, from the Alleghanies to the Pacific Ocean. <br /> <br /> This is the coveted Daniel Boone Edition of this work, published in 1900 with an original sheet of Theodore Roosevelt's handwritten manuscript bound into the first volume. The volumes are stunningly bound in full green crushed morocco with floral ornaments in gilt to corners of boards. Inside covers inlaid with red suede with red suede doublures. Inside borders ruled and ornamented in gilt. Top edges gilt, other edges uncut. <br /> <br /> Ref. COLE A11l, binding A.

Washington: Navy Department, 1919. Navy Department Letterhead plus a single blank sheet. 8" x 10 1/2. Fine with a few light surface wrinkles. Letter bears a date received stamp at top right margin and two holes, presumably for filing, along left margin with no loss of text.. A fine 2 paragraph letter in which future President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his role as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, gently denies a request from a founder of the American Legion for a part of the U. S. Marine Band to perform for the benefit of veterans at the New Willard Hotel in Washington just after World War I.<br /> <br /> "While this Department is heartily in sympathy with any movement tending to promote the welfare and interests of those who have served in the military and naval service of the United States during the war, I very much regret to have to inform you that it will not be practicable to assign a section of the Marine Band to furnish music on the above-mentioned occasion owing to the… Read More

[New York]: [Mail and Express Job Print], 1912. Stapled pamphlet. Octavo. 16 pages. Printed self-wraps bound with a single staple along spine. There is a slight dampstain at head of spine, visible more or less throughout the pamphlet. Otherwise fine.. Campaign piece from Theodore Roosevelt's unsuccessful bid for reelection to the Presidency in 1912. Here he confronts racial issues as nominee of the Progressive or "Bull Moose" party. Roosevelt founded the party after losing the Republican nomination earlier in the year. <br /> <br /> This piece contains Roosevelt's statement at the National Progressive Convention, August 6, 1912, at the Coliseum in Chicago, his letter to Julian Harris of Atlanta (son of "Uncle Remus" author, Joel Chandler Harris) and his editorial on the Progressive National Convention at Chicago.<br /> <br /> Ref. WHEELOCK p. 15.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1938. Limited Edition, #317 of 800 sets. Full calf. Octavos. xxviii, 415 and viii, 389 pages. Near fine. Full leather over boards with gilt-stamped spine title labels, five raised bands, top edges gilt. Slight darkening to spines. Housed in original slipcase which has modest wear along extremities.. Rousseau's "Confessions" is notable as one of the first major autobiographies ever written. Unlike other early autobiographies which focused on religious experiences, Rousseau shares his worldly experiences and personal feelings, and even some humiliating and shameful moments. <br /> <br /> Rousseau coined the phrase translated as "Let them eat cake," in an incident described herein involving a great princess. This phrase has since become associated with Marie Antoinette, though there is no evidence that she ever uttered it.<br /> <br /> The text is from the anonymous English version first published in 1783 and 1790, here revised… Read More

Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1961. First Edition. Full cloth. Duodecimo. x, 178 pages. Fine. Color Frontispiece. One of 250 copies. Comprehensive reference to the series, including chronological and numerical lists of the volumes published plus indexes by contributor and subject. Errata page bound in at rear. Grey cloth over boards with gilt title on a red spine label. Foxing to top edge of textblock.