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Chicago: National Board Of Fire Underwriters, 1940. Wrappers. Octavo. [ii], 29 pages. Fine. Scarce World War II booklet highlighting vulnerabilities of ports, piers and wharves in the U. S. , and suggesting many improved practice requirements. The primary threat was fire--either by accident or sabotage--with the danger being greatly multiplied by the wartime congestion of vessels in the water and cargo on the piers at major ports. Prepared for the U. S. Coast Guard. Lots of interesting information. Bound in printed blue paper covers, saddle-stapled binding. Tiny tear to edge of front cover at head of spine, faint browning toward edges of covers.

New York: The Century Co, 1900. First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xvi [xvii-xviii], 294 pages. A few slight extremity rubs and a small prior owner label at top fore corner of front pastedown, some darkening along fore edge of lower board. Slight browning to frontispiece and title page. A remarkably bright and clean copy. Near fine.. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty and George Varian. Bright first edition of this landmark sailing narrative. Slocum was the first person to single-handedly circumnavigate the earth, doing so in his gaff-rigged sloop, "Spray," between April 1895 and June 1898. <br /> <br /> "Spray" was a wreck of a boat given to Slocum by a fellow sea captain. He rebuilt her and sailed from Boston westward around the world by way of hte Straits of Magellan and the Cape of Good Hope. <br /> <br /> Slocum's poetic perception of the world and his graceful descriptions of his vision of reality have caused this classic to be compared… Read More

Washington: (S.n.), 1863. Wraps. Octavo. 8 pages. Fine. Some minor creasing at top edge toward fore corner.. Frederick Law Olmsted--pioneering American landscape architect and co-designer of New York's Central Park--here gives a very interesting report in his role as General Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War.<br /> <br /> Olmsted gives a good outline of the activities of the Sanitary Commission in connection with the Battle of Gettysburg. He first describes the logistics for the staging and distribution of supplies, and for the relief and transportation of wounded. He then lists principle articles and their quantities distributed for relief of the wounded on the battlefield in the ten days following the battle. This included some 60 tons of perishables which were delivered by refrigerated railcars and 8,500 dozens of eggs collected from farm houses in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. <br /> <br /> In conclusion, Olmsted says, "The… Read More

[Liverpool]: [City of Liverpool], 1974. Single sheet. 20" x 28 7/8. Fine, with original fold creases.. This rarely seen poster of the Beatles was part of a promotional package commissioned by the City of Liverpool in 1974 to promote tourism based on the Beatles. Though the Beatles had been broken up for four years by the Liverpool began promoting Beatles tourism, it is now a significant part of their local economy. <br /> <br /> There is no artist credited on this psychedelic piece.

(London): Honey Dun Press, 1975. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi],32, 6 plates. Fine in a fine box. Normal shallow fraying to end of the box's ribbon pull.. Six hand-colored plates by John Simpson. A study of one of the rarest books in angling literature. There are six hand-colored plates by John Simpson depicting 30 flies. The frontispiece is an actual countersunk Black Gnat fly tied by Heddon to Scotcher's pattern. This is copy #25 in a limited edition of 165 copies, signed by Heddon, the artist of the plates, John Simpson, and at the rear by A. F. Sismore, the binder. Housed in original box.

London: Printed by J. Watts, 1737. First edition. Half leather. Octavos. [xii], 420 pages and [ii], 369, [xxx] pages. Mild rubs to extremities. Old bookseller label to top fore corner of each front pastedown. Prior owner name dated 1923 on each front pastedown. Very good overall.. A detailed 18th century study of the Jewish people of Biblical times, designed to aid in the reading and understanding of the Holy Bible. <br /> <br /> Title pages printed in red and black Nineteenth century bindings feature leather spines and fore corners. A nice set of this uncommon work.

Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1849. Original cloth over boards. Bound in dark brown cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine titles. Blind embossed ornamental borders to both boards. A few tiny chips at spine ends and top edge of upper board, else fine.. An important publication on baptism from the period of the Second Great Awakening. The Appendix discusses the common reasons and arguments by which infant baptism is urged and defended, and evidence in favor of full immersion as the mode of baptism.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1905. First editions. 3/4 leather. Octavos. xxiv, 423 and xx, 456 pages. Bindings are dark green leather spines and fore corners with marbled paper sides and marbled endpapers. Gilt rules on upper and lower boards, spines have five raised bands, gilt titles and ornamentation in six compartments. Top edges gilt. Spines mildly faded, a few minor rubs to bottom edges of boards, else fine. A very clean and handsome set.. Black and white illustrations, plans, maps. A thorough analysis of the use of navies in the War of 1812, by the most important American naval strategist of the 19th century. This is the concluding work in Mahan's highly influential series on naval strategy that began with the 1890 publication of "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783."<br /> <br /> Both volumes illustrated with numerous plates, battle plans, and maps--some fold-outs. Handsomely bound. <br /> <br /> Ref. HATTENDORF A12a.

New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc, 1954. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 400 pages. Good in a good dust jacket. Minor extremity rubs to boards, slight mottling to pastedowns. Jacket has a few edge tears with minimal losses, some edge wrinkles, and a few small edge chips. Jacket spine slightly faded.. Black and white illustrations. The important and controversial book in which Dr. Wertham claimed to have found a link between criminal behavior and the reading of comic books, though his findings were based largely on undocumented anecdotes. However, Wertham's message found an eager and uncritical audience among crusaders for public morals, leading to Wertham being called to testify before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. The moral panic set off by Wertham's book and testimony led to the voluntary establishment of Comics Code Authority by the comics industry as an alternative to government regulation. <br /> <br /> This copy's 2 page bibliographical… Read More

[Chicago]: Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, 1930. Single sheets. 6 1/8" x 9 1/8. Each broadside is mildly age-toned, all have creases from folding along the short dimension, two have light stains, and two have tiny chips at ends of a fold crease. Fine condition overall.. Women in the early 20th century were assumed to favor Prohibition, and indeed had been a powerful force--in the form of the Women's Christian Temperance Union--in getting it passed. By the late 1920s, however, Pauline Morton Sabin could not ignore Prohibition's very destructive (if unintended) consequences. She founded the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform in 1929 to fight for repeal, and within a year had attracted 100,000 members. The WONPR quickly became the nation's largest anti-Prohibition organization. It's goal achieved by passage of the 21st Amendment in December, 1933, the organization disbanded. <br /> <br /> These four data and statistics… Read More

Boston: Bartlett And Halliday, 1865. First Edition. Wrappers. Octavo. 16 pages. Very Good. Rev. Hall was a strong supporter of Lincoln and abolition and had urged his own government to support the North during the American Civil War. Here he provides a British perspective on Lincoln's murder. One of 500 copies. MONAGHAN #538. Bound in plain brown covers, printed front cover. Light external soil, minor extremity wear. Covers have some splitting along spine toward head and heel.

New York: Random House, 1968. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 335 pages. Near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Binding shows a few tiny extremity bumps. Jacket has a closed 1 1/4" edge tear at bottom of rear panel, with a bit of associated wrinkling. This tear was taped from backside by prior owner. Clean, sound, and attractive copy overall.. Irving's debut novel, whose plot revolves around a pair of motorcycle-riding youths and their plan to free the animals in Vienna's Heitzinger Zoo.

[Mexico City], 1861. Manuscript. 10.50" x 8.25. Very Good. Single page letter by Mexican revolutionary and her first constitutionally elected President. Written on laid paper with horizontal fold lines. Loss of lower left corner of sheet not affecting any content. Lightly pencilled translation attempts by a prior owner above several words.. The Juarez government had recaptured Mexico City on January 1, 1861, and he was elected President in the month following this letter. His declaration of a 2-year suspension of interest payments on international debts related to the Mexican Revolution led to an invasion by the French in 1862. The Juarez government's initial defeat of this force at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862 is commemorated annually as Cinco de Mayo. The content of this letter has not been fully translated, but discusses emigration into Mexico. The paper is embossed in upper left corner "Secretaria Particular del Presidente de la Republica" (Private Secretary of the… Read More

Philadelphia, 1795. Framed item. 16" x 25 3/8" overall. Document approximately 9 5/8" x 12 1/2. Fine. Not examined out of frame.. Robert Morris, the influential financier of the American Revolution and signer of the United States' three most important documents--the Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution--here signs a stock certificate as President of The North American Land Company. This certificate is made out to one John Baker Church for ten shares. <br /> <br /> This certificate is also signed by Morris's son-inlaw, James Marshall, as Secretary of the company. Marshall's older brother, John Marshall, was the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. <br /> <br /> Robert Morris was financially ruined by the venture. The North American Land Company controlled millions of acres in the new nation, but when demand failed to meet expectations the scheme collapsed in 1798, landing Morris in debtors'… Read More

Newburyport: Press of Hiram Tozer, 1838. Wrappers. Octavo. 18 pages. Near Fine. Original blue printed wraps over sewn binding. There are a few vertical creases to the pamphlet, along with a shallow chip along top edge of front cover and some small minor chipping to lower fore corner. A few insignificant spots of foxing along with a semicircular tidemark at top inner corner of title page.. A sermon likely in response to the February 24, 1838 pistol duel between two members of the U.S. Congress, resulting in the death of newly elected Representative Jonathan Cilley of Maine. Cilley had taken to the House floor and made allegations of bribery against a newspaper editor, who in turn dispatched Representative William Graves of Kentucky to deliver a letter of unknown content to Cilley. Cilley's refusal of the letter was interpreted by Graves as an insult upon his honor, and he challenged Cilley to a duel. The two men and their seconds--also Members of the House--met on the Marlborough Pike in Prince… Read More

[Oneida]: (S.n.), 1850. First printing. Wrappers. Sixteenmo. 14 pages. Fine. Scarce pamphlet that cleverly harnesses the contemporaneous debate over slavery to attack the institution of marriage. Many of the Abolitionist arguments against slavery are here effectively turned against mid-19th century marriage.<br /> <br /> The text is structured as a fictionalized dialogue between "Judge North," "Major South," and "Mr. Free Church."<br /> <br /> The Oneida Community was a religious utopian commune founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848. The commune practiced free love and believed perfection was possible here on earth.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [72 pages]. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Bound in plum-colored cloth over boards with title and device in silver gilt on upper board. No prior owner ship marks. Jacket has a small chip at top of fore edge fold, some light rubs along joint folds, and other shallow edge wear.. Illustrated by Roy C. Nelson. A collection of 30 cocktail recipes contributed by noteworthy writers of the early 20th century. The title is a spoof on Stark Young's 1934 Civil War novel, "So Red the Rose." The drinks herein are named after the contributing authors' books, such as Ernest Hemingway's cocktail, "Death in the Afternoon," Rockwell Kent's "Salamina," Harriet Monroe's "Poets and Their Art," Theodore Dreiser's "American Tragedy," etc. Each cocktail recipe is accompanied by humorous drinking notes and a caricature of the contributing writer by Roy Nelson.… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1907. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xxii, [2], 193 pages [+1 page ad]. Bound in dark blue publisher's cloth over boards with gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, dark blue-black coated endpapers. A few shallow bumps to extremities, a few slight rubs, and a small rectangular numeric label at top fore corner of front pastedown. There is a faint splitting to front endpaper along hinge, but still sound. A beautiful, near fine copy overall.. Text includes articles and an address by Capt. Mahan, plus two articles by other authors. The pieces by Mahan are: <br /> - The Moral Aspect of War<br /> - The Practical Aspect of War<br /> - The Hague Conference of 1907, and the Question of Immunity for Belligerent Merchant Shipping<br /> - War from a Christian Standpoint (an address in 1900 to the Church Congress in Providence, RI) <br /> <br /> The other two pieces included herein are: <br /> - The Power that Makes for… Read More

Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [xii], 153 pages. Very good in a near fine dust jacket. Prior owner name label at top fore corner of front pastedown, with several blind embossed circular seals throughout the text. Clean and sound.. Photographic plates, endpaper maps. This scarce little book is a personal narrative of the least known U. S. Naval operations--those against the Philippine Insurrectos in 1899 and 1900. The author commanded the U.S.S. Panay in these operations. <br /> <br /> The work of thses little gunboats in the infinity of channels and waterways of the Philippines was largely overshadowed by larger naval victories at Manila Bay and Santiago in the Spanish American War, but many future naval leaders got their first practical lessons in command in these boats.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1946. First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xii, 372 pages. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Minor wear along board edges and fore corners. Jacket has a few short edge tears, small chips, and rubbed wrinkles.. Black & white photographs, illustrations. Stetson Kennedy's highly critical yet hopeful look at the South and its institutions and traditions. A native Southerner, Kennedy infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan, Sons of Dixie, and the Commoner Party to get the goods on these peculiarly Southern groups. He goes after unreconstructed rebels and their Yankee collaborationists alike. <br /> <br /> This copy is inscribed and signed by Kennedy on the dedication page to social activist Josephine Wilkins in year of publication. <br /> <br /> Laid in is a prior catalogue description of this book by a disapproving Southern bookseller who described it thusly: "An incredibly vicious attack on the South, Southern conservatives… Read More