Tucson: Arizona Pioneers Historical Society and the Grabbhorn Press, 1949. Limited Edition. Folio. Limited to 300 copies. xii, 20 pages, illustrated by Joseph Hager with 16 plates and a fine folding map at rear. One of the most important and yet beautifully bound by the Grabhorn Press. John Van Deusen..... More
Hull, England: Edwin Ombler, 1892. Octavo. 295 pages, index. Photographic cabinet card of Cave Castle laid in. Inscribed from Miss E. J. Dawson [South Cave] to E.A. Turner, Christmas, 1893. List of Subscribers. Pages 61-63 describe the Cave Castle. The cabinet photo on the verso notes: Cave Castle, South Cave..... More
Boston: Four Seas Company, 1918. First Thus. Cloth. 16mo. 85 pp. Work by admired Edwardian critic, comic playwright (and suicide) completed from partial MS sent by Hankin's widow. More
Stanford, California: Standford University Press, 1960. First Edition. Thick Octavo. 463p. index. One of the most colorful yet neglected American transportation history has been re-created in this definitive history of the electric inter-urbans. From their early construction in the early 1900's to their sharp decline after World War II as..... More
Salem, Mass. Marine Research Society, 1924. Linmited Edition. Quarto. Large paper copy limited to 95 copies. The present copy is number 74. 51 plates with 213 plates (309-554) The clipper ships -- Donald McKay, builder of clipper ships -- Shipbuilding at Newburyport -- The removal to East Boston -- The..... More
1875. Octavo. Vol. 24, No. 165. pp. 143-151. Romanes’ work with electro-stimulation directly influenced W. H. Gaskell in his artificial production of heart block, the name for which Gaskell based on an expression of Romanes. The late Sam Hessel noted that this was one of three reports that make up..... More
1862. broadsheet 10 1/2" x 8" framed. Congress enacted a law protecting widows and descendents who would die or be killed in the Civil War. This also included distribution of bounties. It would appear these claims were coordinated with the Soldiers Friend organization. The organizers in Iowa were leading citiziens..... More
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1925. Small Quarto. Unopened. 199(1) pp. signed by the illustrator John Austen on the half-title, Translated out of the Greek of Longus by George Thornley in 1657. Beautifully illustrated throughout in color and in black and white. This considered the first pastoral prose romance. The story of..... More