Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1954. First Edition. Thick Large Quarto. 502 pages, index, illustrated. This work has a panoply of the greatest scholars of the mid-20th century. From Lawrence C. Wroth, Bernard Berenson, Millard Meiss, Edwin Panofsky, Geoffrey Keynes, E.P. Goldschmidt, to the tribute to the Morgan Library... More about Studies in Art and Literature for Belle Da Costa Greene
Philadelphia; (Feb. 1886): Henry Harrison. First Edition. Octavo. 414 page, illustrated. Though written in the North, the writer has produced a warm and fascinating account of General Lee. There are a number of very nice engravings of General Lee in command. A handsome near fine copy bound in gray pictorial... More about The Camp Fires of General Lee: From the Peninsula to Appoxmatox Court-House with reminisces of...
New York: Charles T. Evans, 1863. First Edition. Small Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, 240 pages. Written a generation before the Professor at the British Military Staff College, Lieutenant Colonel G.F.R. Henderson's important biography of Stonewall Jackson. This was among the earliest and the most interesting accounts of one of the Confederacy's... More about Life and Military Career of Thomas Jonathan Jackson, Lieutenant-General in the Confederate Army
Chicago; (1896): Donohue & Henneberry. Octavo. 136 pages. Besides map there are an additional 34 engravings of the major participants. The author with W.A. Wood, Assistant Engineer of the Monument had surveyed the entire fifteen miles and noted where towers, tables and gun carriages were found. E.E. Betters provided the... More about Glimpses of Chickamauga; a Complete Guide to all points of Interest on This Historic...
New York: George H. Duran, 1915. First America Edition. Small Octavo. 117 pages. The noted historian Arnold J. Toynbee's first book written from his vantage point in the Intelligence Department of the British Foreign Office where he saw the documents showing the horrors of the Turkish systematic murder of the... More about Armenian Atrocities; the Murder of a Nation with a Speech Delivered By Lord Bryce in the House of...
London; (2018): Oneworld. First Edition. Octavo. First hard cover edition. 411 pages. Author's first book. A Ugandan novelist who blends Ganda oral tradition, myth, folktale and history. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi has brought to life an extraordinarily colorful cast of characters to produce a powerful epic--a modern classic. A dark blue... More about Kintu (boldly signed
Zagava; (2013): Ex Occidente Press. Limited Edition. Octavo. 285 pages. No. 86 of 250 copies. Oliver is often considered the chief living exemplar of this variety of the dark fantastic, his emphasis falling on narrative subtlety, richness of historical and literary allusion, and depth of characterization -- all in support... More about Virtue in Danger or the Princess and the Actor; a Metaphysical Romance
Germany: Zagava, 2015. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 90 handbound copies. The present copy is number 5. 94 pages. Quentin S. Crisp's ERITH unifies the influences of the English supernatural tale and the micro-observations of the Japanese I-novel, and combines them with a trainspotterish psychogeography. Bound in gray cloth lettered in copper. More about Erith; a Supernatural, Anglo-Saxon I-Novel) (number 5 of 90 copies
Bucherest; Nd[but 2014]: Zagara. Jon Estwards. Limited Edition. Octavo. 127 pages. No. 7 of only 100 copies. Though she died at only the age of 37, the author's vision fits in a genre beyond the classic ones of science fiction and horror. She wrote before her death: her writings comes... More about Descended Suns Resusitate (Limited to 100 copies
New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. First American edition translated by Gregory Rabassa. 405 pages. Signed by the Peruvian writer who also won the Nobel Prize. The city is Piura and the jungle is on its edge. On its edge is "The Green House," the brothel founded... More about The Green House (Signed
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1878. First Edition. Thick Large Octavo. Frontispiece, 755 pages. index, (4)pp. publisher's ads. After serving in the Black Hawk War, he resigned (1834) from the U.S. army and went to Texas where he enlisted (1835) in the revolutionary army. Johnston became its commander in... More about The Life of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, Embracing His services in the Armies of the United...
Mendota, Illinois: Published By the Author, 1910. First Edition. Octavo. Frontispiece, 284 pages. What makes this account so fascinating is it was based on letters written from 1861 to 1865 that were returned to him after the war. Their closeness of events make his recollections more vivid and distinct. When... More about Observations of an Illinois Boy in Battle, Camp and Prisons--1861-1865
London: Printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1748. First Edition. Octavo. Nounted engraved frontispiece of Melmoth. [8] 192 pages, [6]pp. contents, (1)pp. errata. Title in red and black. Melmoth as well-known as a translator but this volume deals with his themes of retirement, friendship and rhetorical style. This became one... More about Letters on Several Subjects
Richmond, VA: Carlton McCarthy and Company, 1882. First Edition. Octavo. 224 pages. Illustrated by Wm. L. Sheppard. Ralph Geoffrey Newman has this as one of the Basic Books for a Civil Library. One of the best accounts of life by the average soldier in the Confederacy. He describes in detail... More about Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865
Andover, NJ: Mark Newman, 1818. Octavo. The first two works are composed of 379 pages while the third work has 172 pages. Thomas Chalmers influenced Wilberforce, Gladstone, and a host of major religious figures as well as Hugh Miller the best known geologist of his day. His effort for the... More about Discourses on the Christian Revelation viewed in Connection with Modern Astronomy; The Doctrine...
New York; (1967): Pageant Books. First Edition. Octavo. . 331 pages, index, .photographic images. Inscribed: "Lee, I hope you enjoy the book. Howard". The wonderful photography, reviews of the book and the details of parachuting are noted with praise by the Army Times, the U.S. Parachute Association, Flying Magazine, and... More about The Falcon's Disciples (Inscribed to Lee Marvin
(Flying M Press, Clearwater, Florida; 1996). Octavo. 421 pages, glossary, index. Revised edition. (the first edition had to be pulled before publication for copyright reasons). Signed by the author along with over 90 key people in the history of the airline, pilots, managers, and a host of people in the... More about Tiger Tales; an Anecdotal History of the Flying Tiger Line
Flagstaff, AZ: The Northland Press, 1968. First Edition. Quarto. Limited edition. 756 of 2000 copies signed by the author. 136pp. Introduction by Harold McCracken.. Over 115 pages of Borein drawings of western Indians. A very nice copy bound in 1/4 green cloth over gray pictorial cloth decorated in black, spine... More about Edward Borein. Drawings & Paintings of the Old West. Volume I: The Indians, Foreword By...
San Francisco, CA: John Howell-Books, 1971. First Edition. Quarto. 318pp. each with one or two illustrations in black and white. Prefatory note, which explains the index of titles has three principal divisions: titles used in this book, alternate titles which may be found in Borein etchings elsewhere, and "old" titles... More about The Etchings of Edward Borein, a Catalogue of His Work
Norman, OK; (1961): University of Oklahoma Press. First Edition. Small Quarto. 270pp. 100 plates (8 in full color). Includes checklist of works, chronology, and sources. Bound in light brown cloth, spine lettering gilt and dark brown, light rubbing to spine ends and corners. A very good copy in unclipped pictorial... More about Seth Eastman / Pictorial Historian of the Indian
New York; (1972 and 1973): Neale Watson Academic Pubications. First Editions. Octavo. In two volumes,403pp. and 419pp., The first volume contains the first four issues of the quarterly journal. The subjects describe research in important ares of astronomy, astrophysics and space research and are written by aknowledge experst from many... More about Astronomy and Space
London: For T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1794. Quarto. . 3rd edition in which the author corrected mistakes and has added new material to update his last publications to include places, such as the Grisons, a part of Switzerland that little is known. In 2 volumes. 509 and 500pp. (15)pp... More about Travels in Switzerland, and in the Country of the Grisons: In a Series of Letters to William...
London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First Edition. Octavo. First issue with the last plate without a border, edited by Boz. In two volumes, 288 and 263pp., illustrated by George Cruikshank. Grimaldi, a famous performing clown left his memoir in manuscript to his executer who attempted to have it published. The publisher... More about Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
London: John Murray, 1853. First Edition. Octavo. Half-title, folding frontispiece and 12 other plans and tinted plates, 2 large folding maps at rear, with hundreds of textual wood block illustrations. The author became increasingly interested in locating and unearthing the great cities of biblical renown. He quite his law firm... More about Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon; with Travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the...
London: Effingham Wilson, 1833. First Edition. Thick Octavo. half-title, engraved frontispiece, vignette title page, viii + 616 with textual illustrations. set up much like a dictionary; double columns and alphabetical, much related to birds, fish and other sport animals along with the tools needed for such sport; fishing poles, gun... More about The Field Book: Or, Sports and Pastimes of the United Kingdom; Compiled from the Best...