Philadelphia: James B. Rodgers, 1864. Paperback. 16mo. Pale red wrappers. 36pp. Very good. Overall a tight and attractive copy, though a bit of paper loss to rear wrapper. Reports on "Our Navy Work" (including a prayer meeting on the Monitor Onondaga), "Western New York," "Maryland," "The Shenandoah" and "Army of... More
This Cuban became influential in introducing and popularizing Latin music in the United States first by managing the band of his brother Don Azpiazu and then by taking the stage name Don Mario Antobal and forming "Antobal's Cubans," who toured the U.S. and became popular throughout the 1930s; he later... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company and James R. Osgood and Company, 1865-71. Hardcover. Complete 3-volume set. 16mo. Quarter calf with raised bands, gilt spine lettering and decorations and red marbled paper over boards. xli, 300pp; vii, 311pp; viii, 339pp. Frontispiece (Volume I), marbled edges and endpapers. Very good. Faintest bit... More
Together with his brother, Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, this member of a French royal house considered illegitimate by many joined the Union forces during the American Civil War, in which he was commissioned a captain in the U.S. Army and served as assistant adjutant general on the staff of... More
N.p. N.p., 1788. Hardcover. 8vo. Full vellum. (Ca. 300pp). Sewn-in green silk page marker. Very good. Rather crude binding pleasingly aged, yellowed and irregular, but without the bowing often evident on full vellum bindings. Intriguingly cryptic late 18th century handwritten copy of what appears to be a hairy theological text... More
N.p. oyez, 1967. Hardcover. 4to. Burgundy cloth. 22pp. Fine. First edition of this handsome production, limited to 200 signed, numbered copies (this #191. More
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1913. Hardcover. 8vo. Full tan calf with gilt spine panels, dentelles. viii, 307pp. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Very good. A bit scuffed at edges. First edition, handsomely bound by Riviere. Not really a travelogue, but -- well, let Fielding-Hall explain it: "It is of the... More
Washington, DC: Department of the Interior, 1938. Hardcover. 4to. Green pebble-grained cloth with gilt spine lettering. ix, 200pp, v, 212pp, v, 192pp. Numerous illustrations, floor plans. Very good. Faint edgewear; endpapers a bit age toned and occasional sporadic bit of minor foxing. Tight, attractive and surprisingly scarce first edition of... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1922. Hardcover. Illustrations by Vernon Hill. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering. x, 279pp. Numerous line drawings ("emblems"). Very good. Mild binding edgewear, with gilt on spine and top of front board dulled -- though internally tight, bright and near fine. A handsome, tight... More
Chicago: The Tower Press, 1929. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth. xii, 385pp. Frontispiece. Near fine. First edition of this unusual, flag-waving, paranoid anti-Communist expose, a real product of its time. Inscribed on the front flyleaf to Frank O. Lowden (1861-1943), governor of Illinois: "For an American whom I / am... More
Renowned and prolific caricaturist whose inimitable style captured hundreds of actors in the pages of the "New York Times" from 1929 until his death. Signed Print, heavy stock 6¼" X 4½", n.p., 1983 March 9. Fine. Untitled print of this Hirschfeld group scene from the 1979 production of Giuseppe Verdi's... More
The wife of 31st President of the United States Herbert Hoover, he by profession a geologist and mining engineer and her a formidable scholar and linguist, served as First Lady from 1929 to 1933. Handsome full signature in brown ink on a heavy stock 3½" X 2¼" card bearing an... More
Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1948. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xv, 804pp. Extensive tables and figures. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with large chip at head of spine and several other small edge chips. A tight, most attractive first edition of this pioneering... More
British artist celebrated for his vibrant paintings of fruit and flowers, though he also produced historical scenes such as the prize-winning "Melancthon's First Misgivings of the Church of Rome"; some credit him with single-handedly reviving interest in still lifes, and no less than J.M.W. Turner called him one of the... More
Washington, DC: United States Postal Service, 1984. Hardcover. Wide 4to. Blue leatherette spine and blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 76pp. Numerous color illustrations. Fine/near fine. A superb, tight first edition of what's really a study of "Paintings and 1984 Olympic postal designs by Robert Peak"... More
Paris: Garnier Freres, 1871. Hardcover. 12mo. Half calf and red marbled paper over boards, compartments. 680pp. Very good. Mild edgewear. "Nouvelle Edition," entirely in French, of this edition of the French philosopher's influential 1748 "Spirit of the Laws," a treatise on political theory. Remarkably tight and clean and handsome, the... More
N.p. Printed for Private Circulation, 1893-96. Hardcover. Three volumes. Small 4to. Original linen spines with paper labels and pale blue paper over boards. Very good. Exceptionally tight and attractive, with just the mildest bit of edgewear; uncut. A lovely, bright first edition of the first three volumes of the catalogue... More
The English-speaking world's most revered actor, star of screen and legitimate stage for several decades; films include "Rebecca," "Richard III," "Spartacus," "Henry V," "Hamlet" and many more. Handsome PS, 8" X 10", n.p., n.d. Fine. Handsome glossy head-and-shoulders closeup from "Hamlet," signed in full by Olivier on the blank lower... More
New York: The Century Co., 1932. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with blue and gilt pictorial stamping, dust jacket. xv, 198pp.Very good/very good. Jacket edgeworn and a bit rubbed. First U.S. edition -- tight, clean, quite nice. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1918. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Tan leatherette with gilt lettering and decoration. x, 147pp, (2pp ads). Very good overall. Modern rebind is fine and pristine, while text block shows faint dampstaining to some page edges; 1924 ownership signature on inner flyleaf. First edition of Sandburg's... More
Mercury 7 and Apollo 14 astronaut and moonwalker, the first American to travel in space (1961). IPS, 7 ¼" X 9", n.p., n.y. Near fine. Black and white magazine photograph trimmed from the May 19, 1961 "Life" magazine profile. Candid closeup of Shepard gazing with left hand to forehead, boldly... More
Pasadena: By the Author, [1936]. Hardcover. 12mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering and black front board lettering, dust jacket. 140pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket rather age toned, with bit of edgewear and couple of edge chips along flap folds. Tight and attractive first edition of this spiritual memoir by... More
Washington, DC: [National Whig Office], 1848. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 7pp. Very good. Lacks cover title page, on which appears this pamphlet's expanded title: "A Letter to the Public, upon Political Parties, Caucuses and Conventions, and the next Presidential Election...." Despite flaw, this is a clean, attractive copy of this Vermont... More
This noted merchant, land speculator, canal and agricultural promoter and businessman began as a Revolutionary War patriot who acted as courier for George Washington and others; in 1779 he was sent to France with dispatches for Benjamin Franklin; by 1789 he was an Albany businessman and one of the founders... More