[INSCRIBED]. What You Ought to Know about Your Baby by Leonard Keene Hirshberg, H L Mencken - 1910: Inscribed copy of one of Mencken's scarcest book.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1934]. First edition, First Issue, with the tipped in errattum slip as called for. 8vo, publisher’s original black polished cloth lettered on the spine in gilt. IN THE SCARCE FIRST ISSUE DUSTJACKET, with the $2.50 price and with “Recent Fiction” on the back cover. 301pp. A fine copy, pristine and unused, the varnished black cloth shiny and fresh with only a tiny amount of marking that is common to the varnish and almost no wear whatsoever, the text clean and solid and fresh. The jacket, which is quite scarce, is still very bright and attractive. The front and rear panels of the dustjacket are in quite excellent condition, bright, clean and complete, the spine panel shows a bit of evidence of shelving at the foot, and a bit of wear at the head, but this is a very pleasing and attractive copy of an important book. A FINE COPY IN SCARCE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET OF JOHN O’HARA’S FIRST BOOK. One of the Modern Library’s Top 100 books of the… Read More

Paris, Louis Janet, ca. 1825. Oblong 8vo (19.0 x 12.3 cm). iv, 146, [i] pp.; title page with large, engraved and finely hand-coloured vignette, 12 finely engraved, tissue-guarded plates with contemporary hand-colouring. Contemporary quarter polished calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title, and blind tooled vignettes. = A wonderfully preserved copy of a very rare, delightfully illustrated satire on human behaviour, humorously compared with the behaviour of monkeys. The author is unknown, and, given the satire hidden behind the jolly illustrations, perhaps wisely remained anonymous. However, it seems reasonable to assume that the publisher, [Pierre Claude] Louis Janet (1788-1840) was the author, as he was known as a writer, in particular of works published by himself. Former owner's name pencilled in an old hand on the front free endpaper recto. Some (mostly light) rubbing to the boards, occasional light, marginal thumbing, a few small smudges, but generally very clean. The… Read More

Washington, DC: National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser, 1807. unbound. folio. unbound. (4), (4), (4), (4) pages. 4 issues. Four consecutive issues of what was, at the time, the official newspaper of the United States government, which published the proceedings and acts of the United States Congress. All four issues in near fine condition. It was edited by Samuel Smith, a loyal ally of Thomas Jefferson. Included in this set are the issues of March 18, 20, 23, and 25. Of special significance is the first printing of the prospectus, by Meriwether Lewis, of his journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition (1804-6). Also in the issue of March 18, preceding the prospectus, is a letter from Lewis warning the public of "several unauthorized and probably some spurious publications" about the expedition "by individuals entirely unknown to me (Lewis)." Lewis noted that permission to publish the journals was granted exclusively to Robert Frazier. Lewis's letter appears once again preceding the… Read More

London: Richard Bentley, 1838. The Most Celebrated of English Clowns" Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi Superbly Bound by Bayntun ca. 1920 Four Magnificent Color Pictorial Inlaid Characters Handsomely Extra-Illustrated [DICKENS, Charles]. BAYNTUN, binder. Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by "Boz." With Illustrations by George Cruikshank. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. [II.] London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition, first issue, with no border around final plate and correct page listing in list of "Embellishments." Two octavo volumes (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches; 191 x 117 mm.). [i]-xix, [xx, blank], 288 pp; [i-ix, [x, blank], 263, [264, printers imprint]. Engraved frontispiece portrait in volume I, and twelve engraved plates by George Cruikshank. The frontispiece to each volume hand-colored (volume I. "Joseph Grimaldi" & Volume II. "Grimaldi's kindness to the Giant"). Extra illustrated by the insertion of forty-eight engraved plates, eighteen of which are hand colored. Six of the hand colored plates are by… Read More

San Francisco, CA, 1975. Unique. Framed. Fine. Unique. Framed. The original drawing by Trina Robbins of a board game embodying Margo St. James' life and activities. From Margo's private library. Trina Robbins is the renowned American comics artist, writer and "herstorian". "She was an early and influential participant in the underground comix movement, and one of the few female artists in underground comix when she started. She worked at the feminist underground newspaper It Ain't Me, Babe. She subsequently established the first all-woman comic book titled It Ain't Me Babe Comix. She became increasingly involved in creating outlets for and promoting female comics artists, through projects such as the comics anthology Wimmen's Comix. She won a Special Achievement Award from the San Diego Comic Con in 1989 for her work on Strip AIDS U.S.A." She was the first woman to draw Wonder Woman. Margo St. James founded the organization C.O.Y.O.T.E. (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics). The bulk of COYOTE's records… Read More

New York: Tanglewood Press, [1968]. LIMITED DELUXE EDITION, of 250 hand-numbered copies SIGNED by both the translator and artist and with Dine’s eight original glossy Pochoir plates signed by the artist and hand-numbered and laid in. Printed on Euroset offset paper. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and photo-collages plus the eight original numbered colour pochoir plates by Jime Dine with all tissue guards intact. 4to, loose in printed chemise as issued within the publisher’s wrap of stiff paper covered in glassine and printed in black. In the original cloth covered slipcase with photographic image printed in hot pink. 128 pp. plus the eight additional plates. A very fine copy, internally as new, the glassine wrapper also fine and just a tad mellowed at the spine, the slipcase very fresh and clean with very minor mellowing to the pink at the rear panel. SCARCE LIMITED EDITION OF ONLY 250 COPIES. This English edition of Apollinaire’s “Le Počte Assassiné”… Read More

Amsterdam, Hendrick Laurensz., 1616. 5 parts in one volume. Folio. A--C4, D1-2; A-G4; A-R4, S1-6; A-S4; A-D4. Titlepage and first sheet (A1 & A2) browned and heavily restored & small tear in one page. Apart from the first two sheets a good copy. Bound with: BLOEM or BLUM, HANS. Beschryvinghe van de vijf colomnen van Architecture/. Te weten: Tuscana/ Dorica/ Jonica/ Corinthia ende Composita. Vel deur-grondeert ende gheconterfeyt naer de rechte Simmetrie ende constighe mate van Metselrye, deur den experten M. Hans Bloem, met grooter neer-sticheydt ghetrocken uyt de Antiquiteyten. Van nieuws oversien/ en van veele fauten ghebetert. Tot voordeel/ dienst ende profijt van Schilders/ Metsers/ Steenhouwers/ Goudtsmeden/ Beeldtsnyders/ Schrijn-werckers/ Timmerlieden/ Antijck-snijders/ ende allen anderen die met Passer ende Winckelhaeck werken. Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. [Blaeu], 1619. Folio. Printed title, 1 f. with preface of Hans Bloem to the reader, 15 ff containing woodcut illustrations and printed… Read More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891-1895. 3 volumes. FIRST EDITION. With 175 numbered double-page lithographed color maps and plates on 178 sheets by Bien. Large folio, original bright red cloth covered boards lettered in gilt on the upper covers, the backs and corner pieces in red morocco, the spines ruled in blind on tall bands, with two black morocco lettering labels gilt ruled and boldly lettered, endpapers renewed. 29 pp preface and contents, plates 1-70; plates 71-135; plates 136-175. A beautiful set of this rare and impressive collection of maps of the Civil War. The maps are all well preserved, fresh and bright, some expected minor wear to the cloth, otherwise the bindings are also fine. AN EXTREMELY IMPRESSIVE ATLAS PRODUCED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE TO ILLUSTRATE THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. A beautiful and fascinating accompaniment to the official records of the Civil War. Each massive plate is either an impressively detailed… Read More

1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraving of a comet by F. H. Fritsch; 4 folding diagrams at rear; plus Ornamental vignettes with fantasy motifs. 4to. Contemporary leather binding, spine with 5 raised bands; gilt-lettered red morocco label and gilt designs. Berolini Sumtibus Ambrosii Haude . . . (Berlini 1744). First Edition. (Brunet: II, col. 1092; Graesse: II, p. 518; Houzeau & Lancaster: Nº 11948; Dic. Biographique et Bibliographique: p. 308.) Leonardo Euler, the noted Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and philosopher, was for many years a professor in Berlin at the Court of Frederick the Great. In 1766, at the request of the Empress of Russia, Catherine II, he left Germany and went to Russia, where lived until his death in 1783. His work in astronomy was recognized by a number of Paris Academy Prizes over the course of his career. In this work Euler gives the solutions of the main problems of theoretical astronomy dealing with the structure, nature,… Read More

"We ask but for Peace, Liberty, and Safety." [CONTINENTAL CONGRESS].
Newspaper. The Pennsylvania Gazette, January 18, 1775 (No. 2404). Philadelphia: David Hall and William Sellers. "Petition of the Continental Congress To the King's Most Excellent Majesty" (October 25, 1774). 4 pp., 10 x 16¼ in.Many members of the Continental Congress blamed the crisis between Great Britain and the North American colonies on acts of British governors, military officers, and ministers. On October 1, 1774, Congress resolved unanimously to prepare an address to the King, and appointed Chairman Richard Henry Lee, John Adams of Massachusetts, Thomas Johnson of Maryland, Patrick Henry of Virginia, and John Rutledge of South Carolina as a committee to draft the petition. On October 3, 4, and 5, Congress deliberated on the proper matters to include in the Petition, and Patrick Henry wrote a first draft. On October 21, Congress debated the first draft, asked for revisions, and added John Dickinson of Pennsylvania… Read More