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New York: The Abbey Press, 1902. First Edition. Original cloth. Duodecimo. [iv], 81 pages. Near Fine. Bound in rust-colored cloth over boards with spine and upper board lettered in black. All edges of textblock rough cut. Minor edge wear to boards. Neatly repaired tear to one leaf.. Haggerty lays out his "Guarantee Plan" for the Democrats to deal justly with the trusts and defeat Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. Scarce. OCLC locates just 9 copies as of October 2019, none in commerce.

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. Limited edition. Copy #362 of 950 sets. Cloth hardcovers Quartos. xviii, 200 pages and x, 192 pages. Near fine. Slight wear at extremities. Both volumes have a neat prior owner bookplate on front pastedown. Lacking the slipcase. Bound in red cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board titles, deckle edges. A solid, handsome set.. Color and black and white illustrations, fold-out map. Haig-Brown was an Englishman who spent most of his adult life on British Columbia's Campbell River. This fine Derrydale production is well illustrated with line drawings, plates from photographs, color plates of fish by E. B. S. Logier, etc. This copy has the foldout map facing page 3 in volume one, which is apparently absent from most of the edition. The text is well written and includes bibliographic references at the ends of chapters. <br /> <br /> Ref. HAND H44; SIEGEL et al #156.

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: The Viking Press, 1964. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 63 pages. Very good in a near fine dust jacket. A few leaves have soft creases from a manufacturing defect, else fine. Dust jacket has a hint of tanning to spine.. Hall's third book of poetry, signed by him on the title page.

(Los Angeles): Center Publications, 1979. First edition thus. Softcover. Octavo. 70 pages. Rear cover has a .75" band of sun fading along joint. Spine is similarly lightened by sun. Top fore corner has a crease, else near fine.. Inscribed and signed by Harrison with a small drawing on half title page. Inscription reads: "Moody, / A volume that / will sell like a / New Year's ['day' crossed out] Eve / crack shipment. Or / not. / Yrs. / Jim / [drawing] / 12/86

Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co, 1871. 1st Edition. Original cloth. Duodecimos. 152 pages. Near Fine. Both the first and second issues of the first edition of this collection of Harte's poems. Both volumes are bound in brown cloth over bevelled-edge boards with gilt-stamped spines and upper boards. First issue copy has minor edge bumps and light rubs, with gilt remaining bright. Second issue copy has minor edge wear, prior owner bookplate, and some darkening to gilt. Both books have sound hinges and endpapers.. First state of the first edition, with correct issue points on spine, title page, and page 136, together with a second state copy. The pair are housed together in a custom half morocco slipcase.

Annapolis: Treasury Office, 1818. Single sheet, approximately 9 1/4" x 11 3/4. Fine, with some light age-toning and three horizontal folds. Ink bleed-through from endorsement on back side of folded document.. Statement of expenses related to the construction and first few years of the Maryland Penitentiary in Baltimore. Issued by Benjamin Harwood, Treasurer of the Western Shore of Maryland, and dated December 16th, 1818. Over $160,000 in expenditures are listed. The penitentiary opened in 1812. <br /> <br /> Interestingly, the amounts are listed in pounds, shillings, and pence through 1812, then in dollars and cents beginning in 1813. <br /> <br /> Harwood's office was in the Old Treasury Building which still stands near the Maryland State House and is the oldest public building in Annapolis. Benjamin Harwood's family owned the Hammond-Harwood House in Annapolis, one of the town's many surviving 18th century architectural treasures.

Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Company, Publishers, 1921. First Edition. Original cloth. Octavo. 409 pages. Fine. Drawings by Carll B. Williams. The first volume published in the Seckatary Hawkins series. These boys' stories revolve around a club of boys whose home base is a river bank on the Ohio, with the lead character being the "seckatary" who records their activities. This particular adventure is set in Cuba. Charmingly illustrated by Carll B. Williams. Bound in ribbed-textured cloth over boards with spine and upper board titled in gilt, upper board also has vignette of Seckatary Hawkins with an open book and inkwell in black. A few minor extremity rubs, a bit of darkening along spine and top edge of upper board, otherwise clean and bright with sound hinges. Excellent condition. . No dust jacket.

Boston: American Stationers Co, 1837. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 334 pages (with 4 pages ads at front, 12 pages ads at back). Mild scattered foxing, some extremity rubs and shallow chips to cloth along board edges. Hinges not cracked but joints have a few splits.. Hawthorne's third publication in book form and the first to bear his name. This collection of 18 stories won immediate recognition for its author, though all had previously appeared in annuals or magazines. Hawthorne himself assembled and edited them for this collection. <br /> <br /> The included story "Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe" is very close to being a detective story in the purest sense. Indeed, none other than Edgar Allan Poe, (whose "Murders in the Rue Morgue," published four years later, and often credited with the first modern detective story) called Hawthorne's story "vividly original and managed most dexterously." <br /> <br /> One… Read More

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1901. First printing. Cloth over boards with printed paper sides. Tall octavo. 176 pages. Minor rubs to board extremities, shallow bumps, and a bit of sun fading along extreme bottom edge of upper board. Jacket has chipping at heel of spine and a 1 1/2" triangular chip from head of spine. There is a hole in spine near heel, about the size of corn kernel. Neat prior gift inscription dated 1901 at top fore corner of front free endpaper. Overall clean and sound. Very good in a good plus dust jacket.. Black and white photographs, illustrations. Beautiful depiction of child life in China, revealing something of their nursery's, school rooms, and playgrounds. Numerous photographs throughout, along with old prints, to illustrated nearly every page. Printed page backgrounds give alternating pairs of pink and blue borders to the text and images.

(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.

New York: Random House, 1972. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 305 pages. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Slight fading to board extremities, a few shallow extremity bumps. Jacket has slight edge wear.. Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter Sy Hersh tells the story of the origins and cover-up of this tragic incident in the Vietnam War. Hersh had many well-placed sources, and also combed the 25,000 pages of the Army's undisclosed Peers Report into the command responsibility for the massacre. <br /> <br /> Inscribed and signed by Hersh on front free endpaper in year of publication.

Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Company, 1919. First printing. Cloth hardcover. Duodecimo. xvi, 264 pages. Bound in green cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board, top edge gilt. Very good, with some light extremity rubs. Prior owner name penned on front free endpaper. Front hinge apparently re-glued at some point, small split at rear hinge.. Profusely illustrated, including eight color plates of flies. Contents include selection, care, and rigging of the rod, the art of casting, trout habits, the angler's flies and how to tie them, description of trout-fly patterns, and an appendix classifying flies according to body color of the described artificial flies. <br /> <br /> Includes an envelope containing two old trout flies on #10 hooks. Dr. Holden was an American surgeon, angler, and writer on angling. <br /> <br /> See HAND H-439, BRUNS H-216.

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.

Washington: Mathew Brady, 1863. Mounted on a 2" x 4" card. Clear image with a few insignificant brown spots, slight rubs to edges of card. Signature is clear and bold.. Black and white photograph. Original albumen photographic profile vignette of a seated General Hooker, facing left. Imprint of Brady Studio, Washington, in bottom margin. Inscribed on back of the mount "Joseph Hooker / Maj. Genl." General Hooker's aggressive fighting in 1862 led Lincoln to place him in command of the Army of the Potomac in January of 1863. He was defeated by Lee at Chancellorsville, and replaced by General Meade just days before the Battle of Gettysburg. Hooker's legacy is somewhat tarnished by his reputation for drinking, gambling, and womanizing.

[London]: Royal Society of London, 1908. Softcover. Quarto. [17 pages, 5 plates]. Good. Printed brown covers over stapled binding. Some light edge wear, foxing to text pages. Binding quite sound.. Black and white photographs. Systematic description of the sulci and gyri of the brain of the distinguished mathematician, Charles Babbage (1791-1871). Babbage is considered the father of computers, and this study of his brain was part of a project to gather data on the brains of exceptional individuals. Babbage's brain is at the Hunterian Museum in London. Illustrated with photographs of its dissection.

[Boston?], 1908. Manuscript. 6.25" x 8. Near Fine. Single sheet folded twice. Lacks original envelope, if any. Excellent condition overall.. This is an endearing letter from the aged social activist, suffragist, and poet just days before her 89th birthday. Julia Ward Howe is perhaps best known as the writer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," but was also a prominent abolitionist and women's rights advocate. The letter is addressed "Dear Martha, and in it Mrs. Howe expresses her anxiety about upcoming speaking engagements. She notes her fatigue, her concerns about transportation to the events, and, poignantly, that "I feel very helpless--can't live up to my reputation. Fear that I was never measured for it, and that that is why it does not fit." One of the meetings she mentions is that of the "State Fed.", which was the Massachusetts State Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. Howe did indeed address the meeting on May 28th, 1908, saying that such… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 122 pages. Very good in a good dust jacket. Slight lean to spine, boards show faint toning toward edges, binding remains sound. Jacket has a couple of edge tears taped from behind by prior owner, along with two slight losses to front panel.. The case of a 17 year old girl who became a heroin addict and marries a dealer. Jacket photograph by Lotte Jacobi.