Search Results: Titles starting with H from Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB

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.

[London]: G. W. Bacon & Co., Ltd, 1914. Single sheet. 22" x 30". Folds into paper covers. Near fine. Map has creases from being folded into 16ths. There are a few tiny separations at fold intersections but no loss.. A rare seriocomic pictorial map of Europe at the outbreak of World War I. Likely designed in September 1914, after the German advance on Paris had been halted with the aid of the British at the battles of Mons and the Marne. The comedic depiction of the protagonist nations as dogs reflects the optimism of the British at this early stage of the conflict. The English bulldog, flanked by the French poodle, delivers a nasty bite to the nose of the pickelhaube-wearing German dachshund.<br /> <br /> This almost whimsical view of the war was of course short-lived. Soon Johnson, Riddle & Co. would be designing recruitment posters to attract volunteers into a war effort that had utterly lost the sense of playful optimism depicted here.<br /> <br /> A… Read More

Rochester: The Du Bois Press, 1928. Folded sheet, 25 3/4" x 38 5/8. Fine, with original fold creases.. Pictorial map. Large colorful pictorial map showing downtown Cleveland in 1928. Cartoons and historic vignettes decorate the map, which also gives the layout of the streets, railroad lines, and wharves along Lake Erie.<br /> <br /> Comes with original mailing envelope.

New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1957. First edition. Full cloth. Octavo. viii, 275 pages. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Bound in dark green cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine. Jacket has a few short edge tears and shallow rubbed wrinkles. Spine somewhat sun-faded... A fascinating guide to the dawn of the Age of Manipulation, when motivational researchers were learning all sorts of things about people's subconscious urges, fears, frustrations, and wish fulfillments, and the Mad Men employed this information to engineer consumers' consent to buy like never before.

Frederick County: Matthias Bartgis at Pleasant Dale Paper Mill, 1823. Original calf. Duodecimo. Sixteenmo. Near fine in original binding with slight edge wear. Boards somewhat splayed but hinges and binding sound.. Woodcut frontispiece portrait of Washington. Scarce imprint of this Revolutionary War history, originally published at the turn of the 19th century. Richard Snowden was a New Jersey school teacher whose works were mostly aimed at a student audience. <br /> <br /> Matthias Bartgis was a pioneering German American printer in Frederick County, Maryland. He opened the first printing office in Frederick in 1777, having apprenticed under William Bradford of Philadelphia. Prior to the Bartgis press there had been no printing press in Maryland beyond the tidewater line. <br /> <br /> Charles Griffith Haslup, a sheriff in Howard County, Maryland in the 1850s, has written his name in several places on the endpapers and first and last blank leaves. <br /> <br />… Read More

Wilmington, 1807. Single sheet, folded in half to approximately 7 7/8" x 9 5/8. Near fine. Old folds, remnants of a wax seal and some associated loss to paper from opening, though no loss of content.. Handwritten letter from Founding Father John Dickinson just months before he died. The letter is to James Vaux, a prominent Philadelphia Quaker, regarding an apparent shared interest in a lease. <br /> <br /> Dickinson writes:<br /> ------<br /> "Esteemed Friend, <br /> <br /> Thy letter of the second is received, with the inclosure. <br /> <br /> A copy of the lease is now sent for W. P.[?]___<br /> <br /> The exorbitant demands for surveying must, I suppose, be paid, as a controversy would only lead from one injury to another--- All that can be done, will be to keep as much as possible out of the Hands of these men in future. <br /> <br /> I am thy sincere friend, <br /> <br /> John Dickinson<br />… Read More

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.