London: Adam & Charles Black, 1914. Second edition (first published in 1910). Tall 8vo. xiv, 133 pp. Color plates of flies. "Without ousting the dry fly from pride of place as major tactics of the chalk stream, the wet fly has its subsidiary, but still important place of honor in..... More
Cincinnati, (OH): Stewart & Kidd Co., Publishers, (c1920). First edition. 8vo. x, (4), 278 pp. Two leaves of publisher's ads at the end. Illustrated from photographs and line drawings, plates; title page by Louis Rhead. Very good. Original gilt-stamped green cloth. (11290). More
South Brunswick and New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., (c1970). First edition. 8vo. 248 pp. Dust jacket title: "Armchair Adventures for the Angler: The World's Best Fishing Stories." Inscribed by the author to fellow sporting book author Sam Slaymaker, "May you enjoy some good fishes in the pages of..... More
New York: Derrydale Press, (c1940). First edition, 1/550 copies (this #520). Small 8vo. xii, (4), 401 pp. Line drawings, plates. Siegel 157. Tape marks on endpapers, as usual, else very good, with the spine gilt much brighter than usual. Original gilt-stamped black cloth, color pictorial onlay on upper board. (11289)..... More
New York: Derrydale Press, 1929. First edition, 1/750 unnumbered copies. 8vo. (10), 143, (1) pp. Frontispiece after a dry point by Ralph Boyer, signed by him in pencil, other illustrations from photographs, plates. Bruns V-20. A little fading to boards, bookplate on pastedown, but very good. Original cloth-backed blue boards..... More
New York: Derrydale Press, (c1939). First edition, 1/1075 copies, the one marked "Artist's Copy" in manuscript. 8vo. xxix, (4), 195 pp. Illustrated from photographs and line drawings, plates. Inscribed by the author to one of the illustrators of this work, Ralph Boyer. A very good association copy, inscribed by the..... More
Philadelphia, PA. J. B. Lippincott Co., (c1977). First edition, 1/125 copies (this #71), signed by Darbee and Francis and with a Little Inky Boy tied by Darbee affixed to the limitation page. 8vo. 174 pp. Illustrated from photographs, line drawings. Very good. Gilt-stamped decorated brown leather, gilt spine title, marbled..... More
(Toronto: Ontario Publicity Bureau), nd [1926?]. Promotional for the province. 8vo. 72 pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs, plates, double-page map. Hunting, fishing, golf, and other leisure activities. Laid in are a contemporary illustrated brochure for “Toronto Tours” and an advertising broadside for a highway restaurant chain, “The Eighteen Sixty-Seven.” For..... More
New York: Printed by John Anderson, at Beekman's-Slip, 1776. Newspaper, this issue only. Single sheet folded. 26 x 22 cm. 4pp. Text in two columns. Printed above the masthead: Price Two Coppers single, or Ten Shillings, a Year. (No. 81). Some edge tears, else very good. Ink name in the..... More
Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers , 34 School Street, 1864. First edition. 8vo. 16 pp. Original glossy white wrappers, with title in gold on front wrap. Some chipping and soiling at top and bottom of wraps and text leaves. BAL 4459. The Kearsarge was of course the ship that..... More
San Francisco, [CA]: Woman's Book and Job Printing Association, 605 Montgomery Street, 1875. 8vo. 8 pp. Self wraps. Some scattered pencil marks in the margins of the text. The California State Grange had published a version of this as a "confidential communication" the previous year with a slightly different title..... More
Quebec, [Canada]: Stewart Derbishire & George Resbarats, 1855. First edition. 8vo. 31, [1] pp. Original green printed paper wrappers, rear wrap detached; small oval stamp of the Legislative Assembly, Canada on rear wrapper. Contemporary ownership signature on front wrapper. Brittle, edges of wraps and text pages chipped. Signed in type..... More
[Boston, Mass. nd] [1913?]. Circular, 28 x 21 cm., 2 pp. of text, and including an inset diagram, 13 x 10 cm., of the steering mechanism. A very good copy. "It will be seen in the diagram that the balancing motions of the aviator are natural, that is to say..... More
Manuscript document, in at least two different hands, with additions and corrections. Single sheet, 32 x 19 cm., 2 pp., approx. 400 words. At a town council meeting held on Sept. 4, 1804, John Dorrance, Joseph Jenckes, Jabez Bulloch [sp?], Nathan Waterman, and [?] Simmons, were informed that "part of..... More
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NP: np, [1830]. Broadsheet. 55 x 40 cm. Text printed in five columns on recto and four on verso. Scattered foxing, otherwise very good copy with creases from folding. At end of last column on recto: "(Speech to be continued.)" [Text of this supplement corresponds to the first 37 pages..... More
Eleven partly printed documents, completed in manuscript, each approx. 16 x 20 cm. Lightly creased along horizontal fold, a few with short separations along the fold, else all in very good condition. The lots (in what is now called the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City) include Nos. 1-5, and..... More
[Washington City: March 1, 1838]. Manuscript document, a tender copy, unsigned. Two leaves, ink on rectos only, 32 x 20 cm., approx. 680 words. Both leaves split across the central fold, the first leaf held together by a news clipping tipped on as part of the author's explanation of the..... More
[Thomaston, ME?]: np, nd (late 19th century?). Broadside. 34 x 16.5 cm. Tears and shallow chipping along the edges, not affecting text. Signed in type by James Brislein, formerly of Winterport, but now of Thomaston, Maine. The 25 lines of text describe four separate uses for the medicine he invented..... More
Boston, [MA]: Henshaw's Press, 1851. Broadside. 25 x 19 cm. Printed on light blue paper. Beneath the title are 27 lines of negative, one could say viperous comments on the school and its Board of Instruction Moses l. Morse and wife. The last sentence proposes to publish a thousand copies..... More
[Newburyport, MA]: Printed at the Newburyport Herald Office, 1859. Broadside. 32 x 20 cm. Text in two columns beneath title. Two poems (called original hymns), one by Mrs. E. P. Grosvenor with first line: "Sacred to science, wisdom, truth," the other by J. G. Whittier with first line: "The South-land..... More
Single sheet of parchment, 33 x 65 cm. folded in eighths, very good condition, with eight intact seals. Docketed on verso. The 1704 document is a sale of 160 acres of land, "with the houses edifices premises & appurtenances therein belonging," to John Vandervere (c. 1671-1732) of Flatbush "Nassaw Island"..... More
Partly printed indenture, completed in manuscript. Single sheet, folded to 33 x 20 cm., 2 leaves. Printer's slug in upper right corner: "Deed -- Sold by T.B. Jansen." Peter L. Davis, "late a [private] in Captain [Hooks] Company of the [Thirty Sixth] Regiment of [Infantry]" sells to Israel Foote of..... More
Albany, [NY]: J. Munsell, 78 State Street, 1857. 8vo. 63 pp. Original printed pictorial wrappers, with illustration of the Hale Monument in Coventry, Connecticut on rear wrap. Front wrap has two chips in top margin, crude celo tape repair to lower corner with some marginal paper loss. Internally clean and..... More
London: Secker and Warburg, 1984. First trade edition. Small folio. xx, 381, [3] pp. Full maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, white printed dustjacket. Housed in publisher's plain card slipcase. Very good in dust jacket and slipcase. The manuscript (the only existing Orwell manuscript) originated with Orwell's..... More
Nine original documents, 1833-1850. James Walker [Sr.] built the National House, between City Square and the Navy Yard, as part of the renovation of a section of Charlestown which burned in a major fire in 1835. According to an article in the Boston Globe on Sept. 25, 1899, Walker's hotel..... More
