![Angling] A Summer Cruise on the Coast of New England. Robert CARTER](/pictures/thumb/BB2588.jpeg?v=1629142862)
Boston / New York: Crosby and Ainsworth / Oliver Felt, 1865. Decorative Cloth. Early printing of this work on sport fishing, charting a voyage during the summer of 1858, when the author was Washington correspondent for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune. Foolscap 8vo (176 x 105mm): viii,261,[1]pp. Original green pebbled..... more
![American Indians] Die Indianer Nord-Amerikas und die während eines achtjährigen Aufenthaltes...](/pictures/thumb/BB1404.jpeg?v=1632352580)
Brussels and Leipzig: Carl Muquardt, [1846-]1848. First Edition thus. Translated into German by Dr. Heinrich Berghous. Imperial 8vo: x,[2],382pp, with 24 tissue-guarded hand-colored plates. Contemporary quarter calf, flat spine in five compartments, lettered and decorated in gilt, stamped in blind; marbled covers, edges and end papers. An excellent copy, binding..... more
Chicago: Caxton Club, 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tall, slim 8vo: [4],12,[6]pp, including full-page reproductions from photographs, plus the Bewick wood-block print. Decorated gold-and-tan paper-backed boards, black linen spine, printed paper label, medium-brown laid end papers. Pristine. One of five variant bindings (collect them all!) deposited in the Newberry Library. Limited..... more
![Baseball] The American game of base ball, how it is played; a manual [Chadwick's Baseball...](/pictures/thumb/BB2428.jpeg?v=1618170963)
Philadelphia: [Theodore Holland], 1888. Pictorial Wrappers. First edition of this manual, including playing instructions, rules interpretations, and history. (Cover title: Chadwick's baseball manual). Foolscap 8vo (160 x 113mm): 64pp. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers with wraparound color image of a player attempting to steal second base as the catcher attempts to..... more
Copperstown: H. & E. Phinney, 1838. Original Cloth. First Edition. 12mo (177 x 107mm): 100pp. Original plain brown muslin over boards (variant not noted by Blanck), original printed paper label to front cover. Cloth, particularly spine tips, gently rubbed; light scattered foxing throughout, still a very attractive example. BAL 3886..... more
![Native Americans] [Border Wars] History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western...](/pictures/thumb/BB2549_01.jpeg?v=1629978003)
Wheeling: H. Hoblitzell, 1851. Decorative Cloth. Superb First Edition, in publisher's binding, of this frontier classic. Demy 8vo (226 x 142mm): 416pp, with four plates on pale pink paper, one folding facsimile, and numerous woodcut text vignettes. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, front cover with striking gilt vignette of native hoisting..... more
![Western Americana] The Spurs; [offered with] The Espuela Land and Cattle Company : a study of a...](/pictures/thumb/BB2458.jpeg?v=1598308742)
Spur, Texas / Austin: The Texas Spur [from 1938] / Texas State Historical Association, 1939 / 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Only printing of this western Americana, "now quite difficult to come by." (Adams) Crown 8vo (176 x 125mm): [16],274pp, with portrait frontispiece from photograph on coated turquoise stock, three further..... more
![American Revolution] The centennial : Battle of Bunker Hill ; with a view of Charlestown in 1775,...](/pictures/thumb/BB1988.jpg?v=1542042169)
Boston: Little, Brown, 1875. First Edition. Original Wraps. Scarce printing of Frothingham's final publication. ABPC lists no copies at auction, Rare Book Hub lists seven, most recently in 1915. Small 8vo (176 x 118 mm): [8],136pp. with half-title, 15 panel-map (and 2-panel overlay) frontispiece, six-panel view of Charlestown in 1775..... more
London: published by I. and J. Taylor, At the Architectural Library, High Holborn, 1796. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. First Printing, early issue (with verso of p. 143 blank; later issues carry the "Addition" on canals in mountainous areas) of Fulton's ambitious scheme to create a network of inland waterways in..... more
St. Paul: [Published by the state] for gratuitous circulation, by Girart Hewitt, 1869. Wrappers. Third Edition (originally published in 1867) of this guidebook intended to attract settlers to the state. "Notice. This pamphlet, published in January of each year, (this being its third year) is designed to keep up with..... more
![Confederate] My Experience In The Confederate Army And In Northern Prisons, Written From Memory....](/pictures/thumb/BB2391.jpeg?v=1626823262)
Clarksburg, W. Va. Stonewall Jackson Chapter, No. 1333, United Daughters of Confederacy, 1917. Card Covers. First Edition of this reminiscence by and infantryman who served under Robert E. Lee. Demy 8vo (227 x 143): 52pp, with frontispiece portrait of the author. Original speckled mid-brown card covers printed in black with..... more
![The Discovery of Yellowstone Park 1870] Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and...](/pictures/thumb/BB2105.jpg?v=1568487789)
[none given]: [none given], 1905. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing of this comprehensive insider's account of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition, which explored the region of northwestern Wyoming that became Yellowstone National Park. Presentation copy, inscribed in an elegant hand by the author: “Mrs. Charles A. Stott / Compliments of /..... more
New York: The Century Company, MCMXII [1912]. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. First Printing (MCMXII on title page) of this scarce account of the park, its landmarks, seasonal climes, and wildlife, by Yosemite's best known advocate and explorer. 8vo (206 x 126mm): x,284pp, with 3 folding maps and 32 (including frontispiece)..... more
![Confederate] [Indian Wars] A Brief Sketch of the Life of a[n Ex-]Confederate Soldier and the Ups...](/pictures/thumb/BB2402.jpeg?v=1634401904)
Dallas, TX: Stellmacher & Clark [Printers], 1928. Half-Morocco. Scarce survival of this sole edition, the far less common variant with "Ex-Confederate" in title. Copyright date is 1928 but author portrait is dated 1929. Crown 8vo (192 x 130mm): 16pp, with portrait frontispiece. Original grey paper wrappers lettered in black and..... more
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931. First Edition thus. Hardcover. First Printing of this edition with numerous illustrations by James Daugherty of Parkman's classic account of a summer tour, in 1846, of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas, "with a view of studying the manners and character of Indians in their..... more
![Old West] [Frontier Life] [Comanche Nation] Days That Are Done. William Perry SANDERS](/pictures/thumb/BB2406.jpeg?v=1632691802)
Los Angeles: Grafton Publishing Corporation, 1918. First Edition. Card Covers. First Printing of these six accounts of the Old Southwest. Thick foolscap 8vo (178 x 123mm): 134pp, with portrait frontispiece and eight further illustrations from half-tones. Publisher's pictorial card covers printed in pale blue and brown. An exemplary example (barely..... more
Boston: Allen and Ticknor, 1833. First Edition. Quarter-Cloth. First Printing of this "landmark, for Smith was the first American writer to make fishing the subject of even a short treatise." (Goodspeed) Small 8vo: vii,[1],399[p. 365 misnumbered 265],[1]pp, with title-page vignette, divisional title-page vignette, and numerous woodcuts throughout. Probably the Brinley..... more
![Utah] [Great Salt Lake] Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah,...](/pictures/thumb/BB2435.jpeg?v=1632313383)
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852. Decorative Cloth. First Issue, with heading "Special Session, March, 1851. Senate. Executive. No. 3" (the second issue was for use of the House). With the separately issued atlas volume. Demy 8vo (227 x 137mm): 487,[1]pp, with 34 tinted lithographs (including frontispiece and three folding..... more
![Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among The Lowly; [offered with:] A Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin :...](/pictures/thumb/BB2474.jpeg?v=1623266043)
Boston / Cleveland, Ohio: Published by John P. Jewett & Co. / Jewett, Proctor & Worthington [from 1852], 1853. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. A striking set of this early printing ("Two Hundred and Sixty-Third Thousand") in original bindings, published one year after the first edition, offered with a First Edition..... more
![Texas] [Davy Crockett] [Alamo] The Swisher Memoirs. John M. SWISHER, Col., Rena Maverick Green,...](/pictures/thumb/BB2389_01.jpeg?v=1629898023)
San Antonio: Sigmund Press, 1932. Wrappers. First Printing of this important reminiscence of early Texas and of Davy Crockett's days there and key eyewitness account of the fall of the Alamo and of the Texas Revolution. Crown 8vo (202 x 131): 63,[1]pp, with frontispiece, map of south central Texas on..... more
![Photobook] In American Fields And Forests. Henry David THOREAU, Henry David Thoreau, John...](/pictures/thumb/BB2526.jpeg?v=1630025882)
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. Decorative Cloth. Scarce First Printing of this anthology of early nature writing by six prominent Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with photographs by Herbert W. Gleason. Crown 8vo (194 x 122mm): xii,378,[4]pp, with frontispiece and six further plates from..... more
New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 copies, only 150 of which were for sale. Crown 8vo (188 x 130mm): [6],8,[2]pp, with line-drawn portrait frontispiece of Bernard Kavier Phillippe de Marigny de Mandeville (1785–1868). Publisher's black cloth-backed gray decorative paper-covered boards, cream paper..... more
![Photobook] [Early Photography] Homes of American Statesmen: with Anecdotal, Personal and...](/pictures/thumb/BB2589_01.jpeg?v=1629988383)
New York: G. P. Putnam & Co, M.DCCC.LIV [1854, but 1853]. Decorative Cloth. First Edition of the first American book illustrated with an original photograph, a landmark in the history of photography and a cornerstone of photo-illustrated books. Demy 8vo (214 x 146mm): viii,469,[1]pp, with original "crysalotype" mounted as frontispiece..... more
Boston: Laurens Maynard, MDCCCXCVII [1897]. First Edition. Cloth. First American Issue of the only edition, with spine imprint Maynard and title page "Published by Laurens Maynard" (later Small, Maynard). Edited, with an introduction, by Richard Maurice Bucke, M.D., one of Whitman's literary executors. Small 8vo: viii,173pp, with two inserted leaves..... more
![November Boughs [Presentation Copy]. Walt WHITMAN](/pictures/thumb/BB1258.jpeg?v=1626031083)
Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher, 23 South Ninth Street, 1888 [but 1891]. First Edition. Cloth. Tall, thin 8vo: 140,[2]pp, with portrait in the text but no frontispiece photograph inserted (as issued). Original dark green V cloth, beveled covers, spine titled in gilt, upper cover stamped in gilt with tile and Whitman's..... more