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London: William Pickering, 1836. First Nicolas edition. 3/4 leather and marbled boards. Quartos. ccxii, 129 and [130]-436, [32] pages. Dark green leather spines and fore corners with marbled paper sides, gilt ruled boards, marbled endpapers, and all edges of textblocks gilt. Spines are titled and ornamented in gilt with five raised bands. Mild rubs to leather along joints, some light rubs to board edges, and some faint scattered foxing inside. Front endpaper of volume I has separation along hinge but still sound. Very good overall.. Black and white engravings throughout. A handsome set of the large paper first Nicolas edition of Walton, acclaimed as the finest "Angler" ever published. Sir Harris Nicolas not only secured excellent illustrators and an outstanding publisher for his edition, he also brilliantly edited and annotated the text, which is that of the 1676 fifth edition. The fifth edition was the first edition of Cotton, the first issue combining Walton and Cotton, and the last… Read More

Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company, 1935. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 197 pages. Very good in a good plus dust jacket. Mild spotting to spine. Jacket has a few extremity chips, closed edge tears with associated wrinkles, rubs along folds, and fading to spine.. The first and only novel by well-respected Maine outdoor writer, Edmund Ware Smith. Tells the story of a young man who leaves home to seek adventure in the West. Uncommon, particularly in the dust jacket.

New York: Doubleday, Page, & Co, 1901. First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. x, 330 pages. Near fine. Bound in maroon ribbed cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board titles, top edge gilt. Faint scattered foxing to endpapers, minor extremity rubs and shallow bumps. Hinges sound. A bright copy, better than often seen.. Black and white frontispiece photograph. Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in Franklin County, Virginia--the illegitimate son of a white man and a black woman.<br /> <br /> Washington graduated from the Hampton Institute, founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, and travelled and lectured extensively. His autobiography is very detailed throughout, covering his childhood memories, his struggles as a student, his presidency at Tuskegee, and the pride of his race.<br /> <br /> BLOCKSON, COLLECTOR'S CHOICE #51.

New York: Atheneum, 1968. First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xvi, [1-2], 3-226 [227-237] pages. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bound in blue cloth over boards with spine stamped in gilt, upper board in blind. A hint of fading toward top edge of upper board. Jacket has a whisper of lightening to spine, a 1/2" (or less) crisply closed tear near top fore corner of front panel, and a few other tiny spots of wear to extremities.. Inscribed and signed by Watson on preliminary blank leaf. Here is Watson's story of his work with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins--the three merging data from chemistry, physics, and biology--to solve the molecular structure of DNA, for which they were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 1962.<br /> <br /> An inscribed and signed copy of one of the major scientific works of the 20th century.

Washington: Gideon & Co. , Printers, 1851. Wrappers. Octavo. 21 pages. Good. The Reform Convention of Maryland, assembled to reform the state constitution, honored Mr. Webster for his role in the Compromise of 1850. This pamphlet contains Webster's address that evening as well as the toasts and speeches by some of Maryland's most prominent men of the day. The dinner was held at Walton's City Hotel, and Mr. And Mrs. Webster took lodgings at Mrs. Green's, opposite the State House. Printed front cover, sewn binding. Light scattered foxing inside, some silverfishing to fore edge of rear cover and last leaf, other mild cover wear.

Baltimore: Church Home & Hospital, 1994. First Edition. Full cloth. Quarto. x, 115 pages. Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Black and White Photographs. Recollections of 13 men and women who devoted their lives to one of Maryland's oldest medical institutions--the Church Home & Hospital facilities located at Fayette Street and Broadway in Baltimore. It was in one of the buildings now owned by the corporation that Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849. Bound in dark green cloth over boards with spine and upper board stamped in silver foil. Shallow wrinkle to edge of cloth at head of spine, jacket has a closed 1.25" edge tear with associated creases at top of rear panel, a shallow chip at same location, a short edge tear at bottom edge of front panel, and a few other light extremity rubs. . Jacket in Mylar protector.

New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc, 1954. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 400 pages. Good in a good dust jacket. Minor extremity rubs to boards, slight mottling to pastedowns. Jacket has a few edge tears with minimal losses, some edge wrinkles, and a few small edge chips. Jacket spine slightly faded.. Black and white illustrations. The important and controversial book in which Dr. Wertham claimed to have found a link between criminal behavior and the reading of comic books, though his findings were based largely on undocumented anecdotes. However, Wertham's message found an eager and uncritical audience among crusaders for public morals, leading to Wertham being called to testify before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. The moral panic set off by Wertham's book and testimony led to the voluntary establishment of Comics Code Authority by the comics industry as an alternative to government regulation. <br /> <br /> This copy's 2 page bibliographical… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. Hardcover. Quarto. xxvi, 155 pages. Printed dark gray paper over boards with dark orange cloth spine titled in gilt. Some minor extremity rubs, a couple of smudges to upper board. No prior ownership marks. Slipcase has wear along open edges and some splitting to a couple of joints. Overall near fine in a good slipcase.. Illustrations in color and black & white. The ambitious project, edited by Edith Wharton, to benefit civilians displaced by World War I. Contains essays, poetry, art, and music from nearly 60 contributors, including the likes of Sarah Bernhardt, Rupert Brooke, George Santayana, Margaret Woods, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, Agnes Repplier, W. B. Yeats, and more. Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt.<br /> <br /> Regular edition printed by Daniel B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, with extra title page engraved on wood by Rudolph Ruicka. Numerous tissue-guarded illustrations. <br /> <br /> Ref. UPDIKE &… Read More

London: Printed for Philemon Stephens the younger, at the Kings-Arms, 1661. Marbled paper over boards with leather spine. Quarto. [24], 1-108, 1-96, 1-83, [9] pages. Bound in modern marbled paper over boards with leather spine with five raised bands. Gilt vertical rule to both boards, gilt ornaments and rules to spine, gilt lettering in red title blocks on spine, date stamped in gilt at heel of spine. Interior shows mild age toning, a few shallow edge chips, and some light soil to title page. Prior owner name penned at top margin of title page (dated 1869).. Controversial work by Anglican Bishop of Ossory, Griffith Williams, in which he identifies the Westminster Assembly of Divines as the "mystical soul" and the Long Parliament as the "visible body" of the Great Antichrist based on Biblical prophecy and what he sees as their combined role in the slaying of the "first two Witnesses of God"--King Charles I of England and William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury. <br… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1917. First edition. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. xiv, 141 pages. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Some browning to endpapers from dust jacket flaps, along with some light browning to textblock edges. Jacket has minor extremity rubs and a couple of tiny chips at head of spine.. An indictment of what the author believed was America's woeful unpreparedness for World War I, followed by his solution--a program of Universal Military Training. Well documented, with a brief bibliography. Col. Jennings C. Wise was a graduate of Virginia Military Institute and author of "The Long Arm of Lee," etc. Foreword by Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood.

[Salt Lake City]: (S.n.), 1925. Stapled wrappers. Duodecimo. 24 pages. Fine, with one small stain on back cover.. Contains addresses by then Secretary of the Interior Dr. Hubert Work, Commissioner of Reclamation Dr. Elwood Mead, Director of National Parks Stephen T. Mather, Bishop C. W. Nibley, and President Anthony W. Ivins of the Mormon Church. The three U.S. Government officials acknowledge the accomplishments and example of the Mormon Church in settling the West, and asks its support as the Bureau of Reclamation plans to open vast new areas to settlement and cultivation. Uncommon, with just 6 institutional holdings shown in OCLC and none currently offered in commerce.