oxford: Elizabeth Herald, 1915. 1st Edition. Fascinating WW I era local Pennsylvania cookbook in beautiful condition. Trade paperback in original brown typographical wraps. Filled with turn-of-the-century local recipes from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, such as Soups, Entrees and Desserts. Also profusely illustrated with local advertising. Square..... More

Cambridge, Maryland: Antioch United Methodist Church. 1st Edition. Scare history of Town Point, in Dorchester County, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, with fantastic black and white photographs of early 20th-century Dorchester people, places and architecture. Staple bound trade paperback. Moderate rubbing and edge wear to wraps. Interior clean..... More

New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1928. Kappel, Philip. Early Printing. Beautiful 1928 Early printing of this often-overlooked but hugely important colonial American Ohio River Valley frontiersman, who fought both along side and against American settlers as well as American Indians. In RARE original dust jacket. Red cloth..... More

Chicago: Cera. 1st Edition. Burgundy cloth with silver foil illustration and type. Square tight binding. Clean interior. Jacket Fine. More

New York: Harper's Weekly Illustrated Newspaper, 1861. 1st Edition. 1861 Illustrated newspaper with a large centerfold, double-page engraving, a full-page map of Charleston Harbor, as well as detailed front-page headline report announcing that the CONFEDERATES BOMB FORT SUMTER South CAROLINA and the Civil War Begins. This original April..... More

Washington, DC: Office of Internal Security Affairs, 1986. 1st Edition. Trade paperback with black plastic comb binding. 73+ pgs. In as-new condition. More

Washington, DC: U.S. Nuclear regulatory Commission, 1981. 1st. Trade paperback with blue typographical wraps. Square tight binding. Clean Interior. Mild age toning and edge wear to wraps. More

Washington, DC: Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, 1977. 1st Edition. 4to. Trade paperback. Grey typographical wraps. 72pgs. Square tight binding. Clean Interior. Mild age toning to edges of wraps. A fascinating glimpse into the nuclear industry during the height of the Cold War. More

New York: Four Walls Eight Windows & Seven Stories Press, 1993-1998. 1st Edition. 8vo. Beautiful two volume set of Butler's groundbreaking work. "Parable of the Sower" is a 1st Edition, 4th printing while "Parable of the Talents" is a 1st Printing. The two 'Earthseed' novels "depict the struggle..... More

Richland, Washington: Office of National Security Technology. 1st Edition. Staplebound trade paperback. Unpaginated, approximately 60pgs. Scarce Fascinating U.S. Government document on the natural characteristics of natural water related resources relating to Soviet nuclear sites during the late stages of the Cold War. Light blue typographical wraps. Very mild wear. More

Richland, Washington: U.S. Department of Energy, 1990. 1st Edition. Plastic comb binding. U.S. Government document on procedures for securing and maintaining and disposing of nuclear waste materials toward the end of the Cold War period. Black plastic comb binding. Typographical wraps. Unpaginated, approximately 100 pages. More

Chicago, IL: Sears, Roebuck & Co., 1898. 1st Edition. Fascinating Pictorial broadside on light pink paper advertising a lecture illustrated with magic lantern slides, describing the Alaskan country and how to discover “fabulous wealth” by prospecting for gold, published by Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago. The broadside advertises..... More

J. Carez, 1825. A SPECTACULAR 1825 French hand-colored map of Maryland from Lucas' 1822 map, which breaks down county populations by Whites, Free Blacks and Slaves. At the time of this printing a young Frederick Douglass is counted in the Slave Census of Talbot County on Maryland's Eastern Shore... More