New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1997. A beautiful original 1997 promotional poster from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City advertising the exhibition, "Paris - The 1890s" The poster recreates the work of Maurice Denis, originally completed in 1892. "Maurice Denis (1870 – 1943)..... More
Sanborn Insurance Company, 1912. Elephant Folio. A vibrant and exceedingly rare 1912 Sanborn Insurance Map of the historic business district of Easton, Maryland, depicting detailed building footprints as well as property owner names. This beautiful piece is matted and framed under UV-protective glass. While on the..... More
Los Angeles, CA: Aaron Blake Publishers, 1986. "The exotic international locales of Ernest Hemingway's real-life travels and fictional adventures are compiled and vividly illustrated here. Follow Hemingway through the backstreet Parisian haunts of his expatriate years and into the sidewalk cafes he frequented with F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein..... More
Harrisburg: Bates, Jr., Joseph D., 1970. Limited 1st Edition Thus. 8vo. A beautiful 1970 SIGNED Limited Edition set of these two classic fly-fishing works, each signed by Bates and with a beautiful mahogany overcase surrounding the original illustrated slipcases. Of the original 600 limited copies of each title, only..... More
New York: Rand McNallly, 1965. Weiss, Emil. 8vo. An outstanding 1st Edition copy of Gilbert Byron's classic children's tale of a boy and his Chesapeake Bay Retriever on the turn-of-the-century Eastern Shore of Maryland. Signed by Byron on the front endpaper. Tan cloth. Square tight binding. Clean..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1933. 8vo. A beautiful early printing collection of the poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar, African-American poet, novelist and playwright, in uncommon original dust jacket. Red cloth. Square tight binding. Titling stamped in gilt, somewhat faded on spine, Mild edge wear. Dust jacket with..... More
London: Quartet Books, 1991. 1st Edition. 8vo. An exquisite 1st UK Edition from the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. Black cloth. 99pp. Square tight binding. Clean interior. AS new. Dust jacket equally nice. Presents handsomely in archival mylar. A lovely and desirable edition. More
New York: Pantheon, 2005. 1st Edition. 8vo. An exquisite 1st Edition from the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. Half grey cloth. 262pp. Square tight binding. Clean interior. Binding in Fine condition. Dust jacket equally nice. Presents handsomely in archival mylar. A lovely and desirable edition. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1936. 1st Edition. 8vo. First British edition of this fine collection of Huxley's essays. Green cloth. Gilt lettering in the spine and front cover. Slight foxing to the back endpaper and pastedown. Mild age toning to binding edges. Jacket with mild rubbing and edge where..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. 1st Edition. 8vo. First Edition of Masters' comprehensive, impartial and understanding biography of American poet, Walt Whitman. Green cloth. 342pp. Titling stamped in Gilt. Square tight binding. Clean interior. Light offsetting to endpapers. Upper edge with a very light, small dampstain toward rear..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. 1st Edition. 8vo. A beautiful 1st Edition of this tough-to-come-by title from the award winning Japanese writer. "Murakami wrote the novel in 1992, as a visiting scholar at Princeton University. The English translation, by Philip Gabriel, was released in 1999. "The first..... More
Martinet, 1873. Folio. An exquisite 1873 hand-colored map of of the Mid-Shore region of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the finest one we've handled. This map depicts Talbot, Caroline, and Queen Anne's Counties and features now-defunct Eastern Shore railroads such as the Maryland and Delaware, the Queen Anne..... More
Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1922. Elephant Folio. A stunning 1922 edition of the work of German sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764 - 1850), based on the work of influential ancient Greek sculptor Polykleitos. Foreword by German artist Maximilian Schaefer (1851-1916). Elephant Folio, with 30 double-page tipped in black and..... More
London: The Gentleman's Magazine, 1775. 8vo. "....upon their arrival at Lexington, found a body of the country people drawn up under arms on a green close to the road; and upon the King's troops marching up to them, in order to inquire the reason of their being so assembled, they..... More
Chicago: FREMONT HAGEDORN, 1962. John Moll (Pictorial Map of Oxford, Maryland). 1st Edition. Quarto. A very nice 1st Edition copy of this extremely scarce Maryland family history. This volume features the called for contemporary John Moll Pictorial Map of Oxford, Md, along the Tred Avon River. Limited Edition..... More
Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 1972-1975. 1st Edition. 8vo. A spectacular collection of U.S. Government issued histories of various facets of the American military's involvement in the Vietnam War, from the personal library of Lieutenant General Bernard W. Rogers., Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army and Assistant Commander..... More
New York: Doubleday and Company, 1976. 8vo. A wonderful association copy inscribed by Westmoreland to fellow Lieutenant General Bernard W. Rogers, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army and former Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe. "To: Bernie Rogers - With the hope that my account will..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1936. 1st Edition. 8vo. 1936 scarce 1st Edition in rare original dust jacket. From the library of legendary Colgate University tennis coach and professional tennis player Perrine G. Rockafellow, with his attractive bookplate attached to the front pastedown, featuring Colgate's University Church and its iconic Chapel Steeple..... More
New York: George Doran, 1920. 1st Edition. 8vo. More than a century later, this first-hand account of the fall of Tsarist Russia remains the seminal work on the subject. A scarce 1st American edition in the extremely rare dust jacket. Robert Wilton was a Russian Correspondent for the..... More