An unusual American binding comprised of the publisher’s Fabri-Ko-Na burlap; a material they also used for their custom curtains, draperies, seat covers, and art pillow..... Read More about The House of the Honeymoon, a Story
Scarce book of American poetry with a long poem on the Incas, indigenous to Peru. Author Chauncey Thomas was a coach-builder in Boston and he..... Read More about The Story of Inca Rocca, and Other Short Poems
Published by Ford and Damrell, “Temperance Press” in Boston —this popular tale of Jenny’s husband who turns to drink, alcoholism, jail and near-ruin before he..... Read More about My Mother’s Gold Ring, Founded on Fact
The proverbial novel written by a committee. A Romance of Bar—U Ranch has 16 chapters, each written by a different student in the senior class..... Read More about Romance of Bar-U Ranch. A Novelette
Obscure American novel set in early eighteenth-century Jeffersonian-era Washington. Contemporary reviews were, by and large, positive. Godey’s described the work as “...emphatically a religious novel..... Read More about Scenes at Washington; a Story of the Last Generation
![Highboy Rings Down the Curtain. [Limited Edition, Signed]. George Agnew Chamberlain, 1879–1966](/pictures/thumb/3730833_1.jpg?v=1632404236)
Scarce American fiction, horses being the theme, in an interesting binding. This novelette was written by this Brazilian-born author who studied at Princeton, had a...... Read More about Highboy Rings Down the Curtain. [Limited Edition, Signed
![Man in the Shadows [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]. Elias Lieberman](/pictures/thumb/3731103_1.jpg?v=1642471488)
Lieberman was a Russian Jew who emigrated to America as a young man. he is noted for his 1916 poem “I Am an American.” In..... Read More about Man in the Shadows [Inscribed and Signed by the Author
Scarce volume of self-published poetry by a retired schoolteacher and native of Sandy Creek, New York who removed to a farm in Gilboa, New York..... Read More about Ballads of the Hard Hills and other Poems
The basis for Leo McCarey’s 1937 film Make Way For Tomorrow, starring Victor Moore and Beulah Bonndi, this early reprinting has distinct artwork from the..... Read More about Years Are So Long. A Novel
Obscure American fiction by this female author from Clifford Township in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Ella Maude Stewart Dann (d. 1943) was born with a significant..... Read More about Majella; or, Nameless and Blind. A Story of the Susquehanna
![Colors of Life. Poems and Songs and Sonnets. [Inscribed copy]. Max Eastman, 1883–1969](/pictures/thumb/3730923_1.jpg?v=1639955135)
Presentation Copy: “My greetings to Bruce Berlind —Max Eastman, October 1965.” New York: Alfred A. Knopf, MCMXVIII [1918]. First Edition. 129pp. 6¼ x 4¾ inches..... Read More about Colors of Life. Poems and Songs and Sonnets. [Inscribed copy
A scarce and early Hawaii surfing novel with sharks and a surfing contest. The protagonist, Kelea, was a descendant of Kelea, the Surf-Rider of Maui..... Read More about Kelea: The Surf-Rider. A Romance of Pagan Hawaii
The author’s first novel, young adult fiction, and one which is described as being especially appropriate for Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. The storyline explains..... Read More about Vacant Niche, or Land of Gold
Author-poet Caspar Bruchhausen (1806-1891) was a homeopathist physician. The book’s more interesting poems (pp92-119) reveal his perspectives on the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The..... Read More about Rhymes of the Times and Other Chimes
A 1920s-era interpretation of this Indian captivity story. “A romance [and fictional account based on the life] of an Irish girl stolen by Indians from..... Read More about The Red Lily of Buchanan Valley
![Relève Into Maquis. [Releve Into Maquis]. Nancy Cunard](/pictures/thumb/3730873_1.jpg?v=1632596706)
A Poem by Cunard on the French Resistance during the Second World War. Derby [England]: Printed for Kenneth Hopkins, The Grasshopper Press, 1944. Limited to..... Read More about Relève Into Maquis. [Releve Into Maquis
A compilation of American and Continental poetry on uplifting themes by Walter Lorenzo Sheldon (1858–1907), founder of the Ethical Society of St. Louis. With Index..... Read More about A Sentiment in Verse for Every Day in the Year. A Second Ethical Year Book
![An Oaten Pipe. [presentation copy from the author’s mother]. James B. Kenyon, 1858–1924](/pictures/thumb/3730845_1.jpg?v=1639533916)
Volume of poetry by Methodist minister, author, and editor, James B. Kenyon. Kenyon is believed to have been a one-time protégé of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow..... Read More about An Oaten Pipe. [presentation copy from the author’s mother
Scarce American poetry by this little-known woman author; apparently the poet’s first and only publication. The author married Clinton E.B. Cutler, a Joliet, Illinois lawyer..... Read More about River Rhymes and Rhymes Betimes
Self published and scarce. The author’s first book and the first of four volumes of poetry by this Connecticut native and Hartford poet. Hartford: 1886..... Read More about Poems
Illustrated edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic antebellum novel on Southern plantation slave life, first published in 1852. This fine press edition..... Read More about Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly. With an Introduction by Raymond Weaver....
Rare Jazz Age photoplay based on this 1927 Paramount Studios film, written by Barbara Chambers and Becky Gardiner. Gardiner scripted the 1926 film The Great..... Read More about New York. A Story of the Titan City, Adventure, Heart-Throbs and Romance. [Jazz Age Romance...
![Master of Falconhurst. [First Edition]. Kyle Onstott](/pictures/thumb/3730052_1.jpg?v=1618427051)
Published after Mandingo and Drum, the continuing story of the plantation, Falconhurst, and the ruthless themes of slave-breeding and slavery in the antebellum South as..... Read More about Master of Falconhurst. [First Edition
Typed manuscript poem, “Jack’s Radiovisionettes,” written in tribute to radio/proto-television actor Jack Wolseifer—“one of the Radiovisionaries.” The poem celebrates the integration of aural and visual..... Read More about Jack’s Radiovisionettes. [poem dedicated to radio/proto-television actor and...
![Wilkie Collins:] “The Girl at the Gate (Written for the Christmas Spirit)” [published...](/pictures/thumb/3727762_1.jpg?v=1599682810)
Rare first appearance of Wilkie Collins’ short story “The Girl at the Gate” published in New York in December 1884 before its January 1885 appearance..... Read More about Wilkie Collins:] “The Girl at the Gate (Written for the Christmas Spirit)” [published...
