![Miss Susie Slagle's [Signed]. Augusta Tucker](/pictures/thumb/6047.jpg?v=1603907295)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. First Edition. Signed by Tucker on blank preceding title page, dated November 18th, 1939. Octavo. 332 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth-covered boards with gilt and brown lettering. Price-clipped jacket is chipped and worn along edges with a couple closed tears..... More
![Pieces of Eight [Nos. 1-10]. Boy Scouts of America - Troop 8](/pictures/thumb/7268.jpg?v=1600458386)
Worcester, MA?: Boy Scouts of America Troop 8, 1949. Ten volumes; small 12mo (18cm.); each issue comprised of a single sheet folded into 4-paneled brochure; text and illus. printed mimeograph. A hint of wear, else a Very Good or better collection. Possibly unrecorded newsletter issued by the Boy Scouts..... More
Chicago: Richard D. Irwin, 1950. Stated First Printing. Signed by author with inscription to Dr. Harry Clifton Byrd, then president of the Univ. of Maryland. Blue boards tight and square. Pages clean and unmarked, tight in binding. Taff, a longstanding economics professor at the University of Maryland, served as..... More
New York: John S. Taylor & Co., 1844. Second American Edition. 12mo (16cm.); publisher's blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xiv,[15]-322pp. Boards rather scuffed at extremities with some exposure at corners and spine ends, foxing to text block, else Very Good, internally sound. Anti-Catholic historical novel of the 1689 Siege of..... More
![The Story of Alex. Brown & Sons: 1800-1975 [Limited Edition]. Frank R. Kent, Louis Azrael](/pictures/thumb/001041.jpg?v=1601728135)
Baltimore: The Barton-Gillet Co., 1975. Limited Edition numbered 1254 of an unspecified run with presentation signature on limitation statement. Large Octavo; 259 pp. Portrait frontis with tissue guard, with numerous color and black and white illustrations and plates throughout. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth with gilt lettering. Jacket..... More
Lynchburg: TLC Publishing, Inc., 1993. [Visually Redesigned Edition, 1998]. Octavo; vi + 114pp. 200+ documentary and photographic illustrations in B&W and color. Full color glossy boards with pictorial front panel painted by Andrew Harmantas; photographic rear panel. Photographic double-spread front endpapers; rear endpapers reproduce train menu and tabulate historical..... More
[Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1991]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's grey pictorial glossy card wrappers; vii,[1],241pp. Very light wear from handling, else Fine. More
Frederick, MD: Great Southern Ptg. & Mfg. Co., 1897. Second Edition. Small, slim octavo; publisher's maroon cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt; 88pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear to spine ends and corners, contemporary ownership ex libris to front pastedown, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Short biography of..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Paperback reprint of 1990 volume from Greenberg Publishing. Octavo; 200pp. including appendices, bibliography, and index. 200+ B&W and color photographs and document reproductions. Glossy photographic card binding. Very slight wear to edges and corners. Textblock unmarred and unmarked. "In order to compete, B...... More
Chicago: Steam Presses of F. Fulton & Co., 1862. Second Edition. Octavo; 95pp. Fold-out map at back. Printed paper wraps. Covers lightly edgeworn with faint creases along edges and some smudging to front and back. Light foxing to a few pages, else pages unmarked. Binding is sound. [Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints..... More
![White April and Other Poems [Signed]. Lizette Woodworth Reese](/pictures/thumb/003101.jpg?v=1602855754)
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930. First Edition with FR symbol on copyright. Signed by the author without inscription on front free endpaper. Small octavo; [xii], 67pp. Printed green dust jacket with original $1.50 price intact; book in green cloth with blue lettering. Jacket heavily faded and split..... More
![Mike Caveney Wonders: The Long Slow Process of Creating Magic for the Real World [with] The...](/pictures/thumb/7263.jpg?v=1600185108)
Pasadena: Mike Caveney’s Magic Words, 2013. First Edition. Signed on each half title by Caveney to fellow magician and scholar, the sword-swallower and late Freakatorium proprietor Johnny Fox with inscriptions (Wonders) “For Johnny Fox | Never stop wondering. With best regards from your old friend… Mike Caveney 2014” and (Conference..... More
Lynchburg: TLC Publishing, Inc., 2003. First Edition. Octavo; 128pp. 250+ documentary and photographic illustrations in B&W. Full color glossy boards with photographic front and rear panels. Front and rear endpapers reproduce the B&O rail system map during the steam years. Textblock unmarred and unmarked. Virtually no signs of wear..... More
[Maugansville, MD]: Mennonite Historical Association of the Cumberland Valley, [2004]. First Edition. Large, thick quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; v,[1],78pp.; facsimiles, tables in text. Light dust-soil, a few faint surface scratches to rear cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. More
Chestertown: Washington College, 1931. First Edition. Signed twice by author: blue ink "Sincerely yours, William R. Howell" under photographic frontispiece; specific inscription on front free endpaper: "To Harry Clifton Byrd, President, University of Maryland, With highest personal regards from the author, William R. Howell." Octavo; xiii + 199pp, including bibliography..... More