Manuscript Masonic handbook, an educational manual and memory aid recording the Masonic Cipher and shorthands for the Signs, Tokens, and Words used in ceremonies.

First edition of this scarce self-published slang dictionary.

Scarce complete 3-volume set of the immense short-title catalogue, documenting books printed before 1701 held in the libraries of the Anglican cathedrals of England and Wales.

Rare first issue of DEALER, the industry magazine for drug dealers — full of advertisements for things to put up your nose and optimistic predictions of imminent legalization only wrong by three or four decades.

World War II-era dictionary owned by H.T. Forrester, a linguist at Bletchley Park, with evocative manuscript additions of militarily significant words such as "recyphering table," "counter attack," and "shoot down."

Original issue featuring an article on Plath's poetic accomplishments and marriage with Ted Hughes — including the first publication of her poem "The Times are Tidy."

Original, bitchin' set of stationery in striking packaging — from the 1980s teenage suburban stalwart brand.

Educational aid issued by the Labour Department of the UK's Cotton Board for the demonstration of textile production from raw cotton to various finished fabrics.

Rare first suppressed edition of Lentzner's "rich and racy" collection of 19th-century British Colonial slang, the first to focus on Australia, swiftly withdrawn and re-issued to evade copyright violation claims and consequently rare.

First UK edition of this famed collection of poker stories and anecdotes from the latter half of the 19th century, told from the Effete East to the Wild and Wooly West of the American continent.

Beautiful two-volume illustrated catalogue of the early (1475-1692) French books in the library of artist and collector Charles Fairfax Murray, reprinted from Davies's original 1910 edition.

First edition of this German-English technical and scientific dictionary, reflecting the industrial lexicon at the beginning of World War I.

Inscribed first printing of these essays by the ornithologist and Smithsonian Institution secretary — from the library of great Rhode Island Senator and Pell Grant namesake, Claiborne Pell, with his own annotations.