THE PLAY GROUND; OR, OUTDOOR GAMES FOR BOYS
First edition of this book of games for American boys in the 19th century, with an early description of baseball.
Our first print catalogue: retrofuturism, early graphic novels, robots, Jack the Ripper, pirates, James Bond, graffiti, and more.
Download PDF of Print Catalogue OneFirst edition of this book of games for American boys in the 19th century, with an early description of baseball.
Extraordinary first state of the sequel to ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, one of only three known copies of the book containing two original pencil sketches by Tenniel.
Printed Writ of Judgment with manuscript additions, signed by Cheswell in his capacity as Justice of the Peace for Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
Color-printed handkerchief commemorating the independence of Cuba by repurposing the famous symbol of liberty of its new liberator and oppressor.
Signed second edition of book artist and scholar Johanna Drucker's ode to "the beauty and expressive capability of type."
Original poster advertising Ellison's University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign lecture on the history and development of the novel.
First edition in English of Exquemelin's illustrated history of famous pirates, the central primary source on the subject during its most famous era, with the continuation by Ringrose.
First edition in English, elusive first printing, of the book form of "the first [science fiction] epic of cinema" (Clute and Nicholls).
Beautiful first edition of this interior design classic, with Hicks's ownership inscription.
First edition in this format, sumptuously illustrated, of Johnson's celebrated biographical encyclopedia of infamous criminals.
First edition of this epistolary novel-memoir, an early and compelling example of the self-conscious novelization of a woman's life.
First edition of the first French collection of founding documents from the infant United States, including the Declaration of Independence and the constitutions of the newly formed states.
Spectacular association copy of this lurid underworld memoir, the annotated copy of Henry John Nelson, Sharpe's attorney and author of the foreword, and signed by both Nelson and Sharpe.
First edition of the first handbook printed for the police force governed by London's Court of Aldermen, 5 years before the Metropolitan Police Act that formed the Scotland Yard.
Archive spanning the 1970s and 1980s of original commercial artwork and design by Detroit artist and graphic designer Jerry Watts, primarily for use in local Detroit television news and related programming.