Hartford, Conn: Park Publishing Co., 1882. 18 engraved plates (2 steel, 16 wood). Original cloth over boards. Octavo. [i-iii], iv-xx, [xxi-xxii], (13)-518 pages. The third and final autobiography by Frederick Douglass, The earlier books were published prior to the Civil War, when he still had to be careful about the..... More
New York: International Publishers, (1938). First printing. Black and white frontispiece photographic portrait. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 222 pages. Inscribed, signed, and dated October 1939 by Ford on front free endpaper. Book is protected with a custom cut 4 mil Mylar jacket. Jim Ford was an African American..... More
[New York]: [Workers Library Publishers], [1932]. First printing. Black and white photo portraits on front cover. Stapled wraps. 18mo. 32 pages. Scarce campaign booklet from the Communist Party candidates in the1932 Presidential election. James W. Ford was the first African American candidate on a 20th century U.S. Presidential ticket. He..... More
Washington: Associated Publishers, Inc., 1944. Revised Edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 381 pages. A very well documented look at disparities between the races in the early 20th century. Chapters include The Negro as a Farmer, The Negro in Business, The Public School, The Negro College, The Negro Church, The..... More
Boston: (Press of Rockwell & Churchill), 1889. Frontispiece, plates. Cloth over boards. Quarto. 97 pages. Crispus Attucks was the first American killed in the Revolutionary War when he led other Boston citizens in a clash with British soldiers in the incident known to history as the Boston Massacre, March 5..... More
London: Trübner & Co., 1864. First British edition. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 91 pages. This anonymously published pamphlet first appeared in New York. This is the London edition from the same year. The title is a coined word in this work to describe intermixing of races. While this is the..... More
New York: David Longworth, 1808. Disbound. Octavo. 56 pages. The courtroom proceedings as a Black man is charged with bastardy in New York at the beginning of the 19th century. Alexander Whistelo was claimed by the mother herself to be the father of her female bastard child, which she had..... More
New York: Philosophical Library, (1948). First U.S. printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 163 pages. The book that introduced Madame de Beauvoir to the English-speaking world. More
[Anaheim?]: Walt Disney Productions, 1957. Map. Single sheet, 12" x 9" Tom Sawyer Island opened in 1956, just a year after Disneyland itself. This promotional map brochure was produced in 1957, and features a great pictorial map of the island on one side and descriptions of its attractions on the..... More
London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1934). First printing. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. 68 pages. Three lectures delivered by Eliot at the University of Virginia in 1933--The Page-Barbour Lectures that year. He asserts that the weakness of modern literature is a religious weakness. This copy is signed and dated 22..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1940. First printing. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. xviii, 314 pages. An American business classic. Morris Ernst offers criticism of the bigness of American businesses and government as the world descended into World War II. He expresses concern that America was "developing a race of clerks, devoid..... More
New York: Random House, (1956). First printing. Illustrated by Lili Rethi. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. x, 176, [ii] pages. The story of the Salem witch trials by Shirley Jackson, author of such memorable and macabre classics as "The Lottery" and "The Haunting of Hill House." This history is aimed at a...... More
[London]: G. W. Bacon & Co., Ltd, 1914. Single sheet. 22" x 30". Folds into paper covers. A rare seriocomic pictorial map of Europe at the outbreak of World War I. Likely designed in September 1914, after the German advance on Paris had been halted with the aid of the..... More
Baltimore: Cushings & Bailey, 1864. First printing. Lithographed vignette on title page and tailpiece. Cloth over boards. Quarto. xii, 201 pages. This remarkable volume famously contains the first facsimile of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's own hand, along with a stunning array of lithographically produced facsimiles of other authors' famous..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1922). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 328 pages. Mencken's acerbic wit and good sense. A nice looking copy. Errata slip tipped in. More
(New York): (New Directions Publishing Corp.), (1975). Limited edition. Facsimile notebook pages (some color). Cloth over boards. Quarto. About 200 unnumbered pages. Signed and numbered by Henry Miller, this is #152 in an edition limited to 700 copies. This is a near-facsimile of Miller's holographic "Notebook of American Tour" housed..... More
[Carmel]: [Jo Mora Maps], 1931 [1941]. Colored map and caricatures. Single sheet. 19 3/4" x 16". Mounted on linen to 23 3/4" x 20" This is the first colored printing of Mora's famous but scarce "carte" of Yosemite National Park, printed in 1941 (despite copyright date). The original version was..... More
New York: Random House, (1934). Limited edition. Cloth over boards with leather spine and fore corners. Octavo. 157 pages. Beautiful edition of this play by Eugene O'Neill. This is copy #220 of a stated limitation of 325 copies. Binding by Bayntun of Bath. More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888. Revised edition. Tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait in each volume. Original cloth over boards. Octavos. 443 and 431 pages. This popular biography of Aaron Burr was originally published in 1857. The present edition expanded the work to 2 volumes and added an Appendix at the..... More
[Pittsburgh]: Office of Administrator, Prohibition District No. 4, [1925]. Cloth over flexible boards. Sixteenmo. [ii], 53 pages. A rare manual issued by Prohibition District No. 4, Pittsburgh as a pocket guide to help its Revenue and Prohibition agents build strong cases as they enforced the Volstead Act in the field..... More
London: Printed for Burgess and Hill, 1820. First printing. Cloth over boards with leather spine. Octavo. xv, [errata], 410 pages, vi Appendix. James Wilson was a pupil of the eminent Scottish surgeon, John Hunter, and took over Hunter's position as Professor of Anatomy at the Hunterian School in London. These..... More
[Baltimore]: [Baltimore Sun], [1947]. Original. Yardley. Single sheet. Approximately 14 3/4" x 20" This cartoon depicts President Harry S. Truman being suited up for a fight with the GOP Congress over his anti-inflation program in 1947. A note along bottom margin contains the publishing instructions: "4 col. Wed. A.M. Editorial..... More