New York: International Publishers, (1948). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 256 pages. A major contribution in the study of African American History. This collection of essays by Marxist historian Herbert Aptheker explores the history and struggle of African Americans, from antebellum slave revolts to the Civil War and Reconstruction. civil rights..... More
New York: Hillman-Curl, Inc., 1937. First edition. Black and white photographic plates. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 352 pages. Memoir by Fred Beal, a former Communist activist who escaped to the Soviet Union after being convicted of murder during a labor strike in North Carolina. He worked at a tractor plant..... More
Brighton (war address): The Machinery Publishing Co., Ltd., [1945]. First printing. Photographic portraits, figures in text. Printed wraps. Octavo. 52 pages. An early popular explanation of the science behind the development and production of the atomic bomb, from the first atomic discoveries, to warnings of scientists, to finally testing and..... More
Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1972. Black and white photographs, reproductions of documents. Printed wraps over side-stapled signatures. Octavo. xi, 202, xii pages. Scarce HCIS report on two revolutionary groups that wanted to overthrow the U. S. Government and establish a communist dictatorship. There is testimony from two informers..... More
Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1970. A few black and white photographs, reproductions of documents. Side-stapled signatures. Octavo. viii, 175, xiii pages. The report by House Committee on Internal Security (formerly HUAC) explores the origins, goals, achievements, challenges, and decline of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1910. First printing. Black and white plates. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 280 pages. William H. Crook, a native of Prince George's County, Maryland, served in the Union Army and was a Washington, D.C. policeman during the Civil War. On January 4, 1865..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1998). First edition, first printing. Black and white illustrations, plates. Hardcover. Octavo. 480 pages. Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the major factors shaping the history of human societies. Diamond concludes that Eurasian hegemony resulted from geological and environmental factors rather than differences in genomes..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1857. First edition. Modern marbled paper over boards with leather spine. Octavo. [4]m [393]-633 pages. Dred Scott was the most controversial Supreme Court decision of the 19th century, and is its most famous decision involving slavery. In Scott v. Sandford, the court ruled that..... More
(S.l.): (S.n.), [1964]. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Softcover. Quarto. 15 pages. Rare souvenir program for the Memorial to DuBois at Carnegie Hall, February 23, 1964. The event was a dramatic presentation of the life, writings, and cultural contributions of W. E. B. DuBois, the most illustrious African American..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948-(1957). First printings. Portraits, maps, facsimiles. Full cloth over boards. Octavos. Freeman's masterful biography of George Washington, including the elusive seventh volume written by Freeman's research assistants after his death to complete the work. All volumes first editions. Still the standard biography of Washington. More
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, (1914). Black and white photographic plates. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 244 pages. Lily Hardy Hammond was an activist in the social gospel movement who believed that the South could never solve its social, economic, and political problems while ignoring its racial injustice. She urges..... More
New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1976). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 444 pages. This was intended to be the transcendent concluding volume in Herbert's "DUNE" series, which is described as a trilogy on the dust jacket. "Children of DUNE" melds the themes of..... More
New York: Independent Book Associates, (1945). First printing. Black and white photographic illustrations. Pictorial wraps. Quarto. 32 pages. Scarce and hastily produced booklet published shortly after the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945. It provides a brief history of the development of nuclear physics and the Manhattan Project, as well..... More
Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1829. Original calf over boards. Sixteenmo. [iv], 1-280 pages. Originally published anonymously in 1785, Jefferson's "Notes on Virginia" was the only full-length book he published during his lifetime. It describes various aspects of Virginia’s natural, social, and political features but also includes important statements of certain..... More
[San Francisco]: [Richard F. Guggenheim], [c.1940]. First edition. Black and white drawings by Hoff. Comb binding. Octavo. 189 pages. Charming, slightly risqué guide to nightlife in Hollywood and Los Angeles on the eve of World War II. Numerous bars, dance clubs, and restaurants are described, accompanied by witty text and..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1949). First edition. Black and white photographs, maps. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 543 pages. Fitzroy Maclean quit the British Diplomatic Service to join the army at the start of World War II. His exciting memoir recounts his daring and often covert adventures in Soviet Central Asia, commando..... More
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London: Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson, 1759. Frontispiece engraving of Milton in volume I. Full calf over boards. Quartos. lxxii, 416 pages and 390. [ii] pages. This is the elegant and uncommon quarto edition of Milton, printed by legendary English printer and type designer, John Baskerville..... More
[Carmel]: [Jo Mora Maps], 1931 [1949]. Colored map and caricatures. Single sheet. 19 3/4" x 16". Mounted on linen to 19 7/8" x 23 5/8" This is the second colored printing of Mora's famous "carte" of Yosemite National Park. The original version was uncolored and appeared in 1931. It was..... More
London: A & C Black Ltd, 1933. First edition. Maps, two folding. Hardcover. Octavo. xviii, 357 pages. History of two centuries of struggle by European nations against Spanish territorialism in the Caribbean and the New World. Covers topics such as buccaneers and slavery in the broader history of the region..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932. First U.S. edition. Illustrated with one map. Hardcover. Octavo. 254 pages. A wealthy London sportsman is found dripping wet and dead on the banks of his rented trout stream., in this British murder mystery with a fly-fishing theme. Written by the 6th..... More
Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1902. First edition. Photographic portrait plates. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 176 pages. Uncommon memoir by one who worked continuously at the White House from Lincoln's administration to that of Theodore Roosevelt. Pendel began as one of four Presidential bodyguards in November, 1864, moving to..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., (1936). First printing. Black and white photographic plates by Robert Byron. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xxii, 272 pages. Biography of Wilhelm Wassmuss, a shadowy German agent, diplomat, and spy in the Persian Gulf region before and during World War I. Uncommon, particularly in..... More
[c.1942}. Map. Single sheet. 17 1/8" x 19 7/8". Issued folded to 4 3/4" x 8 1/2" Early star map issued during World War II by the Beverly Hills USO. Locates the homes of over 70 movie stars on the 11" x 11" map, and gives the home addresses of..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Limited edition of 250 coipes. Color frontispiece, black and white photographs, fold-out charts. Hardcover. Tall quarto. xvii, [iii], 3-230 pages. Handsome and well illustrated volume devoted to the first of Vanderbilt's two successful defenses of the America's Cup, in the J-Class Enterprise. Most of..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. First printing. Black and white photographic portraits. Original cloth over boards. Octavos. liv, 549; xviii, 653; and xviii, 671 pages. The diary of Secretary Welles is an incredibly valuable historical source that provides firsthand accounts and insights into the Lincoln administration and..... More