ANTIQUE MODERN & SWASH: A Brief History of Women in Printing
1955
First edition of this commemorative history of the Club of Printing Women of New York and its pioneering predecessors.
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AND THE BAND PLAYED ON: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic
(1987)
Inscribed first printing of the essential work of investigative journalism on the AIDS epidemic.
DISCOURSES CONCERNING GOVERNMENT
MDCXCVIII [1698]
First edition of this major influence on the US Founders, "probably the best elementary book of the principles of government [...] which has ever been published in any language," according to Thomas Jefferson (1804 letter to Mason Locke Weems).
OLD CONCORD HER HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS
(1892)
Revised and enlarged edition of an illustrated travel guide to Concord, Massachusetts, with an extensive inscription by the author recommending the best way to see Concord is "with a superb indifference to time."
STANFORD'S MAP OF THE SEAT OF WAR IN AMERICA
(1861)
First edition of this map of the eastern United States, annotated as the tide of the Civil War turned against the Confederacy.
WOMEN AND ECONOMICS
1898
Startlingly rare first printing of Gilman's most important nonfiction work.
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UNIT PLANS: Suggestions for the interior arrangement of low-rent dwellings [with] PLANNING THE SITE: Design of Low-Rent Housing Projects
1938, 1939
Two desperately sensible New Deal proposals for low-rent public housing, designed to facilitate "a better community life."
FRONT ROW AT THE WHITE HOUSE: My Life and Times
(1999)
Inscribed first printing of Thomas's fascinating memoir of a life in journalism.
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CADMUS: Or, A Treatise on the Elements of Written Language [...] With an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or deaf, and consequently dumb, to speak
[1793]
Presentation copy extract from the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol. III, featuring the first US publication on the education of deaf people.
THE LIFE, TIMES, AND TREACHEROUS DEATH OF JESSE JAMES
1882
First edition of this controversial biography of Jesse James, "giving full particulars of each and every dark and desperate deed in the career of this most noted outlaw of any time or nation."
AN UNSINKABLE TITANIC
1912
Inscribed first edition of this investigation of the technical failures aboard the TITANIC, published only months after the sinking by the then-editor-in-chief of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.
WASHINGTON'S MONUMENTS OF PATRIOTISM
1800
First edition of this collection of documents and writing by Washington published in the wake of his death, a work that helped shape his enduring image and legacy.
Eyewitness Account to Pearl Harbor Day Attack - Autograph Letter Signed with Related Materials
[ca. 1940s]
A small archive of World War II service and personal materials belonging to a Gerald Maynard Watkins of Memphis, Tennessee, highlighted by a monumental Pearl Harbor eyewitness letter written by Watkins to his mother less than 2 weeks after the Japanese attack.
THE CAINE MUTINY
1951
First edition, in first state jacket, of Herman Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of conflict and mistrust aboard a destroyer, adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Humphrey Bogart.
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