ACTS OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY APOSTLES
Inscribed first edition of this personal history of the abolitionist movement in New England.
Inscribed first edition of this personal history of the abolitionist movement in New England.
Immaculate first printing of this journalistic exploration of the "amazing...and impossibly embarrassing" world of unaccompanied singing groups.
Inscribed first printing, publisher's review copy, of the Chief Justice's second book, elucidating many aspects of the importance of the separation of the three branches of American government.
First printing of the title that established a particularly influential model of historic economic growth, by economist and National Security Advisor W. W. Rostow.
First edition of the biography of Scott Bond, a formerly enslaved man who became one of the most famous Black businessmen of the era and a model of Booker T. Washington's racial uplift philosophy.
18th-century collection of two important hymnals printed by Samuel Saur in German: the rare 1792 first edition of DIE KLEINE HARFE, with the 1797 second edition of DAS KLEINE DAVIDSCHE PSALTERSPIEL (lacking two leaves) – including four leaves of manuscript material by an early owner.
First printing of this history of New York's Black population, from the end of the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance, with a reflection on how that history informed the civil rights movement.
First edition of this memoir by one of the founders of the Black Panthers, with a focus on his trial as one of the "Chicago 8."
First US edition of "one of the most popular books of the eighteenth century" (Harper), and a title that was a formative read for a young George Washington.
Inscribed first printing of the essential work of investigative journalism on the AIDS epidemic.
Uncorrected proof of the first printing of this essential work of investigative journalism on the AIDS epidemic.
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."
Signed first printing of Sontag's classic work, a remarkable association copy extensively annotated by photojournalist John Godfrey Morris.
First edition of this map of the eastern United States, annotated as the tide of the Civil War turned against the Confederacy.
First edition of Gilman's most important nonfiction work, with still-relevant arguments about the economic value of female household labor.
First edition of these interwoven stories of America's westward expansion, this copy with a charming bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent.
First edition of the first publication of the narrative of the iconic explorer of the American West, only recently discovered after they were believed lost for over one hundred years.
Presentation copy extract from the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol. III, featuring the first US publication on the education of deaf people.
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."
First edition of Washington's autobiography, detailing his rise from a life born into slavery to becoming the esteemed leader of the Tuskegee Institute.
Inscribed first edition of this significant sociological study of colorism and the construction of beauty in African American communities of the 1970s, published by a Black scholar.
Details the Nevada - California Border Survey of 1861, reprinted from the 1861 files of the SACRAMENTO DAILY UNION.
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.