WENDELL PHILLIPS: The Agitator
First edition of this biography of the influential abolitionist and advocate for Native American and women's rights.
First edition of this biography of the influential abolitionist and advocate for Native American and women's rights.
First edition of Marx's classic critical study of the sentimental and utopian uses of the pastoral in American literature and culture.
Rare original program from the Home Economics department of a historically Black Louisiana university, showcasing student design and garment construction through a dramatic presentation.
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 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.
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 Washington's autobiography, detailing his rise from a life born into slavery to becoming the esteemed leader of the Tuskegee Institute.
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.