First US edition, first printing, signed by the author on the publisher-issued bookplate tipped onto the front free endpaper.

First edition of this pioneering work of history by an equally pioneering African-American historian.

First edition, first printing printing of the landmark culinary memoir by the late, beloved Anthony Bourdain.

Rare newspaper account from one of Henry "Box" Brown's first public appearances, the Boston lecture where he received the nickname "Box," just two weeks after he mailed himself to freedom.

First edition of this memoir about the author's investigations into his family's conflicts surrounding family business: Sweet and Low artificial sweetener.

First edition in English of Exquemelin's illustrated history of famous pirates, the central primary source on the subject during its most famous era, with the continuation by Ringrose.

Early printing, published the same year as the first printing, of the first American edition of the diary of Anne Frank.

Signed first printing, on Gilbert's reflections on her decision to remarry, written after the success of her memoir EAT, PRAY, LOVE.

Uncommon hardcover first printing of actor, writer, and legendary sleight-of-hand artist Ricky Jay's first book.

Scarce American edition of the bookseller's Confessions, with one of the earliest Brooklyn imprints.

First printing of this three-part narrative nonfiction portrait of environmentalist David Brower.

Signed first edition of this weighty memoir of an American infantryman in Vietnam.

Inscribed first edition of this personal history of the abolitionist movement in New England.