THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
First edition of this classic biography of the first president of the United States, including the scarce atlas volume.
First edition of this classic biography of the first president of the United States, including the scarce atlas volume.
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."
Important edition of the monumental visual record of Native American leaders, including an extensive account of the original 1836-44 folio edition, biography of the original authors, and the infamous Smithsonian fire — all new to this edition.
First edition of the final African journals of Scottish missionary, abolitionist, and explorer David Livingstone, including his own account of the famous meeting with Stanley.
First edition of the first installment of this long-running cultural institution, containing the biographies of 8,602 prominent 19th-century Americans.
Inscribed first edition of this personal history of the abolitionist movement in New England.
Late Georgian edition of Johnson's landmark collection of essays on 52 poets, a major work in English canon formation.
Scarce American edition of the bookseller's Confessions, with one of the earliest Brooklyn imprints.
Uncommon account of the life of a South African ostrich farmer near the turn of the twentieth century.
Modern scholarly edition of Severn's letters and memoirs, published as part of Ashgate's Nineteenth Century Series.
First edition of this biography of the influential abolitionist and advocate for Native American and women's rights.
First printing of the collected papers from the 1995 John Keats Bicentennial Conference, inscribed by editor Ronald Sharp to poet Stanley Plumly (author of the later POSTHUMOUS KEATS), with Plumly's own annotations.
Uncommon edition of these collected autobiographical fragments from Delacroix's journals, with Baudelaire's 1863 essay on the painter's greatness, both in German translation.
First printing of this biography of the famed Victorian thief and criminal mastermind Adam Worth, generally believed to have been the model for Doyle's Moriarty.
Uncorrected proofs of the first US edition of Symons's 1979 biography, an introduction to Doyle published in celebration of the Sherlock Holmes Centennial.