Rare set of 75 game cards containing Civil War facts and figures, published while the conflict was still fresh in American minds — an effort to teach about and sanitize the event, with all references to slavery omitted.
First collected edition, featuring Adam of Bremen's chronicle of peoples from the Old North and the earliest known mention of the Vikings' discovery of North America, one of three key works in the history of Hamburg within a larger sammelband of six works total.
First edition of this narrative of "an officer's wife on the plains," published in an effort to clear her husband's name in the wake of his defeat at Fetterman's Fight.
First printing of these notes, assembled from transcribed interviews for a French documentary, inscribed by Banks to poet Stanley Plumly.
Inscribed first printing of this account of the history of emancipation and what it meant for the identities of formerly enslaved Black Americans, given as part of the Nathan I. Huggins Lectures.
Inscribed first printing of this collection of short biographies of prominent Black people, as well as a brief summary of Maryland history with a focus on the state's Black population, written by a formerly enslaved man – inscribed to Black suffragist Addie Hunton.
True first edition of this WWII-era collection of facts and profiles of notable Black Americans and reflections on Black culture, written by a Black minister for an expressly Black audience.
First edition of this remarkable collection of silhouette portraits of prominent politicians and leaders, created by scissors artist William H. Brown.
Memoir of Canfield's life in publishing as long-time head Harper & Bros. and Harper & Row — inscribed to then National Security Advisor and future Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
First printing of this miniature book about four prominent people from the Battle of the Alamo.
Printed Writ of Judgment with manuscript additions, signed by Cheswell in his capacity as Justice of the Peace for Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
First printing in book form of the landmark study that "transformed the study of slavery — and of economic history" (Jamelle Bouie).
First edition, second issue, of the most influential piece of war fiction in American literature, with the armorial engraved bookplate of Theodore Roosevelt on the front pastedown, and Roosevelt's clipped signature additionally tipped onto the front free endpaper.
Color-printed handkerchief commemorating the independence of Cuba by repurposing the famous symbol of liberty of its new liberator and oppressor.
First printing of this account of the history and lives of Black Bostonians, compiled over nine years by a social reformer.
First edition of this historic account of Virginia and its environs, including the landmark map of Virginia and all the famed engravings of Native American life in the 1580s.
Commemorative illustrated booklet, with menu and program, from the June 24, 1965 dinner honoring the campaign work of Senator Warren G. Magnuson and Representative Michael J. Kirwan and the restoration of a Democratic majority in both houses under the Johnson administration.
First edition of this contemporary look at the lives of Black people in Chicago in the 1940s, a "monumental study of race relations and African American social structure" (Finkelman, 90).
Signed first edition of this beautifully-produced book charting the first cross-country America road trip, based on a Ken Burns documentary of the same title.
Signed first edition of this nonfiction narrative of a Yemeni-American man who travels to Yemen from San Francisco with hopes of reviving and innovating the coffee trade.
Inscribed first printing of this reflection of the effects of a culture of toxic masculinity on individual men, and how that in turn shapes the American landscape.
First edition of this critical investigation of US policing, covering seventy-two cities across the US over the course of two years.
Original pair of muster rolls from 1863, documenting the pay of the Union company just before their fateful role in turning back Pickett's Charge, "the high-water mark of the Confederacy," with incomplete payments offering poignant evidence of their losses during the battle.
First edition of this pamphlet printed early in Garrison's career, a fiery and carefully researched summary of anti-slavery efforts, delivered to a Black abolitionist audience.
First printing of this compilation of 24 folk protest songs collected in the 1920s and '30s, accused with little evidence of being fabricated Communist propaganda during the Cold War.
