AND THE BAND PLAYED ON: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic
(1987)
Uncorrected proof of the first printing of this essential work of investigative journalism on the AIDS epidemic.
20th century
THE WORLD RUSHED IN: The California Gold Rush Experience
(1981)
Inscribed first edition of this major history of the California Gold Rush, an excellent copy.
MEN TO MATCH MY MOUNTAINS: The Opening of the Far West 1840-1900
1956
First edition of these interwoven stories of America's westward expansion, this copy with a charming bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent.
THE TRAVELS OF JEDEDIAH SMITH
1934
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.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE: Arguments and Results
[1912]
First edition of this collection of booklets issued by the National Woman Suffrage Association, in the scarce dust jacket and with an inserted publisher's notice listing new legislative gains made in the year since publication.
SCOUTING AND OUR BOYS
[circa 1950]
Rare midcentury Boy Scouts promotional brochure advertising the benefits of scouting to an African American audience.
YANKEE SLANG
1932
Inscribed first edition of this "rare, very little-known book" (Eric Partridge) on American bafflegab.
THE OFFICERS' GUIDE
(1941)
WWII-era edition of the officer's reference manual belonging to Captain Herbert Roy Orr, commanding officer of the first African American signal aircraft warning company.
AND THE BAND PLAYED ON: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic
(1987)
Inscribed first printing of the essential work of investigative journalism on the AIDS epidemic.
UP FROM SLAVERY: An Autobiography
1901
First edition of Washington's autobiography, detailing his rise from a life born into slavery to becoming the esteemed leader of the Tuskegee Institute.
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
(1974)
Beautiful first edition of Woodward & Bernstein's revelatory chronicle of the Watergate scandal and their own Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation for the Washington Post, with publisher's presentation card signed by Woodward.
The Riverside Church Speech: "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence"
[1967]
Previously unrecorded first printing of one of King's most important speeches: his anti-war address at The Riverside Church, delivered exactly one year to the day before his assassination.
MY LIFE
2004
Signed first printing, first state ("failure"), of this best-selling memoir from the former President.
WHEN WE GET BACK HOME FROM JAPAN
(1953)
First edition of this comical post-war chronicle of culture shock, a witty survey of the everyday differences that US servicemen will experience at home after living in occupied Japan.
IN FREEDOM'S BIRTHPLACE: A Study of the Boston Negroes
1914
First printing of this account of the history and lives of Black Bostonians, compiled over nine years by a social reformer.
THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
1964
First edition of Marx's classic critical study of the sentimental and utopian uses of the pastoral in American literature and culture.
DO NEGROES REALLY BELIEVE THAT BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL?
(1974)
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.
GRAND INQUESTS: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson
(1992)
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.
STIFFED: THE BETRAYAL OF THE AMERICAN MAN
(1999)
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.
NEGRO MECCA
1965
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.
ON PHOTOGRAPHY
(1977)
Signed first printing of Sontag's classic work, a remarkable association copy extensively annotated by photojournalist John Godfrey Morris.
Original Apollo 10 Photograph of Earthrise Over Mare Smythii
(May 1969)
Original vintage Kodak photograph taken from the Apollo 10 Lunar Module, "Snoopy," looking west — evocative of the iconic photo taken just months before by Apollo 8.
BLACK METROPOLIS: A STUDY OF NEGRO LIFE IN A NORTHERN CITY
(1945)
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).
HISTORY OF THE INDIAN TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA
1933-1934
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.
THE STAGES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH
1960
First printing of the title that established a particularly influential model of historic economic growth, by economist and National Security Advisor W. W. Rostow.
