HENRY ADAMS : Selected Letters
First edition of this collection carefully selected from Samuels's monumental and authoritative larger six-volume set of Adams's letters.
First edition of this collection carefully selected from Samuels's monumental and authoritative larger six-volume set of Adams's letters.
First edition of these essays presenting arguments for the international abolition of the slavery by the Treasurer of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, specially bound for presentation and inscribed by the author.
First edition of this remarkable collection of silhouette portraits of prominent politicians and leaders, created by scissors artist William H. Brown.
"Classics of the Old West" facsimile of this travel narrative to California in the 1850s.
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.
Ephemeral prodution from the American Woman Suffrage Association, reprinting a vehement pro-suffrage speech by Senator George Frisbie Hoar of Massachussetts.
First edition of this Rocky Mountain travel account, focusing on Colorado within the first decade of its statehood.
First edition of the first installment of this long-running cultural institution, containing the biographies of 8,602 prominent 19th-century Americans.
First edition of this classic biography of the first president of the United States, including the scarce atlas volume.
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.
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.
Inscribed first edition of this personal history of the abolitionist movement in New England.
Revised and enlarged edition of an illustrated travel guide to Concord, Massachusetts, with an extensive inscription by the author recommending the best way to see Concord is "with a superb indifference to time."
First edition of this map of the eastern United States, annotated as the tide of the Civil War turned against the Confederacy.
First edition of Gilman's most important nonfiction work, with still-relevant arguments about the economic value of female household labor.
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.
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."
Details the Nevada - California Border Survey of 1861, reprinted from the 1861 files of the SACRAMENTO DAILY UNION.