Inscribed first edition of this major history of the California Gold Rush, an excellent copy.

First edition of this collection carefully selected from Samuels's monumental and authoritative larger six-volume set of Adams's letters.

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 detective story, twelfth in a long series of Great Detective Books written by Chicago's first police detective (and by some unknown quantity of ghostwriters, particularly on those books published by his famous agency after his death.)

Inscribed first edition of this "rare, very little-known book" (Eric Partridge) on American bafflegab.

First edition of Washington's autobiography, detailing his rise from a life born into slavery to becoming the esteemed leader of the Tuskegee Institute.

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.

First edition of this biography of the influential abolitionist and advocate for Native American and women's rights.

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.

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 remarkable collection of silhouette portraits of prominent politicians and leaders, created by scissors artist William H. Brown.

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 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.