THE WORLD RUSHED IN: The California Gold Rush Experience
Inscribed first edition of this major history of the California Gold Rush, an excellent copy.
Inscribed first edition of this major history of the California Gold Rush, an excellent copy.
First edition of these interwoven stories of America's westward expansion, this copy with a charming bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent.
First edition of this collection carefully selected from Samuels's monumental and authoritative larger six-volume set of Adams's letters.
"Classics of the Old West" facsimile of this travel narrative to California in the 1850s.
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 Rocky Mountain travel account, focusing on Colorado within the first decade of its statehood.
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.)
Rare midcentury Boy Scouts promotional brochure advertising the benefits of scouting to an African American audience.
Inscribed first edition of this "rare, very little-known book" (Eric Partridge) on American bafflegab.
First US edition of "one of the most popular books of the eighteenth century" (Harper), and a title that was a formative read for a young George Washington.
First edition of Washington's autobiography, detailing his rise from a life born into slavery to becoming the esteemed leader of the Tuskegee Institute.
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.
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.
Signed first printing, first state ("failure"), of this best-selling memoir from the former President.
First edition of this biography of the influential abolitionist and advocate for Native American and women's rights.
First printing of this account of the history and lives of Black Bostonians, compiled over nine years by a social reformer.
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.
First edition of Marx's classic critical study of the sentimental and utopian uses of the pastoral in American literature and culture.
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 edition of this remarkable collection of silhouette portraits of prominent politicians and leaders, created by scissors artist William H. Brown.
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.
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 classic biography of the first president of the United States, including the scarce atlas volume.
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.