THE LONG EMANCIPATION
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 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 printing of this miniature book about four prominent people from the Battle of the Alamo.
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.
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.
Warmly inscribed first printing of the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of the trailblazing publisher of the WASHINGTON POST during the tumultuous period that saw the stories of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate — with signed letter from Donald Graham.
Signed first printing of Hitchens's history of the famous defense of the principles behind the French Revolution, by the English-born American Revolutionary and author of COMMON SENSE.
Rare publisher's long galleys of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s reflections on 1963's anti-segregation Birmingham campaign, marking the first book appearance of his landmark "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."
First printing of this riveting true story of the intersecting lives of the architect of the 1893 World's Fair and a notorious serial killer.
First edition of the memoirs of the 37th US president, with ephemera including matchbook from the Watergate Hotel.
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.
First printing of the title that established a particularly influential model of historic economic growth, by economist and National Security Advisor W. W. Rostow.
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.
First edition of this memoir by one of the founders of the Black Panthers, with a focus on his trial as one of the "Chicago 8."
First edition, in first state jacket, of Herman Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of conflict and mistrust aboard a destroyer, adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Humphrey Bogart.