John Muir’s Our National Parks and The Mountains of California, Both First Editions
Muir, John. Collection of 2 first edition books. Our National Parks and The Mountains of California. Our National Parks: First edition. Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1901. Green covers with gilt titles and tree illustration on the front cover. 382 pages. Our National Parks is the only Muir publication.....
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The Earliest Know Document Defining Kwanzaa as per OCLC
Kwanza. 1969. Two 8.5 x 11” mimeographed sheets stapled together. Document outlines the meaning, symbols, and procedures for the weeklong holiday. Harriet Smith, later known as Sister Makinya Sibeko-Kouate, was a pivotal activist in Oakland in the 1960s, who helped develop and spread Kwanza as an Afrocentric holiday. This early.....
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First Edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude. First edition (as stated on copyright page, no number line on last page), in the first edition, second issue dust jacket ($7.95 price, with period at end of first paragraph on flap). Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1970. First American edition of the author's.....
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First Edition, First Issue, First Volume of Proust's Monumental In Search of Lost Time, Signed and Inscribed by Proust
PROUST, Marcel. Du Coté de Chez Swann. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1913. Bourdeaux crushed morocco by J. Antoine Legraine, gilt edges, original wrappers and spine bound-in, matching morocco edged slipcase. First Edition, First Issue, Inscribed By Proust To Madame Catulle Mendes On A Tipped Leaf, bound into the volume following the.....
Emerson's Speech to the Representatives of the Chinese Embassy in Boston
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Reception and Entertainment of the Chinese Embassy, by the City of Boston." Published by Alfred Mudge & Sons, City Printers, 34 School Street, 1868. Original blue printed wrappers. 77 pages, describing the various entertainments and speeches. Emerson's speech, honoring China’s long history and contribution, begins on page.....
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Early Cross-Dressing and Jaguar Hunting Photographs In the Rugged Rural West - Circa 1900-1910
[LGBT] [WESTERN AMERICANA] Photo album. 112 vintage photographs, ranging from 4" x 5.5" to 3.5" x 2.5" inches, both black & white and sepia. No captions, but looks like California in the early 1900s. Most photos in this album depict rural, hardy life in the American West, many images rugged.....
The Old Man and the Sea: Advance Galley Proofs
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea, advance galley proofs preceding the first printing in Life Magazine of one of Hemingway's greatest works. Hemingway was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of The Old Man and the Sea, being cited "for his mastery of the.....
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Exceptional Literary Letter by Ralph Waldo Emerson to a Female Literary Critic Regarding the Atlantic Monthly and Transcendentalist Co-Founder Channing
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Autograph letter signed ("R.W. Emerson"), 5 pages, 5" x 8", Concord, 26 May 1858. A very good literary letter addressed to Mrs Watson ("My dear friend"; likely Mary Russell Watson, former governess to Emerson's son Waldo, paramour of Thoreau, and a lifelong friend of the transcendentalists), offering.....