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Chevalier D'Eon, famed transgender French spy and duelist. One of the earliest well-known openly trans women in history. Archive of four pieces; three Autograph Letters Signed, and one unsigned letter fragment. Six handwritten pages total written by the Chevalier D'Eon to her close friend Colonel John Kemeys-Tynte. French. 1791-92. D'Eon.....
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Crisis in America’s Cities; An Analysis of Social Disorder and a Plan of Action Against Poverty, Discrimination and Racism in Urban ” First Edition unpublished mimeograph draft. 5 pages plus cover. King’s nationwide call to action against urban poverty, the most ambitious Civil Rights Campaign.....
Chevalier D'Eon, famed transgender French spy and duelist. One of the earliest well-known openly trans women in history. Archive of two Autograph Letters Signed by the Chevalier D'Eon to her close friend Madame John Kemeys-Tynte. Three handwritten pages, in French. 1808-09. An archive of two personal letters in which D'Eon.....
Salinger, J.D. [Jerome David]. Typed letter signed by J.D. Salinger as “Jerry” with an accompanying, unpublished Hand Annotated typed draft for the dust jacket for Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenter and Seymour: An Introduction. Dated Sept. 10, 1962. This letter is part a correspondence between Salinger and his publisher at.....
SALINGER, J.D. Typed Letter Signed “Jerry” with accompanying, unpublished draft for the dust jacket for Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenter and Seymour: An Introduction. The draft was typed by Salinger and also includes a correction in his hand. Dated Sept. 9, 1962. Although Salinger was preparing for the publication of.....
[Civil Rights] Statement by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Re: Atlanta Constitution Story Charging Communist Ties. July 25, 1963. Typed press release issued by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 334 Auburn Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. Two pages, 8.5 x 11 inches. This rare document contains Dr. Martin Luther King.....
J. D. Salinger. Signed Junior High Yearbook . Possibly the most important J.D. Salinger piece ever to come to market, as it is Salinger’s only yearbook from the same age as Holden ever recorded as coming to market. It contains the only known handwriting of Salinger at the age of.....
Salinger, J.D. American author of Catcher in the Rye. Two typed letters, one signed “Jerry” and the other signed “JDS”. February 24, 1972 (two pages) and December 10, 1971 (one page). To Eileen Paddison, a close friend and aspiring writer who maintained a correspondence with Salinger over 10 years. An.....
Salinger, J.D. American author of The Catcher in the Rye.Typed letter signed “Jerry” and with two hand-written pencil corrections. 2 pages. Dec. 23, 3 PM [1971]. To Eileen Paddison, a boarding-school girl and aspiring writer who struck up an unlikely lifelong friendship with the author, and over time became the.....
[Slavery & Abolition] Larison M.D., C. W. Silvia Dubois (Now 116 Yers Old): A Biografy of the Slav who Whipt her Mistres and Gand her Fredom. Ringoes, N.J.: C.W. Larison Publishing, 1883. First Edition. Frontispiece plate, 2 full-page illustrations. 124, [8] pages including author's ads. Octavo, 7.25" x 4.5", original.....
This is the only known surviving My Fair Lady original film script to come to market. The script, which would have been used on set during rehearsals, is dated on its cover as March 15, 1963. In addition to containing the most iconic and memorable lines spoken by Hepburn in.....
Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Impressionist painter. Rare photographic reproduction, 6.25" x 10.5", of one of Renoir’s paintings of a nude woman kneeling, The image has an original signature on the lower border in black ink, “Renoir.” The photograph was originally part of the archive of Renoir's art dealer, the great Ambrose Vollard.....
BLACKWELL, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Blackwell’s signed copy of a landmark study on reproductive theory and sexual differentiation, reflecting her lifelong engagement with the biological sciences. Patrick Geddes and J. Arthur Thomson. The Evolution of Sex. New York: Scribner & Welford, 1890. First American edition. 12mo. 322 pp. Original publisher’s red cloth.....
[Women in Sciences] [Nobel Prize] [Medicine] Gerty and Carl Cori, Nobel Prize-Winning Scientists, A remarkable and deeply personal archive from Nobel Laureates Gerty and Carl Cori. The archive documents the Coris’ transition from Austrian émigrés to pioneers of American biomedical science. This archive provides rare and intimate insights into the.....
Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Figures Album of pasted oval portraits with signatures underneath each image. Features most notably Abraham Lincoln with a pasted signature below his image. Some inscriptions are dated 1861 and New York. The album includes 93 black and white and sepia small photos. Most measure 2.5".....
[Revolutionary War] [African American] Partially printed writ issued by Wentworth Cheswill, mixed race Revolutionary War soldier who is likely the first African American elected official. One page document signed measuring 7.75" x 12.75". Cheswill was born in 1746 and later served his town of Newmarket, New Hampshire, as a constable.....
Reclusive U.S. Author, famous for his ground-breaking coming of age novel "The Catcher in the Rye." Extremely important 2 page publishing contract 8.5" x 20" signed "J.D. Salinger" and dated "9th February, 1965" for the right to publish his most important work "The Catcher in the Rye" in Portugese for.....
CARE, Henry. English Liberties: Or, the Freeborn Subject's Inheritance, Containing I. Magna Charta. First edition of one of the very first law books printed in colonial America. Contains the first American printing of the Magna Carta and other fundamental documents of individual liberty in Anglo-American law, including "seminal documents on.....
35th president of the United States. Document Signed as president. Oversized partly-printed official Document , 20" x 16", "City of Washington," October 27, 1962, Kennedy is appointing "Raymond H. Dwigans, of Texas, Collector of Customs for Customs Collection District No. 24." Countersigned by Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. Dillon's signature somewhat.....
[Texas] [Mexico Border Wars] A significant photographic and manuscript archive documenting the military service of Clemens C. Kreuder, a New York artilleryman and later officer, during the U.S. Border War with Mexico. Oblong folio photograph album, approximately 11 x 14 inches with over 150 vernacular silver gelatin photographs most 2.25".....
[MEXICO] [New Spain] Broadside Announcing the Resignation of Viceroy Apodaca, Count of Venadito. Letterpress broadside, 12¼ x 8½ inches, signed in type by "El Conde del Venadito." Housed in a modern ¼ calf gilt folder. Mexico City, 5 July 1821. This rare broadside announces the resignation of Juan Ruiz de.....
[Japanese American] [WWII] [442nd Regiment] Exceptional Typed Letter from the 442nd Regimental Combat Team to the 141st Infantry, Acknowledging the Rescue of the “Lost Battalion” and Expressing Gratitude for the Receipt of a "Handsome Plaque." Single-page typed letter, 10.5 x 8 inches, on official military letterhead of the 442nd Regimental.....
[Literature][Art][Propaganda] Chertkov, Vladimir and Holarek, Emile. War. Christchurch, Hants: The Free Age Press, 1907. First edition. Illustrated red wrappers. Folio. A stark and visceral anti-war publication composed of allegorical and documentary drawings by Czech artist Emile Holarek, interwoven with selections from the writings of Leo Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Charles.....
The 9th Cavalry was established by Congress in 1866 as segregated regiments of Black soldiers, who later became known as "Buffalo Soldiers" (a name believed to have been given by Native American tribes in reference to their tenacity and bravery), and served primarily on the Western frontier. Black Troops of.....
[Japanese-American] [WWII] Okada, John. No-No Boy. Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1957. First edition. Original tan cloth binding in striking illustrated dust jacket, featuring a graphic of a Japanese American youth behind barbed wire. 251 pages, 8vo. One of the foundational works of Asian American literature.....