One of the Earliest Formal Debates on the Value of Education for Women Concludes that Education is Necessary For All Women and Their Daughters
[Women’s Early Education.] Report of the Commission Charged to examine memoirs relative to the education of women. Third Subject. – Morality. By Mr. Philis – Reporter. 1827. Paper boards. Folio size, 13 in x 8.5 in. 68 pages of handwritten script in black ink. In this manuscript, one of the.....
Rare Screenplay of M*A*S*H, One of the Most Important Films of the 21st Century
Robert Altman & Ring Lardner Jr. Original script of the film dubbed “perfect for the times [...] the cacophony of American culture brilliantly reproduced onscreen.” January 1969. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Original owner’s name on upper wrapper. Wrappers show a faint damp discoloration from the spine.....
Archive of Maya Angelou's Personal Library Books, Her Honorary PhD Degrees and Unicef Work Album
Important Maya Angelou Archive. 10 historically relevant books from Angelou’s personal library; also includes 5 Maya Angelou-owned pre-publication copies preceding the first editions of 5 of her own books. Also comes with Maya Angelou’s Personal Photo album documenting her philanthropic work with UNICEF and 2 Original Honorary PhD degrees awarded.....
Susan B. Anthony Autograph Letter signed Memorializes Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Offering this Advice, "Profit by the Memories of her Life and do the duty that lies near..."
Susan B. Anthony. American Woman's Suffrage Movement Leader. Autograph Letter signed by both Susan B. Anthony, and her sister, fellow suffragist Mary Stafford Anthony. Letterhead of the Leavenworth Times, in Leavenworth, Kansas, with the names of her brother and nephew (both D.R. Anthony") who were the owners of the newspaper.....
Susan B. Anthony Writes About a “Women’s Lecture Course” By Women, to Promote Female Equality and Suffrage
ANTHONY, Susan B. Autograph Letter Signed. 1 page, dated August 1902. On National American Woman Suffrage Association Letterhead. Anthony writes in her hand with visible excitement about “what the Philadelphians are doing” to promote women’s suffrage. In addition to bringing in “600 members to her club,” they have also established.....
Winston Churchill Emphasizes the Importance of Friendship Between the United States and Britain and would go on to Foment the Partnership of the English-speaking World
Prime Minister of England during World War II. Typed statement, signed "Winston S. Churchill," one page, 7.25 x 9.5, dated February 1957. Having led his nation through the perils of World War II, Churchill watched as an expansive arms race grew during the Cold War, once again threatening the peace.....
The Vanishing Race - Vintage Platinum Print, Signed by Curtis
Ethnologist and photographer of the American West and of Native American peoples. "The Vanishing Race." An image of the Navajo disappearing down a trail, embodying the disappearance of a people and a way of life. Platinum print, 6"x8" inches, with Curtis' signature, in ink, on recto, and with notations, in.....
signed by Dalí with an original drawing
[Salvador Dalí]. Les diners de Gala. Barcelona: Editorial Labor, 1974. First Spanish (Catalan?) edition, signed by Dalí with an original drawing in black marker on the verso of the front free endpaper and the facing copyright page: "A Ginesta / Dalí / 1979"; the drawing is of a "Nazareno" holding.....
"GERMANY HAS DECLARED WAR ON THE UNITED STATES" Original US Navy Cable Dispatch:
[World War II] U.S. Navy. Navy Original Cable Dispatch declaring "GERMANY HAS DECLARED WAR ON THE UNITED STATES......." U.S.S. Biscayne heading, The cable was sent from the Secretary of Navy ("SECNAV"). 8" x 6.5" inches. Dated "11 Dec 1941". Two punch holes along top edge. In near-fine condition. On December.....
Journals of Congress, Containing the Proceedings in the Year 1776 The Declaration of Independence
Philadelphia: Robert Aitken, 1777. [2],513,[23]pp. Modern calf, to style. Minor dampstaining, particularly toward the end of volume. Custom chemise and slipcase. Provenance: Samuel McGraw Gunn (ink inscription dated 1822). This volume of the Journals of Congress is one of the rarest of the series issued from 1774 to 1788. It covers the.....
Frederick Douglass’ Newspaper Reports on The Outbreak of the Civil War That will Free all US Slaves
DOUGLASS, Frederick. Frederick Douglass’s newspaper, the “Douglass’ Monthly”. Rochester, New York. Continuously paginated, 385-400. Folio, self wrappers as issued. First edition. Issue from January 1861. Issue reporting upon the beginning of southern secession. The Douglass' Monthly was the successor to Frederick Douglass’ earlier abolitionist papers: The North Star and the.....
Rare Original CDV Photograph of Frederick Douglass
DOUGLASS, Frederick. Frederick Douglass. CDV of Frederick Douglass by J.W. Hurn: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. No date. Very rare original CDV photo of Douglass, Clipped corners of mat. The Library of Congress has no catalog data on this portrait and assigns no date to it. David W. Blight, ed., Narrative of the Life.....
Eisenhower’s Crusade in Europe, Limited Edition SIGNED
EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Crusade in Europe. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1948. First edition, number 617 of the signed limited edition of 1,426 copies. Signed by Eisenhower to the bottom of a facsimile of the D-Day Order he issued. Octavo, 9.5” x 6.25” inches. Publisher’s original light brown cloth.....
Emerson’s Representative Men, Rare Presentation Copy of Earl and Ava Lovelace, the Earliest Computer Programmer
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Representative Men. Seven Lectures. First London Edition: 1850. The Lord Lovelace presentation copy, inscribed “Right Honble Earl of Lovelace With the Author’s Compliments” on the front free endpaper (likely in the hand of Emerson's publisher). Original plum cloth, elaborately decorated in blind (Myerson’s binding A), spine gilt.....
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.....
"Amazing" Grace Hopper's Manual for the Mark I, Containing Some Of The First Computer Code
Grace Hopper. A Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator. Cambridge, 1946. First Edition. Thick Quarto. Condition: Very Good. Publisher's blue cloth binding. Minor signs of use on spine and covers. This copy belonged to the United States Air Force. Library number on spine, with two stamps of.....
Hemingway Signed Wartime Classic "A Farewell to Arms"
American author. Signed book: A Farewell to Arms. Later printing. NY: Modern Library, 1932. Hardcover, 4.5" x 6.5" inches, 355 pages. Signed and inscribed on the dedication page, “To Helen Mauldin, with very best wishes, Ernest Hemingway.” A Farewell to Arms was Hemingway's semi-autobiographical first-person account of American Frederic Henry.....
First Woman to apply to Harvard Medical School (same year as Elizabeth Blackwell got in Medical School) Harriot Hunt was first allowed to attend Medical classes but then rejected because of Fellow Harvard Male student Protest. She still went on to practice Medicine for decades and received a degree. Very Rare Inscribed First Edition,Memoir 1856. No known copies in OCLC Worldcat
Harriot Hunt. (1805-1875) Glances and Glimpses; or Fifty Years Social, Including Twenty Years Professional Life. Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1856. First edition inscribed to her niece on inside front endpaper. Brown cloth boards. No other signed copies have come to auction in the past 40 years. No copies.....
John Jay Drafts a Autograph Letter Signed While In London Negotiating the Famed "Jay Treaty" and Averting War with England
JAY, John. Founding father and important negotiator and statesman during the infancy of the United States. 3 page Handwritten Letter to his wife Sally dated July 6, 1794. It was at this time that Jay was residing in England to negotiate the now infamous "Jay Treaty," which Jay and Alexander.....
John F. Kennedy Appointment Signed as President
35th president of the United States. Document Signed as president. Oversized partly-printed official Document , 20" x 16", "City of Washington," April 17, 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.....
No Other Recorded Copies Outside the King Center Of Martin Luther King’s Historic Birmingham Jail Speech, 1967
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Important and rare Civil Rights document from the original files of the SCLC, the Civil Rights organization King founded after the Montgomery Bus Boycotts. First Edition. Dated October 30, 1967, the day of King’s return to Birmingham, the locus of one of his most triumphant.....
An Unknown Early Draft of Martin Luther King’s “Crisis in America’s Cities”
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.....