Synopsis: J. D. Salinger Archive of 11 typed letters signed, with more information about his young life at the age of Holden than we have ever seen from the secretive author. In correspondence lasting 1971-76, Salinger reveals details of growing up in New York that bear striking resemblance to his.....
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.....
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.....
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An Analysis of Social Disorder and a Plan of Action Against Poverty, Discrimination and Racism in Urban ” First Edition unpublished mimeograph draft. 5 pages plus cover.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.....
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.....
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.....
[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.....
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WELLS, Ida B. Lynching, Our National Crime [appearing in] The Proceedings of the National Negro Conference, 1909. New York: [National Negro Conference], 1909. 229 pages. Small octavo. Publisher's original green cloth; title in gilt. Exceedingly rare, the culmination of the 1909 National Negro Conference, which became the NAACP the following.....
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.....
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 Little.....
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.....
Archive on women's crucial role in the creation and development of vaccines, especially it’s accessibility to children regardless of economic class, and the global eradication of smallpox. Containing 3 early and rare pieces that show how women emerged as a driving force in developing and sharing immunization techniques that continue.....
US President who guided the nation through Civil War and was famously assassinated. 2 page recto verso Manuscript Document Signed by Lincoln on June 19, 1862, the same date on which he signed the historic bill abolishing slavery in the U.S. territories. In this document, Lincoln extends mercy to an.....
SYNOPSIS: Albert Sabin. Unlike Salk' vaccine, Sabin's oral vaccine broke the chain of transmission allowing for the eradication of polio. The development of his polio vaccine led to the first modern mass inoculations of 100 million people, which is discussed at length in our manuscript. Important 16 page entirely handwritten.....
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.....
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hardcover. First edition, 1876. Second printing, issue A. 8vo. 275 pages, 274 of which are numbered. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Age-toned white endpapers. All edges plain. Bound in blue decorative cloth stamped in gilt and black. No signs of.....
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.....
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.....
Lincoln, Abraham. Alexander Gardner. [Photograph]: Abraham Lincoln at Antietam Battlefield, 1862. Mounted albumen. The albumen itself measures 9" x 6.5" and is affixed to the original mount, trimmed to an overall size of 9.375" x 6.75". Good clarity. Sunning resulting from prior matting and framing. Photograph shows Abraham Lincoln at.....
[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.....
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.....
Salinger, J.D. American author of The Catcher in the Rye. Typed letter signed “JDS”. 1 page. December 10, 1971. To Eileen Paddison, an early letter in a correspondence that would lead to a close friendship of over 15 years. A revealing letter explaining Salinger’s appreciation of Taoist Buddhism, that has.....
SALINGER, J.D. [Jerome David]. Author of Catcher in the rye and Franny and Zooey. Revealing typed letter signed by J.D. Salinger, relating to the impending publication of Franny and Zooey, his attitude toward literary critics, and the publishing world at large. Salinger writes the letter signed "Jerry" only weeks before.....
CLEMENS, Samuel L. ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). Autograph draft manuscript [c. September 1900]. Three pages. Near fine condition, minor soiling, a little wear at creases. An exceedingly humorous account of life in London, where Twain at the time was living with his family. This amusing autograph manuscript has been identified by.....