Harriot Hunt (1805-1875) was the first American woman to practice medicine professionally. Glances and Glimpses; or Fifty Years Social, Including Twenty Years Professional Life. Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1856. First edition, "Fourth Thousand" printing. Inscribed "From the Author" on inside front endpaper. Brown cloth boards. Very scarce, held.....
Solomon Northup. Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of . . . a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington. Auburn, NY: Derby & Miller, 1853. Large duodecimo, 336 pages including 2 publisher's ad leaves, 7 illustrated plates. Publisher's original cloth. First edition, first state from the first print run. The earliest.....
HILDRETH, Richard. The Slave, or Memoirs of Archy Moore. Volume II. Boston: John H. Eastburn Printer, 1836. Duodecimo. Calf covers. 162 pages. Rag paper. The very first American abolitionist novel, published 15 years before Uncle Tom's Cabin, which some have argued it influenced. The anonymous author was an enigmatic, Harvard-educated.....
ALCOTT, Amos Bronson. “Emerson” First Edition biography of Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Founder of Transcendentalism, written, annotated by hand, and signed by his close friend Amos Bronson Alcott. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Privately Printed, 1865. Original full brown cloth over beveled boards with gilt title, edges stained red. Original Photographic frontispiece, title printed.....
ELLISON, Ralph. Invisible Man. First edition, seventh printing of the Invisible Man with laid in quotation signed "Ralph Ellison" that reads "America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain… Our fate is to become one, and yet many- This is not prophecy, but.....
[Joan Of Arc.] SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. Saint Joan Of Arc. London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1936. Signed by the author, Signed First edition, signed limited issue, signed by the author and not for sale; the signed limited issue, comprising only 120 copies in total. Sackville-West who was Virginia Woolf's lover, and the inspiration for.....
Thatcher, B.B. New York: J & J Harper, 1834. Indian Biography, Or An Historical Account Of Those Individuals Who Have Been Distinguished Among The North American Natives As Orators, Warriors, Statesmen And Other Remarkable Characters. Thatcher was a Boston abolitionist who also wrote a biography of Phyllis Wheatley, the first.....
English Painter and photographer. "That's the Way I See It" London: Chronicle [1993]. First Edition in dustjacket. Inscribed by the Author in pen on front endpaper "For Mimi + Bernie" and signed "David Hockney." Hockney's visual autobiography. Includes 350 reproductions of Hockney's paintings, graphic designs, and experimental work are closely.....
Jane Addams. “Twenty Years at Hull House.” New York: Macmillan and Company, 1910. First edition. Inscribed and signed byJane Addams. on the front end page. Maroon cloth cover with gilt detail and a color plate image of Hull House, gilt spine. Wear and small losses to image on front cover.....
Helen Keller Signed Book."Helen Keller’s Journal.” Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1938. Printed at the Country Life Press, Garden City, N.Y., U.S.A. First Edition. Inscribed as usual in pencil on front end cover: “To my sweet friend Miss Olson from Helen Keller. Thanksgiving, 1938.” Original cloth.....
DRAKE, Benjamin. The Life and Adventures of Black Hawk: With Sketches of Keokuk, the Sac and Fox Indians, and the Late Black Hawk War. Cincinnati: George Conclin: 1838. First Edition. Publisher’s original dark green cloth. Includes illustrated engraving of “Wabokieshiek, the Prophet” on page 169. Duodecimo. 252pp. A sympathetic account.....
HOWE, Julia Ward. RICHARDS, Laura E. and HOWE ELIOTT, Maude. "Julia Ward Howe: 1819-1910." Boston and New York, 1915. First Edition in 2 Volumes. Octavo, original brown cloth with toning to front covers and edgewear to spine and titles. One of only 450 copies printed. 23 illustrations, lacking original dust.....
Co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. "A Passion for DNA" first edition, first printing, signed book. London: Oxford University Press, 2000. Soft cover, 6" x 9", 250 pages. Signed in black ink on the title page “James D. Watson.” In excellent condition, with a hint of subtle wear to covers.....
KLETZING, H.F. and CROGMAN, W.H.. Progress of a Race or The Remarkable Advancement of the Afro-American Negro From the Bondage of Slavery, Ignorance and Poverty to the Freedom of Citizenship, Intelligence, Affluence, Honor and Trust. Atlanta: J.L. Nichols & Co., 1898. 663+20 page supplement. Original blue cloth hardcover. Very scarce.....
Richard Avedon -- An Auto-Biography, First Edition, Signed Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Random House Inc, 1993. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Sumo Sized. 284 photographs. Folio. Stated first edition, second printing. The autobiography of the photography told in his photos. Pages are crisp. Slightly perceptible bump to corner. Signed by.....
American molecular biologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. Signed book, "Genes, Girls, and Gamow". Later printing, NY: Knopf, 2002. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 1/2" x 9 1/2", 259 pages. Signed on the title page, "Jim Watson". First US edition, first printing, signed.....
Indian Civil Servant, author, and husband of Women's Movement founder Saroj Nalini. Book Signed and Inscribed on front endpaper: "With Sincere Regards from G.S. Dutt" and dated 1937. Dutt's book is a testament to the meaningful activism of his wife Nalini, who sought to bring social, economic, and educational advances.....
Marquise of Pompadour. Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, “Memoirs de Madame la marquise de Pompadour.” les Motifs des Guerres, & des Traités de Paix, les Ambassades, les Négociations dans les différentes Cours de l'Europe.. .A Liege: 1775. Two volumes in one small octavo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with burgundy morocco label.....
Mary Carpenter. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. Book with Autograph Letter Signed of Mary Carpenter Pasted in, 1879 Carpenter, J. Estlin, M.A.--The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter, First Edition (1879). Bound in green leather with marbled boards. 495 pages. Portrait of Carpenter facing title page. Mary Carpenter.....
ALGEO, Sara. "The Story of a Sub-Pioneer." Providence: Stone & Farnham Co., 1925. First Edition inscribed in 1938 by the author to another suffragist regarding their work on the proposed Equal Rights Amendment. Original green covers with no dust jacket, and minor fading to the edges of cover and spine.....
MATTHIESSEN, Peter. Sal Si Puedes: Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution. First edition. Signed. Not priceclipped. A nonfiction account of Cesar Chavez and the struggles of the United Farm Workers to form a migrant workers' union to end the dramatic exploitation of temporary farm labor prevalent in the 1960s-70s.....
Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery An Autobiography. New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1901. First edition. Duodecimo, 5.5” x 7.5” inches. 330 pages. Half binding with original boards. Ex libris. . First edition autobiography from Booker T. Washington recounting the story of his life—from slave to community leader. The.....
Altick, Richard. The Scholar Adventurers. New York. The Macmillan Company, 1950. First Edition 8 1/2 x 5 5/8". 338 pp. Stated first printing. Hardcover. Fascinating inscription from NSA chief cryptologst William F. Friedman to U.S. Army Captain Mary C. Lane, U.S.A. -one of my devoted, trustworthy, and able assistants for.....
"Living History". NY: Scribner, 2003. Soft cover, 6.25 x 9, 567 pages. Signed in black felt tip on the title page “Hillary Rodham Clinton.” In excellent condition.
Nixon, Richard. “The Memoirs of Richard Nixon.” New York: Grossett & Dunlop, 1978. Signed First Edition of President Nixon’s memoirs. Thick octavo. 1120 pages. Original cloth boards, with unclipped Dust Jacket. Illustrated with images from his life and political administration. President Richard Nixon's autobiography is an intensely personal examination of.....