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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.....
The Story of the 442nd Combat Team Composed of 442nd Infantry Regiment, 522nd Filed Artillery Battalion, 232nd Combat Engineer Company. 1945, Italy. "Eduacation Section, MTOUSA, 1945." Original blue wrappers, stapled. 43 pages and folding map. The first published history of Nisei troops in World War II, issued by the famed.....
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.....
[LGBTQ] Routsong, Alma. A Gradual Joy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1953. First edition, first printing. Orange hardcover with silver gilt titling. Price-clipped dust-jacket with small nicks and tears, mostly at the spine ends. Author's autobiographical first novel about her seemingly happy heterosexual married life in the early Fifties, subtitled on.....
Regimental History Book of the 372nd Infantry. 1944 yearbook-style book with illustrated wrappers and several hundred photographs of African-American soldiers and officers in the segregated 372nd Infantry during World War II. New York. 8 3/8" x 10 7/8". Over a million Black men and women served in every branch of.....
[Slavery and Abolition] Northup, Solomon. Twelve Years a Slave. Auburn: Derby and Miller, First edition, early printing, Published in 1854--one year after the first printing--with the words "Twentieth Thousand" at top of title page. Complete with 336 pages and the 7 illustrations.Large duodecimo. Northup, a black man who was born.....
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.....
[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Estes, J. Worth. Draft of unpublished biography on Ralph W. Emerson. Circa 1950s. This work in its present state consist of 166 typed pages. Measures 9.5" x 11.5." Typescript manuscript draft consisting of partial introduction, and chapters 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, and also includes book 2.....
[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.....
Historiae Philippicae. Justinus. Basileae: 1539. Measures 5.5 x 7.5 inches. 319 pages. Rebound in brown calfskin with gilt title card on spine. Text in Latin. Inscribed with original contemporary annotations. Marcus Junianus Justinus was a Roman historian and wrote here an abridgment of a longer work with the same title.....
Reagan, Ronald. An American Life: The Autobiography. Signed "Ronald Reagan," New York: Simon & Schuster 1990. Hardcover first edition signed, with original dust jacket. 748 pages, 6.5" x 9.5." in black ink on a bookplate imprinted with large presidential eagle seal. Ronald Reagan takes the reader behind the scenes of.....
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.....
[Black Panthers] Brothers Archive of 8 Color Lobby Cards. Warner Brothers, 1977. All cards have bright red borders and captions on the front listing the cast members. One image shows Vonetta Mcgee as Angela Davis on the podium, fisted raised high. Several photos capture Bernie Casey as George Jackson in.....
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.....
[Black Panthers] Blaxploitation Film. Large original movie poster for Brothers (1977). Very large poster Measuring 40" x 60". Brothers was a fictionalized account of the friendship between Angela Davis and prison inmate George Jackson. Starring Bernie Casey and distributed by Warner Bros. Impressively sized but with some edgewear, including three.....
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.....
[African American Education] Brawley, Benjamin. Women of Achievement: Written for The Fireside Schools under the auspices of the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society. Woman' America Baptist Home Mission Society, 1919. First edition. Green cloth hardcovers with black lettering. Octavo. 92 pages total. Written by the former dean of HBCU.....
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.....