Richmond: N.A.A.C.P., 1957. 8vo, wraps, 30 pp. Some light wear, staple holes to edge, original owner’s address and postage mark on back cover, overall very good plus. An uncommon NAACP publication, published right after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, with a range of articles on racism and segregation.....
Los Angeles, California: New Age Publishing Company, November 1940. Printed yellow wraps, staple-bound. Good, with moderate wear, soiling, and fading to covers, one corner of a page missing presumably from a business advertisement cut out near the time of publication. A scarce directory documenting the Central Avenue District at its.....
New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1857. Original unbound copy in stitches as issued. The first edition of the summary of the landmark case, which includes Justice Taney’s assertion that people of African descent “are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word ‘citizens’ in the Constitution.....
Chicago, Illinois: W. B. Conkey Company, 1929. First edition. 8vo, blue cloth without jacket, 280pp. Inscribed by the author on front pastedown. Wear and staining to boards with spine broken and title page partly detached; contents with some dog ears and pencil markings. Asa H. Gordon’s Sketches of Negro Life.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, 272 pp. Walter A. White was an activist and author who would eventually lead the NAACP beginning in 1929, the year of this book’s publication. He began his career as the assistant to James Weldon Johnson, traveling to the South to.....
Boston and New York: 1887. First Edition, Advance Issue. 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, 809 pp. One of about 50 copies of the advance issue. This with a great association, from Cabot to James Russell Lowell. Both volumes with identical tipped-in notes from the publisher reading, “This advance copy of Mr.....
San Francisco, California: Jimmy Lum Advertising Service, 1950. 107 pp directory measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches. Normal wear, with some manuscript markings on wraps; contents excellent with some markings and wear. The 1950 edition of the San Francisco Chinese Directory, published by the Jimmy Lum Advertising Service. The directory.....
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1904. Seventy-four page booklet measuring 4 ½ x 5 ¼ inches. Damage to wraps with one detached; inside with manuscript (Chinese) markings. A guide compiled by immigration officer John Endicott Gardner for converting between the Gregorian and traditional Chinese calendars for Gregorian years 1849 to.....
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John Campbell, 1863. Second edition. 8vo, paper wraps, 64pp. Wraps with wear to edges, library stamps, and some manuscript notes; contents excellent to Near Fine. A short booklet by William H. Winder (1808–1879), son of the Brigadier General and Baltimore lawyer of the same name, concerning his 1861.....
Boston [Paris]: J.P. Whitney, 1867. First Edition Thus. . 8vo, publisher’s green cloth, 107 pp. Some tearing and fraying to boards, particularly at head of spine, text block excellent, very good minus overall. The scarce Paris Universal Exposition edition of J.P. Whitney’s early title on the silver mines of Colorado.....
Hong Kong: Chiu Yick Book Store, 1890s? Miniature dictionary measuring 2 ⅞ x 1 ¾ inches 606 pp plus glossaries. Lacks covers, text block very good. A very rare miniature English-Chinese Dictionary, printed in Hong Kong perhaps in the 1890s or c.1900, in the early decades of British Hong Kong.....
London: Edmund Paxton, 1656. 8vo, contemporary calf, 359 (2) pp. Front board detached, binding split at center, text block complete and otherwise fine, good condition overall, unrestored. An uncommon work by Benjamin Woodbridge, the first graduate of Harvard University, written in response to William Eyre, which “promoted a science of.....
Indian Territory: N.p., 1892. Folio of eleven unbound sheets (forty-four pages) measuring approximately 6 x 8 inches. Amory Nelson Chamberlin (1821–1894) was born on Brainerd Mission in what is now Chattanooga, Tennessee, the son and grandson of missionaries. Fluent in both English and Cherokee, Chamberlin worked as an interpreter and.....
Chicago: Jansen, McClurg and Co., 1876. 8vo, finely bound in ornate polished calf with all edges gilt, 258 pp. A finely bound copy of one of Miller’s best-known works, bound in perhaps early 20th century fine polished calf. Affixed to the preliminary page is an effusive letter from Miller written.....
Springfield, Illinois: William Walter, 1841. 8vo, contemporary paper covered boards, 359, xxiv pp. With auditor and Treasurer’s reports bound at rear. Boards detached, text block excellent, good overall. During the 1840–1841 session of the Illinois General Assembly, several laws were enacted concerning Nauvoo. These included legislation incorporating the city itself.....
Washington: For the Author, 1866. 8vo, blue wraps, 42 pp. Apparently a gift copy from Curtis. Near fine overall with minimal wear. A scarce survival from Lorenzo Snow’s trial in the U.S. Supreme Court for polygamy under the Edmunds Act, where two of his three convictions were eventually overturned as.....
Tokyo: Zaisei Keizai Jihōsha, 1926. First Edition. vo, quarter cloth over paper covered boards, 173, 160 pp. With a photograph of Carmen Aguirre and a calling card laid in. Fine condition. Inscribed by Carmen Aguirre in 1927 on front free endpaper. A collection of writings by Narinori Okoshi, who worked.....
Windsor: 1833. 8vo, 47 pp. Near Fine. Cyril Pearl was a Vermont-based pro-colonization abolitionist who feuded locally with William Lloyd Garrison on the subject of colonization and acted as a publishing agent in Vermont for the Boston-based The Colonizationist, and Journal of Freedom, a short-lived publication published from 1833-1834 by.....
Paris: Paris Arts Editions, 1931. Folio, 36 Pages, 9.5 x 12.25 inches. A photographically illustrated book advertising the dancers in Paris in the 1930–1931 season, featuring a full page spread of Josephine Baker at the center of the book, and also showing dancers such as Ariman Banu, the dancers in.....
New York: E. & H.T. Anthony Company, 1888. First Edition. Large 8vo, wraps, 115 pp. 7 x 10 ½ inches. Edward Anthony and his brother Henry operated the largest photographic supply company in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Edward operated a small photography practice before converting his.....
Paris: Charles Chevalier, 1854. First Edition. 12mo, wraps, 88 pp. A near fine copy with some wear to extremities of wraps and fine contents. A scarce early photographic manual by the anatomist Julien Fau, who was best known for his lithographic works on human anatomy. This is an early manual.....
Delaware, Ohio: Miss Mary Belle Evans, 1896. Eleven issues, 144 pp. total, paginated continuously. Martha Van Marter (1839–1931) was a Methodist Episcopal editor and missionary educator associated with the Woman’s Home Missionary Society. She edited Children’s Home Missions, a periodical designed to promote Protestant missionary education among youth and to.....
New York: Elias Dexter, 1862. Small folio, later black cloth, viii, 104 pp. Complete with sixty-three plates, as well as a photographic title page. One of 100 copies. A very scarce and important reference on Saint-Memin, also important as one of the earliest books illustrated with unique sets of photographic.....
New York: Anson P. Norton, 1860. 12mo, wraps, 144 pp. An uncommon pro-annexation title on the gold fields of what is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Courtney was commissioned by the editor of the New York Herald to write a pro-annexation treatise. He described the island as a virginal.....
Boston: Lea and Shepard, 1868. First Edition. 8vo, burgundy cloth, 282 pp. First edition. With four plates. A bright first edition copy of the second novel to ever feature baseball, and the first to use baseball in the title and design of the book. William Everett was the cousin of.....