New York: Farrar. Straus & Giroux, (1966). First edition. Foreword by Ralph McGill. Memoir covering the period after the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education when, in 1956, federal judge Robert Taylor ordered Clinton High School in Tennessee to desegregate with "all deliberate speed." Margaret Vance..... Item #71962 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. First U.S. edition. Translated from the French "with a supplementary chapter, narrating the most recent events" by John Oxenford. Dark (green?) cloth boards decoratively blind stamped on covers and with gilt lettering on spine. Tissue map--a facsimile of a Chinese map of the course..... Item #52561 More
London: The English Review, 1912. First edition. First appearance of Conrad’s essay in the periodical founded by his friend and sometimes collaborator, Ford Madox Ford . Later collected as “Certain Aspects of the Admirable Inquiry into the Loss of the Titanic” in NOTES ON LIFE AND LETTERS (1921) and issued..... Item #71857 More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965. First edition. SIGNED by author on the half-title page. Near fine with contemporaneous gift inscription on the verso of the free endpaper. In a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with a small amount of wear along the edges, mostly concentrated at the spine and..... Item #50559 More
Syracuse: Watson Gill, 1881. Later printing. The first was in 1876. A history of the heroism, adventures, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic." 527 pages with numerous illustrated engravings. Original cloth with decorted gilt lettering showing minor wear and foxing but still..... Item #41800 More
Washington, D. C. Smithsonian Institution, 2006. First edition. Dibner Library Lecture, December 13, 2006. Illustrated with photographs. Fine in pictorial paperwraps. Item #52992 More
No-place: No-publisher, circa 1945. First edition. Yearbook-style book profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs of ship and crew as well as one double-page color photo showing the Essex-class aircraft carrier U.S.S. Hancock at sea. Provenance: this copy presumed that of one D. S. Kauffman, an Aviation Machinist's Mate 2nd Class deployed..... Item #71756 More
New York: Henry Holt, (2011). First edition. SIGNED by author. John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War. Fine in near fine dust jacket with minor bumps on top front corners. Item #54433 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First edition. The history of the discovery of a 1619 "lost" British settlement in Virginia. The book is fine with poignant pictorial dust jacket. Item #47156 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. First edition, presumed second issue or printing with date on title page but "Note" added at bottom page vi, following author's preface, crediting Margaret Preston for material appearing on pages 56-88 ("credit for use of these extracts was inadvertently omitted from the first edition..... Item #72001 More
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1967-72. First edition. Three-volume set, each with a different portrait of the President on the dust jacket. Volume 1 (published in 1967) covers 1822 to 1851; volume 2 (published in 1970) covers 1852 to 1857; and volume 3 (published 1972) covers 1858 to 1860. All..... Item #47222 More
New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1887 - 1888. First edition of each of the three issues of the humor and politics magazine. SEPTEMBER 7, 1887, VOL. XXII, NO. 548: "A Queer Flirtation" by C. J. Taylor on front; "The National Political Madhouse" by W. Kaulbach and Keppler at center; and..... Item #71864 More
New York: Putnam's Sons, (1955). First edition. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. One of the scarcer titles in Putnam's Sports Series "The Big League Library" and "wholesome sports reading for baseball fans, young and old" per Commissioner of Baseball Ford Frick (as quoted on the jacket). Very nearly fine with only..... Item #71761 More
Washington: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960. First edition. 3 volumes. Edited by Miers, Baringer, and C. Percy Powell. A chronology of Lincoln's day-to-day whereabouts and activities. Vol. I covering 1809-1848; vol. II, 1849-1860; and vol. III, 1861-1865; plus a comprehensive index. Volume one a little faded, still a near fine set..... Item #52343 More
[New York: New York Stock Exchange, 1952]. Brochure for the film. 9 x 12" single white leaf printed on both sides in black and orange and folded twice to make tri-fold brochure advertising the John Sutherland Productions film short that let's you "Take a Technicolor Trip to Market," illustrated with..... Item #56064 More
Pompano Beach, FL: Exposition Press, (1985). First edition. Written by an educator, administrator and past president of the PW YWCA, this history of the independent Young Womens Christian Association of Washington DC founded by and for black women chronicles its struggles with the all-white National Capital YWCA at the height..... Item #56056 More
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1857. First edition. Howes H-178. Including his services as Chaplain in the French and Indian War, and in the War of the Revolution. 1716 to 1790. Frontispiece of author's home with tissue. About very good in decorative dark brown boards with gilt lettering on spine, rear..... Item #52586 More
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1891. Second printing, issued the year following the first. Two volumes complete with 3 folding maps in rear pockets: “A Map of the Great Forest Region Showing the Routes of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition from the River Congo to the Victoria Nyanza” (approximately 31 x...... Item #71769 More
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1836. First U.S. edition. Two volumes. Published previous year in London by T. Hookham. Initially issued anonymously in both countries but with later editions identifying the author as Starling. 12mo original green cloth boards; printed paper spine labels; 219 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher’s ads..... Item #52237 More
Washington, D. C. The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, (1926). First edition. Foreword by Carter G. Woodson, founder of the Association. Taylor's second of three monographs on reconstruction: the first focused on South Carolina, and the third on Tennessee. Spine lettering dulled, page edges lightly foxed..... Item #50454 More
London: George Newnes, Ltd., (1919-20). First edition in the original 24 magazine-format parts. A massive work running to a million words. These are the original issues, each bound in colorful pictorial paperwraps. Save for the staples rusting, the set is just about fine. Item #54557 More
Chicago: Monarch Book Company, (1898). First edition. Four books include: The Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico, Cuba and The Hawaiian Islands. Numerous illustrations. Corners a little worn and spine ends frayed on edges, but still about very good. Item #52468 More