New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. First edition. Signed by Richard Hofstadter on front free endpaper, inscribed to sociologist Daniel Bell "with love always from the depths of the unprogressive. [signed] Dick" dated in the year of publication, Oct. 20, 1968. A few marginal brackets in red ink (presumably by..... More
Mayavati, India: Advaita Ashrama, 1937. First edition. [vi], 217, [1], IV, III pp. with tissue-guarded portrait of the author at front. Publisher's navy blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with tiny tear to one page repaired with old cellophane tape, in a Near Fine jacket with light foxing..... More
Washington: Cornelius Wendell, Printer, 1857. First edition. 239 pp. Original pale blue wraps over string binding. Very Good with fragile front and rear wraps present, rear wrap detached, name written on front wrap, chipping along edges of wraps, wear to bottom corner of prelims, offsetting to contents. An uncommon document..... More
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1968. First edition. 218 pp. Embossed aluminum in original printed folding box. Basically Fine with a little tarnishing to aluminum binding, contents clean and bright. Box a little rubbed and toned, two original price stickers on one side, pencil notation on the other..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First edition. xi, 236 pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Very Good dust jacket with tear and chip at head, price-clipped, lightly edge-worn. A biography of the Greek philosopher/soldier, uncommon in jacket. More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1942. First edition. (First printing with (1) on last page of text.) Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, dated April 5, 1945. Former owner's name, Mary Etta Davis, written above that. xx, [3]-270 pp. Publisher's gray cloth stamped in navy and gilt..... More
Portland, OR: The Oregonian, 1941. Original silver gelatin press image, 9.25" x 7. A very early image of Japanese Americans responding to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the rising anti-Japanese sentiment in the Untied States, with the date of "Dec 15 1941" rubber-stamped to verso. In the days immediately..... More
![Item #140942904 [Japanese Internment] Japanese Students Under Fire (Original Silver Gelatin Press...](/pictures/thumb/140942904.jpg?v=1647834360)
Acme Newspictures, 1942. Original silver gelatin press photograph. 7"x9". Captioned on back on mounted label, "Parkville, Mo., American-born Japanese students at Park College, Parkville, Mo., take part in flag-raising ceremony and calmly continue studies there despite protests of citizens of Platte County, Mo., who believe they should be interned. [...]"..... More
![Item #140942901 [Japanese Internment] Off on a New Adventure (Original Silver Gelatin Press...](/pictures/thumb/140942901.jpg?v=1647828881)
Los Angeles: Acme Newspictures, 1942. Original silver gelatin press photograph. 8.5" x 6.75". Among the most chilling images of propaganda, casting the forced detention and relocation of Japanese Americans as a fun trip to summer camp. Press caption on reverse reading "These young Japanese are ready to leave homes in..... More
McGehee, AR: War Relocation Authority, 1943. Single-sided sheet. Near Fine with a little toning along edge, two tiny rust stains (not holes) near corner. A memo from Ray D. Johnston, Project Director at Rohwer War Relocation Center to "All Appointed Personnel and all Caucasian Residents of this Center" requiring all..... More
Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947. First edition. [vi], 270 pp. Gray stapled wraps. Near Fine with slight toning to wraps and contents, slight bump to upper corner, tiny tear to back wrap. Brian Niiya writes of this book in Densho Encylopedia: "The stated goal of the..... More
Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946. First edition. [iv], 82 pp. Gray stapled wraps. Good with closed tear to top of front wrap and first page, very slightly to following page; wraps toned and lightly worn; former owner's name written on front cover. A rare history of the War..... More
[Washington, D.C]: [War Relocation Authority], 1943. First edition. 7 pp. single-sided. Yellow sheets, corner staple bound. A Fine copy with faint rusting to staple and typical faint offsetting around mimeographed text. A very rare document in excellent condition. A list of the different types of groups and associations people..... More
[Kagoshima City, Japan]: Kagoshima Prefecture, 1926. A scarce photobook compiled by Kagoshima Prefecture on the southern isle of Kyushu documenting the environs and 1914 eruption of the volcano Sakurajima. Lava flows continued for months and connected Sakurajima, a former island, to the Osumi Peninsula by a narrow isthmus. These..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1976. First British edition. (Also first in the English language, following the German 1970 original.) xvii, 282pp. Original orangish brown cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with lightly bumped corners in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine panel, closed tear on bottom of front..... More
![Item #140943882 (An Extensive Run of a Japanese Internment Camp Newspaper) The Topaz Times [and]...](/pictures/thumb/140943882.jpg?v=1659855706)
Topaz, UT: The Topaz Times, 1942-1945. Four hundred issues of The Topaz Times; 197 of which are in English and 203 in Japanese; with 47 fragments of various issues, 17 illustrated calendars, and nine pieces of ephemera including high school newspapers from Topaz War Relocation Center, Ram-bler and Topazette. Following..... More
New York: G.W. Carleton & Company, Publishers, 1868. First edition, first printing. 371, [1], [8, ads] pp. Publisher's brown cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, some reinforcement to tips, blue endpapers with old Lockwood, NY bookseller's ticket on paste down. About Very Good overall with bottom corner of front..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. First edition, first printing. Signed by Orville Wright and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine titles lettered in white. Near Fine with toning to paged and a short closed tear at the..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1958. First edition. Signed by George F. Kennan on the half title, warmly inscribed to fellow Princeton resident Vivian Shellabarger, wife of historical novelist and scholar Samuel Shellabarger. xii, 513 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth, spine blocked in black, ruled in gray, lettered in..... More
New York: Wilfred Funk, 1940. 252 pp. First edition, first printing in dust jacket with publisher's price of $2.00 intact. Very Good, with patches of paper adhered to rear cover pulled from blank verso of the dust jacket. End sheets offset from binder's glue, small vintage bookseller's ticker to front..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. First edition. xvii, [1], 297 pp. Original red cloth lettered in black. Near Fine with former owner's name written and stamped on front free endpaper, slightly bumped corners, in Good+ edge-chipped unclipped dust jacket. The first book by the late American physicist and historian of..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962. First edition, first printing. Publisher's yellow wraps printed in black. Near Fine with fading to spine, light soiling, small stain to front cover and light shelf wear. Kuhn's acclaimed history of science. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. First trade edition, first printing. (Hardcover issue perhaps simultaneously with the paperback edition as a monograph in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science series; priority is uncertain.) xv, [1], 172 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in metallic blue. American intellectual and..... More
Washington, D.C. Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1908. First edition. Large folio, measuring approximately 18.5" x 24.25". Ex-library copy rebound in drab gray cloth with typical stamps on endpapers and edges; small circular stamps on versos (not rectos) of maps, though, which is nice, as the maps and seismograms present very..... More
El Paso: Carl Hertzog, 1945. First edition, one of 500 numbered copies signed by Tom Lea on the limitation page. [iv], 34 pp. 10 full-page plates after drawings by Lea. Bound in Marine Corps green herringbone cloth, pictorial endpapers from a photograph by Lea. With the eight-page Life magazine color..... More