Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1849. First edition, first printing of the author's first book, which was published at his own expense. 413, [1], [1, ad for Walden: "Soon to be published"] pp. Bound in publisher's original trade binding with boards ruled in blind and spine decoratively stamped..... More
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Hunt, ID: Residents of Minidoka Relocation Center, 1943. Original dark blue/black cloth stamped in blind. Very Good. Old tape with holograph Japanese characters on paper to spine and rear cover; tape reinforcements to inner hinges. Owner name (Frank M. Tomori) and family number to verso of front free endpaper, several..... More
Kansas City, MO: Burton Publishing Company Publishers, 1920. First edition. 376 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt lettering. About Very Good with dulled gilt, hinges cracked but holding, page gatherings over-opened and textblock fallen, slight creasing to pages towards front. A scarce novel of Kentucky set approximately 15..... More
New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1934. First edition. 296 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with purple spine label, gilt spine lettering, blindstamped front, black topstain. Near Fine with dulling to spine lettering, light wear, in the rare pictorial dust jacket, chipped along top edge, smaller chip at foot, a...... More
Printed at the Joint Expence of the Glasgow and Edinburgh Societies instituted for the Abolition of the Slave Trade: Edinburgh, 1791. Rare first Edinburgh edition, published same year as the London edition, of eye-witness testimony on the horrors of the British slave trade, containing a very early engraving of the..... More
Springfield, OH: [No Publisher], 1879. A rare piece of ephemera documenting women's baseball in the 19th century. Bifolium inscribed on four sides, covering guests who stayed at the hotel in the first week of September, including the eight members of the Red Stockings of New York, and the same number..... More
[no place]: The Pullman Company, 1952. First edition. Brad-bound printed sheets in black leatherette covers stamped in silver. Very Good with wear to silver stamping, light staining to textblock edges, pages tanned and a child's crayon scribbles to the final blank leaf. A rare guidebook produced for the largely African-American..... More