Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1837. First Edition. Collection of miscellaneous pieces by the celebrated English abolitionist and reformer, including his addresses at Lowell and Boston and correspondence with William Lloyd Garrison, Benjamin Whedon, Samuel Fessenden and others. Thompson's anti-slavery tour of the United States was controversial and fraught with peril, as... More
Saxonville, MA: [by the Author], 1876. First Edition. Critique of Reconstruction, accusing northern politicians of using the "...colored man as a stepping-stone to place and power;" accusing white southerners of keeping the Black race in "a state of seclusion and degradation;" asserts that the opportunity for equal rights was lost... More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. First Edition. Octavo. Olive-green cloth, titled in gilt with pictorial elements in black; 277,(1) + 8pp publisher's catalog; illus. Mild rubbing and a hint of darkening to cloth at extremities; small (. More
New York: Sheldon & Co., 1871. First Edition. Two unrelated (and non-autobiographical!) short stories make up the bulk of the book, but a third (also unrelated) narrative is contained in the eleven illustrations appearing at irregular intervals throughout the text; these, captioned with a rollicking parody of the children's nursery... More
Hamilton, ONT: Duncan Lith. Co., N.d. [ca 1900]. One of many editions of this souvenir songbook. Modeled after their predecessors The Fisk Jubilee Singers, this troupe, organized by William and Sadie Carter and consisting primarily of Canadian nationals, debuted in 1879 and appears to have toured the U.S. and Canada... More
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1883. First American Edition. First printing; Blanck's First State, Intermediate "B" (lacking tail-piece on p.441, but with "St Louis Hotel" caption on p.443). Octavo; publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt and black; 624pp; illus. A few minuscule white paint-specks to cloth on front cover... More
New York: Geo. H. Richmond & Co., 1894. First Edition. A treatise on bossism and machine politics, with a critical emphasis on New York and Tammany Hall. 12mo. Sage cloth boards with paper spine label; viii,242p. Boards yawning slightly; spine and label a shade sunned; internally unmarked and mostly unopened;... More
New York: Trow's Printing & Bookbinding Co., 1883. First Edition. A series of articles on political economy by the prominent inventor and philanthropist, builder of the first American steam locomotive and founder of New York's Cooper Union. An exemplary copy. Complimentary copy, with Cooper's ornately signed presentation slip bound in... More
Philadelphia: by the Author, 1793. Second Edition. Standard first-hand account of the devastating yellow fever epidemic that struck Philadelphia and environs in 1793. G-M 5451: "...in this little book, which passed through 4 editions in a few months, Carey left a graphic account of the great yellow fever epidemic...he gave... More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1883. First Edition. Comstock's second book, exposing the snares of dime novels, gambling, free-love, fine art, liberalism and many other moral hazards laying in wait for unsuspecting young folks as they make their way in the world. As the founder of the New York Society... More
Lancaster: J.F. Huber, Printer (Copyright J. Evans), 1858. Broadside issued shortly in advance of the celebrated double-rape and murder trial of Henry Richards and Alexander Anderson, a pair of itinerant African American laborers who confessed to beating, then "having to do with," then cutting the throats of two white women... More
New York: Workers Library, 1943. Uncommon war-time pamphlet by the prominent communist, one-time Wobbly, women's rights advocate and (later) victim of the Smith Act trials. "Deploring past prejudices against women workers, the author calls for child-care centers, good housing, union organization, and equal pay for equal work" (SEIDMAN F143). Second... More
New York: Workers Library, 1942. First Edition. Uncommon war-time pamphlet by the prominent communist, one-time Wobbly, women's rights advocate and (later) victim of the Smith Act trials. "Deploring past prejudices against women workers, the author calls for child-care centers, good housing, union organization, and equal pay for equal work" (SEIDMAN... More
Atlantic Beach, FL: Whitebook, 1970. Prospectus for an apparently never-published journal for "women seeking women," described thus: "Whitebook will feature poetry, literature reviews, art discussions, travelogues, opinions, news on women's liberation movements, and articles of interest to women...the "Personal" section will feature notices of women wishing to meet other women...a...... More
[Plattsburgh, NY?]: The Sentinel Publishing Co., 1917. Scarce anti-suffrage tract in the form of a one-act lyrical drama, in which the modern woman's rights advocate is portrayed as "...the Sphinx...a modern Female Suffragist of the kind only, who believe and contend that women, while they vote, should continue to have... More
Saint-Paul-de-Vence: Fondation Maeght, 1968. First Edition. Small Quarto (22.5cm x 19.5cm); pictorial wrappers with French flaps; unpaginated; illus. Very Good + copy; shelf wear to extremities, else clean and tight. Catologue of an exhibition of Joan Miró's work at the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France in 1968. Miró produced four... More
[Boston]: Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, 1871. Circular, issued two weeks before the event, announcing a Fourth of July suffrage rally in Framingham, Massachusetts. Advertises reduced travel accommdations to and from the event, and includes a partial list of speakers including William Lloyd Garrison, Lucy Stone, Mary Livermore, Margaret Campbell, and... More
Amos Kennedy / Press of Colorado College, 2019. First Edition. More
New York: Workers Library, 1942. First Edition. Uncommon war-time pamphlet by the prominent communist, one-time Wobbly, women's rights advocate and (later) victim of the Smith Act trials. "Deploring past prejudices against women workers, the author calls for child-care centers, good housing, union organization, and equal pay for equal work" (SEIDMAN... More
Atlanta: J.L. Nichols & Co., 1898. Second Edition. Octavo. Publisher's gilt-stamped calf boards; 24, 23-663, [1] pp. Sold by subscription. Frontispiece of Crogman, and numerous other illustrations from line drawings and photographs (halftone). Original publisher's calf, stamped in gilt and blind; lightly rubbed (more heavily to rear board); text block... More
[Toronto: Coach House Press, 1974]. Slim 12mo (19cm.); publisher's tan pictorial card wrappers; [64]pp.; illus., text printed in blue ink. Light shelf wear, else Near Fine. From colophon: "This book has been typed on an IBM Selectric blah, blah, blah, by Robin Cones and printed by Marco Polio for the... More
Hartford: J.B. Burr and Company, 1869. Reprint. Thick octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's maroon gilt-lettered cloth, brown glazed endpapers; 718pp.; engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, 11 leaves of plates. Boards a bit rubbed with brief exposure at corners, spine rather faded and gilt dulled, a few signatures proud, light foxing to tissue... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1949 but 1952]. Reprint. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xvii,[3],164pp. Wear at spine ends and corners, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the Studies in Prejudice Series. More
Jericho, NY: Exposition Press, [1974]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in decorative dust jacket; 76pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, lighter portions a bit foxed, corners gently bumped, old pencil scribble to front endpapers, else Very Good, internally fine. Short novella depicting the disenchantment of a small-town... More
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941. First Edition. The author's first novel, chronicling the life of a North Carolina tobacco farmer and his relationship with the land. In the dustjacket with attractive wraparound artwork by John Alan Maxwell. HANNA 3882. Octavo (20.5cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in... More
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