[New York? n.d. but 1887]. First Edition. Quite possibly unrecorded bilingual flyer printed in English and German protesting a union-run boycott against George Ehret, the German-American owner of the largest brewing company in New York City at the time. Ehret had been involved as a mediator during a boycott against... More about Drop title] Justice and Fair Play, Protest from the Brewers of New York and Vicinity

Boston: Oliver Johnson, 1843. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's peach wrappers printed within decorative border; 104pp. Light soil and wear from handling, small loss at spine foot, else Very Good or better. Covers the 1842 censure of Ohio representative Joshua Reed Giddings who had broken the gag rule against... More about Eleventh Annual Report, Presented to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, By Its Board of...

Utica: James C. Jackson, 1844. Exposée by the abolitionist judge on the way in which members of the pro-slavery movement used the Federal government to their advantage. The appendix by Leavitt covers the Amistad case. LCP - AFRO-AMERICANA 5270; SABIN 35866. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's yellow wrappers printed within decorative border;... More about A View of the Action of the Federal Government, in Behalf of Slavery

New-York: Leavitt, Lord & Co., 1835. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's green blind-ruled pebble cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, unadorned spine; xii,120pp. Light shelf wear, spine a bit sunned, a few leaves browned, else Very Good or better. This copy bound without publisher's advertisements. Refutation of a tract published... More about Letters to the Hon. William Jay, Being a Reply to His "Inquiry into the American...

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1864. First Edition. Detailed account of the Peace Conference of 1861 at which 131 American politicans convened shortly before the start of th Civil War. The Convention's failure to curtail the spread of slavery while simultaneously failing to protect pro-slavery territories left both Republicans... More about A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention, for...

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1969. First Edition. Schneebaum's narrative of his 1950's journey to Peru, where he lived for a time with the Pueranga tribe, who had very little internaction with the civilized world, and later with the Akarama, head-hunters and cannibals, who had never seen a white man... More about Keep the River on Your Right [Inscribed to Sophie Wilkins

[London]: Russia Today, [1944]. First Edition. 12mo (15.5cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated self-wrappers printed in red and black; 15pp.; illus. Stock uniformly toned due to inferior paper quality, else Very Good or better. More about Poland and the Peace

New York: New Directions, [1960]. Revised Edition. Lovely association copy. From the front jacket flap: "The drawings are made especially for this edition by James Kearns, young American artist of whom Ben Shahn has written 'He is one of the most gifted, most intelligent artists I know...'" Octavo (22.5cm.); original... More about Can These Bones Live [Inscribed and Signed by Kearns to Ben Shahn

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1891. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's grey printed wrappers; 253pp.; frontispiece, 14 leaves of plates, including one folding plan. Lacking rear cover, shallow chips along extremities of upper cover and spine ends, textblock uniformly toned due to poor paper stock, else Very Good overall. Bureau... More about The Fourth International Prison Congress, St. Petersburg, Russia

New York: Macmillan Company, 1915. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; xii,148pp. Some light shelf wear, corners gently bumped, spine bit sunned, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed to the author of humorous poetry Arthur Guiterman, "with homage to his laughing muse as well as his... More about Rivers to the Sea [Inscribed and Signed to Arthur Guiterman

New York: Douglas Taylor, 1873. First Edition. The British physician Elizabeth Blackwell founded the Infirmary in 1857 where she began lecturing to women on the study of medicine, her name appearing at the head of the Faculty Members on p. [3]. A list of the graduates for the years 1870... More about Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary, 128 Second Avenue, Corner 8th Street. Annual...

New York: The East Village Other, Inc., 1969. Upper cover adorned with a small reproduction, surrounded in black, of Eddie Adams's photograph of the execution of Viet Cong leader Nguyen Van Lem. Contributors include Eli Enzer, Jaakov Kohn, and Harry Smith. Tabloid (43.5cm); illustrated newsprint wrappers; 40pp; illus. Horizontal mail... More about The East Village Other - Vol. 4, no. 20, April 23, 1969

N.p. Alfredo Valente, [n.d. but late 1950's-early 1960's]. Handsome photographic portrait of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller by Alfredo Valente (1899-1973), an Italian-American photographer best known for his coverage of Broadway. Original black and white photograph, measuring 8" x 10" (20.25cm x 25.5cm). Signed by Arthur Miller toward lower right... More about Original Photographic Portrait of Arthur Miller [Signed