New York: National Urban League, 1940. First Edition. Complete issue of this sociological and literary journal produced by the National Urban League. Published between 1923-1949, Opportunity was significant for fostering many of the literary and artistic voices of the Harlem Renaissance period, as well as printing academic articles on the..... More

New York: National Urban League, 1928. First Edition. An early issue of this sociological and literary journal produced by the National Urban League. Published between 1923-1949, Opportunity was significant for fostering many of the literary and artistic voices of the Harlem Renaissance period, as well as printing academic articles on..... More

Boise, ID: The Statesman Shop, [1907]. First edition. Full transcription of Borah's closing statement as prosecuting attorney in the case of Idaho vs. William D. Haywood et. al., for the 1905 murder of former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg. Borah lost the case to the brilliant defense of Clarence Darrow (the..... More

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1902. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Publisher's pictorial cloth, stamped in colors with gilt spine titles; 315pp; frontispiece and 35 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Square and tight with a trace of rubbing at board corners; Near Fine. Unusually nice copy of this richly-illustrated survey..... More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); original pictorial boards; dustjacket; xviii,687,[1],xxviiipp; illus. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "For Betty / Julia Child," and signed by Paul Child directly beneath. Spine ends nudged, modest external wear, with faint foxing to text edges and upper..... More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt and silver on spine; lavender topstain; dustjacket; [x],512,[6]pp. Signed by Updike on the title page. Faint foxing to text edges, remainder dot to upper edge of textblock, with a...... More

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929. First Edition. First printing. Square octavo (19cm). Original yellow cloth, titled and decorated in red on spine and front cover; 128pp. A tight, Very Good copy, lacking the pencil and with the "seal" on pp.17-128 broken. Scattered pencil marginalia; paper-clip stain to upper margin..... More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First Edition. First Impression (and correct first), preceding the American edition published by Harcourt, Brace & World in 1965. Octavo (19.5cm); greyish-purple paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; pink topstain; dustjacket; [6],7-487,[1]pp. Tiny ink owner's name to front endpaper, with a remainder rubber-stamp..... More

New York: International Publishers, 1932. First Edition. Page's first novel, based on the Loray Mill Strike in Gastonia, North Carolina, emphasizing "the need for unity between black and white workers not only in organizing Southern textile mills but in their common struggle to overthrown capitalism. Tom Crenshaw, the white organizer..... More

San Francisco: The Joyful World Press, 1971. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (28cm); pictorial card wrappers, stapled; [24pp]; illus. A Fine copy. Feminist children's book about a resourceful young girl who spirits off her hungry family members in her airplane in search of seafood, saves her father (a racoon) from..... More

London: Macmillan, 1926. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Blue cloth titled in gilt; [xii],415,[1]pp; 15 black and white plates, 4 color maps (1 folding), 1 black and white folding map. Bookseller's ticket of Princes Bookshop, London. Bright and tight, lighlty rubbed at extremities, stains to top edge generally not..... More

Honolulu: Tongg Publishing Company, 1941. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Light brown cloth stamped in black, in cream dust jacket printed in brown; yellow endpapers; 159,[1]pp; illustrations by Ethelyn Myhre throughout. 1954 owner's name to front pastedown. Bumped at corners, otherwise Near Fine. Jacket price-clipped, rubbed, with a few..... More

New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1931. First Edition. Autobiography of the noted Progressive Era judge and social reformer, a pioneer in the establishment of the juvenile court system. "Judge Lindsey inaugurated the Juvenile and Domestice Relations Court in Denver: an institution that has been of prime social importance, in that..... More