N.p. Travelers Insurance Company, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's blue pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 71pp.; insert order blank bound in. Extremities a bit rubbed, rear cover slightly soiled, else Very Good and sound. OCLC locates three copies as of November, 2019, at Cornell, Georgia State, and Appalachian State. More

Oakland: Vocations for Social Change, 1973. First Edition. Counterculture magazine centered around sharing "information about how people can gain control over their work situations and their own lives," about worker/community control over the means of production. Contents include articles on the Gray Panthers, nursing homes in Minnesota, organizing older women..... More

Boston: Light & Stearns, 1836. First Edition. Influential study of the domestic slave trade in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, authorized by the American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race, formed the year prior. The letters date chiefly from Baltimore, as well as Washington..... More

New Haven: S. Babcock, 1836. First Edition. Religious tract by Yale-educated lawyer Phineas B. Wilcox, who practiced law in Columbus, Ohio, through the 1850s. Little legal content, though the author's central conceit is to compare Judgement Day to the proceedings of a Supreme Court tribunal, and one's preparation for entering..... More

N.p. n.d., ca. 1840s. First Edition. Short essay providing various arguments in favor of the growing abolitionist movement in the Northern states, concluding that "The District of Columbia belows to the people of the United States. To the Congress, then, belongs the right of abolishing slavery in the ten miles..... More

Washington DC: Young Americans for Freedom, [1968]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 40pp. Light wear, wrapper extremities a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. "Excerpts from testimony before the House Subcommittee on Appropriations for 1968," published by the conservative youth organization Young Americans for Freedom. More

New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1849. First Separate Edition. Extremely scarce first-hand account of slave conditions in North Carolina as described by Nehemiah Caulkins, first published in the 1839 compilation "American Slavery, As It Is," edited by Theodore Dwight Weld and Angelina and Sarah Grimké for the Society..... More

New-York: James V. Seaman, 1825. First American Edition. Attributed to the EnglishQuaker and abolitionist Elizabeth Heyrick, a pamphlet first published in London the previous year and harshly criticizing the "gradualist" abolitionists who had quite erroneously argued that if the slave trade was abolished, as it was in England in 1808..... More

Boston: Sam'l Chism, 1857. First Edition. Collection of abolitionist poetry inscribed to former member of the Massachusetts State Senate Henry W. Cushman (1805-1863). Written the same year as the Dred Scott decision, Hebbard's lengthy poem refers to the Missouri Territory, to which Scott had tried to escape: "On such an..... More

Richmond: J.W. Randolph & English, 1890. First Edition. Houston (d.1924) was a successful housing contractor in Richmond and a long-time resident of Henrico, Virginia. This is his only work of fiction, a social exploration of the "one-drop" rule. Scarce, with only the present copy noted in commerce since the very..... More

San Frantsisko: "Delo" [1952]. First Edition. Detailed account of the history of the Doukhobor, the Spiritualist Christian sect that arose out of Russia in the early 18th century. Known as "folk-Protestants" the Doukhobor rejected the Russian Orthodox church and, facing persecution and starvation, a substantial portion of members emigrated with..... More

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1928. First Trade Edition. "In This Book-Collecting Game there are discussions of bindings, of the earmarks of editions, of auctions, of the "knock-out," of all the rewards and perils of the collector's life" (from front flap). First Printing. Octavo (21cm); light blue paper and..... More

New York: National Council / Department of Christian Social Service, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); staplebound self-wrappers printed within double rule; 7pp. Some light wear from handling, occasional pencil check marks to margins, minor dust-soil, else Very Good. Among the resolutions discussed and adopted at the convention include the promotion..... More