New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. First Trade Edition. One of the great documentary photobooks of the 1930's, examining the lives of black plantation workers in the Gullah coastal region of South Carolina. The idea for the book was originally conceived by American photographer Doris Ullman (1882-1934), who met Julia..... More

[Baltimore, MD]: S.i., 1935. First Edition. A history of the rise and development of the Women's Parent Mite Missionary Society, one of the oldest auxiliary groups within the A.M.E. Church, established on May 18, 1874. Harris, the daughter of a pioneer missionary and the wife of one of its Presiding..... More

[Paris: 1933]. Oblong quarto (ca 28cm x 21cm) album; post-bound leatherette boards containing eighty original black-and-white photographs (each 16 x 21 cm, printed on linen-textured double-weight paper) mounted recto and verso on 44 leaves. With a dated (April 1933) inscription on the inside front cover, from co-director Marie Epstein to..... More

New York: Charlton & Co., 1910. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Maroon cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 250,[4]pp. Straight, tight, and clean with a brief (ca 3/4") split to inner front hinge at gutter; Very Good or better. Gilman's first full-length novel, originally published..... More

Boston: Printed by the Order of the City Council, 1884. First Edition. Handsome volume memorializing American abolitionist and orator Wendell Phillips (1811-1884), commissioned by the City of Boston in an edition of 5,000 copies. Nearly half the text is comprised of the euglogy by George William Curtis, and includes extensive..... More

New York: Cameron & Kahn, 1955. First Edition. Wexley (1907-1985) was a New York dramatist who moved to Hollywood in the 1940's and achieved success as a screenwriter, later falling victim to the Blacklist for his earlier Communist Party affiliation. Blacklisted around the time of publication, Wexley's lengthy defense of..... More

Paris: Maurice Lachatre et Cie. [1872-1875]. First French Edition. First appearance in French of Marx's "Das Kapital," the translation the only such to have been executed with the collaboration of the author, whose letter to Lachatre appears in facsimile on p. [7]: "J'applaudis à votre idée de publier la traduction..... More

[Original Manuscript: 1930]. Glintenkamp, along with his friend and contemporary Stuart Davis, was among the foremost disciples of Robert Henri, and inherited some of his mentor's Ashcan mannerisms; but he is perhaps best remembered as one of the original artists of the New York socialist/bohemian magazine The Masses, where his..... More

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1982. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); grey paper and black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 247,[1]pp. A few tiny indentations to lower board edges, else very Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped, gently spine-sunned and lightly..... More

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (31cm); black and white photo-illustrated boards; 182pp; illus. Gently spine-sunned, modest wear to spine ends and corners, with a few faint scuffs to covers; contents clean, with hinges sound; solidly Very Good, lacking the dustjacket. The third collaborative..... More

Garden City, NY: The Dial Press / Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's typed slip and 2pp of publicity materials folded and laid in. Octavo (21.5cm); white paper and black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [11],12-358,[2]pp..... More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; blue topstain; dustjacket; [xii],204,[8]pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $7.95). Sharp copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's fifth short..... More

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1965. First Grove Press Hardcover Edition. Miller's fictionalized account of a six-year period of his life in Brooklyn, following the break-up of his first marriage, when he meets his second wife, June, prior to his initial departure to Paris in 1928. SHIFREEN & JACKSON 76x..... More