New-York: William S. Dorr, 1839. First Edition. Slim octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's green printed wrappers; 115pp. Tiny loss at spine foot, shallow crease at top fore-edge corner of upper cover and title page, very faint dampstaining to textblock fore-edge, else a Very Good, quite vibrant copy. Addresses delivered include those by... More about Sixth Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, with the...

Durham: Duke University Press, 1974. Second printing (first published 1957). Octavo; tan buckram (hardcover); xliv+420pp; frontispiece illus. Fine copy, lacking dustwrapper. Volume Four only of a seven-volume set. More about The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore. Volume Four [4]: The Music of the Ballads

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1894. Octavo (22cm). Original brown cloth boards, decoratively blind-stamped and lettered in gilt on spine; cii+536pp; frontispiece, nine inserted leaves of plates, including two folding maps; text illus. Ex-seminary library, with faint shadow at base of spine from removed label, bookplate inside front cover, evidence... More about The Life of Mahomet from Original Sources. Third Edition

New York: Greenberg: Publisher, 1947. First American Edition. First American and first English-language edition of this somewhat uncommon concentration-camp memoir. Wiechert, a prominent and prolific German novelist, was arrested in 1938 and spent four months in Buchenwald for his vocal opposition to the Nazi régime. This memoir, first published in... More about Forest of the Dead [Der Totenwald]. Translated by Ursula Stechow

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press Book / Little, Brown and Company, 1943. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm); publisher's orange cloth, spine lettered in blue; [12],433pp.; portrait frontispiece and seven leaves of plates. Light wear to extremities, some dust-soil, textblock slightly shaken, front flap of jacket only laid in; Very Good and sound... More about Exploring the Dangerous Trades: The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D

London: Bookmarks, [1989]. First Thus. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's glossy yellow photo-illustrated card wrappers; 95pp. Leaves a bit toned, else Near Fine. More about Reform or Revolution

New York: Century Co., [1931]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's blue decorative gilt-stamped cloth; x,311pp. Faint dampstain affecting cloth boards along spine edges and slightly bleeding into textblock, spine gilt rather dulled, else Very Good and sound. More about The Case Against Birth Control

[N.p. but Salt Lake City: Joseph Cain, n.d., but 1855]. First Edition. Exceedingly scarce government-issued flyer printed by the state's public printer Joseph Cain, appointed for the year 1855 (see Richard L. Saunders, "Printing in Deseret" (2000), p. 69). Cain, who converted to the Church of Latter Day Saints on... More about Drop title] Rules for Conducting Business in the House of Representatives of the Territory of Utah

Paterson, NJ: Pageant Publishers, 1959. First Edition. Lay treatise on conversion therapy by a Freudian psychoanalyst who was among the most publicly visible, if not most influential, opponents of homosexuality in the decade of the Fifties. Bergler took an aggressive approach to conversion, asserting that he could "cure" patients by... More about One Thousand [1000] Homosexuals: Conspiracy of Silence, or Curing and Deglamorizing Homosexuals?

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936. First Edition. A classic libertarian tract, in which Lane (daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder) describes her own transformation from Bolshevism to Individualism. Having witnessed first-hand the deficiencies of the Soviet and European economic systems, Lane concludes that unfettered laissez-faire Capitalism is the only... More about Give Me Liberty

[Chicago: by the author, c. 1985-2004]. A likely unique collection of Stewart's highly eccentric broadsheet poems and screeds, which he has distributed on street-corners, poetry readings and through the mails at least since the late 1950s, when he received a cameo in Allen Ginsberg's Howl as a man "...with big... More about Archive of 121 broadsides, leaflets, and mailers, ca 1985-2004

New York: Doubleday, Page, 1906. First edition. The author's landmark book, perhaps the most famous of American muckracking novels. Written in an attempt to bring attention to the depredations of capitalism and the plight of poor immigrants in Chicago, but succeeding instead in awakening Americans to startlingly unhygienic practices in... More about The Jungle

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883. Second Edition. Significant title providing details of the woman suffrage campaign in Massachusetts between 1774-1881, including accounts of the various attempts by women to gain voting rights and statistical information on women's employment. Robinson (née Hanson, 1825-1911) was a former Lowell Mill operative during the 1830's-40's..... More about Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement. A General, Political, Legal and Legislative History...