[Chicago]: Second Ward Times, [1938]. First Edition. Rare and fragile campaign flyer for Roscoe Conkling Simmons's failed 1938 run for U.S. Congress, to represent Illinois' 1st District (including most of South-side Chicago). Published and illustrated by Henry Brown, who had been the chief editorial cartoonist for Chicago's leading African-American newspaper..... More

Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1891. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Blue cloth stamped in gilt; purple and cream patterned endpapers; 260,[4]pp; 4pp publisher's ads at rear; frontispiece portrait. Stamp of the A.L.S. Circulating Library to front pastedown. Ex-library, sound but rubbed, occasional foxing and fingersoil: Good or better. Six..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. First Edition. First printing, binding a. Octavo (19cm). Yellow-brown cloth, stamped in brown; plain endpapers; [x],[310]pp; color frontispiece. Straight and sound, lightly rubbed at edges, stamped on spine lightly worn, internally clean: Very Good. Cather's second published novel, and her first great work. The story of..... More

New York: Duffield and Company, 1921. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21.5cm) Yellow-green boards, backed in dark green cloth, titled in gilt on front and on paper spine label, top edge gilt; [viii],[170]pp. Ticket of Pearlman's Book Shop, Washington, D.C. Lightly rubbed with slight toning to edges of boards, internally..... More

[Various publishers & dates]. The refusal of Mexican President Porfirio Dîaz to cede power to his rival Francisco Madero in the elections of 1910 resulted in a violent, large-scale revolt by campesinos and leftists, setting off the thirty-year long Mexican Revolution. American involvement in the conflict began in 1911, when..... More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First Edition. Ben Shahn provided the text illustrations as well as the jacket and board designs. This is Shahn's file copy, unsigned but with his private catalogue number ("69") neatly inked at base of jacket's front panel, and with his estate label on..... More

New York: Frank Shay, 1921. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20.5cm). Blue paper wrappers; [72]pp. Faded at upper edge and spine, faint tidemark to front wrapper at lower edge, though text unaffected: Very Good. FPAA IV p.266. More

New York: Schocken Books, 1973. First Edition. Wrappered Issue. Octavo (20.25cm); pictorial card wrappers; xii,363,[1]pp. Gentle sunning to spine, else very Near Fine. A comprehensive selection of McKay's published and unpublished works, including a number of inaccessible articles, unpublished fiction and letters. More

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1934. First Edition. First printing, with "I-I" on copyright page. Octavo (21cm). Half-bound in black cloth and light green paper, titled on paper spine label; [x],[92]pp. Title page printed in black and red. Contemporary gift inscription to f.f.e.p. Sound but lightly rubbed and faded at..... More

New York: Frank Shay, 1922. 12mo (20cm). Green paper backed in black cloth, titled on white paper labels on front and spine; [40]pp. Lightly faded at spine and board edges, spotting to front label and top edge, internally clean: Very Good. "New and enlarged edition," containing four new poems. FPAA..... More

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1923. Later printing, with "L-X" code (November 1923) on copyright page. 12mo (20cm). Black cloth, stamped in gilt; x,[94]pp. Bookplate of Margaret M. Power. Bookseller's ticket from the Brick Row Book Shop, New York. Bumped at top edge and head of spine, else clean and..... More

[N.p. S.i., 1978]. First Edition. An early, possibly self-published draft of the Puerto Rican-Cuban author's fourth book, a collection of short stories eventually published by Knopf in 1978. "The stories between the pages of this book have to do with the fantasies and illusions, as well as the harsh realities..... More

New York: Dial Press, 1945. First Edition. An presentable reading copy of Jarrell's second book, a collection containing some of the best of his war-time poems. WRIGHT A2. First Printing, one of 2,000 copies. Octavo (24cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in orange on spine, and star motif stamped..... More