Philadelphia: Anti-slavery Society of the City and County of Philadelphia; printed by Merrihew & Gunn, 1837. Single quarto issue (29cm x 23cm; ca. 11-1/2" x 9-1/4"). Bifolium (4pp), pages numbered [9]-12. Issued monthly. Old horizontal fold at center (as issued?); small loss at upper margin (away from printed area), brief..... More

London: John Murray, 1874. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Two volumes in purple cloth, stamped in gilt on front and spine; brown coated endpapers; xvi,360,6pp;[viii],346,20pp; 6pp publisher's catalogue at rear of vol. I, 20pp catalogue in vol. II; frontispieces, 3 lithographic facsimiles of leaves from Livingstone's journal, 17 full-page..... More

Watertown [NY]: Ingall's & Stowell's Steam Press, 1852. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (20cm). Publisher's embossed brown cloth gilt; 288pp. Slight external wear, with some roughness to cloth at spine crown; final two pages faintly printed; pronounced foxing to endpapers but text generally tight, fresh, and clean; a Very Good..... More

New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1976. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); brown cloth-covered board, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [xvi],[2],3-537,[7]pp. Small 1.5" scratch to upper front pastedown, else Fine. Dustjacket unclipped (priced $19.95) with some rubbing at flap folds, and creasing and closed tears along..... More

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, Publishers, 1872. First Edition. Thick octavo (24.5cm); variant in the publisher's terracotta fine English cloth binding, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dark brown clay-coated endpapers; 4pp.ads, [iv],780,[2]pp, with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Still and 43 plates of illustrations. Gently spine-sunned..... More

Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2007. First Edition. Octavo (25cm); light brown cloth, with titling, text, and decorations stamped in dark brown on spine and covers; publisher's original printed band wrapped around the front cover; xii,418pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine example of the often-missing wraparound band, showing some mild..... More

London: Allison & Busby, 1984. First U.K. Edition (and Second Edition overall). Second edition of what was long considered the first novel by an African-American woman (though that record is now contested by The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts, a manuscript purchased and vetted by Henry Louis Gates in 2001)..... More

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1970. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 174pp. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Else a clean, sharp, tight copy in lightly soiled dustwrapper. Reprints James Theodore Holly's "Vindication of..... More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; 508pp. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Else a clean, sharp, tight copy, with no other markings to boards or text. Lacks jacket. More

New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 435pp; includes bibliography. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Else a clean, sharp, tight copy in clean, VG dustwrapper. More

New York: George P. Putnam & Co., 1853. Handsome copy of this volume Hawthorne edited for his friend and patron Horatio Bridge (1806-1893), a United States Navy officer. First printed in wrappers in 1845, Journal is the narrative of Bridge's trip on the USS Saratoga, "the flagship of Commodore Matthew..... More

Boston: Charles H. Peirce, 1847. First Edition. Entire run (comprising six bi-monthly issues) of this short-lived magazine of moral hygiene, instruction, and literature, aimed at adolescent boys and young men. The content is generally progressive, with contributors such as Wendell Phillips, Lyman Beecher, George Tuckerman, William Ellery Channing, etc. well..... More

Boston: Bela Marsh, 1849. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (18.5cm). Brown cloth stamped in blind, titled in gilt; plain endpapers; 414pp; steel mezzotint portrait frontispiece. Rubber stamp of William Floyd to copyright page. A firm, upright copy, but with wear to edges and losses at tail, dampstaining to upper and..... More