New York: A.S. McCredie & Co., 1831. Receipt made out to a Mrs. H.W. Livingstone, who purchased several yards of Merino wool and cloth, a Hernani shawl, and silk velvet, a purchase totalling $52.50 1/2 (about $1500 in today's currency). The Hernani shawl appears to have been a fashion based..... More

New York: Exposition Press, 1963. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); light grey cloth, with titles stamped in dark brown on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [7],8-96pp. Signed by the author with his Chicago address at lower front pastedown (possibly one of his own copies), and lengthily inscribed by him..... More

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1962. First-hand, day-by-day observations on the 1960 lunch-counter desegregation demonstrations in Knoxville, Tennessee. Proudfoot was a white Presbyterian clergyman on the faculty of the predominantly black Knoxville College, and became one of the leaders of the movement; the book is arranged chronologically and..... More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1968. First Edition. First printing. Boldly signed in black ink on front endpaper, with signed photo, also signed, laid in. Octavo. Orange cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 206pp; illus. Fine, in lightly rubbed, priced clipped dustwrapper, Near Fine. A lovely copy, nicely signed. More

New York: Coward-McCann, 1961. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed to collector and publisher Herb Yellin (Lord John Press) on title page, undated. Small octavo (21cm). Green cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 93pp. A fine copy in crisp, clean dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 on front flap), very Near Fine. Exemplary copy of this..... More

London: Duckworth, 1905. First Edition. First impression. Inscribed by Kropotkin in Russian, on the front endpaper, to fellow revolutionary and prominent Anglo-Russian journalist Isaak Vladimirovich Shklovsky, "..with fraternal greetings," signed, dated August, 1905. Octavo. Deep red cloth; gilt spine titles; top edge gilt; xii, [1]-341pp. Externally rubbed and worn, with..... More

New York: Johnson Reprint, 1972. Facsimile Reprint. Reprint of Appel's fourth book, a non-fiction chronicle of the American scene a the end of the Great Depression. Octavo (22cm). Green cloth boards, lettered in silver and gold; 502pp. Facsimile reprint of the 1940 Dutton edition, inscribed on title page to artist..... More

Croton-on-Hudson: 1941. Regarding the recipient's letter to the Reader's Digest, of September 24 (Eastman had been hired as an editor for the conservative publication earlier in the same year). The subject appears to be the institution of the death penalty in the Soviet Union: "...Nobody questions the fact that the..... More

Croton-on-Hudson: 1941. Brief 1-pp TNS on Eastman's personal Croton-On-Hudson notepaper, addressed to a "Miss Mendham", dated March 30, 1938. Old folds; holograph additions in Eastman's hand; Very Good. "I shall be delighted to have you use some of my poems in your Verse Speaking Festival...perhaps the poem called "Battle Fields"..... More

Boston: Joseph Bumstead, 1791. First Edition. David Avery (1746-1817) studied theology at Dartmouth before being ordained a missionary to the Oneida in 1771. After serving as an army chaplain during the Revolutionary War, he was appointed as minister of the First Church of Wrentham in 1783, though due to difficulties..... More

New York: John Day Company, [1932]. First Trade Edition. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf: "For Mrs. Oppenheim / Pearl S. Buck." Addtionally laid in are several pieces of ephemera and correspondence from the office of Laurent Oppenheim, including two sheet of pencil notes on Plaza Hotel notepaper, beginning with..... More

San Francisco: May 24, 1963. Original typed letter, signed, on single side of a sheet of white wove stock (28x21.5cm), "No War on Children" rubberstamp at top left-hand corner. Faint mail folds, light toning, else Fine. Letter written on behalf of the Committee by its co-Chair, addressed to a Seldon..... More

Cambridge: President and Fellows of Harvard University, 1956. First Edition. Wald's inscription refers to a passage in the book which quotes an unnamed "eminent artist" - Shahn, it turns out - regarding his notions of an ideal education for an aspiring artist, one that will provide "an education without stifling..... More