Rev. J.W. Loguen, As A Slave
by LOGUEN J.W.
1859. First Edition. LOGUEN, Rev. J.W. The Rev. J.W. Loguen, As a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life. Syracuse, N.Y.: J.G.K. Truair, 1859. Octavo, original brown cloth; pp. 454. $1650.First expanded edition, issued same year as the first, of Loguen's seminal autobiography, a core work hailed with Frederick Douglass' slave narrative as ""major touchstones of African American autobiography,"" affirming his ""militant antislavery activism"" as a fugitive slave and leading abolitionist who was viewed as the... Read More
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Daphnis and Chloe
by LONGUS LAWRENCE T.E.
1893. (LAWRENCE, T.E.) LONGUS. Daphnis and Chloe: A Most Sweet and Pleasant Pastoral Romance for Young Ladies. (London: Vale Press, 1893). Quarto, contemporary full black crushed morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, raised bands, top edge gilt, uncut. $15,000.An exceptional association copy: the finely printed and beautifully illustrated Vale Press Daphnis and Chloeone of only 210 copies, 200 of which were for sale, with 36 charming woodcuts in the Italian style by Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon, with ""T.E.L.""likely... Read More
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Trial of Governor T. Picton
by PICTON Thomas CALDERON Louisa
1806. First Edition. (PICTON, Thomas) (CALDERON, Luisa). The Trial of Governor T. Picton, For Inflicting the Torture on Louisa Calderon, A Free Mulatto, And One of His Britannic Majesty's Subjects in the Island of Trinidad. Tried before Lord Chief Justice Ellenborough and a Special Jury, and Found Guilty. Taken in Short-Hand during the Proceedings on the 24th of February, 1806. London: Printed by Dewick & Clarke.. For B. Crosby and Co., (1806). Octavo, period-style half tan cloth and marbled... Read More
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Appeal of L. Louaillier, Sen. Against the Charge of High Treason
by LOUAILLIER Louis
1827. First Edition. LOUAILLIER, Louis. The Appeal of L. Louaillier, Sen. Against the Charge of High Treason, and Explaining the Transactions at New-Orleans. New Orleans: No publisher, 1827. Octavo, stitched as issued, original printed beige self-wrappers; pp. 28. $2900.First edition of this address supporting John Quincy Adams for the presidency by objecting to Andrew Jackson's continuation of martial law in New Orleans after the British withdrawal.Issued during the presidential campaign of 1828, this pamphlet takes on Andrew Jackson's establishment... Read More
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Chrysler Building from Times Square
by STETTNER Louis
1987. First Edition. Signed. STETTNER, Louis. Chrysler Building from Times Square. [New York: Louis Stettner, 1987]. Large octavo, matted and framed gelatin silver photographic print, measuring 11 by 13.5 inches including frame. $1750.Gelatin silver print of a striking black-and-white image of the Chrysler building, signed in pencil by artist Louis Stettner.Praised by Brassaï as a photographer who revealed the world ""with utmost accuracy and the simplicity of great art"" (Early Joys), Brooklyn-born Louis Stettner was ""a consummate street photographer... Read More
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To the Gold Coast for Gold
by BURTON Richard F. CAMERON Verney Lovett
1883. First Edition. BURTON, Richard F.; CAMERON, Verney Lovett. To the Gold Coast for Gold. A Personal Narrative. London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. Two volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century full brown crushed morocco with original red cloth front covers and spines bound in, raised bands, gilt-decorated spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $5000.First edition, with two large folding hand-tinted maps and color frontispiece, in beautiful full morocco-gilt bindings by Birdsall with the original cloth bound in.Burton's companion on this six-month... Read More
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Daddy King
by KING Martin Luther
1980. First Edition. Signed. KING, Martin Luther, Sr. Daddy King. New York: William Morrow, 1980. Octavo, original half russet cloth, original dust jacket. $3200.First edition of the elder King's autobiography, describing his life in the pulpit and the civil rights movement and loss of both his son and his wife to assassin's bullets, inscribed by him ""John Hope II, may God bless you. M.L. King Sr.""""This book is a must for those who seek to understand the source of... Read More
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Pop-Up Tim Tyler
by POP-UP BOOKS YOUNG Lyman
1935. First Edition. YOUNG, Lyman. Tim Tyler in the Jungle. Chicago: Pleasure Books, (1935). Slim, square octavo, staple-bound as issued, original printed pictorial paper boards, pictorial ""pop-up"" endpapers; pp. 20. $950.First edition of this pop-up book based on a popular 1930s comic strip, with numerous in-text black-and-white illustrations and three two-page color pop-ups"".Lyman Young's boys' adventure comic strip Tim Tyler's Luck debuted in 1928 and ran until 1996; however, it is perhaps best remembered for its influence on other... Read More
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Defence for Fugitive Slaves
by CONSTITUTION SPOONER Lysander
1850. First Edition. (CONSTITUTION) SPOONER, Lysander. A Defence for Fugitive Slaves, Against the Acts of Congress of February 12, 1793, and September 18, 1850. Boston: Bela Marsh, 1850. Octavo, original wrappers; pp. (1-2), 3-4. (i-iv), (5), 6-72. $3200.First edition of the rogue abolitionist's provocative call for ""vigorous"" public resistance to a pattern in the 1793 and 1850 Acts, and court decisions such as Prigg v. Pennsylvania, that demonstrated the government's refusal ""to champion liberty or justice,"" especially elusive in... Read More
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Book of the Club of True Highlanders
by North C.N. MacIntyre
1881. First Edition. NORTH, C.N. MacIntyre. Leabhar Comunn nam fior Ghael. The Book of the Club of True Highlanders. London: Richard Smythson, (1881). Two volumes. Folio (13-1/2 by 17 inches), early half black morocco gilt rebacked, raised bands, red morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers. $3200.First edition, with 70 large folio plates depicting important individuals, dress, customs, art, objects, musical instruments and music of the Scottish highland clans.""The principal portion of the work is an endeavorFirstly, To supplement the valuable... Read More
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Works
by THACKERAY William Makepeace
1869. THACKERAY, William Makepeace. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. London: Smith, Elder, 1869, 1886. Twenty-four volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter red morocco gilt, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $4500.Wonderfully illustrated early collected edition of Thackeray's works, handsomely bound by Root & Son.It was through the success and popularity of Vanity Fair that Thackeray's ""position as one of the first of English novelists was generally recognized"" (DNB). Charlotte Brontë was one of the first of Thackeray's contemporaries... Read More
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Virginians, a Tale of the Last Century
by THACKERAY William Makepeace
1857. First Edition. THACKERAY, William Makepeace. The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857-59. Octavo, 24 original parts in original yellow printed wrappers, uncut and occasionally unopened. Housed in two custom clamshell boxes. $1500.First edition in original parts, first issues, with all plates and advertisements, of Thackeray's tale of brethren divided during the American Revolution, the last book the author himself illustrated.Like his contemporary (and rival) Charles Dickens, Thackeray visited the United States (first... Read More
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Christmas Books
by THACKERAY William Makepeace
1847. First Edition. (THACKERAY, William Makepeace) TITMARSH, M.A. The Christmas Books: Mrs. Perkins's Ball; Our Street; Doctor Birch and His Young Friends; Rebecca and Rowena; The Kickleburys on the Rhine; The Rose and the Ring. London: Chapman and Hall; Smith, Elder & Co., 1847-50; 1855. Six volumes. One volume small quarto, five volumes octavo, early 20th-century full crimson morocco skillfully rebacked with elaborately gilt-decorated spines neatly laid down, raised bands, all edges gilt; original wrappers bound in at rear.... Read More
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Days of the Ching Pao
by WORLD WAR II ROSHOLT Malcolm
1978. First Edition. Signed. ROSHOLT, Malcom. Days of the Ching Pao. (Amherst, Wisconsin: Palmer Publications, 1978). Quarto, original red paper boards, original dust jacket. $2500.First edition of this history of this ""photographic record of the Flying Tigers-14th Air Force in China,"" signed by 17 of the Tigers, including nine aces.Prior to the United States entry into World War II, approximately 15,000 Americans joined flying units already engaged in combat. At the request of Madame Chiang Kaishek, General Claire Lee... Read More
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Illuminated Painting of Saint Louis
by ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT
1550. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Illuminated Painting of Saint Louis. Germany, 16th century. One vellum leaf, image measures 10-1/4 by 17 inches; leaf measures 14 by 20-1/2 inches; matted and framed, entire piece measures 20 by 26 inches. $8500.Splendid and very large 16th-century hand-painted illuminated portrait of King Louis IX of France, commonly known as Saint Louis. Handsomely framed.This vellum leaf from a 16th-century German manuscript presents a richly hand-painted portrait of Saint Louis, King Louis IX, who reigned from 1226,... Read More
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Autograph letter signed
by CHAGALL Marc
1970. Signed. CHAGALL, Marc. Autograph letter signed. Zurich, September 9, 1970. Single sheet of Dolder Grand Hotel airmail-weight stationery, measuring 6 by 8-1/4 inches; pp. 2, with original matching hand-addressed envelope. $2200.Extraordinary 1970 autograph signed letter written entirely in Yiddish from Marc Chagall to acclaimed Yiddish writer and Jewish activist S.L. Shneiderman thanking him for sending a book on Ilya Ehrenburg; expressing his hopes that they will see each other in the near future; and explaining that he is... Read More
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Verve: Contes de Boccace
by TERIADE E. CHAGALL Marc
1950. First Edition. Signed. CHAGALL, Marc. Verve. Contes de Boccace. Paris: Éditions de la Revue Verve, 1950. Folio, original lithographic dust jacket over boards. $5800.First edition of this exceptional volume of 26 Chagall heliogravures, accompanied by 26 tipped-in color prints from a medieval miniaturist, boldly signed by Chagall on the half title. From the collection of Joseph Liverant, a fellow Russian Jewish emigré and friend of Chagall.The art critic Stratis Eleftheriades, under the nom de plume Tériade, published the... Read More
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Verve: Contes de Boccace
by TERIADE E. CHAGALL Marc
1950. First Edition. CHAGALL, Marc. Verve. Contes de Boccace. Paris: Éditions de la Revue Verve, 1950. Folio, original lithographic dust jacket over boards. $1500.First edition of this exceptional volume of 26 Chagall heliogravures, accompanied by 26 tipped-in color prints from a medieval miniaturist.The art critic Stratis Eleftheriades, under the nom de plume Tériade, published the art journal Verve in Paris from 1937 to 1960. He commissioned famous artists of the day, from Matisse to Picasso and Chagall, to provide... Read More
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He Knew He Was Right
by TROLLOPE Anthony STONE Marcus
1869. First Edition. TROLLOPE, Anthony. He Knew He Was Right. London: Strahan, 1869. Thirty-two parts. Octavo, original drab stiff paper wrappers printed in red and black, stitched as issued. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. $6000.First edition in the scarce 32 original parts in printed paper wrappers of Trollope's widely praised novel of obsession and madness, with 64 wood-engraved illustrations (32 full-page). A beautiful unrestored copy complete with all advertisements, handsomely boxed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.Nathaniel Hawthorne... Read More
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Lord Tennyson and His Friends
by CAMERON Julia Margaret
1893. First Edition. CAMERON, Julia Margaret. Alfred, Lord Tennyson and His Friends. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893. Folio (15 by 18 inches), original beige cloth gilt rebacked and recornered in brown morocco, uncut. $4800.Limited first edition, number 209 of 400 copies, of this collection of 26 rich photogravures, most by significant Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, depicting such notables as Tennyson, Browning, Longfellow, Carlyle, Gladstone, Herschel and Darwin.""Julia Margaret Cameron was not the only Victorian woman photographer, but for... Read More
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Autobiography
by SANGER Margaret
1938. First Edition. SANGER, Margaret. An Autobiography. New York: W.W. Norton, (1938). Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. $1800.First edition of Sangers Autobiography, a chronicle of the dynamic woman who spearheaded the movement for contraceptive rights, with a warm typed letter signed by Sanger, announcing publication of the book, to a longtime supporter, Dr. Shipler: ""I wish it were possible for me to send personal copies of the book to all those who, like yourself, have stood by... Read More
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Autobiography
by SANGER Margaret
1938. First Edition. Signed. SANGER, Margaret. An Autobiography. New York: W.W. Norton, (1938). Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. $1650.First edition of the autobiography of Margaret Sanger, who spearheaded the movement for contraceptive rights, inscribed: ""To Mr Alan Kramer, my grateful regards & compliments. Margaret Sanger. Sept 7, 1943.""""As the originator of the phrase 'birth control' and its best-known advocate, Margaret Sanger survived Federal indictments, a brief jail term, numerous lawsuits, hundreds of street-corner rallies and raids on... Read More
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Path to Power
by THATCHER Margaret
1995. First Edition. Signed. THATCHER, Margaret. The Path to Power. (London): HarperCollins, (1995). Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jacket. $950.First trade edition of Thatcher's memoir of her early life, inscribed on the title page in Thatcher's characteristic blue ink: ""To Jayne with all good wishes. Margaret Thatcher.""This autobiographical account, published following 1993's The Downing Street Years, relates the story of Lady Thatcher's early life and the beginnings of her political career. With 38 pages of photographic illustrations.... Read More
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Inquiry into... Insurrection of the Negroes in... St. Domingo
by ROSCOE William GARRAN-COULON Jean-Philippe GAUDET Marguerite-Elie
1792. First Edition. (ROSCOE, William) GARRAN-COULON, M. [Jean-Philippe] . An Inquiry into the Causes of the Insurrection of the Negroes of St. Domingo. To Which Are Added, Observations of M. [Marguerite-Elie] Gaudet, Before the National Assembly, 19th Feb. 1792. London: J. Johnson, 1792. Slim octavo, original self-wrappers in period-style marbled wrappers; pp.(1-3), 4-32. $3800.First edition of the outspoken British abolitionist's revealing look at news of the bloody insurrection in the French colony, issued amidst rumors of a ""slave revolt... Read More
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Eventail
by LAURENCIN Marie
1922. First Edition. LAURENCIN, Marie. Eventail. Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1922. Octavo, early cloth boards rebacked and recornered in sheep, black morocco spine label, early patterned endpapers; original printed paper wrappers bound in. $1200.Limited first edition of this selection of French poems, including works by André Breton and Max Jacob, number 228 of 300 numbered copies on Van Gelder, featuring ten fine original etchings by French artist Marie Laurencin.French designer and portraitist Marie Laurencin, although surrounded... Read More
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