To the Editors of The Emancipator, Boston
by Smith, Gerrit
[Peterboro, NY]: [N.P.], 1847. First edition. Broadside sheet measuring 12 x 7.75 inches and printed recto and verso. Later ink docketing to upper left corner. Faint toning along horizontal foldlines to verso (not apparent on recto) and minor chips to upper margin. A just about Fine copy of a scarce tract calling out the hypocrisy of contemporary media in its representation of the equality cause. OCLC reports only 6 surviving copies in institutions, with this the only example in... Read More
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The Negro -- Yesterday and Today
by Smith, Marjorie E. Wellborn
New York: Board of National Missions, 1932. First edition. Near Fine. 10 page pamphlet in self wrappers, stapled. Measures 4 x 9 inches. Faint offsetting to front and rear wrappers; pencilled annotations to pages 2-3 and 5-6. In all, a clean and pleasing copy of this scarce pamphlet documenting the movement toward a more fair and equal economic state and increased interracial understanding in the U.S. Scarce on the market and in the trade, OCLC lists no known... Read More
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The Fairy Scales
by Smythe, Gladys. Catherina Patricchio (illustrator)
London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, Ltd, 1917. First edition. Publisher's cream cloth, front cover decoratively bordered and lettered in green and with color plate (the same as opposite p.76) pasted onto front cover. Spine lettered in green. Pictorial endpapers printed in green. Original tan dust jacket, similarly bordered and lettered in green and with same color plate pasted onto front. Lower corners slightly bumped, dust jacket very slightly worn at extremities.101, [1, blank] pages. Ten full-page color plates, including... Read More
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Description of the Retreat, an Institution Near York
by [Social Activism] [Mental Health] [Neuro Diversity] Tuke, Samuel
York: W. Alexander, 1813. First octavo edition. Octavo (leaves 129 x 210 mm). There was also a quarto edition in 1813, generally described as a large-paper copy. Collating: xx, 227, [1 page errata]; complete including frontis and two folding plates. Contemporary calf rebacked to style with gilt and five raised bands to spine. Generally a bit shelfworn and rubbed, but a tight, square copy. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Original owner's notes on recto... Read More
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Constitution and Meeting Minutes
by [Women's Social History] Ladies of the Union Benevolent Society
Walesville [NY], 1854. Contemporary quarter roan over marbled boards. Spine and boards worn, with loss to foot of spine and evidence of label removal to front board. Internally foxed and soiled, but remaining legible throughout. Comprised of 53 handwritten pages in various hands. Documenting the founding of the women's group focused on local philanthropy, which allowed men entry only as silent, "honorary" members, the manuscript outlines the group's goals and structure in addition to recording officers, participants, and meetings... Read More
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The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900
by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son]
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912. Small octavo (6 9/16 x 4 3/16 inches; 167 x 106 mm.). [x], [1]-1084 pp. Printed on thin india paper. Bound by Rivière & Son ca. 1912 in full midnight blue morocco, covers elaborately stamped in gilt pointille in a wonderful floral design. Red morocco doublures with an elaborate gilt design, cream watered silk end leaves, all edges gilt. Spine with five raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, double gilt ruled... Read More
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The Constitution of the United States of America
by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son]
New Rochelle: The Peter Pauper Press, 1934. First thus. First Peter Pauper Press edition, one of 950 copies produced at the Walpole Printing Office in New Rochelle, New York. Finely bound by Riviere & Son (stamp-signed on upper flyleaf) in full dark blue polished calf with elaborate gilt spine, lavish gilt turn-ins, and blue marbled endpapers. 43 pp. Text in black with red rule, red page numbers, and decorations designed by Ervin Metzl in blue. A bright, Fine copy... Read More
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Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
by Speke, John Hanning
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. First edition. Near Fine. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt figure. Octavo. xxxi, [1], 658, [34, ads] pp. Collating complete with twenty-seven plates (including frontisportrait of Speke) and the large fold-out map (445 x 570 mm) of Eastern Equatorial Africa tucked into the pocket beneath lower pastedown (as issued). Binding is clean and attractive despite some bumping to corners. Teal endpapers, somewhat rubbed, with some splitting to lower gutter. Occasional slight... Read More
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The Works of Edmund Spenser (in 8 vols.)
by Spenser, Edmund
Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press...and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1932. First Thus. Very Good+. One of 375 numbered copies on Batchelor's Shakespeare Head handmade paper (this copy being number 134), out of a total edition of 386 copies. Eight volumes, large octavo (11 3/16 x 7 1/8 inches; 285 x 194 mm.). Bound in the original quarter green calf over marbled boards by Douglas Cockerell. Vellum tips. Spines lettered and dated in gilt.... Read More
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I, the Jury
by Spillane, Mickey
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1947. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. Publisher's black boards titled in red. Small midcentury bookplate to upper pastedown. Bright and clean dust jacket with just a bit of crinkling to top edge. A Fine and attractive copy in Near Fine jacket. In his debut novel, Mickey Spillane introduces Mike Hammer, the hard-boiled private eye that would feature in over a dozen novels, five feature films, and several television series. I, the Jury... Read More
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My Gun is Quick (Inscribed first edition)
by Spillane, Mickey
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1950. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. Inscribed on the upper flyleaf by Mickey Spillane. Publisher's brown cloth boards stamped in red. Small midcentury bookplate to upper pastedown. Some toning to edges of boards and to endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket bright and attractive overall despite some chipping to edges and corners. A Near Fine copy in Very Good+ dust jacket. Mickey Spillane debuted the character of Mike Hammer, a hard-boiled and... Read More
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An heiress grows into womanhood in a changing world, documenting five years of her life in the US and Europe
by [Diary] [Women's Social History] Catherine Harrison Squibb
US, Germany, 1911. Red cloth over card with gilt to front board. All edges stained read. Measuring 200 x 170mm and containing 186 handwritten pages across five years. Dried flowers and theatre program loosely inserted at front. Ownership signature and bookplate of Catherine Harrison Squibb to front pastedown and endpaper with signature of the same to rear endpaper. A research rich and densely written diary, the present would be useful in fields including but not limited to intergenerational wealth... Read More
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The Woman Movement in America
by Squire, Belle
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1911. First edition. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding stamped in black to spine and front board. A just nearly Fine copy on account of some wear to the cloth near the foot of spine. Internally an exceptionally bright, fresh copy. Contemporary gift inscription to the front endpaper reads: "With love for Annie Blitz from Frances J. P. Xmas - 1911." A beautiful example and the only first edition on the market of... Read More
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Field Talk
by Stanford, Frank
Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1975. First Edition. Fine. Tall trade paperbound volume of poems by the cult poet hero, Frank Stanford. Drawings by Ginny Crouch Stanford. 30 pages. A sharp, Fine copy in simple bound blue wrappers, lettered in red. The author's fourth collection and one of the more elusive books in his all too brief career. Considered an example of his maturing voice, Field Talk "dealt with tension between the narrative and the lyric, between... Read More
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Crib Death
by Stanford, Frank
[Tucson]: Ironwood Press, 1978. First edition. Near Fine in original printed wraps, with just a touch of rubbing to spine ends and small chip to upper front corner. Internally a crisp, unmarked copy. The first posthumously published work of the author. An increasingly scarce example of Stanford's maturing work, cut short by his suicide at 29. Crib Death, like so much of Stanford's poetry, is immersed in the vivid language of pain, loneliness and death. It also provides... Read More
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You
by Stanford, Frank
Fayetteville: Lost Roads, 1979. First edition. Near Fine. Near Fine in original printed wraps. Toning to spine and minor offsetting to edges of wraps. Internally fresh and unmarked. Scarce in collectible condition. The second posthumous publication of Stanford's work (following Crib Death), published as Lost Roads Number 15. An increasingly scarce example of Stanford's maturing work, cut short by his suicide at 29. Threatening animals mingle with weary men and observant, suspicious women in these stark poems.... Read More
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The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You
by Stanford, Frank
Fayetteville, AR: Mill Mountain Press / Lost Roads, No. 7-12, 1977. First edition. Near Fine. A Near Fine copy of this scarce and important work of modern poetry. Publisher's white pictorial wrappers reproducing a harrowing Vietnam War photograph. Some rubbing to back cover and an ink stain to inside of front cover (not visible from exterior). A very appealing copy of a book that is not often found in this condition. A Southern poet who was prolific... Read More
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The Singing Knives (Association Copy)
by Stanford, Frank
Seattle, WA: Mill Mountain Press, 1971. First edition. Near Fine. Slim octavo in violet wrappers, with titling and illustrations offset printed in black and pink. Collating 56, [1]pp; with illustrated title page following an illustrated portrait of the author. Inscribed by publisher Irving Broughton on the front endpaper to poet Richard Eberhart and his wife: "Dick + Betty, A first book for first people / All wishes, Irv Broughton / May 28, 1972." Gentle sunning to spine and... Read More
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You
by Stanford, Frank
Fayetteville: Lost Roads, 1979. First edition. Near Fine. Original printed wrappers. Slight toning to covers, overall very nearly Fine. The second posthumous publication of Stanford's work (following Crib Death), published as Lost Roads Number 15. An increasingly scarce example of Stanford's maturing work, cut short by his suicide at 29. Threatening animals mingle with weary men, observant and suspicious women in these stark poems. Death creeps through many of the poems as well: "When you get... Read More
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Shade
by Stanford, Frank; Stanford, Ginny Crouch (illustrations)
Seattle, WA: Mill Mountain Press, 1975. First edition. Near Fine. Powder gray wrappers, with titles stamped in dark brown on spine and front cover. Collating complete: [9], 44, [1]pp; illus. Hint of sunning to spine, with faint strip of subtle fading along upper edge of front wrapper. Very Near Fine. Stanford's haunting and incisive collection came toward the middle of his brief career, and it carries the hallmarks of a maturing poetic voice. No longer a novice... Read More
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Memoirs [Together with:] Travels
by Stanhope, Hester Lucy, Lady
London: Henry Colburn, 1845. First edition. Very Good. Large duodecimo. 2 works in 6 volumes. Contemporary dark blue half morocco gilt, top edge gilt. Lithographic frontispiece to each volume (hand-colored in volume 1 of the Memoirs), a folding plan and woodcut illustrations in-text. Extremities with some wear, a little further scuffing to volume 1 of the Memoirs. A little foxing internally but generally a very clean example. Both works are rarely found together in first edition, especially in... Read More
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In Darkest Africa (Signed limited edition)
by Stanley, Henry M.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First edition. Near Fine. One of 250 deluxe large-paper copies signed by Henry Morton Stanley. The American issue, published in the same year and using the same sheets as the English issue. Publisher's half dark brown morocco over vellum with gilt lettering and flag emblem. Two volumes, quarto. xv, [1], 529, [1]; xv, [1], 472 pp. Collating complete with plates (including frontisportraits of Stanley and six etchings signed in pencil by M.G.... Read More
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Danebury: or The Power of Friendship. A Tale with Two Odes. By a Young Lady
by [Steele, Mary]
Bristol: W. Pine, 1779. First edition. Very Good +. Quarto. 32 pp. Complete, with the scarce half-tile. Rebound in nineteenth-century-style modern marbled paper wrappers. A bit of foxing to a few leaves, but remarkably clean and attractive overall. A Very Good+ copy of one of the author's few published works. Date from Timothy Whelan and Julia B. Griffin's Nonconformist Women Writers (2011). Note that OCLC records show various publication dates from 1775 to 1780, but the 1779 date... Read More
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East of Eden (Signed limited edition)
by Steinbeck, John
New York: The Viking Press, 1952. First edition. Fine/Good. One of 1,500 copies of the signed, limited edition, 750 of which were for sale. A bright, Fine copy in chipped publisher's acetate dust jacket, Good only. Lacking the slipcase. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt. Edges stained red. Ink gift inscription, dated 1957, to upper pastedown. An excellent example, very clean and fresh throughout. Dust jacket lacking lower third of spine and about a quarter of the back... Read More
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Nothing So Monstrous
by Steinbeck, John
New York: Pynson Printers, 1936. First edition. First separate edition, printed for presentation, but without an information inked in at the limitation page. Publisher's quarter cloth over marbled paper boards. A Near Fine copy, with faint sunning to spine and small split to cloth to the front joint near the crown; gentle bumps to corners. Internally fresh and unread. A pleasing copy. The first separate printing of the Junius Maltby story that formed a portion of Steinbeck's... Read More
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