Particular Account of the Insurrection of the Negroes of St. Domingo
by SLAVERY
1792. (HAITI) (SLAVERY). A Particular Account of the Insurrection of the Negroes of St. Domingo, Begun in August, 1791: Translated from the French [caption title, as issued]. [London: 1792]. Slim octavo, modern green cloth; pp. 32. $1800.Fourth edition, published one year after the very rare first, of this sensationalistic account of the early months of the Slave Rebellion in Haiti, the beginnings of the Haitian Revolution, which ultimately led to the establishment of the first independent black state in... Read More
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Interference of the British Legislature
by SLAVERY
1816. First Edition. (SLAVERY). The Interference of the British Legislature, in the Internal Concerns of the West India Islands, Respecting Their Slaves, Deprecated. London: J. Mawman, 1816. Slim octavo, modern blue-gray paper wrappers; pp. 58. $1800.First edition of this defense of the West Indian slave trade, arguing against emancipation.Cloaked in pro-abolition language and anonymously written by a person claiming to be an abolitionist, this work is actually a zealous condemnation of British interference in the slave trade of the... Read More
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Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery
by SLAVERY STROUD George M.
1827. First Edition. (SLAVERY) STROUD, George M. A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America. Philadelphia: Kimber and Sharpless, 1827. Octavo, original half tan and light brown paper boards, uncut. $1350.First edition of Judge Stroud's groundbreaking 1827 work documenting state slave laws and relevant Constitutional provisions, held as a key resource for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, a cornerstone volume considered by many the best of the ante-bellum... Read More
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Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria
by SPILSBURY Francis B.
1823. First Edition. SPILSBURY, Francis B. Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria, Delineated during the Campaigns of 1799 and 1800. London: S. Tregear, 1823. Quarto, 19th-century full olive morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $4200.Third edition, the first quarto edition of English naval surgeon Francis Spilsbury's account of his travels in the Holy Land and Syria during the Napoleonic campaigns there, with 19 finely hand-colored aquatint views.Spilsbury was surgeon on board HMS... Read More
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Inaugural Book 1973
by NIXON Richard AGNEW Spiro
1973. First Edition. Signed. (NIXON, Richard). The Inaugural Book 1973. [Washington]: 1973 Inaugural Committee, 1973. Quarto, original textured navy cloth gilt, original dust jacket. $1000.First edition of this souvenir program book from Nixons second inauguration, with an inaugural ball ticket and a program signed by Nixon.Numerous photographsmany full-page and in colorand copious quotations from Nixon's addresses commemorate the highlights of his first term, including his historic trip to China, and anticipate his second. Front pastedown with affixed ticket to... Read More
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Stanley Cup Playoffs Program signed
by SPORTING
1975. Signed. (HOCKEY). Stanley Cup Playoffs Program signed. New York: Rangers Hockey Magazine, 1975. Quarto, staple-bound as issued, original wrappers. $1600.Program for the 1975 first round Stanley Cup playoffs between the New York Rangers and the New York Islanders, signed on the front cover and inside by nine of the Islanders, Yankees Bobby Bonds and Rudy May, and inscribed by Ranger Rod Gilbert.The Islanders would go on to lose to the Philadelphia Flyers that year in the Stanley Cup... Read More
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Opera posthuma
by LUBIENSKI Stanislaw
1643. First Edition. LUBIENSKI, Stanislaw. Opera posthuma, historica, historo-politica, variique discursus, epistolae, et aliquot orationes. Antverpiae: Apud Ioannem Meursium, 1643. Folio, contemporary vellum, hand-inked spine title. $5500.First edition of this scarce collection of works on 17th-century Polish history, with a full-page copperplate portrait of the author engraved by Flemish artist Jacobus Neeffs.These selected works on Polish history were written by Lubienski (also known as Stanislaus Lubienscius), a Polish nobleman, Catholic priest, and the bishop of Plock from 1627 until... Read More
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In Darkest Africa
by STANLEY Henry M.
1890. First Edition. STANLEY, Henry M. In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. Two volumes. Large thick quarto (10 by 12 inches), publisher's three-quarter dark brown morocco, raised bands, vellum boards, top edges gilt, uncut. $15,000.Deluxe signed limited first edition, American issue, number 39 of only 250 copies signed by Stanley, of the classic 19th-century account of African exploration. Profusely illustrated with engraved frontispieces, 38 mounted... Read More
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Cricket (Badminton Library)
by STEEL A.G.
1888. First Edition. (SPORT) STEEL, A.G. and LYTTELTON, R.H. Cricket. London: Longmans, Green, 1888. Large octavo, original three-quarter navy morocco gilt rebacked, top edge gilt, uncut. $950.Limited large paper first edition, number 219 of only 250 copies, of this generously illustrated guide to that great, glorious and unsurpassable, quintessentially British game of cricket.Henry Somerset, eighth Duke of Beaufort, conceived of the ""Badminton Library"" (named after his principal country house, not the game) as a comprehensive series of instructional guidebooks,... Read More
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by FITZGERALD Edward KHAYYAM Omar GOODEN Stephen
1940. (FITZGERALD, Edward) KHAYYAM, Omar. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. London: George G. Harrap, (1940). Small octavo, contemporary three-quarter red morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut. $1400.A splendid Rubaiyat, illustrated with four plates by Stephen Gooden and handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf.""The favorite gift book of Edwardian times probably was Edward FitzGerald's rendering of The Rubaiyat"" (Hodnett, 226). Composed in 12th-century Persia and rendered into English by Edward FitzGerald (his first version appeared in 1859), these stanzas... Read More
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Select Fables from Gulistan, or the Bed of Roses
by SA'DI SHIRAZI Muslih-uddin SULLIVAN Stephen SULIVAN Stephen
1774. (SA'DI SHIRAZI, Muslih-uddin) SULIVAN, Stephen, translator. Select Fables from Gulistan, or the Bed of Roses. London: J. Ridley, 1774. Octavo, 20th-century half navy morocco gilt, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. $2800.First edition in English of this Sufi Persian classic, attractively bound. The copy of Leigh Hunt, the 19th-century poet, essayist, and literary critic, also known for introducing Keats to Shelley, with his owner inscription on the half title.The Gulistan ( ""The Rose Garden"") is a semi-autobiographical... Read More
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Brief History of Time
by HAWKING Stephen
1988. First Edition. HAWKING, Stephen. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. London: Bantam Books, (1988). Octavo, original blue paper boards, original dust jacket. $2000.First edition, first British issue, of Hawkings popular treatment of quantum physics.Although his editor cautioned Hawking that every equation included in the text would cut the book's readership in half, this ""jaunty overview of key cosmological ideas, past and presentincluding multidimensional space, the inflationary universe and the cosmic fates that... Read More
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Lord John Signatures
by KING Stephen
1991. First Edition. Signed. KING, Stephen. Lord John Signatures. Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1991. Oblong octavo, original dark blue cloth gilt, autograph-print endpapers. $1100.First edition of an unusual autograph book, number 275 of 400 copies, signed by Stephen King and dozens of popular writers.This compilation of authors' photographs accompanied by their original signatures is signed by Norman Mailer, Eudora Welty, John Updike, Gerald Ford, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury and John Barth, among many others. It opens... Read More
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Danse Macabre
by KING Stephen
1981. First Edition. Signed. KING, Stephen. Danse Macabre. New York: Everest House, (1981). Octavo, original red paper boards, original dust jacket. $3200.True first edition, preceding the limited edition, of ""perhaps the best personal account yet written of the broad appeal of the horror genre,"" inscribed by Stephen King to author, educator and political scientist Arnold Rogow: ""For Arnold RogowBest, Stephen King 1/15/82.""King's survey of horror in literature, films and television includes incisive discussions of such subjects as Bram Stoker's... Read More
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Shakespeare and Company
by BEACH Sylvia
1959. First Edition. Signed. BEACH, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1959. Octavo, original ivory cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $8000.First edition of Sylvia Beach's memoir, ""particularly valuable for the many insights into Joyce's work and the authentic personal views it provides of the man himself"" (New York Times), signed on the half title by Sylvia Beach, in original dust jacket.It was in Sylvia Beach's legendary Paris bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, that... Read More
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Negro Folk Rhymes
by TALLEY Thomas W.
1922. First Edition. Signed. TALLEY, Thomas W. Negro Folk Rhymes, Wise and Otherwise. With a Study. New York: Macmillan, 1922. Octavo, original blue cloth. $1800.First edition of this exceptional collection of rhymes used as the basis of African-American folk songs""the first comprehensive and substantive collection of African-American secular song""one of an unnumbered ""Special Autograph Edition"" signed by the editor and Fisk University professor Thomas Talley on a tipped-in leaf.Thomas Washington Talley (1870-1952) was a chemistry professor at Fisk University... Read More
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No. 2 Jerusalem Panorama
by DUMAS Tancrede
1889. DUMAS, Tancrede. No. 2 Jerusalem Panorama. Beyreuth [Beirut]: Tancrede Dumas, 1889. Three albumen prints mounted and joined on patterned paper with slits (likely to hold photographs); entire piece measures 37-3/4 by 9-1/2 inches unfolded. $4800.Beautiful large three-part panorama of late 19th-century Jerusalem, with labels for the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Hurva Synagogue, the Tomb of David, the Holy Sepulchre, the Garden of Gethsemane, and more.This striking panorama depicts the view looking into Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives just... Read More
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Law of Baron and Femme
by REEVE Tapping
1816. First Edition. REEVE, Tapping. The Law of Baron and Femme; of Parent and Child; of Guardian and Ward; of Master and Servant; and of the Powers of Courts of Chancery. With an Essay on the terms Heir, Heirs, and Heirs of the Body. New Haven: Oliver Steele, 1816. Octavo, period-style full sprinkled sheep gilt, red morocco spine label. $2200.First edition of the first American work on the laws relating to women, marriage and domestic relations, including a discussion... Read More
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Kingdom of Earth with Hard Candy
by WILLIAMS Tennessee
1954. First Edition. Signed. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Kingdom of Earth with Hard Candy. A Book of Stories. Hartford, [New York]: New Directions, (1954). Tall octavo, original half brown cloth, original slipcase. $3200.Signed limited edition, published the same year as the first edition and including the story The Kingdom of Earth, not included in the trade edition, number 17 of only 100 numbered copies (out of a total of approximately 135), signed on the copyright page by Tennessee Williams.One of... Read More
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Typed letter signed
by MOTHER TERESA
1993. Signed. MOTHER TERESA. Typed letter signed. Calcutta, no date. Single sheet of paper with reproduced prayer card on verso, measuring 6-1/2 by 3-1/2 inches. $3500.Prayer card from the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta featuring a typed letter encouraging the recipient to serve the poor, signed: M Teresa MC.The typed letter reads in full: ""+LDM Dear Carrie, This brings you my prayers and best wishes. God loves you. Spread the fragrance of this love to all around you, specially... Read More
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Verve
by TERIADE E.
1938. First Edition. TÉRIADE, Efstratios (ELEFTHERIADES, Efstratios). Verve. Volume 1, Number 2 (March-June 1938). Paris: (Imprimerie des Beaux-Arts), [1938]. Slim folio, original illustrated wrappers by Braque, original cardboard box. $1200.First American edition of this exceptional second issue of Verve, with cover art by Georges Braque, four original lithographs (two each by Kandinsky and André Masson), and articles by James Joyce, Hemingway, Valéry and Malraux.""Fifty years ago in Paris, the magazine to look for was Verve, which first came out... Read More
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Verve
by TERIADE E.
1939. First Edition. TÉRIADE, Efstratios (ELEFTHERIADES, Efstratios). Verve. Volume 2, Number 5-6 (July-October 1939). Special Double Number. Paris: (Imprimerie des Beaux-Arts), 1939. Slim folio, original illustrated wrappers by Maillol. $1200.First American edition of this exceptional issue of Verve, with cover art by Aristide Maillol, 13 original lithographs (including Braque, Rouault, Derain, Léger, Bonnard, Matisse and Klee), and articles by Valéry, Gide and Sartre.""Fifty years ago in Paris, the magazine to look for was Verve, which first came out in... Read More
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Smoking and Health
by TERRY Luther L.
1964. First Edition. (TERRY, Luther L.). Smoking and Health. Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service. Washington: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare / GPO, 1964. Octavo, original printed brown and cream paper wrappers. $1100.First edition of the first surgeon general's report on the connection between smoking and cancer, accompanied by a printed presentation letter from Surgeon General Luther L. Terry.""On June 7, 1962, recently appointed Surgeon General Luther L. Terry... Read More
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American Tragedy
by DREISER Theodore
1925. First Edition. Signed. DREISER, Theodore. An American Tragedy. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. Two volumes. Octavo, original three-quarter beige cloth, uncut and unopened, original glassine, original slipcase. $2500.Signed limited edition, signed by Dreiser, this very rare copy with publisher's ""Presentation Copy"" on limitation page and original slipcase, one of a very small number of copies intended for associates and close friends, issued along with 795 numbered signed copies, an especially fine copy, entirely unopened and uncut in... Read More
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Trial of Theodore Parker
by BURNS Anthony PARKER Theodore
1855. First Edition. Signed. (BURNS, Anthony) PARKER, Theodore. The Trial of Theodore Parker, for the 'Misdemeanor' of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855. With the Defence. Boston: Published for the Author, 1855. Octavo, original brown cloth. $2800.First edition of the fiery abolitionist's attack on the trial and rendition of Anthony Burns, and the federal governments attempt to prosecute Parker and other key abolitionists""one of the... Read More
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