Full Answer to an Infamous and Trayterous Pamphlet
by EARL OF CLARENDON
1648. First Edition. EARL OF CLARENDON. A Full Answer to an Infamous and Trayterous Pamphlet, Entituled, A Declaration of the Commons of England in Parliament Assembled, Expressing Their Reasons and Grounds of Passing the Late Resolutions Touching No Further Addresse or Application to Be Made to the King. [London]: R. Royston, 1648. Square octavo, modern brown paper wrappers; pp. 188. $1800.First edition of this condemnation of Parliament's vote not to negotiate with the King via the Vote of No... Read More
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Maintains
by GINSBERG Allen COOLIDGE Clark
1974. First Edition. Signed. (GINSBERG, Allen) COOLIDGE, Clark. The Maintains. (Oakland, California): This Press, (1974). Octavo, original printed white paper wrappers. $3200.First edition of this collection of experimental, sound-driven poetry, inscribed by Clark Coolidge to Allen Ginsberg: ""For Allen, an oral dictionary of the imagination manu tenere [I support] with all Best Wishes, Clark. Hancock, Mass.7 III 75."" With Ginsberg's owner signature beneath Coolidge's inscription.Ron Silliman, publisher of The Maintains, devoted an issue of his journal Tottel's to Coolidge's... Read More
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Manchild in the Promised land
by BROWN Claude
1965. First Edition. Signed. BROWN, Claude. Manchild in the Promised Land. New York: Macmillan, (1965). Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. $2400.First edition of Claude Brown's moving 1965 account of his journey out of poverty and crime in Harlem, inscribed by him, ""To B L from Claude Brown,"" in scarce original dust jacket.Brown's controversial ""Manchild in the Promised Land chronicled his ascent from a harrowing childhood of violent crime and poverty in Harlem and became a classic of... Read More
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Costumes et Moeurs du Mexique
by LINATI Claudio
1830. First Edition. (MEXICO) LINATI, (Claudio). Costumes et Moeurs du Mexique. London: Engelmann, Graf Coindet, & Cie., 1830. Quarto, original green cloth. $6500.First English edition of this early lithographic plate book on Mexico, with 33 vibrantly hand-colored lithographs of Mexican costumes, customs, and historic personages, in nicely restored original cloth.""Immediately became the basis for many other illustrations of Mexico, as well as the principal source for information on the region since Humboldt"" (Mathes). In addition to portraying a variety... Read More
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Harlem Shadows
by MCKAY Claude
1922. First Edition. MCKAY, Claude. Harlem Shadows. The Poems of Claude McKay. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1922). Octavo, original half navy cloth, original printed paper spine label. $4200.First edition of the Jamaican-born McKay's groundbreaking volume of over 50 poems, together in book form for the first time, including his ""calling card the anthemic Shakespearean sonnet 'If We Must Die,' one of the landmark political poems of the 20th century,"" along with profoundly influential poems such as ""The Harlem Dancer,""... Read More
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Spring in New Hampshire
by MCKAY Claude
1920. First Edition. MCKAY, Claude. Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems. London: Grant Richards, 1920. Slim octavo, original tan wrappers, original front cover label, uncut and unopened; pp. 40. $1500.First edition of McKay's seminal volume of 31 poems including iconic works such as Harlem Dancer and The Lynching, published in London shortly before his return to America as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance, with frontispiece portrait, uncut and unopened in fragile original wrappers.McKay's work is at the... Read More
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Underground Railroad
by WHITEHEAD Colson
2016. First Edition. Signed. WHITEHEAD, Colson. The Underground Railroad. New York: Doubleday, (2016). Octavo, original cream and black paper boards, original dust jacket. $950.First edition of Whitehead's National Book Award winner, boldly signed on the title page in the year of publication by him with his date of ""9/14/16."" Underground Railroad is ""a potent, almost hallucinatory novel that leaves the reader with a devastating understanding of the terrible human costs of slavery Whitehead has told a story essential to... Read More
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Report of the Joint Special Committee to Investigate Chinese Immigration
by UNITED STATES CONGRESS
1877. First Edition. (UNITED STATES CONGRESS). Report of the Joint Special Committee to Investigate Chinese Immigration. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1877. Thick octavo, original green cloth. $950.First edition, Senate issue, of the report of the joint congressional committee on Chinese Immigration, a prelude to the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.The Joint Committee on Chinese Immigration gathered an exceptionally large amount of testimony, gathered here in this almost 1300-page report. With a focus on the American West, particularly California and the... Read More
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Constantinople
by CONSTANTINOPLE
1890. PHOTOCHROM ZURICH. Constantinople. [Zürich: Photochrom Zürich, circa 1890]. Oblong folio (16 by 12 inches), 30 photochrom images each measuring approximately 9 by 6-1/2 inches and mounted on heavy cardstock; original red velvet, blue silk gilt-lettered title centerpiece on front cover, brass cornerpieces. $4500.Rare photographic album of Constantinople, circa 1890, by the renowned studio of Photochrom Zürich, with 30 beautiful mounted vintage photochrom color prints offering exceptional views of majestic mosques, palaces, and plazas, as well as the people... Read More
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Cities of the Plain
by MCCARTHY Cormac
1998. Signed. MCCARTHY, Cormac. Cities of the Plain. New Orleans: B.E. Trice, (1998). Octavo, original half black morocco gilt, marbled boards, original slipcase. $2800.Signed limited edition, number 144 of 350 specially bound copies signed by the author.""That brief moment between a culture's existence and extinctionthis is the border that McCarthy's characters keep crossing and recrossing, and the one story, as he's forever writing, that contains all others. Throughout the trilogy, we keep encountering witnessesformer revolutionaries, priests, gypsies in... Read More
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Blood Meridian
by MCCARTHY Cormac
1985. First Edition. Signed. MCCARTHY, Cormac. Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West. New York: Random House, (1985). Octavo, original half red cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $35,000.First edition of McCarthys mythic vision of the American West, inscribed by him on the title page, ""For G V with best wishes Cormac McCarthy.""Often compared to the works of Dante, Poe, Melville and Faulkner, Blood Meridian has been called ""the Inferno of... Read More
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Outer Dark
by MCCARTHY Cormac
1968. First Edition. MCCARTHY, Cormac. Outer Dark. New York: Random House, (1968). Octavo, original half blue cloth, original dust jacket. $4200.First edition, first printing, of McCarthy's second book, his ""profound parable"" of fate's dark workings.""You can hear mortality whetting its scythe behind every line"" (New York Times). Upon McCarthy's publication of his second novel, Time noted that the author had ""developed into an exceptional talent"" with this ""profound parable that ultimately speaks to any society in any time."" Life... Read More
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Cities of the Plain
by MCCARTHY Cormac
1998. First Edition. Signed. MCCARTHY, Cormac. Cities of the Plain. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Octavo, original half-black cloth, original dust jacket. $3500.First trade edition of the final novel in McCarthys acclaimed Border Trilogy, inscribed on the half title, ""For Tom & Connie. Thanks for your stories of Mexico. All best, Cormac McCarthy.""""That brief moment between a culture's existence and extinctionthis is the border that McCarthy's characters keep crossing and recrossing, and the one story, as he's forever... Read More
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Child of God
by MCCARTHY Cormac
1973. First Edition. MCCARTHY, Cormac. Child of God. New York: Random House, (1973). Octavo, original half blue cloth, original dust jacket. $3500.First edition of Pulitzer Prize-winner McCarthy's third novel, his powerful ""statement about cruelty, isolation, inhumanity."" ""McCarthy must be acknowledged as a talent equal to William Faulkner,"" writes Madison Smartt Bell. ""Yet, more than Faulkner ever did, McCarthy seems to be pulling language apart at its roots."" McCarthy's third novel, described as an unforgettable ""statement about cruelty, isolation, inhumanity,""... Read More
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No Country for Old Men
by MCCARTHY Cormac
2005. First Edition. Signed. MCCARTHY, Cormac. No Country for Old Men. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jacket. $3000.First trade edition of McCarthy's ""harrowing, propulsive drama about a stone-cold killer, a small-town sheriff, and an average Joe"" (New York Times), basis for the Coen brothers' Oscar-winning film, signed on the publisher's tipped-in leaf by McCarthy.""Cormac McCarthy has said, in interviews, that there is 'no such thing as life without bloodshed,' and that... Read More
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Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and Part of the East Indies
by LE BRUYN Cornelius
1737. First Edition. LE BRUYN, Cornelius. Travels into Muscovy, Persia, And Part of the EastIndies. Containing, An Accurate Description of whatever is most remarkable in those Countries London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, 1737. Two volumes. Folio (9 by 14 inches), 20th-century full dark brown calf gilt, raised bands, red morocco spine labels. $8500.First edition in English of this exceptional trans-Asia expedition, with engraved allegorical frontispiece by Picart, engraved portrait, three double-page engraved maps, 114 finely engraved platesmany double-page, including... Read More
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Magnalia Christi Americana
by MATHER Cotton
1702. First Edition. MATHER, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana: or, the Eccelsiastical History of New-England, from its first planting in the year 1620, unto the year of our Lord, 1698 London: Thomas Parkhurst, 1702. Folio (9 by 13 inches), contemporary full dark brown paneled speckled calf rebacked, raised bands, red morocco spine label. $15,000.The exceptionally rare and exceedingly significant first edition of Cotton Mather's salvation history of colonial Massachusetts, the ""most important 18th-century American book"" (Howes M391), including the earliest... Read More
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Dying Speeches and Behaviour of the Several State Prisoners
by CRIME
1720. First Edition. (CRIMINALS). The Dying Speeches and Behaviour of the Several State Prisoners That Have Been Executed the Last 300 Years. London: J. Brotherton and W. Meadows, et al., 1720. Octavo, modern full dark blue calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers. $1250.First edition of the last words of almost 100 prisoners executed in Great Britain, along with brief accounts of their lives and crimes, handsomely bound.Arranged chronologically from Lollard martyr William Sawtre in 1401 to Scottish spy William... Read More
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George Cruikshank's Magazine
by CRUIKSHANK George SMEDLEY Frank E.
1854. First Edition. (CRUIKSHANK, George and FAIRLEGH, Frank) SMEDLEY, Frank E., editor. George Cruikshank's Magazine. London: D. Bogue, 1854. Two volumes. Octavo, original pictorial cream paper wrappers, uncut and unopened. Housed in a custom cloth chemise and half morocco pull-off box. $2500.First editions of the January and February issuesall publishedof Cruikshank's Magazine, illustrated and with four folding plates depicting the Comet of 1853, Elephantine Performances, methods for curing a bear of a sore head, and the disagreeable aspects of... Read More
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Picturesque America
by BRYANT William Cullen
1872. BRYANT, William Cullen, editor. Picturesque America; Or, The Land We Live In. New York: D. Appleton, circa 1874. Two volumes. Thick folio (10-1/2 by 13 inches), original full brown pebbled morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $2500.Second edition of this treasury of 19th-century American views, illustrated with 49 full-page steel-engraved plates, including title pages and frontispiece engraving of Niagara Falls, together with numerous in-text wood engravings, in handsome publishers deluxe morocco-gilt bindings.""One of the great... Read More
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Picturesque America
by BRYANT William Cullen
1872. First Edition. BRYANT, William Cullen. Picturesque America; Or, The Land We Live In. New York: D. Appleton, (1872-74). Two volumes. Thick folio, original three-quarter red morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, beveled board edges, gilt-stamped cover title, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt. $2000.First edition in book form, illustrated with 49 full-page steel-engraved early American views, including title pages and frontispiece plate of Niagara Falls, together with numerous in-text wood engravings, in handsome publishers morocco-gilt bindings.""One of the... Read More
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Alaska. Narrative, Glaciers, Natives.
by CURTIS Edward HARRIMAN Edward H.
1901. First Edition. (CURTIS, Edward) HARRIMAN ALASKA EXPEDITION. Alaska. Volume I: Narrative, Glaciers, Natives. Volume II: History, Geography, Resources. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1901. Two volumes. Tall octavo, original green cloth, top edges gilt, uncut, original cloth dust jackets. $5000.First edition account of the 1899 Harriman Expedition to Alaska, with 39 color plates (including 16 heliotype plates of coastal birds by Louis Agassiz Fuertes), 85 full-page photogravures (45 by Edward S. Curtis), five maps and numerous in-text illustrations.In 1899,... Read More
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Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation
by OWEN Robert Dale
1864. First Edition. OWEN, Robert Dale. The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation and the Future of the African Race in the United States. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1864. Small octavo, original brown cloth. $1100.First edition of the congressman's stirring condemnation of slavery, ""credited with influencing the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau"" (ANB)a very nice copy in the original cloth.Robert Dale Owen (1801-77), a leading advocate of emancipation, believed in education to resolve social, economic, and gender inequalities. He... Read More
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New-York Conspiracy, or a History of the Negro Plot
by HORSMANDEN Daniel
1810. HORSMANDEN, Daniel, Esq. The New-York Conspiracy, or a History of the Negro Plot, With the Journal of the Proceedings Against the Conspirators at New-York in the Years 1741-2. Together with Several Interesting Tables Containing the Names of the White and Black Persons arrested on account of the Conspiracythe times of their Trialstheir Sentencestheir Executions by Burning and HangingNames of those Transported, and those Discharged"" New-York: Southwick & Pelsue, 1810. Octavo, original blue paper boards and paper spine, hand-lettered... Read More
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Sermon Preached before His Excellency Francis Bernard.... May 25th, 1768
by AMERICAN REVOLUTION SHUTE Daniel
1768. First Edition. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) SHUTE, Daniel, A.M. A Sermon Preached Before His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; Governor, His Honor Thomas Hutchinson Esq; Lieutenant-Governor, The Honourable His Majesty's Council, and the Honourable House of Representatives, Of the Province of the Massachusets-Bay in New England, May 25th. 1768. Being the Aniversary for the Election of His Majesty's Council for said Province. Boston: New-England: Printed by Richard Draper, 1768. Small octavo (5 by 8 inches), period-style full speckled calf gilt, red... Read More
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