A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary. With Some of Their Later Poems
by [Abolition] [Women's Suffrage] Ames, Mary Clemmer
New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1873. First edition. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding embossed in gilt, black, and blind (BAL terra cotta P. cloth). Blue coated endpapers. Complete with frontis and inserted plate. A bit of shelfwear to corners. Bookplate of Bacon to front pastedown; small binder's ticket of Riverside Press to rear pastedown. Light scattered foxing to endpapers, else an internally clean and unmarked. A just about Fine copy of this activist biography. Setting aside digital... Read More
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A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary. With Some of Their Later Poems
by [Abolition] [Women's Suffrage] Ames, Mary Clemmer
New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1873. First edition. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding embossed in gilt, black, and blind (BAL green P. cloth). Blue coated endpapers. Complete with frontis and inserted plate. Clipped signature from the Cary sisters' niece pinned to page 6 by a previous owner. Spine a bit cocked; a bit rubbed, with most wear to the corners. Internally slightly toned but clean overall. Setting aside digital copies, it is surprisingly scarce institutionally, with OCLC... Read More
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The Child's Book on Slavery; or, Slavery Made Plain
by [Slavery] [Abolition]
Cincinnati: American Reform Tract and Book Society, 1857. First edition. Poor. 143, [4] ads. Publisher's red cloth. A poor copy, with binding worn (piece missing at foot of spine) and foxing throughout. Contemporary pencil annotations to endpapers. Lacking preliminary blank. Also lacking portions of two text leaves: pp. 43-44 with top half of leaf torn away, and pp. 77-78 with loss to a few lines at fore-edge. A scarce book teaching abolitionist principles to children. The Child's... Read More
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Mitigation of Slavery, in Two Parts. Part I: Letters and Papers of the Late Hon. Joshua Steele. Part II: Letters to Thomas Clarkson, Esq. M.A.
by [Abolition] Dickson, William; Steele, Joshua; Clarkson, Thomas
London: Printed by R. and A. Taylor...and Sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814. First edition. Near Fine. Mid- nineteenth-century brown polished calf rebacked to style. Octavo. xxxiii, 528 pp. Complete, with index and errata. Gilt spine with red morocco label. Marbled endpapers and edges. Ink gift inscription, dated 1846, to preliminary blank. A bright, fresh copy, clean throughout with just a bit of foxing to first and last few leaves. A Near Fine copy of... Read More
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The Ninth Annual Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society
by [Abolition] [Women's Activism]
Boston: Oliver Johnson, 1842. First edition. Near Fine. Original printed wrappers with "Ten Years of Experience" and a poem from Felicia Hemans printed on front. Gentle bump to lower front corner. Small closed tear to outer margin of rear wrap; rear wrap partially detached but holding. Collating 46, [2]: complete, including half and full titles. Faint scattered foxing to preliminary and terminal leaves, but internally surprisingly fresh else. Early ownership signature of S. Cowing to front wrap. A... Read More
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An Act for the Better Preventing of Thefts and Robberies, and for Regulating Places of Publick Entertainment, and Punishing Persons Keeping Disorderly Houses
by [Sex Work] [Disorderly Houses Act]
London: Thomas Baskett and the Assigns of Robert Baskett, 1752. First edition. 25 George II, Chapter 3. Measuring 300 x 185mm and collating complete: [2], 727-734. A copy in Fine condition, fresh and unmarked, of a legal act licensing citizens of London to report on brothel employees and owners for a bounty; ESTC reports only 3 surviving copies in libraries, with the present being the only example on the market. [Together with] An Act for Making Perpetual... Read More
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Adams, Douglas
New York: Harmony Books, 1980. First American edition. Fine/Fine. A Fine copy in like jacket retaining original $6.95 price. Minor foxing to closed edge of text block, still an excellent example. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an offbeat sci-fi adventure book often listed among the funniest books of the last fifty years. The author's first book and the first in the series, the novel was adapted from his BBC radio series of the same name... Read More
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Watership Down
by Adams, Richard
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1974. First American edition. Fine/Fine. A Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. A stray mark in green pencil on the rear jacket panel, otherwise exceptionally bright and fresh. A fantastic debut novel by Adams, ostensibly a book for children, but with themes and layers of complexity best suited for an adult audience. A best-seller, Carnegie Medal winner, and inspiration for multiple film, tv, stage, and musical adaptations,... Read More
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Twenty Years at Hull-House (Inscribed by the author)
by Addams, Jane
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911. Second edition. Near Fine. Inscribed by Jane Addams on the front free endpaper: "Affection of the author / Jane Addams / Hull-House / Chicago." Publisher's brick red cloth titled in gilt with onlaid color illustration of Hull House. xvii, 462, [2], [4, ads] pp., complete with twelve plates (including frontisportrait of Addams). Slight lean to lower board. Minor toning to a couple leaves and small open tear to fore-edge of preliminary blank.... Read More
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
by Agee, James and Walker Evans
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy of the book in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket with a scratch on the front panel, slight rubbing to the spine and spine ends and very slight fading to the spine, but much less than typically encountered. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is the surprisingly striking product of a Fortune Magazine collaboration between photographer, Walker Evans, and writer, James Agee, in 1936. For... Read More
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The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld with a Memoir (in 2 vols.)
by Aikin, Lucy
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1825. First edition. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with morocco labels to spines. All edges speckled red. Armorial bookplates of Vane Londonderry to front pastedowns. Internally with some mild offsetting from frontis, else fresh and surprisingly without the foxing common to the period. Collating lxxii, 344; vi, 470, [2, adverts]: complete, including half and full titles to both, frontis to Volume I, and adverts to rear of Volume II. A... Read More
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The Novels of William Harrison Ainsworth (in 20 vols)
by Ainsworth, William Harrison
London: Gibbings & Company, Limited, 1902. Windsor Edition. Fine. Limited to 2,000 copies. Twenty small octavo volumes measuring 174 x 110 mm., together occupying approximately 19 1/2 inches (49 1/2 cm.) of shelf space. Contemporary half maroon scored calf over red marbled boards. Spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt with five raised bands, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with 64 photogravures from the etchings by George Cruikshank, 12 by Hablot K. Browne, 4 by... Read More
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Stories and Fairy Tales (in 2 vols.)
by Andersen, Hans Christian [Arthur Gaskin, illustrator]
London: George Allen, 1893. First Thus. One of three hundred copies printed on handmade paper. Original publisher's cloth stamped in gilt to spines and front boards. Measuring 250 x 195mm and illustrated beautifully throughout. Some soiling to spines andand boards; shelfwear and bumping to extremities with some splitting to the cloth at joints. Gift inscriptions from 1893 and 1949 to front pastedown of volume I and ownership signatures to pastedown of volume II. Offsetting and foxing to preliminary and... Read More
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Nye Eventyr
by Andersen, Hans Christian
Kjøbenhavn: C.A. Reitzel, 1845. First editions. First edition, complete, two volumes (collections) bound together, of Anderson's second series of fairy tales, the first issue of Collection Two, the second issue of Collection One. Small octavo (6 1/4 x 4 in; 157 x 103 mm). Collection One: 47, [1, blank]; 68; 52 pp. Collection Two: 72; 60 pp. Two leaves, comprised of table of contents and dedication page to Collection Two, have been misbound out of sequence. Otherwise, complete with... Read More
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The Danes Sketched by Themselves (in 3 vols.)
by [Andersen, Hans Christian]; Mrs. Anne Bushby (editor and translator)
London: Richard Bentley, 1864. First U.K. edition. Fine. Three octavo volumes (7 7/8 x 4 15/16 inches; 200 x 125 mm.). [2, publisher's advertisements], [6], 312; [4], 303, [1, blank]; [4], 303, [1, blank] pp. Original terra cotta pebble-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and spines ruled, decoratively stamped, and lettered in gilt. Original cream-colored endpapers. Some very faint marks on the front covers, where there must once have been library labels, the absolute minimum of... Read More
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Memorable Women of the Puritan Times (in 2 vols.)
by Anderson, Rev. James
London: Blackie & Son, 1862. First edition. Original publisher's cloth bindings embossed in blind and stamped with gilt to spines. Yellow endpapers. Spines uniformly sunned, with a bit of rolling to volume I, else tight and pleasing. Armorial bookplate of the late 19th century collector Henry Birkbeck to front pastedown of each; contemporary ownership monogram dated 1862 to front endpaper of volume II. Light scattered foxing to preliminaries and terminal leaves; volume I entirely uncut and both volumes clean... Read More
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Prevention of Cruelty, and Anti-Vivisection (Presentation Copy)
by [Animal Rights] Burton, Isabel
London and Belfast: William Mullan and Son, 1879. First edition. Buff printed wraps, measuring 135 x 205mm. Complete in 32 pages. Some chipping along spine and to top and fore edges of wraps; a bit toned externally and internally. Stamps of the University of Bristol Library to foot of title page and verso of final leaf, else unmarked. Presented by Burton to the City Liberal Club, with her signature on the verso of the front wrap: "The Authoress. March... Read More
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An Essay on the Abstinence from Animal Food, as a Moral Duty
by [Animal Rights] Ritson, Joseph
London: Richard Phillips, 1802. First edition. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, rebacked to style with gilt and morocco label to spine. Boards with some gentle rubbing and toning, else pleasing and square. Armorial bookplate of the Delamere House to front pastedown. Occasional marginal foxing, but internally clean and unmarked otherwise. Collating complete: [4], 236. OCLC reports 19 copies at U.S. institutions. An antiquary by trade and animal rights activist by ideology, Joseph Ritson became a vegetarian in... Read More
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A Scheme for a New Lottery: or, a Husband and a Coach and Six for Forty Shillings. Being very advantageous to both Sexes; where a Man may have a Coach and Six and a Wife for Nothing..
by [Economics of Marriage] [Scams] Anonymous
London: Printed for T. Dormer, 1732. First edition. Modern quarter morocco over cloth with gilt to spine. Measuring 180 x 111mm and collating complete including frontis, folding game board, and concluding woodcut: [2], 62, [2]. From the collection of stage magician Ricky Jay, with his bookplate to upper pastedown. Top margin trimmed close with consistent loss to running headers and occasional loss to page numbers, with no other text effected. Pages somewhat toned with minor marginal chips, but otherwise... Read More
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![Answer to The Knitting [with] The Knitting](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/881/331/1574331881.0.l.jpg)
Answer to The Knitting [with] The Knitting
by [Bawdy Broadside] Anonymous
Bury: Birchinall, Printer, 1820. First edition. Near Fine. Broadside measuring 245 x 380mm and printed to verso only; the layout and placement of the imprint suggest that this piece was meant to be folded down the center with The Knitting appearing first and Answer appearing at rear. A very nearly Fine example, with just a bit of creasing at the corners and faint offsetting along the left margin. Unrecorded by the Bodleian Library of Broadside Ballads or by... Read More
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An Authentic Account of the Conversion and Experience of a Negro
by Anonymous
London: T. Wilkins, 1795. First British edition. First separate edition. Measuring 205 x 120mm and complete in 4 pages. A Fine example. Scarce in all formats, it was first printed in Vermont in 1793 and also contained a"faithful narrative...towards Polly Davis" (one copy survives at AAS); soon after, an edition was released from Maine containing "a poem on Christian Experience" (only two copies survive, both at NYPL). The present first British edition is also the first separately printed edition,... Read More
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The History of Woman Suffrage...Vol. IV. 1883-1900 (Family presentation copy)
by Anthony, Susan B., and Ida Husted Harper
Rochester, New York: Susan B. Anthony, 1902. First edition. Very Good. First edition of volume four of Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper's monumental history of women's suffrage, inscribed by Anthony to her cousin Henry Vail on the front free endpaper: "I can send you this book - / dear Cousin - if I can't go to see / you - It is the work of Mrs. Harper / and self the past two years - I... Read More
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The History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain
by [Arthuriana]. Bourchier, John, Lord Berners (translator)
London: White, Cochrane, and Co, 1814. First edition. Near Fine. Quarto (9 3/16 x 7 3/8 inches; 233 x 188 mm.). [xii], [i-iii], iv-xxvii, [1, blank], iv, 544 pp. Twenty-five hand-colored plates engraved by Charles Heath, one woodcut. Title-page printed in black and red. Edited by Edward Vernon Utterson (1776-1856) and reprinted from the edition published by Robert Redborne c. 1555. With a reproduction of original title-page: "Arthur of Brytayn [on scroll]. The hystory of the moost noble... Read More
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![Lazamon's [Layamon's] Brut, or Chronicle of Britain; A Poetical Semi-Saxon Paraphrase of The Brut of Wace](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/075/997/1743997075.0.l.jpg)
Lazamon's [Layamon's] Brut, or Chronicle of Britain; A Poetical Semi-Saxon Paraphrase of The Brut of Wace
by [Arthuriana] Madden, Sir Frederic, editor; Layamon
London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1847. First edition. Very Good. Three volumes in one, octavo (leaves measuring 237 x 153 mm). liii, [3], 439, [1]; [iv], 643, [1]; [iv], 659, [1]. A Very Good copy of a work that is scarce in commerce. Complete with folding frontispiece ("Facsimile of M.S. Cott. Calig. A.ix fol. 1") and one other plate, which is sometimes lacking ("Facsimile of Ms. Cotton Otho C. XIII fol. 92"). The two plates illustrate the... Read More
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![Equal Rights for Women, A Speech by George William Curtis [with] New England Woman Suffrage Association Constitution](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/186/685/1328685186.0.l.jpg)
Equal Rights for Women, A Speech by George William Curtis [with] New England Woman Suffrage Association Constitution
by [Women's Suffrage] American Woman Suffrage Association
Boston: The Office of the Woman's Journal, 1871. First thus. Near Fine. No. 2 of the Woman's Suffrage Tracts printed by The Woman's Journal of the American Woman Suffrage Association. Original printed self-wraps stitched at spine. Collates 24, [4]: complete, including the unpaginated Constitution, list of officers, and ad for the Woman's Journal. Light soiling to wraps; small closed tear to upper corner of pages 9-10 not affecting text. In all, a lovely survivor of an important work,... Read More
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