Price: $950

New York: Baker and Scribner, 1849. First edition. The first edition of what is generally regarded as the first American novel relating to the California Gold Rush, written by Peck under the pseudonym Cantell A. Bigly (Can tell a big lie). Aurifodina, however, is of further interest as science fiction.....  Read More Item Details for Aurifodina; or, Adventures in the Gold Region. By Cantell A. Bigly Add to Wish List

Item #378089

Price: $4,000

New York: Little, Brown & Company, 1996. First edition, first printing with original first state of dust jacket (Incorrect spelling of William Vollmann). Flat-signed by Wallace on the title page "Infinite Jest" is the name of a movie said to be so entertaining that anyone who watches it loses all.....  Read More Item Details for Infinite Jest Add to Wish List

Item #378051

Price: $1,000

New York: Frederic A. Stokes Company, [February 1912]. First Edition. A landmark of both Arctic exploration and African-American history, with a foreword by Peary and an introduction by Booker T. Washington. Henson accompanied Peary on six expeditions, including the final sledge journey to the pole. The first to break the.....  Read More Item Details for A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. With a forward by Robert Peary. Introduction by Booker T. Washington Add to Wish List

Item #378015

Price: $650

Boston: Printed at the Apollo Press […] by Joseph Belknap, 1794. After it was discovered that victims of drowning or other accidents could be resuscitated from a deathlike state of unconsciousness, societies dedicated to their rescue began to pop up across the globe. The first such society was founded in.....  Read More Item Details for A Discourse, delivered before the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at the semiannual meeting, June 10, 1794 Add to Wish List

Item #377983

Price: $2,000

London: Printed for J.S. Jordan, 1791. First edition, second issue. Hoping it "would do for England what his Common Sense had done for America," Paine answered Edmund Burke's attack on the French Revolution with Rights of Man (Gimbel-Yale 59). Writing "with a force and clarity unequalled even by Burke, Paine.....  Read More Item Details for Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution Add to Wish List

Item #377977

Price: $7,500

Rome: Presso di Carlo Mordacchini, 1817-1818. Remarkable volume containing the two issues of Il Zabildone published in Rome by Felice Mariottini, with the broadside announcing the publication, and a 28-page manuscript of Mariottini’s response to the supression of the journal by the Segretaio di Stato di Roma (Secretary of State).....  Read More Item Details for [Manuscript title:] Il Zibaldone Giornale di Felice Mariottini, proibido et sospeso dalla Segretaio di Stato di Roma con la di lui Risposta MSS. [With:] Il Zibaldone. Nos. 1 & 2, Gennaio 1818 [All Published]. [And:] Manifesto, broadside announcement [and:] Manuscript Response to the Journal’s Suppression Add to Wish List

Item #377964

Price: $100

Salt Lake City: 1883. First edition. Read More Item Details for Lydia Knight's History The First Book Of The Noble Women's Lives the first book of the Noble Women's lives Series. By Homespun." Add to Wish List

Item #377960

Price: $100

Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1882. Read More Item Details for Fragments of Experience, Sixth Book of the Faith Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints Add to Wish List

Item #377958

Price: $450

Fort Smith, AR: Weldon & Williams Printers, 1893. Ross, a publisher, merchant and lawyer, was a two-time principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. He also served as a colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Read More Item Details for The Life and Times of Hon. William P. Ross Add to Wish List

Item #377950

Price: $2,250

London: Printed for D. Browne [et al.], 1720. First edition. An account from the British naval commander who oversaw a disastrous attempt to unseat the French in Quebec, both a detailed report of events and an attempt at self-exoneration. "Such has been the Situation of Sir Hovenden Walker's Affairs these.....  Read More Item Details for A Journal: Or Full Account of the Late Expedition to Canada. With an Appendix Containing Commissions, Orders, Instructions, Letters, Memorials, Courts-Martial, Councils of War, &c. Relating Thereto Add to Wish List

Item #377945

Price: $1,000

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896. First edition of the author’s second book. Nice copy of Buchan’s second book, published while he was still a scholarship student at Brasenose College, Oxford. Buchan became a reader for John Lane and contributed three stories to the Yellow Book With a signature.....  Read More Item Details for Scholar-Gipsies Add to Wish List

Item #377937

Price: $750

New York: European Publishing Company, [ca. 1897]. An advertising handbill issued by European Publishing Company for Stanton's "new work" Eight Years and More, offered for sale for $2. The first page includes the list of contents and Stranton's Preface (continued overleaf), with the rest of the second page devoted to.....  Read More Item Details for Eighty Years and More Being the Reminiscence of Elizabeth Cady Stanton ... [Prospectus for her work Eighty Years and More and an advertisement for The Woman's Bible] Add to Wish List

Item #377931

Price: $3,500

New York: Privately Printed, 1873. Wilbour's complex and nuanced essay, delivered as the keynote address at the first annual convention of the Association of the Advancement of Woman, presents a radical thought wrapped in what would appear at first to be a somewhat conservative tone. Arguing against Utopian free love.....  Read More Item Details for The Inviolable Home: Read at the First Annual Session of the Association for the Advancement of Woman. New York, October, 1873 Add to Wish List

Item #377929