Paris: J.-B. Baillière et fils, 1857. Third edition. Third and Best Edition. Alexandre Parent du Châtelet's book was published posthumously in 1836. It had been eight years in the making, drawing on documents he obtained from the archives of the Prefecture of Police. Parent du Châtelet (1790-1836) was concerned about..... Read More about De la prostitution dans la ville de Paris

Boston: Privately Printed [by the Merrymount Press], 1913. Dwiggins, W.A. First edition, one of 500 copies. ONE OF TEN. In an ALS Crowninshield (on Winterthur letterhead) Francis tells his cousin George that he will send him one of the deluxe colored copies of which this is one of 10. Read More about The Story of George Crowninshield’s Yacht Cleopatra’s Barge on A Voyage of Pleasure to the...

London: J. Johnson, 1792. Second edition. Second edition of Wollstonecraft's famous argument for equality of education for both sexes. Published the same year as the first edition in London in 1792. Wollstonecraft felt that women ought to be the equal partners of men and wrote "...that if woman be not..... Read More about A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

Marchiennes, Belique: nd. Read More about Album of the Demolition of the Forges de la Providence Steel Company, Belgium Dampremy, Belgium

vp: 1957-94. The letters, including 56 Autograph Letters, and 9 Typed Letters, mostly on personal subjects but many with literary content, a few illustrated with sketches. ; Each with the original envelope or address panel. The typescripts, including a two-stanza poem Signed entitled "To a Japanese Friend Translating My English,"..... Read More about Archive of 68 ALSs and TLSs addressed to his translator Shozo Tokunaga

High Loft Press, 1985. Niumber 3 of 60 copies. Read More about Night Watches. By A.H

New York: Macmillan, 1900. First Edition. Read More about The Banker and the Bear. The Story of a Corner in Lard

London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796. Fine copy of Thomson's translation of the Twelve Caesars. Read More about The Lives of the First Twelve Caesars, Translated from the Latin of C. Suetonius Tranquillus:...

Concord, N.H: Isaac and Walter R. Hill, 1. Foreign policy of the early American republic. Alexander James Dallas (1759-1817) was U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1814-1816; his recommendations in regard to a protective tariff were the basis of American policy for the next 30 years. This treatise served as..... Read More about An Exposition of the Causes and Character of the War between the United States and Great-Britain

New York: B. C. Forbes Publishing Company, [November, 1934]. First Edition. One of the early interpreters of the Dow Theory, editor of Forbes Magazine, Schabacker is the only author credited in the chartist’s bible, Technical Analysis of Stock Trends, by Edwards and Magee. Remarkably, by the time of his early..... Read More about Stock Market Profits

Leiden: De'Imp. d'Elie Luzac, 1748. Presumed second edition. One of the most provocative texts of 18th-century materialism. Julien Offray de La Mettrie's (1709-1751) controversial major work. In it, he denies the existence of a soul, and extends Descartes' argument of animals as automatons, akin to complex machines, to include human..... Read More about L'Homme Machine Bound With: L'Homme plus que Machine A londres [Holland?]: [n.p.] 1748

Boston: Gambit, 1969. First edition, #114 of 350 signed by Levine and Updike`. Read More about Pens and Needles Literary Caricatures. Introduced and selected by John Updike

New York: The Grove Press, [1965]. First edition. The classic autobiography which was written by Haley and Malcolm X. It was the first book for both and the last for Malcolm X. Haley relates in the epilogue how Malcolm worked on the book, his final days and the assassination... Read More about The Autobiography of Malcolm X, with the Assistance of Alex Haley. Introduction by M.S. Handler....