Rare books and first editions on Social Thought, primarily on law, economics, education, and women such as the works by Susan B. Anthony.
[Paris]: 1758-1760. First complete edition. Birth of the Physiocratic School. The first three parts, constituting L'Ami des Hommes... Read More about L'Ami des Hommes ou Traité de la Population
Price: $4,500
US Steel Chief Blough Praises Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. Roger Blough became Chairman and CEO of US Steel, then the world's largest steel company, at the age of 48, when this was still a plum job of US industry. Here, he thanks Eisenstaedt for “A pleasant hour with an unusually effective..... Read More about Autograph Note Signed, n.p., n.d
Price: $150
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1923. First edition. Author's First Book. Read More about Body of Death
Price: $150
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1923. First edition. Author's First Book. Read More about Body of Death
Price: $225
London: Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling for J. Brotherton, J. Hazard, et al, 1731. Second edition, with corrections. Read More about The Law of Tithes; shewing Their Nature, Kinds, Properties and Incidents, by whom, to whom, when...
Price: $250
Maud Ballington Booth, was an Salvation Army leader and co-founder of the Volunteers of America. Read More about ANS
Price: $75
Boston: Joseph G. Martin, 1871-1902. A scarce compilation of annually issued sheets of "Stock Fluctuations in Bank, Insurance, Railroad and Manufacturing stocks, Government Securities, State, City and Railroad Bonds, and other Companies sold at the Boston Broker's Board, and by Auction, with the semiannual dividends paid by each." Comprises 30..... Read More about Annual Appendix to Seventy Three Years History of the Boston Stock Market from 1870 [cover title
Price: $1,250
Boston: Published by W[illiam] Andrews and L[emuel] Blake, Greenough and Stebbins, Printers, 1807. First American from the fifth London Edition (1807, edited by Edmund Malone). The First edition was published in 1791. First American in Boards, Uncut. John McVickar is rest recalled as an economist. He was one of the..... Read More about The Life of Samuel Johnson LLD. Comprehending an account of his Studies, and Numerous Works, in...
Price: $750
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1793. Translation of Boudier de Villemert's L'ami des Femmes, first published anonymously in Paris in 1758; the first American edition was published by Dunlap in 1771. Read More about The Ladies' Friend; being a Treatise on the Virtues and Qualifications, which are the Brightest...
Price: $350
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The Lido, Venice: June 1930. ‘Ringmaster of Society in the Eternal City’. The generally candid and richly entertaining autobiography of Princess Jane di San Faustino (1863-1938), recounting her origins in New Jersey and her entry in the highest ranks of the Italian aristocracy following her marriage to Carlo di Bourbon..... Read More about Lights Out [Memoirs: Princess di San Faustino
Price: $2,500
Lawrence, MA: 1935 (Printed c. 1998). Number 15 of 250 prints. Bourke-White's striking image of man and machine, reminiscent of her earlier work in the Soviet Union, was published in a FORTUNE story on the Lawrence, Massachusetts textile industry. Read More about American Wollen Co
Price: $300
London: Geoffrey Bles, [1935]. First edition. Capetown, Fiji, Tonga, Tahiti, New Zealand etc. Read More about Out of the World
Price: $200
Boston: Little, Browen anbd Comapny, 1863. First Edition. George S. Boutwell was first the first Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service. Read More about A Manual of the Direct and Excise Tax System of the United States Including the Forms and...
Price: $750
Brunswick, [Maine]: Joseph Griffin, 1822. First edition. WITH HAWTHORNE AND LONGFELLOW IN SAME CLASS. With both Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow listed in the freshman class. Read More about Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine....
Price: $350
New York: Biglow, 1876. First edition. Inscribed on t.p. by John P. Townsend Seond Vice-President to F.B. Sanborn, Esq Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, 1831-1917, American journalist, author, and philanthropist, b. Hampton Falls, N.H., grad. Harvard, 1855. An active abolitionist, he was a friend and agent of John Brown, although he disapproved..... Read More about Manual of the Bowery Savings Bank
Price: $150
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. First Edition. "The author Joyce Boyd-Moss and her husband George farmed in Tanganyika, and she recounts adventures, hartebeest and zebra [sic]. Elephants were also collected, as were additional leopards and lions that preyed on the couple's dairy herd. There is also a good..... Read More about My Farm in Lion Country
Price: $200
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1969). First Borzoi edition. First edition. Inscribed "March 1963 With my greetings and my gratitude to Paul Horgan Kay Wesleyan, Conn." Read More about The Smoking Mountain. Stories of Germany during the Occupation. With a foreword by William L. Shirer
Price: $100
New York: The Bankers Publishing Co, 1910. First edition. Read More about Gold Production and Future Prices
Price: $200
London: Ward, Lock and Tyler, nd. Stereotyped edition. Read More about Charlotte's Inheritance. A Novel
Price: $650
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, [1918]. First expanded edition. Chapters include: "The Law for Women," "Woman's Legal Status," "Marriage and Divorce," "Child Labor and Minimum Wage," etc. Bres (1869-1927) was the associate editor of the ERA, a woman's publication. "When Bres moved to New York City in 1910..... Read More about Maids, Wives and Widows. The Law of the Land and of the Various States as it Affects Women
Price: $250
New York: The Aldine Book Company, 1903. First edition. Author's Edition, printed throughout on imperial Japanese vellum, and full bound in crushed levant, limited to 75 numbered copies signed by the author. Additionally inscribed by the author to Henry Clay Frick II, "In memory of the grandfather whose name he..... Read More about History of Carnegie Steel. An Inside Review of Its Humble Origin and Impressive Growth
Price: $4,500
London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1818. First London edition. Read More about America and Her Resources; or, a View of the Agricultural, Commercial, Manufacturing, Financial,...
Price: $75
Northridge, California: 15 October 1958. Responding to Hartley's letter enquiring about her literary career and the importance of her education on her writing. She writes that she recommends them both for writers, finding them very important even though “some writers have done excellent work in spite of having had little..... Read More about Typed letter signed “Gwen Bristow”
Price: $50
Bombay [India]: March 1918. 'The Same Pleasure and Advantages as the British'. A British Raj era letter, written by the Marchioness of Willingdon, while in India with her husband, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, who was serving as Governor of Bombay. Lady Willingdon organized the Bombay Presidency War and..... Read More about Typed letter signed Lady Marie Willingdon ("Marie Willingdon") to the Rajsaheb...
Price: $100
