Rare books and first editions on Social Thought, primarily on law, economics, education, and women such as the works by Susan B. Anthony.
Washington, DC: April 5, 1907. TR on War and Peace. An important letter from President Theodore Roosevelt, summarizing... Read More about Typed Letter, signature excised, to Andrew Carnegie as President of The National Arbitration and...
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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...
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[New York: March 24, 1938]. Van Vechten, Carl. Reproduced in Mauriber's PORTRAITS (1978). Read More about Portrait photograph of Margaret Bourke-White
Price: $3,750
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
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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
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
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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
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London: Ward, Lock and Tyler, nd. Stereotyped edition. Read More about Charlotte's Inheritance. A Novel
Price: $650
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...
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London: Christopher Barker, 1596. First Edition. Elizabeth I Orders Price Controls, 1596. A handsome, black-letter proclamation, forbidding, in view of scarcities, the raising of the price of “corne” [in England, wheat], and the making of starch. Issued “At our Mannor of Greenwich, the last day of July , in the..... Read More about By the Queene. A Proclamation for the dearth of Corne
Price: $2,000
London: Printed upon Stamped Paper…by J. Almon, 1767. George III. Covers the years 1761 through 1766. The editor notes “Retrospects of certain Matters are sometimes useful and often entertaining. I which ever Light these lists are viewed it will be Satisfaction sufficient to th Editor, if he has contributed any..... Read More about A View of the Several Changes Made in the Administration of Government, since the Acession of his...
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London: The Folio Society, [1997]. Seventh edition. Read More about The Complete Novels. Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, The Professor, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant...
Price: $175
London: The Folio Society, [2004]. Ninth edition. Read More about The Complete Novels. Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, The Professor, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant...
Price: $175
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. The Thornton Edition. Read More about The Novels of the Sisters Brontë. Edited by Temple Scott
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Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. The Thornton Edition. Read More about The Novels of the Sisters Brontë. Edited by Temple Scott
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London: Published by W. Palmer, From the Press of D. Buchanan, 1806. Read More about The General Gazetteer; or a Compendious Geographical Dictionary in Miniature
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[Memphis, Tennessee: privately printed, 1947]. First edition. Warmly inscribed to the author's cousins on the title-page: "Safari Greetings / to / Marie and Lucien Beckner / My charming Kentucky cousins. / With sincere admiration. / Virginia Field Walton Brooks / Epping Forest Manor / Memphis, Tenn. / Aug. 15, 1950"..... Read More about Screed of Safari Scribe
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London: Henry Colburn, 1828. First edition. Large paper issue. LARGE PAPER. A fine large paper copy of Brougham's speech to parliament on law reform, one of just 30 according to Goldsmith. The advertisement leaf states that Brougham co-operated on this particular issue and it includes his corrections. "In February 1828..... Read More about Present State of the Law. The Speech in the House of Commons, on Thursday, Ferburary 7, 1828, on...
Price: $500
London: Richard Bentley, 1873. First edition. Read More about Nancy. A Novel
Price: $250
Providence, R.I: [Providence press company, printers], 1867. First edition, one of 300 copies. Guild (1822-1899) was a graduate of Brown University, and became Librarian from 1848 to 1893, as a writer and historian. Read More about History of Brown University, with Illustrative Documents
Price: $350