Rare books and first editions on Social Thought, primarily on law, economics, education, and women such as the works by Susan B. Anthony.
![Tales of a Sportsman's Wife. [With:] Tales of a Sportsman's Wife. Shooting. [With:] Tales of a. Marjorie Wiggin Prescott.](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/240988.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669651065)
[Boston]: Privately Printed [by D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, December 1936, 1937 & 1939]. First editions, each one... Read More about Tales of a Sportsman's Wife. [With:] Tales of a Sportsman's Wife. Shooting. [With:] Tales of a...
Price: $1,000
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [June], 1913. First Edition, first issue with date on title-page and copyright page. Read More about O Pioneers!
Price: $1,200
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First edition, Number---of 115 copies on Croxley Rag Paper, signed by the Author. Read More about Lucy Gayheart
Price: $600
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First edition. Signed and Limited. No. 372 of 619 copies on Croxley hand-made paper. Read More about Shadows on The Rock
Price: $650
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1905. First edition, first issue with McClure Phillips & co at bootom of spine. Read More about The Troll Garden
Price: $750
Kansas City, Missouri: Press of Ramsey, Millett & Hudson, 1883. Over sixty-five Galloway bulls and heifers on the block, giving detailed pedigree. With an introduction by Matthews explaining the his interest in the breed. Read More about Catalogue of Imported Galloway Cattle, Registered in the Galloway Herd Book, the property of A.B....
Price: $800
Napoli: Gaspare Casella, [1927]. First edition. Inscribed to Alyse Gregory. First edition of this sought after volume of essays on the people and places of Capri, from Tiberius to F. T. Marinetti and Norman Douglas, as well as the palaces, historic sights, and “cosi” (things) on the island. Translated in..... Read More about Aria di Capri
Price: $500
Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1872. First Edition. Spiritualist's Poems, Inscribed. Inscribed on flyleaf "Hiram B. Croisby With the Regards of the Author, June 17, 1872." Miss Chafa went on to become Mrs. H.S. Lake, speaker at the First Spiritual Temple. Her life was quite spirited. Her husband Mr..... Read More about Napoleon Bonaparte and other Poems
Price: $350
London: Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1794. "New edition, Corrected, and Improved" (i.e. third edition, first published in 1782). "Written to dispel the gloomy apprehensions of those who supposed that the country was in a ruined state at the close of the American war; and it successfully accomplished its object"..... Read More about An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Great Britain, during the present and four preceding...
Price: $250
New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1885. Second edition. Wall St. Novel, 1885. A novel of Wall Street speculation, first printed in the previous year anonymously. This second edition has a new "Publisher's Note" which quotes a review of the Philadelphia Evening Sun identifying the author by name, and adding..... Read More about On a Margin
Price: $250
![Item #249376 Petit traité de l'amour des femmes pour les sots. [with:] Petit commentaire sur le...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/249376.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669651391)
Bagatelle: 1788; and Saint Lazare, Chez Donat Gourdin, n.d. First editions. The Ancient Love of Women for Fools. Attributed by Barbier to the marquis de Champcenetz, an unrepentant anti-revolutionary and acerbic wit, who was guillotined in 1790. Barbier cites Grimm with the following identifications: Mme de Valée ( i.e., de..... Read More about Petit traité de l'amour des femmes pour les sots. [with:] Petit commentaire sur le titre de la...
Price: $400
Bellows Fall, Vermont: 1830s-1870s. Son of Levi Chapin, Jonathon was born in Vermont in 1802. Also accounts for Jane Chapin who did candle dipping, made frocks, etc. Read More about Account Book for Jonathon Chapin's Farm Account Book
Price: $350
Philadelphia: The Centaur Press, 1938. First Edition. Poem written for music by Harl McDinald, intended “to be a major work for a woman’s chorus and orchestra, a poem that had vigor and passion, a poem that voice a deep emotion in the hearts of contemporary American women.” (Author’s note). First..... Read More about Lament for the Stolen. A poem for a Chorus
Price: $75
Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Cruikshank, in Market-Street, 1786. New edition. The First American was 1783. Read More about Letters on the Improvement of the Mind addressed to a Young Lady
Price: $200
London: Dilly, 1787. "New [Third?] Edition", preceded by editions of 1775 and 1777. Hester Chapone was member of Lady Montagu's "bluestocking" circle and the author of a book of advice to young ladies (LETTERS ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE MIND), singled out by Mary Wollstonecraft as one of the few..... Read More about Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, by Mrs. Chapone, Author of Letters on the Improvement of the Mind
Price: $250
London: Chiswick Press, 1893. No. 11 of 13 copies printed on vellum (there were also 88 copies printed on paper). One of 13 Copies on Vellum. This work consists of two important ordinances issued by the Spanish monarchy on November 20, 1542, and June 4, 1543. Under the active influence..... Read More about The New Laws of the Indies for the Treatment and Preservation of the Indians Promulgated by the...
Price: $6,000
Dijon: Chez de Fay; Paris: Chez Briasson, 1744. Séconde edition. On Bourgogne laws. Read More about Traités des Prescriptions, de l'aliénation des biens d'église, et des dixmes, suivant les...
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London: PUBLISHED BY G. BELL, 186 FLEET STREET, 1847. 11 PHOTOS TIPPED-IN. Read More about Chronicles of Charter House. By a Carthusian
Price: $750
London: E. Owen, 1737. First edition. A life of Thomas Sutton (1532-1611), founder of the Charterhouse School in Smithfield, London. Read More about An Historical Account of Thomas Sutton Esq; And of His Foundation in Charter-House
Price: $225
Denver: 22 November 1959. Replying to Hartley's enquiry about her writing and education. High school was of importance to her due to her English and Latin teachers. The Latin helping her understand English grammar and the Latin teacher reciting poetry and the English teacher introducing her to Shakespeare. Of college..... Read More about Typed letter signed “Mary Chase”
Price: $75
New York: Brisban & Brannan, 1806. First edition, with half-title. The book is dedicated to Thomas Jefferson who was a fellow student of Ewell's brother at William and Mary College. Ewell studied with Bejamin Rush and produced this first American chemistry text for the nonscientist. Read More about Plain Discourses on the Laws or Properties of Matter: Containing the Elements or Principles of...
Price: $750
Boston: Lee & Shephard, 1902. First edition. INSCRIBED on the flyleaf: “Miss Estelle M. H. Merrill “Pres. of the ___ (?) Association “from ED Cheny “January 13, 1903” A rare inscription from this Boston abolitionist (1824-1904), ardent women’s suffragist, secretary of the New England Freedmen's Aid Society, author of many..... Read More about Reminiscences of Ednah Dow Cheney (born Littlehale
Price: $600
Canandaigua, New York: August 26, 1862. "I should be glad now and then to furnish a short story for children if you deem it desirable..."-- CAROLINE CHESEBRO. Caroline Chesebro [Chesebrough] (1825-1873), born in Canandaigua, New York, was a children's novelist, short-story writer and teacher. Her first book, 'DreamLand by Daylight'..... Read More about AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Caroline Cheesbro
Price: $250
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. First edition. Read More about The Growth of Chicago Banks
Price: $600
New York: John S. Taylor, 1836. Second edition and first edition published in New York (originally published in Boston in 1833). Presentation copy inscribed to Caroline Weston. Inscribed by the author: "To Caroline Weston, from his affectionate friend, L. M. Child." Caroline Weston served as Vice President of the Boston..... Read More about An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans
Price: $9,500
Philadelphia: Published by M. Fithian, 1840. A collection of amusing and instructional stories of Lucy and Harry and Rosamund and Godfrey including one story on some logical childish misconceptions such as there being two worlds: the old and the new. Read More about Extracts from Early Lessons
Price: $250