First editions, rare books, and manuscript material from Columbus to the modern era. Specializing in works on African American history, the Civil War, the American Revolution, presidents, the Ivy League, slavery & abolition, Indians and New York City.
[New-Buda, Iowa]: Jan. 24, 1851. An eloquent and impassioned appeal for Hungarian freedom from centuries of Austrian tyranny... Read More about Manuscript in German of Kossuth's Appeal for Hungarian Freedom, Titled "An Das Freie Volk der...
Price: $3,750
San Francisco: P.E. Dougherty & Co, 1884. Published to coincide with the centennial of Serra's death, and including biographical information on the padre, as well as a history of the founding of the mission at Monterey. Read More about Padre Junipero Serra and the Mission Church of San Carlos del Carmelo
Price: $250
New York: The Albertype Co. ... A. Wittemann; Depot: Jos. A. Hoffmann, San Francisco, 1890. Read More about San Francisco Illustrated. Indelible Photographs
Price: $150
Boston: Boston Sunday Herald, 1905. Includes Japanese, Russian, United States, German, Spanish, Egyptian, Turkish and Chinese. Read More about Boy Soldiers of All Nations. Cut-out Series ... Supplement to the Boston Sunday Herald
Price: $200
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black; London: Longman, Rees, Brown, Gree and Longman, 1839. First edition. The final publication of Audubon's The Birds of America project. The present volume lists 491 species depicted in the elephant folio work and provides detailed descriptions, keyed to the plates in that edition. A scarce..... Read More about A Synopsis of the Birds of North America
Price: $850
Augusta: Published by Blackmar & Bro. [and others] ... B. Duncan & Co. Lith. Columbia SC, [1861-1864]. Confederate Sheet Music. Hosmer's song, with music and lyrics, comprises the inner two pages; the pictorial cover printed in green advertises 37 songs published by Blackmar in Augusta, as well as publishers in..... Read More about The Exotics. Flowers of Song Transplanted to Southern Soil ... O Give Me A Home by the Sea ......
Price: $150
[New York]: 1875. With an ad for Singer sewing machines on verso of the rear wrapper. Read More about E. Butterick & Co's Catalogue for Fall 1875 ... Fuller & Capen ... Augusta, ME ... agents
Price: $125
Cincinnati: Press of Jennings & Graham, (1905). Third edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Edwards above the dedication. Presentation Copy in Dust Jacket. Rare in such fine condition and in the dust jacket. Read More about In to the Yukon
Price: $850
Rochester: Susan B. Anthony, 1887. Second editions of vols. 1-2, first edition of vol. 3. Each volume inscribed by Anthony to suffragist Annie McLean Marsh. Each Volume Inscribed. Sometimes referred to as the "bible" of the suffrage movement, Anthony's History of Woman suffrage comprises "a vast compendium of reminiscences, reports..... Read More about History of Woman Suffrage
Price: $17,500
New York: Harper & Row, (1964). First edition. King’s third book, Why We Can’t Wait, includes the first book appearance of his celebrated “Letter from Birmingham Jail” written after he was arrested in Alabama in 1963 during a non-violent protest against racism and racial segregation. Read More about Why We Can't Wait
Price: $850
[New York]: [1858] [printed early 1860s]. The Beginnings of Central Park. An extraordinary photograph taken at the very beginnings of the construction of Central Park. Taken from the roof of the Arsenal at 64th Street looking down the dirt road of Fifth Aveue, evidence of the park construction can be..... Read More about Photograph of Fifth Avenue looking southward from the roof of the Arsenal at 64th Street
Price: $7,500
[Washington, D.C.]: [April 1865]. President Lincon was assassinated on April 15, 1865; his body lay in state in the White House on April 18, and the funeral service took place around noon on the 19th. After the funeral itself, the official procession, the central act in the public mourning of..... Read More about Obsequies of President Lincoln. Order of Funeral Procession
Price: $10,000
Chicago: Kurz & Allison, 1890. Glory: The Death of Colonel Shaw and His 54th Massachusetts African American Troops at Fort Wagner. A dramatic rendering of the first major battle in the Civil War to involve African-American troops, the attempted storming of a Confederate fort near Charleston, South Carolina on July..... Read More about Storming Fort Wagner ... Charge of the 54' Mass. (Cold'd) Rgt. July 18, 1863
Price: $5,500
New York: Random House, [1998]. First edition. Inscribed by author to Bob Towbin, with ALS to Towbin laid in. Read More about To End a War
Price: $100
St. Petersburg: Russisch-Kaiserlichen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft. Gedruck bei N. Gretsch, 1840. First edition. Rare Travels in America by the Russian Consul in New York. Charles Cramer (1799-1879), who was one of 5 sons of Benedikt Cramer (1768-1849) of St. Petersburg, a well-connected merchant and entrepreneur, and a director of the Russian..... Read More about Etwas ueber die Natur-Wunder in Nord-America
Price: $3,000
Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, May 1963. First edition, first issue. First Separate Printing of King's Famous Letter From Birmingham City Jail: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." King's non-violent Birmingham campaign protesting racism and racial segregation in Birmingham began on April 3, 1963. Arrested and jailed on..... Read More about Letter from Birmingham City Jail
Price: $6,500
New York: Printed for the Author by C. Vinten, 63 Vesey Street, 1841. First Edition. Includes several pages of observations on slavery in Kentucky, along these lines: "one cannot imagine, unless one sees them, how merry they are" (page 126). Also discusses the challenges faced by the Republic of Texas..... Read More about A Voyage to Mexico and Havanna; including some general observations on the United States. By an...
Price: $500
New York: John Doggett Jr., Proprietor 156 Broadway, 1847. Read More about Doggett's United States Railroad and Ocean Steam Navigation Guide, illustrated with map
Price: $750
San Francisco: C. Frusher Howard, 1874. First Edition. Read More about Howard's California Calculator The Newest, Quickest and most Complete Instructor for all who...
Price: $125
New York: Pioneer Press, [Printed for the Socialist Workers Party], June 1943. First edition, June 1943. Read More about The Struggle for Negro Equality
Price: $200
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1928. First edition. Scarce original 1928 Workers Library Publishers edition. Read More about American Negro Problems
Price: $200
Nashville: Southern Education Reporting Service, November, 1962. Revised edition, later printing. Read More about Statistical Summary of School Segregation-Desegregation Activity Affecting Southern Schools from...
Price: $100
New York: Communist Party of Bedford-Stuyvesant, 1949. Reprinted from Political Affairs [February, 1949]. The Black Communist Party of Bed-Stuy. James W. “Jim” Ford (b.1893 – d. 1957) was an activist, a politician, and the Vice-Presidential candidate for the Communist Party USA in the years 1932, 1936, and 1940. Read More about The Meaning of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Elections
Price: $150
Washington, D.C: Office of Policy Planning and Research, United States Department of Labor, March 1965. The Moynihan Report on Black poverty proposed that the rise in Black single-mother families was caused not by a lack of jobs, but by destructive trends in Black neighborhoods, which could be traced to slavery..... Read More about The Moynihan Report: The Negro Family. The Case for National Action
Price: $500
![Item #353387 African Negro Art [wrapper title]. Art, Weyhe Gallery](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/353387.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1682356607)
New York: The Weyhe Gallery, 1940. Illustrated Weyhe Gallery 1940 catalogue of 94 items from the Dr. Hans Himmelheber collecton. Read More about African Negro Art [wrapper title
Price: $100