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W.E.B. Du Bois Self-proclaimed magnum opus Black Reconstruction in America; signed by him
DU BOIS, W.E.B.
Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880.
New York: S.A. Russell Company, 1956.
First Harbor Scholars' Classics edition of Du Bois' self-proclaimed magnum opus which challenged the standard academic view and helped spark "the long attempt to rescue black history in America." Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Very good in the original dust jacket which is in good condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 135136
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“There is no better antidote against entertaining too high an opinion of others than having an excellent one of ourselves at the very same time": Rare first edition collection of Sil Walter Scott's Waverly Novels
SCOTT, Sir Walter.
The Waverly Novels First Edition Collection.
Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne; And Hurst, Robinson, and Co., London, 1816-1821.
First edition collection of Scott's Waverly Novels. Octavo, bound in full contemporary cloth with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, the set includes first editions of The Antiquary (1816, 3 volumes, half-titles present); Guy Mannering (1817); Rob Roy (1818, 3 volumes, half-titles); and The Abbot (1820, 3 volumes); Tales of My Landlord (second series: 1818, 4 volumes; third series: 1819, 4 volumes; fourth series: 1832, vol. 1-3); Ivanhoe (1820, 3 volumes); The Monastery (1820, 3 volumes); Kenilworth (1821, 3 volumes, half-titles); Peveril of the Peak (1822, 4 volumes); The Pirate (1822, 3 volumes); Fortunes of Nigel (1822, 3 volumes); Quentin Durward…
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 124020
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“Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many": The Complete Works of Alexander Hamilton; Finely Bound
HAMILTON, Alexander.
The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Comprising His Correspondence, and His Political and Official Writings, Exclusive of the Federalist, Civil and Military. Published From the Original Manuscripts Deposited in the Department of State, By Order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress.
New York : Charles S. Francis & Company, 1851.
Finely bound set of the works of Alexander Hamilton. Octavo, 7 volumes, bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, frontispiece of Hamilton. In very good condition. A nice set.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 126124
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"And now, if you please, three round, smooth, stones": First edition of Stone Soup; Lengthily Inscribed by Marcia Brown with an original drawing
BROWN, Marcia.
Stone Soup.
New York: Charles Scribner, 1947.
First edition [with the Scribner's A] of the author's classic work. Quarto, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half title page, "To _____ _______ A handy recipe- May he never go hungry Bon Appetit! Best Wishes Marcia Brown." Brown has also drawn an original drawing. Near fine in a good dust jacket with some wear and tear. Rare, even more so signed and with the original drawing.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 344
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"Arguably the central text of the Harlem Renaissance... hailed as an important revision of the slave narrative and a forerunner of black protest fiction": First edition of James Weldon Johnson's An Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
JOHNSON, James Weldon.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.
Boston: Sherman, French & Company, 1912.
First edition of the work the central text of the Harlem Renaissance, hailed as the link between 19th and 20th African American narratives. Octavo, original cloth stamped in gilt. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 124993
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First Edition of Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim
AMIS, Kingsley.
Lucky Jim.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1953.
First edition of this hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, a classic of postwar English literature. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 142819
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A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night... [with] Supplemental Nights
BURTON, Richard F.
A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night… [with] Supplemental Nights.
Benares: Printed by the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscribers only, .
First Burton edition of The Arabian Nights. Octavo, 16 volumes, bound in three quarter red crushed morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spin, raised bands, top edge gilt, illustrated. In near fine condition.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 119367
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“It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act”: First Edition of "of this classic account of the human tendency to follow orders" Obedience To Authority; Inscribed by Stanley Milgram
MILGRAM, Stanley.
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Stanley Milgram on the front free endpaper, "To Nat with warm regards, Stanley." The recipient was a student at Yale University of Milgram's. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 18064
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"one of the most remarkable books ever written": First Editions of Jawaharlal Nehru's Glimpses of History
NEHRU, Jawaharlal .
Glimpses of World History: Two Volume Set.
Allahabad: Printed by M.N. Pandey , 1934-35.
First editions of "one of the most remarkable books ever written" (The New York Times). Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth. In very good condition. Foreword by Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. First editions are exceptionally rare.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 89875
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Rare sammelband collection of four works related to the American Revolution; including Thomas Paine's Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North-America
RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas François; Thomas Paine; Daniel Leonard.
The Revolution in America. By the Abbe Raynal; A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North-America. In Which the Mistakes in the Abbe’s Account of the Revolution of America are Corrected and Cleared Up ; Massachusettensis: or a Series of Letters, Containing a Faithful State of Many Important and Striking Facts, which Laid the Foundation of the Present Troubles in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
London: Various Publishers, 1781-1786.
Rare sammelband collection of first and early English printings of treatises related to the American Revolutionary War, reflecting both Republican and Tory opinions. The collection includes a first English edition of The Revolution in America. By the Abbe Raynal [London: Printed for Lockyer Davis, Holborn, 1781]; a second English edition of Thomas Paine's A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North-America. In Which the Mistakes in the Abbe's Account of the Revolution of America are Corrected and Cleared Up [London: For C. Dilly, 1782]; a first edition in book form of Daniel Leonard's The North Briton,…
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 133410
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Rare Miniature Book of Hours Illuminated Manuscript Leaf Collection
Miniature Book of Hours Illuminated Manuscript Leaf Collection.
Rare collection of six illuminated leaves from three late 15th century Books of Hours. Six vellum leaves decorated with illuminated initials and borders. Each leaf is framed allowing visibility of both sides of each page. In near fine condition. An exceptional collection.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 110201
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The Declaration of Independence and Constitution; With the first appearance in book form of the 13th Amendment
Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States.
New York: R. Spalding, 1865.
Rare first edition of this Civil War publication of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which features the text of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, its first appearance in book form. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Rare and desirable with only a handful appearing at auction in the last 80 years.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 117244
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First edition of Dee Alexander Brown's The Bold Cavaliers; inscribed by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Harper Lee to close personal friend and colleague Charles Weldon Carruth
BROWN, Dee Alexander. [Harper Lee].
The Bold Cavaliers: Morgan’s 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Raiders.
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1959.
First edition of the author's Civil War classic. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee on the front free endpaper to close University of Alabama college friend, Charles Weldon Carruth, "To Charles with love, Nelle." In the fall term of 1945, Lee and Carruth both enrolled in a Shakespeare course taught by one of the University of Alabama’s most famous faculty members, Hudson Strode, who directed the school’s theatre troupe and taught several courses in theatre and creative-writing. At the University of Alabama, Lee contributed a regular column…
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 116234
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"Because the only people for me are the mad ones": First Edition of Jack Kerouac's On The Road
KEROUAC, Jack.
On The Road.
New York: The Viking Press, 1957.
First edition of Kerouac's classic novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a closed tear and light rubbing to the extremities. Jacket design by Bill English. A nice example.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 142335
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The First Annotated Edition of Cervantes' Masterpiece El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha
CERVANTES, Miguel De.
El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.
Madrid: Gabriel de Sancha, 1797-98.
First edition of the first annotated edition of Don Quixote. Octavo, five volumes, bound in contemporary tree calf, covers with a swashed diagonal cross, edged with a gilt roll, gilt bands and green lettering pieces, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges. With 2 engraved portraits, 2 engraved headpieces, 3 folding maps, and 31 engraved plates executed by P. Duflos and Moreno Tejada after R. Ximeno, A. Navarro, Monnet and Camaron y Paret. In near fine condition. "This beautiful edition, which is printed on excellent paper, is of the highest importance for Pellicer's erudite notes and commentary, and for his painstaking corrections of…
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 62015
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"MY ALLY & FRIEND, WITH THE PRAYER THAT WE'LL KEEP ON FIGHTING. SOONER OR LATER, WE'LL WIN": First Edition of Nobody Knows My Name; Signed by James Baldwin
BALDWIN, James.
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son.
New York : The Dial Press, 1961.
First edition of Baldwin’s second major book of essays, featuring his powerful analyses of the politics of race and his controversial three-part essay on Richard Wright. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "James Baldwin 9/15 - 74." Near fine in a good dust jacket with rubbing to the extremities. Jacket design by Robert Jonas. Jacket photograph by Roy Hyrkin. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 145473