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A Conversation between Tom and Ashley

A: [yelling]: Rare Books! Get yer rare books here! Dickens! Twain! Brontë!
T: [pokes head out the window]: What’s all the racket?
A: Well, I think people are missing the experience of sporting events so I
thought I would use my peanut vendor technique to sell books to the neighbors.
[yelling]: Rare books, archives, ephemera!
T: We have neighbors?
A: Who do you think I’m yelling at?
T: I’m sure they’ll be very grateful.

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Broadside]: Notice. Deductions from Pay Start Jan. 1. Beginning January 1, 1937, your employer...

[Broadside]: Notice. Deductions from Pay Start Jan. 1. Beginning January 1, 1937, your employer will be compelled by law to deduct a certain amount form your wages every payday... [followed by 15 lines of text]

Washington, D.C. Social Security Board, [1936]. Unbound. Broadside. 12" x 18". Text printed in bold with header underlined. Uniform toning on the paper else very near fine. The broadside announces the terms of compliance with the Social Security Act signed by President Franklin W. Roosevelt on August 14, 1935, and..... More

Price: $3,500.00

Item #426039

Broadside]: Workingmen, Arouse! To the Workingmen of the City and County of Albany

[Broadside]: Workingmen, Arouse! To the Workingmen of the City and County of Albany...

Albany, New York: [no publisher], 1867. Unbound. Broadside. Approximately 7.25" x 10.75". Margins a little irregularly trimmed, removed from a scrapbook or backer, a bit wrinkled, and with a small marginal tear that is threatening to become a chip, a good only copy. A call to workingmen and a sworn..... More

Price: $650.00

Item #343289

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone. James BALDWIN

BALDWIN, James

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

London: Michael Joseph, (1968). Hardcover. First English edition. One corner a tiny bit bumped, else fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. More

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Item #78555

Original Print]: "Cañon del Muerto, Navaho" [from The North American Indian, 1906]. Edward S....

CURTIS, Edward S.

[Original Print]: "Cañon del Muerto, Navaho" [from The North American Indian, 1906]

[Cambridge, Massachusetts]: John Andrew & Son, 1906. Unbound. First edition. Hand-pulled gravure print. Plate no. 29 from the first portfolio of *The North American Indian*. Light toning and a few very faint, tiny stains at the margins, very good. Signed and dated by Edward Curtis (1912) on the bottom margin..... More

Price: $9,500.00

Item #331615

Our Mutual Friend. Charles DICKENS

DICKENS, Charles

Our Mutual Friend

London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. Hardcover. First book edition. Illustrated by Marcus Stone. Two volumes. Early half calf and marbled papercovered boards, raised bands, black and red calf spine labels, spine elaborately gilt. Bound without ads. Neat contemporary owner's name in each volume, considerable wear to the edges of the..... More

Price: $1,350.00

Item #327108

Dark Princess: A Romance. W. E. Burghardt DuBOIS, Du Bois

DuBOIS, W.E. Burghardt (Du Bois)

Dark Princess: A Romance

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1928. Hardcover. First edition. A trifle spotted on the spine a very near fine copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. Exceptionally nice copy of this scarce novel by Du Bois. More

Price: $600.00

Item #399912

Candle-Lightin' Time. Paul Laurence DUNBAR

DUNBAR, Paul Laurence

Candle-Lightin' Time

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1901. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club. Decorative cloth and decorations by Margaret Armstrong. A trifle rubbed at the bottom of the boards, just about fine in an about very good example of the rare dustwrapper with shallow..... More

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Item #393601

The Call Girl: A Social and Psychoanalytic Study. Dr. Harold GREENWALD

GREENWALD, Dr. Harold

The Call Girl: A Social and Psychoanalytic Study

New York: Ballantine, (1958). Hardcover. First edition. Slight bump to the top of the front board else fine in good plus dustwrapper with some fading at the spine and with chipping and tears at the crown. Basis for the film *Girl of the Night* with Anne Francis in the title..... More

Price: $150.00

Item #49693

Why I Left America: Address by Oliver Wendell Harrington on April 18, 1991 at Wayne State...

HARRINGTON, Oliver Wendell

Why I Left America: Address by Oliver Wendell Harrington on April 18, 1991 at Wayne State University in Detroit

Detroit, Michigan: Walter O. Evans, 1991. Softcover. One of 250 Signed copies. Eighteen pages. Fine in stapled wrappers. Scrutiny from the FBI during the McCarthy era lead him to flee the United States to Paris, and later to East Berlin. Scarce. This was the title essay of a later collection..... More

Price: $150.00

Item #52959

Simple Stakes a Claim. Langston HUGHES

HUGHES, Langston

Simple Stakes a Claim

New York: Rinehart, (1957). Hardcover. First edition. Poor quality paper yellowed as always else fine in near fine dustwrapper with some slight wear at the crown. A scarce book in collector's condition. This copy is much nicer than usual. More

Price: $200.00

Item #64947

Typed Note Signed ("Jacqueline B. Kennedy"). Jacqueline KENNEDY

KENNEDY, Jacqueline

Typed Note Signed ("Jacqueline B. Kennedy")

Unbound. Small note (approximately 4.75" x 6") dated 17 October 1960 to Miss Vermeule, thanking her for a clipping, commenting "I certainly agree with you about Jack's smile," and Signed "Jacqueline B. Kennedy." Previously framed and trimmed to fit from a larger sheet. Touch of toning, and crease from being..... More

Price: $950.00

Item #305106

The Natural. Bernard MALAMUD

MALAMUD, Bernard

The Natural

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, (1952). Hardcover. First edition. Spine a little faded, near fine in the gray binding (one of three, with no priority) in a very near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears and nominal rubbing. Inscribed by the author in the year of..... More

Price: $7,500.00

Item #323924

Executive Careers For Women. Frances MAULE

MAULE, Frances

Executive Careers For Women

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. Hardcover. First edition. Small blue pencil price on front pastedown, else fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing at the spine ends. *Mad Men*-era how-to book for aspiring female executives. Uncommon, especially in jacket. More

Price: $375.00

Item #135342

Balance of Power: The Negro Vote. Henry Lee MOON

MOON, Henry Lee

Balance of Power: The Negro Vote

Garden City: Doubleday, 1948. Hardcover. First edition. Lightly bump at two corners else near fine in a very good dustwrapper with rubbing and wear at the edges. Signed by the author. A study of the Negro vote from Reconstruction to the present times. Moon was an important journalist and author..... More

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Item #46504

Four Letters from Maxwell Perkins to Sherwood Anderson's Widow. Maxwell E. PERKINS

PERKINS, Maxwell E.

Four Letters from Maxwell Perkins to Sherwood Anderson's Widow

Unbound. One two-page Autograph Letter Signed and three Typed Letters Signed from legendary editor Max Perkins to Sherwood Anderson's widow, Eleanor Anderson, dated 1941-1946. Overall near fine with folds from being mailed, a small stain on the first page of the autograph letter, and a spot of glue remnant and..... More

Price: $3,500.00

Item #50745

The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for People of All Ages. Mark TWAIN

TWAIN, Mark

The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for People of All Ages

Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882. Hardcover. First American edition, first issue with Franklin Press imprint. Publisher's deluxe binding of half-calf and marbled papercovered boards. The paper on the edges of the boards is a bit worn, and some rubbing to the extremities, as almost always seems the case, else a...... More

Price: $4,000.00

Item #98648

A Curtain of Green. Eudora WELTY

WELTY, Eudora

A Curtain of Green

Garden City: Doubleday, 1941. Hardcover. Early reprint, in the same format as the first edition. Introduction by Katherine Anne Porter. Slight bump at the crown else near fine in a price-clipped and spine-tanned, very good dustwrapper. This copy Inscribed to Welty's friend, the author Edna Frederikson: "To Edna with my..... More

Price: $750.00

Item #48906

A Woman for Mayor. Helen M. WINSLOW

WINSLOW, Helen M.

A Woman for Mayor

Chicago: Reilly & Britton, (1909). Hardcover. First edition. Frontispiece and jacket art by Walter Dean Goldbeck. Small contemporary bookstamp and gift inscription, else fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with a few shallow chips. Party split results in a woman running and winning the mayoralty over the man she..... More

Price: $400.00

Item #71403

Granite and Rainbow. Virginia WOOLF

WOOLF, Virginia

Granite and Rainbow

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1958). Hardcover. First American edition. Small stain on the rear board and some rubbing at the bottom of the boards, still very near fine in fine dustwrapper with a small corresponding stain on the rear panel. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Despite..... More

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Item #52632

Printing plate for the Fisk Jubilee Singers’ Song “It’s Me (O Lord)”. John W. WORK, II

WORK, John W., II

Printing plate for the Fisk Jubilee Singers’ Song “It’s Me (O Lord)”

[circa 1902]. Unbound. Brass printing plate mounted on mahogany(?) woodblock. Evidence of ink and light wear, very good or better. Reportedly this plate was originally purchased from the Work family house in Nashville. John W. Work II led the famous Fisk Jubilee Singers for many years, and his brother, Frederick..... More

Price: $1,000.00

Item #81603

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