![Pedagogy of the Oppressed [First U.S. Edition]. Paulo Freire, Myra Bergman Ramos, trans](/images/noimage.png)
New York: Herder and Herder, 1970. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 186 pages. Unclipped graphic dust jacket with original "$5.95" price present. Off-white boards stamped in black at spine. Some toning, rubbing, and general edgewear to dust jacket. Toning to edges of boards and slight lean to spine. Binding..... More
![My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington [William Safire copy]. Rose...](/pictures/thumb/6303.jpg?v=1590597688)
London: Richard Bentley, 1863. First Edition. Octavo. 352 pages plus 2 pages advertisements. Portrait frontis. Blue cloth stamped in gilt at front and spine. Ex-library of the Wigan [England] Free Public Library. Front hinge separated with front board still holding to front endpapers and frontis, with some precarious tears..... More
Port-au-Prince, HT: Henri Deschamps, 1950. First Trade Edition. Octavo. 635 [+ vii] pages. Lacks folding map [per OCLC]. Printed wraps with blue lettering. Text in French. Some toning and minor tearing to edges. Binding is sound. Pages toned but unmarked. Overall sound. Includes the works of many..... More
![Children of Ceausescu [Signed by Muller]. Kent Klich, Herta Muller](/pictures/thumb/6300.jpg?v=1590074299)
New York: Umbrage Editions, 2001. Stated First Edition. Signed by Herta Muller without inscription on title page. Quarto; unpaginated. Black and white photographs throughout, with text by Muller. Photographic boards with white, black, and gray lettering. No dust jacket, as issued. Boards lightly bumped at corners and spine..... More
![A Cab at the Door: An Autobiography: Early Years [Signed]. V S. Pritchett](/pictures/thumb/6299.jpg?v=1590071623)
London: Chatto & Windus, 1968. First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; 237 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original 30s net price intact; book in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Large chip to jacket at top front near spine, with a couple..... More
Birmingham: Thunder City Press, 1981. Stated First Printing. Limited to 300 copies. Octavo; 56 pages. Photo-illustrated paper wraps. Covers lightly edgeworn with a few scuffs, smudges, and one small dent to surface, but with no chips or tears. Dent extends to first seven or so pages, but not involving..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1933-1946. Stated Firsts: Vols. 1, 3-7, 13-14; Second Printing: Vol. 2: "First and Second Printing Before Publication": Vols. 8-9; unstated "wartime edition": Vols. 10-12. Octavo, various cumulative paginations from 385 to 615. Dust jackets present for Vols 8, 9, 11, 12. Modernist cubist..... More
![In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind [Inscribed to William Safire]. Eric...](/pictures/thumb/6295.jpg?v=1590066026)
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006. First Edition. Octavo. 510 pages. Signed by Kandel on half title to William Safire with inscription, "For Bill / A wonderful friend / who has helped me greatly / with this book and, / more important, has / provided superb leadership / at..... More
![Archive and Eleanor Roosevelt Association Copies] Eleanor Roosevelt and Marjorie M. Whiteman...](/pictures/thumb/6294.jpg?v=1589389361)
The hidden figure of Dr. Marjorie Millace Whiteman, 1898-1986, international law expert and advisor to ten U.S. Secretaries of State, author of the renowned Whiteman Digest of International Law (in 15 volumes) and prized legal advisor to Eleanor Roosevelt from 1945 to 1952 and beyond, comes to light through her..... More
![Ephemera: Program] Prince Hall Americanism Day Honoring Prince Hall, Our First Negro Grand Master...](/pictures/thumb/6293.jpg?v=1588538245)
Hayti, Missouri: Masonic Grand Lodge of Missouri and its Subordinate Lodges of the Sixth District, 1965. Octavo (8½” x 5½”); two-page pamphlet program. Minor tanning, original attendee’s folds (perhaps to fit in a jacket pocket) now flattened. This program, labeled “tentative” on the inside to allow for last-minute changes..... More
![Pamphlet] The High-German American Calendar, for the year 1829 after the blessed birth of our...](/pictures/thumb/6292.jpg?v=1588537311)
Germantown: Michael Billmeyer, 1828. Octavo pamphlet; 34pp. Self-cover with hand-threaded binding reinforcement. Text printed entirely in black-letter, and in German. Edges show some insect taste-testing, and erosion in layers, but pages are whole. Back cover missing. Obtrusive, but necessary, repair to front cover in archival tape by previous collector..... More
![Broadside] The Declaration of Independence with Fac-similies of the Signatures and Likenesses of...](/pictures/thumb/6290.jpg?v=1588530266)
Boston: James Fisher / Franklin Print Company, 1841. Broadside, approx. 33cm x 25cm. Heavy paper stock, off-white. [Bidwell, 1988: No. 16, note on 1841 printing] Tanned, with remnants of liquid stain on all edges. Some darker stains and speckles at upper right corner and along right edge. One closed..... More
Yokohama/Miyanoshita: Fujiya Hotel, 1934-1937. Octavo in maru chitsu cases. Vol I 200pp, 355 photographs or line drawings in B&W or two colors. Vol II 207pp, 380 photographs or line drawings in B&W or two colors. Vol I in iridescent wheatgrass cloud-patterned silk housed in indigo case. Vol II in celadon..... More
Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1986. Six individually folded full-color miniature reproductions of classic screens, each 15cm x 31cm. They are housed within a maru chitsu case of 15.5cm x 6cm x 5cm in red and gold flowered silk with faux bone fastener. Pristine obi retained. Complete set of..... More
Boston: Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. First Paperback Edition. Illustrated wraps. Signed by author on half title page with inscrtion, "For Mary Anne / Hear Your Heart / Jane Goodall." Signed black and white portrait photo of Goodall also laid in. Octavo. 386 pages. Black and white photos..... More
![Angels [First Paperback Edition]. Denis Johnson](/pictures/thumb/6285.jpg?v=1589394242)
New York: Ballantine Books, 1984. First Paperback Edition. Mass Market paperback; 210 pages. Illustrated Wraps. Moderate wear to edges and a small bump at bottom front corner, with creasing along joints. Vertical crease down spine, though spine is unbroken. Pages lightly toned. A sound copy of..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002. First Thus with full numberlines. Each signed by the illustrator on title pages with inscription, "To Jean and Sean / best wishes / Alan Lee." Three volumes in slipcase. Quarto; I: xx, 410 pp; II: x, 415-750 pp; III: xii, 755-1170 pp. Color..... More
![The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security [Signed]. Kevin D. Mitnick,...](/pictures/thumb/6282.jpg?v=1589394976)
Indianapolis: Wiley Publishing, 2002. First Edition. Signed by author on title page with inscription, "To Jean / Kevin Mitnick 10/30/2002." Octavo. 352 pages. Embossed dust jacket with original $27.50 price intact; book in black cloth-covered boards with silver lettering to spine. Jacket lightly rubbed along edges with faint, inoffensive smudging..... More
![Quicksilver: Volume One of the Baroque Cycle [Signed]. Neal Stephenson](/pictures/thumb/6281.jpg?v=1589396224)
New York: William Morrow, 2003. First Edition. Signed by author on title page with inscription, "To Jean / Neal Stephenson." Octavo. 927 pages. Map endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket with original $27.95 price intact; book in blue and gray boards with silver lettering to spine. Jacket shows light edgewear..... More
![We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race [Signed]. Thomas P. Stafford, Michael Cassutt](/pictures/thumb/6280.jpg?v=1589394629)
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute Press, 2002. Second Printing. Signed by Stafford on front free endpaper without inscription. Octavo. 288 pages. Black and white photographs. Glossy illustrated dust jacket over blue and black boards with white lettering to spine. Jacket shows light edgewear. Boards rubbed at edges with some light..... More
Unpublished autograph travel diary in three notebooks. February-August 1908. Each commercially-produced small octavo notebook (19cm x 12cm) of 190 pages, ruled paper, sewn gatherings, thin oxblood leather covers, rounded corners, all pageblock edges gilt. Covers and stitching now loosened; gatherings separating but all pages present. Leather covers flaking with edge..... More
New York: The Magicians' League of America, 1933. Presumed First Edition. Octavo. 144 + [i] pp. Illustrations throughout. Blue boards with orange lettering. Lacks dust jacket. Cards for tricks in glassine predominantly intact; additional materials (paper of varying color, thickness, and use) for tricks of deception and divination laid and..... More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1907. Special Publication of the Maryland Geological Survey, Volume VI, Part V. Octavo. [v]; 420-572. Color illustrations. Original wraps over boards recased in library binding with black buckram spine. Library stamp of District of Columbia Public Library inside front cover, with other expected..... More
![Black Lamb and Grey Falcon [Two Volumes]. Rebecca West](/pictures/thumb/6275.jpg?v=1589993525)
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. Two Volumes. First American Edition. Octavo. 629 pages; 630-1181 pages. Map endpapers; black and white photographs.Illustrated dust jackets with $7.50 set price intact on each; books in black cloth with color illustrated vignettes to front. Lacking slipcase. Jackets are lightly chipped at..... More
![Way West: Stories, Essays & Verse Accounts: 1963-1993 [Signed Limited First Edition]. Edward Dorn](/pictures/thumb/6271.jpg?v=1584996282)
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. Limited First Edition. Signed by Dorn and numbered 96 of 125 on colophon at back. Octavo; 281 pp. Illustrated boards with brown cloth spine and paper spine label, in publisher's acetate dust jacket. Boards toned a bit along edges, with light bumping..... More