New York: Office of the Anti-Slavery Reporter, 1834. First Edition. 12mo. 46 pp.; wraps, removed. Light soiling and rubbing to wraps. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Very Good. James Birney was a prominent Kentucky planter and slave owner who gradually grew enamored first of the concept of colonization..... More

N.p.: Catholic Historical Review, 1946. Offprint from Vol. XXXII, no. 1, April, 1946. Octavo (23cm); publisher's green printed staple bound wrappers; [2],28-46pp. Wrappers chipped and quite toned along margins, damp stain affecting bottom edge of wrappers but not bleeding into textblock; Good to Very Good overall. Not separately catalogued in..... More

United States: n.d., ca. 1860s. Unused Civil War patriotic mailing envelope (7.5x14cm); upper panel adorned with a woodcut illustration printed in red. Light soil and wrinkling, else a Very Good, bright and unused example. Patriotic cover revisiting a popular Union theme: the unpopularity of Confederate president Jefferson Davis..... More

London: Macmillan and Co. 1863. First Edition. Two volumes bound in one; octavos; early 20th-century half navy morocco over cloth by Maurin with their rubber-stamp to front flyleaf verso, gilt spine in five compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers; x,310; vi,326,[2]pp. Light wear and dryness to leather margins, small chip..... More

Hartford, [CT]: Printed by William H. Burleigh, 1848. First Edition. Octavo. 215pp. Bound in contemporary black leather spine over navy speckled paper-covered boards with "Prison Bard" in gilt to spine; peach endpapers. Boards worn with exposure to edges and general scuffing. Binding sound. Contemporary female ownership inscription to preliminaries; spotting..... More

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. First Edition. Signed by Gloria Steinem and Liora Kasten at title page with two other unidentified inscriptions. Octavo; photo-illustrated dust jacket; light gray boards stamped in gilt; 218pp. Light wear and creasing to dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with bumping to spine ends; binding sound; pages..... More

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; xlii,521pp. Light shelf wear to jacket margins, brief soil to front free endpaper, else a Near Fine example. Inscribed and signed by the editor John Hope Franklin on half title page... More

Washington, DC? s.i., 1862. First Edition. Octavo; 2pp. broadsheet (22.5x14cm) removed from larger volume. Margins toned, else Very Good. Speech delivered by the firebrand abolitionist and Senator from Maine Lot Myrick Morrill (1813-1883) regarding a bill providing for "the emancipation of the slaves in this District, with just..... More

New York: Riverhead Books, 2009. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); 417pp. Publisher’s illustrated dust jacket with $26.95 price intact; boards quarter-bound in teal and navy cloth with copper stamping to front panel and spine. Dust jacket bumped, especially along top edge; rear panel scuffed. Boards bumped; otherwise clean. Binding sound. Textblock..... More

New York: Wm. Bryant & Co., Printers, 41 Nassau Street, Corner of Liberty, 1863. First Edition. Octavo. 19 pp. Printed wraps. Housed in more recent marbled paper wraps with brown backstrip, staples noticeable beneath. Abrasions and glue remnants to front wraps with loss to text; light creasing to edges; a...... More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. First Edition. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket; 330pp. Illustrations. Rubbing and some surface scratching to dust jacket; white residue, likely from paint on a shelf, to bottom edge of boards; binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy. More