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. Birney's view..... 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. The image..... More

Nashville, TN / New York: Department of Art, Fisk University / American Missionary Association and the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, [1975]. First Edition. Slim quarto; publisher's black pictorial card wrappers; 92pp.; halftone illus. Light wear to wrapper margins. Very Good and sound. Signed by Driskell on title page. Exhibition..... More

New York: Crown Publishers, 1992. Second Printing. Large, slim quarto (31cm); publisher's pictorial boards in matching unclipped dust jacket; [32]pp.; color illus. throughout. Corners bumped, brief soil to upper jacket panel, else Very Good and sound. Signed and dated by the author on title page 2/7/99. 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: Saunders and Otley, 1837. First American Edition. Two volumes; 12mo (19cm); publisher's green cloth, printed paper spine labels; [2],xv,[3],395; [4](ads),[6],ii,420pp. Cloth worn and starting to split along all four joints, corners bumped, paper spine labels toned and chipped with brief loss of text, 20th century ownership signature to..... More

Washington, DC: Gales & Seaton, 1826. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); original publisher's cloth over blue paper-covered boards; 77pp.; one fold-out plate. Collated complete. Boards rubbed with some spotting and dampstains; cloth on spine fraying. Front cloth joint splitting but holding; pages foxed; endpapers dampstained. Unidentified numerical ex-library stamp on top of..... 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 compensation to..... More

New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First Edition, with all first issue points listed in the BAL, including the visible tablecloth frontispiece and the illustration on p. 283 in its original state [BAL's State A]. Small quarto (22cm); publisher's library sheep rebacked to style with corners retouched, retaining..... More

New York: Arno Press, a New York Times Company, 1976. Reprint. Octavo. 140 + 2 pp. advertisements. Pale blue-green boards stamped in navy. No dust jacket. Light rubbing to boards and binding is sound. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked. Arno Press reprint of the..... More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's illustrated boards; [xvi];380pp; map frontis, charts & tables throughout. Boards lightly shelfworn; spine slightly cocked with bumping at tail. Binding sound and pages unmarked. 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