Extremely rare 1791-1792 editions of Paine’s revolutionary classic, containing the scarce second edition of Rights of Man (Part I), issued within days of the first edition, together in one volume with the rarely found first edition, first issue of Part the Second. Paine's Rights of Man, one of his most important, influential, and best-selling works, is "the clearest of all expositions on the basic principles of democracy" (PMM), and remains "one of the most ardent and clear defenses of human rights, liberty, and equality in any language" (Fruchtman). Paine hoped the work "would do for England what his Common Sense had done for America" (Gimbel), but it resulted in the prosecution of Paine, his publishers and booksellers, and forced Paine to flee to France. $25,000. | More...
An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans
Lydia Maria Child
First edition of "a central document of the abolitionist movement," the revolutionary 1833 work that made Lydia Maria Child "one of the first Americans to speak out against the institution of slavery," complete with three steel engravings, including the iconic frontispiece of an enslaved woman, full-page engraving of slave manacles and torture devices, and full-page engraving of Mungo Park with an African woman, a handsome copy in original unrestored cloth. $4800. | More...
To Seek a Newer World
Inscribed by Robert F. Kennedy
First edition, published less than seven months before RFK's assassination, inscribed and signed "For Stephen Adamson, With Best Wishes, Robert F. Kennedy." $2800. | More...
Rosa Parks: My Story
Inscribed by Rosa Parks
First edition, later printing, of Parks' autobiography, inscribed by her on the half title, "12/5/95 To E—- M—-, Rosa Parks." $1200. | More...
The War with the South
Robert Tomes & Benjamin G. Smith
Early edition, three volumes abundantly illustrated with 27 color-printed maps and engraved plates of historical figures and dramatic scenes of the Civil War. $2600. | More...
"Address of John Brown" Broadside
Boston: Printed by
C.C. Mead, [1859]
Fascinating 1859 broadside sharing John Brown's speech before the court prior to receiving his death sentence of the Harper's Ferry Raid, published the same year as both the raid and Brown's execution and originally sold by the abolitionist weekly, The Liberator. $8500. | More...
The White House Years: Mandate for Change 1953-1956
Signed by Dwight Eisenhower
Signed limited first edition of Eisenhower's White House memoir, Mandate for Change, number 1153 of 1500 copies signed by him on publisher's tipped-in leaf, in original acetate and slipcase. $2500. | More...
Report of the Case of the Trustees of Dartmouth College Against William H. Woodward
Timothy Farrar
First edition of one of the most significant and influential of the early cases appearing before the Supreme Court, very scarce uncut in original paper boards. $4500. | More...
