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First edition. Inscribed first printing of this reflection of the effects of a culture of toxic masculinity on individual men, and how that in turn shapes the American landscape. 9.25'' x 6''. Original grey boards. Original unclipped ($27.50) pictorial dust jacket designed by Jane Palecek. Illustrated in black and white. 662 pages, including index. Inscribed by Faludi to title page, dated Sept. 17, 1999. Jacket with a bit of bumping to spine ends. Binding with a touch of bumping to spine ends. Firm and clean. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 46582

Condition: Fine in near fine jacket. First printing. First edition of this collection carefully selected from Samuels's monumental and authoritative larger six-volume set of Adams's letters. 9.25'' x 6.25''. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt. In original dust jacket. 587, [1] pages. Only minor wear to jacket.

Seller Inventory # 50486

Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Commemorative illustrated booklet, with menu and program, from the June 24, 1965 dinner honoring the campaign work of Senator Warren G. Magnuson and Representative Michael J. Kirwan and the restoration of a Democratic majority in both houses under the Johnson administration. Wraps. 4th. Saddle-stapled green and pink wraps. Light creasing to lower edge. Near fine.

Seller Inventory # 44123

Condition: Fine. "Classics of the Old West" facsimile of this travel narrative to California in the 1850s. 8.25'' x 5''. Original brown pictorial leatherette stamped in gilt and blind. Printed marble endpapers, all edges gilt, yellow silk ribbon marker. [4], xii, 13-384, [2] pages.

Seller Inventory # 50490

Condition: Near fine in very good jacket. First printing. First edition of these interwoven stories of America's westward expansion, this copy with a charming bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent. 9.25'' x 6''. Publisher's cloth in original unclipped ($5.95) dust jacket. 459, [1] pages. Rockwell Kent-designed bookplate to front free endpaper. Jacket with light toning to spine and moderate edgewear. Book with light shelfwear. Interior clean and bright.

Seller Inventory # 41875

Condition: Near fine. First printing. Signed first edition of this nonfiction narrative of a Yemeni-American man who travels to Yemen from San Francisco with hopes of reviving and innovating the coffee trade. 8.5'' x 6''. Hardcover. Original pictorial red, brown and gilt boards. 327, [5] pages. Signed by Eggers on front free endpaper. Minor bumping to corners. No jacket as issued.

Seller Inventory # 44250

Condition: Fine in fine jacket. First edition. Immaculate first printing of this journalistic exploration of the "amazing.and impossibly embarrassing" world of unaccompanied singing groups. Rapkin's sensational expos� of the gritty underbelly of collegiate a cappella ensembles, inspiration for the 2012 film loosely based on his book and starring Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson. The a cappella world, combining intense musical devotion with sportsmanlike loyalties, the ruthlessness of youth, and the inevitable peculiarities of a very niche subculture, provides the author with a wealth of material. A compelling window into a soap-operatic world of perfectionist alcoholics, soap-operatic interpersonal relationships and competitions turned "masturbatory, narcissistic parade[s]", all in service to a highly particular and genuine artistic ideal. 9'' x 6''. Original half cream cloth with maroon boards. In original unclipped ($26.00) dust jacket. [12], 275, [1] pages.

Seller Inventory # 39971

Condition: Near fine in near fine jacket. First edition of this anthology of Locke's philosophical writings, some previously unpublished, each "directly arguing for, criticizing, or expressing a fundamental notion of race, culture, civilization, identity, or value." 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth. In original green dust jacket. 332 pages. Minor edgewear; jacket spine and portion of text block lightly sunned.

Seller Inventory # 45147

Condition: Fine. Miniature book featuring an illustrated ode to San Francisco's cats, printed letterpress and hand-tinted in many colors. 2.25'' x 3''. Full leather with gilt-stamped illustrations. All edges gilt. Signed by Hiemstra and the printer Phitzer at colphon. Number 132 of an edition of 135 copies. Bright, crisp, and clean inside and out.

Seller Inventory # 42772

Condition: Very good. First edition of this Rocky Mountain travel account, focusing on Colorado within the first decade of its statehood. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original black pictorial cloth stamped in red and gilt. Floral patterned endpapers. Illustrated in black and white. 344 pages. Fading and rubbing to cloth. A couple small erasures to rear pastedown, else interior clean. Hinges firm.

Seller Inventory # 50487

Condition: Very nearly fine. First printing of this miniature book about four prominent people from the Battle of the Alamo. Yolanda Carter's Amistad Press, based in Austin, Texas, produced 64 miniature books between 1976 and 1999. HEROES OF THE ALAMO, which features brief stories about Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, Col. William B. Travis, and Susanna Dickinson, was published in the press's first year of operation. 1.5'' x 1''. Original blue cloth binding with paper paste-ons. Red endpapers with Texas motifs. Seven hand-colored illustrations. Unpaginated. Numbered 70 (of 108) to colophon and dated 1977. Binding bowing a bit. Clean and bright.

Seller Inventory # 45528

Condition: Good plus. First edition of the first publication of the narrative of the iconic explorer of the American West, only recently discovered after they were believed lost for over one hundred years. This publication was one of the key works that led to the resuscitation of Smith's importance in the early days of the exploration of the American West. 9.5'' x 6.25''. Original cream pictorial cloth boards. Illustrated with folding map. 195, [5] pages. Spine worn and darkened; folding map with clean tear through full central fold.

Seller Inventory # 50489

Condition: Near fine. First edition thus. Ephemeral prodution from the American Woman Suffrage Association, reprinting a vehement pro-suffrage speech by Senator George Frisbie Hoar of Massachussetts. Hoar includes letters of support from Wyoming Governor Francis E. Warren, testifying that women's right to vote had been "productive of much good in our Territory," and Washington Chief Justice Roger Greene, memorably describing a strain of voting rights opposition "bound by traditional notions of man's superiority and woman's sphere [that] seems unable to open its eyes or get its head straight or go, and lies curled up upon itself, altogether like a chick in an eggshell who ought to hatch, but doesn't." 10.5'' x 9.5''. Original self wraps. Bifolium making four pages. Light toning. Else clean and sharp.

Seller Inventory # 45978

Condition: Very good. An impressive color map of the island of Manhattan and the Bronx. Scale is 1" equals 1/2 mile and includes railroads, subways, elevated railroads, surface railroads, and proposed railroads. An uncommon, early 20th Century New York City street map. Folding color map. Measuring approximately 18" x 36" when unfolded. In original printed card wrapper. Verso a thorough, printed street index. Mild handling wear, toning. A few tiny holes near fold corners. Overall well preserved; very good.

Seller Inventory # 41637

Condition: Very good. First edition. Uncorrected proof of the first printing of this essential work of investigative journalism on the AIDS epidemic. "There was no excuse, in this country and in this time, for the spread of a deadly new epidemic." The unsparing prologue to Shilts's immense journalistic achievement is full of such bitter truths; thirty years on, they shock the reader both for their historical accuracy and for their continuing truth. Even as greatmedical and social advances have relieved much suffering since the height of the AIDS crisis, the tendency of the powerful to ignore science when it suits them, and to abandon the dying when helping them appears unprofitable, remains in full force. AND THE BAND PLAYED ON is a thorough and precise accounting of the early years of the AIDS epidemic and the Reagan administration's ghastly and murderous mismanagement of a public health catastrophe, chronologically organized and immensely detailed. As a journalist, Shilts was sometimes at odds with the gay community he wrote both to and about, and remains controversial for some of his claims; despite his still-debated stature, his achievements led to the eventual ranking of his AIDS reporting as one of the top 100 works of journalism in the 20th century. Scarce in this format. 9.25'' x 6''. Original publisher's printed yellow wrappers. 587 pages. Toning to extremities. Some minor soil. Else sound.

Seller Inventory # 50591

Condition: Very good. First edition of this comical post-war chronicle of culture shock, a witty survey of the everyday differences that US servicemen will experience at home after living in occupied Japan. A window into the daily life of a US serviceman meant in part as a light-hearted momento, and in part as an introduction to Japanese culture for their loved ones back home. The brainchild of two Navy servicemen, WHEN WE GET BACK HOME uses the conceit of soldiers acting "strangely" when they return home, while in fact they have simply come to appreciate differing aspects of Japanese culture. The servicemen delight in kotatsu instead of furnaces, futons instead of beds on frames, and chopsticks instead of silverware. They insist on taking shoes off in the house, wash themselves before getting in the bath, and have developed a preference for green tea over coffee. While the images depict amusing tableaux that stand alone, each is faced with a few paragraphs describing the cultural context that gives rise to the scene. The text also includes many Japanese words common to the serviceman's vocabulary ("daijobu"; "dozo"; "suteki"). An ebullient document of cross-cultural influence in the postwar period. 7'' x 5''. Original color pictorial wrappers, priced $1.00 on rear wrapper. Illustrated with full-page black and white images facing each page of text. [4]. 117, [3] pages. Faint stamp to front wrapper. Rubbing and some residue from former sticker removal to top edge of front wrapper. A bit of soil and edgewear. Interior clean.

Seller Inventory # 49843

Condition: Very good plus. Rare midcentury Boy Scouts promotional brochure advertising the benefits of scouting to an African American audience. This scarce BSA pamphlet extols the organization's effectiveness in producing of "men of Christian character," illustrating its claims with several photos of Black scout troops and scoutmasters, backed by testimonials from eminent Black civic and religious leaders: D.V. Jemison, president of the National Baptist Convention; Roy Wilkins of the NAACP; Lester B. Granger of the National Urban League; and C.C. Spaulding, president of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance, then America's largest Black-owned business. At the time of printing, the BSA was officially opposed to discrimination but entirely comfortable with locally mandated troop segregation and exclusion of Black scouts from leadership roles, and would remain so until the NAACP - under the executive direction of the same Roy Wilkins quoted within - forced the issue in a 1974 lawsuit. OCLC locates just one holding of this publication. 6'' x 3.5''. Original tri-fold pamphlet. Cat. No. 4803 / 500001145. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Light edgewear and creasing, tiny scuff to front.

Seller Inventory # 49861

Condition: Good. First Edition. The classroom lecture notebook of an unnamed cadet at The United States Army School of Aeronautics at Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, covering January through March, 1918. During WWI, a pilot shortage in the United States became apparent. In response the War Department and U.S. Army formed the Aviation Cadet Training Program, installing aviation training schools at six universities across the country. This program at Ohio State appears to have consisted of 8 weeks of classes with training in military drill, discipline, and technical instruction, with an emphasis on aviation. Curriculum from the program formed the basis for the aeronautical engineering courses later taught at OSU. A scarce set of materials from an early instructional program of military aviation training and education, one that would eventually become the US Air Force. Hardcover. 4to. Cloth hardcover three ring binder. Holding 151 leaves; 110 holograph, 41 typed. Many sheets loose from ring binding. Cloth torn at spine. Overall contents well preserved.

Seller Inventory # 41636

Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Signed first edition of this beautifully-produced book charting the first cross-country America road trip, based on a Ken Burns documentary of the same title. Horatio Nelson Jackson's 1903 drive ran from San Francisco to New York, and took 63 days - there were only 150 miles of paved road in the United States at that time! His car is now preserved in the Smithsonian. 7.75'' x 9''. Original green boards with gilt titles. Original unclipped ($24.95) color pictorial dust jacket designed by Archie Ferguson. Cartographic endpapers. Illustrated in black and white and shades of brown throughout. xiv, 174 pages. Signed by Burns to half-title page. Tiny closed tear to upper rear edge of jacket. Sharp and bright.

Seller Inventory # 40999

Condition: Very good. Second revised edition. Spiritualist-channeled wholesale revision of Mary Baker Eddy's philosophical and religious outlook, posthumously delivered from beyond the veil to the perceptions of one Madame X. Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, took care in her lifetime to distinguish her denomination's beliefs from Spiritualist principles. Though she was reported to have acted as a medium herself at one time (hosting the spirit of Abraham Lincoln, among others) she came to firmly oppose Spiritualist ideas after formulating the principles of Christian Science, distinguishing her own church's belief in animal magnetism and mental healing from the theories of spirit return, which she classed as an incorrect doctrine along with theosophy and hypnotism. After her death, her ideas changed radically (according to Madame X, who is an "aged lady of refinement and the best social position, whose name, if published to the world, would add strength and dignity to this booklet"). Embarrassed by her errors, Eddy allegedly returned as a Spirit to correct the record via psychic transmission. This initial message of clarification is accompanied by a supplemental Spirit Communication from 1917, received too late to be printed with the second edition, reiterating spirit-Eddy's apology for having wasted everyone's time with religion mistakes. OCLC locates just one holding. Rare. 6.25'' x 4.5''. Original printed saddle-stapled wrappers. Introduction by Benjamin Fish Austin. Separately printed supplement [4 pages] bound in with string tie. 22, [2] pages. Patches of toning/foxing to covers; minor edgewear and chipping. Very small touches of staple rust.

Seller Inventory # 44161

Condition: Near fine in near fine jacket. First edition of this monograph on New York City's remaining storefronts, arranged by neighborhood - with vibrant full page photos (including a few fold-outs), accompanied by short histories gathered from interviews with the owners. 11.5'' x 12.75''. Original grey paper boards, white lettered front board and spine. In original photographic wrappers, no price (as issued). Grey typographic endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout. 336 pages. Jacket with some light rubbing and edgewear. Small bump to spine foot. Interior bright.

Seller Inventory # 51748

Condition: Near fine in near fine jacket. First edition. First printing of this history of New York's Black population, from the end of the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance, with a reflection on how that history informed the civil rights movement. Seth M. Scheiner, a white professor, advocated for and helped to found Rutgers's Livingston College, which was established with the aim of reaching under-represented students. An attractive copy of his most well-known work, it remains an important work. 9.25'' x 6''. Original orange cloth boards. Original pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. Black endpapers. 246 pages, including index. Trace rubbing and shelfwear. Else bright, clean, and sharp.

Seller Inventory # 47264

Condition: Very good. First edition of the biography of Scott Bond, a formerly enslaved man who became one of the most famous Black businessmen of the era and a model of Booker T. Washington's racial uplift philosophy. Born to an enslaved woman in Mississippi, by the time of his death Scott Bond owned 12, 000 acres of land and multiple businesses. This biography, told as if the reader were hearing the stories from Bond himself, focuses primarily on his professional obstacles and successes, with words of wisdom laced throughout. The tone is clearly in the school of Booker T. Washington's "industry, thrift, intelligence and property" - Bond received an honorary degree from Tuskegee for his expertise in agriculture in addition to receiving public accolades from William Lloyd Garrison and Theodore Roosevelt. In his introduction, Napier notes that Booker T. Washington "was always insistent upon his [Bond's] being present" at National Negro Business League Meetings "because of the life he always threw into their proceedings" (13). Chock full of Washingtonian industry and innovation, the story of Bond's life remains captivating. 8.75'' x 5.5''. Original full blue cloth, blind-stamped borders, gilt-lettered spine and front board. Two facing frontispiece portraits of Scott Bond and Mrs. Magnolia Bond and 73 full-page half-tone photographic plates. Preface by "Hon. J.C. Napier / President National Negro Business League and Ex-Register of U.S. Treasury." 383, [1] pages. Rear board and spine moderately soiled, extremities bumped; gilt bright, interior clean. Overall a solid copy of a poorly made book.

Seller Inventory # 39242

Condition: Very good in good plus jacket. Early printing, scarce in any form, of this persuasive essay on the double standard in the application of American laws to Black people and white people, including chapters on lynching and segregation. A graduate of Howard University, Miller was an intellectual powerhouse who became first African American to study graduate mathematics. He studied at Johns Hopkins, where he was also the university's first African American student. Taking various leadership positions at Howard University, Miller was integral to many movements for Black education and civil rights in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: he helped W.E.B. Du Bois edit THE CRISIS; he was chairman of the Negro Sanhedrin; and he was active for decades in the American Negro Academy. In APPEAL TO CONSCIENCE, Miller lays out the practical harm of legal double standards experienced by Black citizens. With an introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart, a doctoral advisor of Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, and Charles H. Wesley. Scarce: 9 holdings recorded in OCLC and no auction records. 6.5'' x 3.75''. Original brown paper boards stamped in red and blue. In original brown dust jacket stamped in blue. Publisher's ads at rear. 108, [4] pages. Thin line of dampstain to fore-edge of boards, offsetting from jacket to endpapers. Jacket with soiling (especially at rear fold and spine), large chips at corners and spine ends, 2'' closed tear to front panel.

Seller Inventory # 39906

Condition: Very good plus. First edition. First edition of the first installment of this long-running cultural institution, containing the biographies of 8,602 prominent 19th-century Americans. "Whatever may be thought of it in other respects, Who's Who in America can with confidence claim for itself the distinction of being something new in American book-making, for while in its basic idea, it counterparts some well known foreign publications, it has no American predecessor by which its merits may be judged or its faults condemned. The title of the book sufficiently suggests that its compilation was mainly inspired by the well-known English annual, 'Who's Who' Now in its fifty-second year); but comparison will reveal many modifications and changes of arrangement and treatment, adopted in order to make Who's Who in America more perfect;y suited to American conditions and requirements" (Preface). 7.5" x 5.5" Original full red cloth. With gilt titles to top board and spine. 840 pages. Some soil, rubbing to cloth. Gilt a little dulled. Elegant, contemporary gift inscription inked on front endpaper. Else clean and sound throughout.

Seller Inventory # 39640

Condition: Near fine. First printing of this account of the history and lives of Black Bostonians, compiled over nine years by a social reformer. IN FREEDOM'S BIRTHPLACE is a valuable snapshot of Black life in Boston when the traumas of slavery and the Civil War were still in living memory. The first third of the book offers a history of Black people in America, with a particular focus on their roles in various American wars. From there, Daniels presents an overview of Boston's current Black community gleaned from nine years of study in and around the Robert Gould Shaw House, part of the South End House settlement project. The philosophy of the leaders of the South End House and its offshoots could most charitably be described as "assimilationist"; in his introduction to IN FREEDOM'S BIRTHPLACE, Robert A. Woods advocates for treating Black Americans as "immigrant nationalities" that must "adopt the method or rule himself out of the game" (x-xi). Despite his association with the project, though, Daniels largely resists prescriptivist inclinations in favor of describing the social lives, economics, religion, and politics of Black Bostonians. Not in Blockson. A great copy. 7.75'' x 4.75''. Original navy cloth boards. xiv, 496 pages, including index. Ownership inscription and address of Brian Turley to front flyleaf. Binding with a bit of bumping to corners and spine ends. Firm and clean.

Seller Inventory # 48737

Condition: Very good plus. First US edition of "one of the most popular books of the eighteenth century" (Harper), and a title that was a formative read for a young George Washington. First published in London in 1678, L'Estrange's SENECA'S MORALS ran through numerous British editions before landing on the press of influential US printer Isaiah Thomas. The text was already a classic, both in popularity and reputation: George Washington was known to have acquired a London-printed copy at age seventeen, when he "closely read [.] and absorbed its principles" (Harper, 182), the text deeply influencing his personal philosophies. A solid copy in contemporary sheep speaking to the influence of Stoicism in the fledgling United States. 12mo. 7'' x 4''. Contemporary full tree sheep. Illustrated with black-and-white engraved frontispiece and three black-and-white engraved plates by Samuel Hill, with woodcut ornaments. xxiv, 384 pages, collated complete. Early owner name to second blank, Obadiah Thayers. Later pencil notes to verso of second blank, compiling quotes from the book. Small marginal marks throughout; one blacked out word ("damned"). Binding with light edgewear, tiny chip to foot of spine, spot of rubbing to front edge; a few shallow marks to rear board. Title page with 1'' loss to upper corner, affecting one letter of the title. Leaves with scattered light soil and toning, occasional edgewear. Firm.

Seller Inventory # 49018

Condition: Near fine. Revised and enlarged edition of an illustrated travel guide to Concord, Massachusetts, with an extensive inscription by the author recommending the best way to see Concord is "with a superb indifference to time." Known for her FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS series, Margaret Sidney was a long-time resident of Concord. Sidney and her family lived at Wayside, a house where Louisa May Alcott and Nathanial Hawthorn also lived, and she highlights the literary connections throughout the town. A lovely copy, especially so with a long inscription related to Concord sightseeing. 9'' x 6.5''. Original green publisher's cloth binding with stamped titles and designs in gold and black. All edges gilt. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece with 52 black-and-white photographic illustrations. 178 pages. Ink inscription by the author to front flyleaf: "The best way to see Old/ Concord is to take a low phaeton/and an easy-going horse; with/ a superb indifference to time, to/ start without the worry of/ choosing your road. In any/ direction you will find rich/ fields. Page 10./ Margaret Sidney/ Wayside/ November 29th 1900." Corners and spine ends very lightly bumped, small spot of wear to front joint, a bit of sunning to spine. Interior clean; hinges strong.

Seller Inventory # 37939

First edition. First printing of the title that established a particularly influential model of historic economic growth, by economist and National Security Advisor W. W. Rostow. In THE STAGES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH, Rostow proposes what would later be known as the Rostovian take-off model of economic growth. This model was shaped by the current status of the Cold War, pitting the state of the US economy against those of Russia and various third world countries to compare their historical trajectories. The success of THE STAGES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH brought Rostow to the attention of John F. Kennedy, who appointed him as an advisor before he became president. During Kennedy's presidency, he was a vocal advocate for the Vietnam War, and after Kennedy's assassination, he served as National Security Advisor to Johnson. An important work in the history of modern economics. 8'' x 5.25''. Original blue cloth binding with gilt spine lettering. Original unclipped ($3.75) dust jacket. 180 pages, including index. Small ink owner name to front pastedown. Underlining in red to the first 48 pages. Jacket with mild edgewear, tiny spot of soil to rear near spine; spine a bit sunned. Front flyleaf with a couple shallow creases to corner, small area of loss to corner of rear flyleaf. Else clean and tight. Very good in near fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 45652

First edition of this contemporary look at the lives of Black people in Chicago in the 1940s, a "monumental study of race relations and African American social structure" (Finkelman, 90). Anthropologist, scholar, and political advisor to several African nations, St. Clair Drake made his career working among the people he studied. While his co-author Horace R. Cayton had connections among the upper crust of Chicago's Black community, Drake was able to form relationships with the "poorer wage-earners" of the city (29), those who "the uppers and middles sometimes visualize as a 'problem' and always an embarrassment" (602). By examining the different strata of society within the Bronzeville neighborhood, Drake and Cayton are able to identify and describe many social issues that still affect Black communities today. Published "at a moment when sociology seemed unaware of the potential for overt racial conflict," BLACK METROPOLIS "anticipated the Black Power rebellions of the 1960s by acknowledging the existence of nationalistic, non-assimilative sentiment informed by race pride [.] and a long-held resentment at white oppression" (Rosa, 51). The popularity of BLACK METROPOLIS has carried it through several editions and reissues. A groundbreaking work, scarce in the original dust jacket. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original red-orange cloth binding. Original price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated with various charts and diagrams. xxxiv, 810 pages. Jacket with light edgewear, a few small closed tears; spine with some sunning and 1.5" partially-closed tear with attendant rubbing, a bit of chipping to ends. Binding with small knock to spine. Text with a touch of soil to bottom edge. Tight. Very good in very good dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 45962