The Afro-Yankees: Providence's Black Community in the Antebellum Era
Westport: Greenwood, 1982. xviii + 200 pages, 8vo, red cloth. Westport: Greenwood Press, (1982). A fine copy. More
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Winthrop's Boston: Portrait of a Puritan Town, 1630-1649
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1965. Illustrated. x + 324 pages, 8vo, green cloth; some pencil marginalia, end papers foxed, d.w. chipped. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, (1965). A very good copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. More
Autograph Letter Signed
New York: 1979. Interesting A.L.S., folio, 1 page with attached integral addressed panel, New York, September 21st 1797, to John Rensselear, tactfully requesting a large payment towards an unpaid bill and a final settlement of the whole in the course of the year, in part: "...Your brother, on the 21st of July called on me, and informed me, his coming to town was purely to acquaint me that you was gone to the West, and would return in September and... More
Such, Such Were The Joys
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1953. 8vo, green cloth, d.w. New York: Harcourt Brace, (1953). First American edition. The top of the spine is lightly worn, and the dust wrapper edge-chipped. More
The Connecticut Town: Growth and Development, 1635-1790
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1979. Map. xii + 249 pages, 8vo, blue cloth, d.w.; hole to upper spine of dust wrapper. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, (1979). A fine copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. More
A Man in Full.
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998. 742pp., Thick 8vo, red cloth, in matching publisher's slipcase. New York: Farrar Straus, (1998). Limited First Edition. Fine. One of 250 signed copies. More
Colonial Rhode Island: A History
New York: Scribner, 1975. Illustrated. xvii + 423 pages, 8vo, cloth, d.w.; pencil marginalia, dust wrapper price clipped, lightly edgeworn. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1975). Near fine despite penciling in a very good dust wrapper. More
Autograph Letter Signed
A.D.A. Edita, 1950. A very heartfelt A.L.S. 8vo. 2 pages, no place, December 2nd 1950, in French (translated), to Daniel [Daniel-Henry Hahnweiler], his close friend and art representative, conveying the sad news on the death of his wife Jeanne, in part: "...I have bad news for you. After struggling against death for two months Jeanne died Thursday during the night; fortunately she didn't suffer too much, a state of total exhaustion saved her from a painful end. I know of..... More
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680
New York: Barnes & Noble, 1969. xxvi + 310 pages, 8vo, blue cloth. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., (1969). A near fine copy. Original Narratives of Early American History. More
Some Correspondence Between the Governors and Treasurers of the New England Company in London and the Commissioners of the United Colonies in America
New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. xxxii + 127 pages, small 8vo, blue cloth. New York: Burt Franklin, (1970). A fine copy. More
Signed Autograph Note
Excellent signed autograph page inscribed to a Yankee fan, c. 1930's: "Dear Martha: Babe Ruth stood out like egg stains on velvet - Arthur 'Bugs' Baer". Fine condition. American journalist, humorist, cartoonist and sports writer who was close friends with Babe Ruth, and later, Toots Shore. He holds the distinction of nicknaming Ruth "The Bambino" and "The Sultan of Swat" More
How to Wrap Five More Eggs.; Traditional Japanese Packaging.
New York: Weatherhill, 1980. Illustrated throughout in with finely printed photogravure images by Michikazu Sakai; a fewothers in color. 215 pages. Short slim 4to, black cloth-backed glazed boards, d.w. New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, (1980). Fifth printing. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. More
Autograph Letter Signed
1878. A.L.S. 1 page, Paris May 3rd 1878, in French (translated), reluctantly responding to a request for his autograph, he writes that he is often requested to send his autograph, but being very busy, does not like to comply with the many requests he receives. However, he sends it nevertheless: "though it is objected to in principal... but done anyway..." Boldly signed and in very good condition. French lexicographer and philosopher who was also a life-long active Freemason. More
Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
New York: Norton, 2006. 385 pages, 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (2006). First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. More
Autograph Letter Signed
Puteaux: 1949. A.L.S. with second signature on addressed panel, 8vo. 1 page, Puteaux, June 20th 1949, in French (partly translated), to a French art dealer in Paris: "If several engravings have been sold at Lausanne ... and if possible ... when you retrieve payment ... would you please take out three thousand francs and send them to: Mrs. Veve: at Villa Genriana, Montana. She is a friend of mine who is being treated there. Thanking you for your assistance." Fine... More
Ethan Frome
1943. Oblong 32mo, red, white & blue printed wrappers. Council of Books in Wartime : Armed Services Edition, B-34.(October 1943). Printed for distribution to the American Armed Forces during World War II. In this way the best books of the present and the past were supplied in small, convenient and economical form. More
Signed Photograph
1923. Exceptional heavy-stock sepia tone matte finish photograph, 8" x 10", by noted photographer G. Maillard Kesslere, whose back-stamp appears on verso, capturing the artist in profile and boldly signed: "V. de Pachmann, 1923". Fine condition. Pianist of Russian-German ethnicity, especially noted for performing the works of Chopin and also for his eccentric on-stage style. He holds the distinction of being one of the earliest artists to make recordings of this work (1906). More
The Case for The Jews:; An Interpretation of Their Rights Under the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate for Palestine.
New York: Bloch Publishing, 1930. Small 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. New York: Bloch Publishing, 1930. First Edition. Fine , in an edge-chipped dust wrapper; ownership signature. More
Signed Carnegie Hall Program
New York: 1945. Exceptional signed Carnegie Hall oversized-program, 7.75" x 10", February 1st and 2nd 1945, boldly signed on the cover next to his image in his trademark red pencil) "I. Str." This item is virtually flawless except for a tiny water stain at the lower left hand margin. Fine condition. Russian-born composer, pianist and conductor considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. More
Palace of Desire: The Cairo Trilogy II
Cairo: American Univ. of Cairo Press, 1991. Translated by William Maynard Hutchins et al. 8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. Cairo: American Univ. of Cairo Press,(1991). First Edition in English. Fine. Signed on the title page by the Nobel Prize author, in the year of publication. Original Cairo ownership rubberstamp on end-paper, under the dust wrapper flap. Originally published in Arabic, in 1957. More
Souvenir Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
Vienna: 1893. Souvenir autograph musical quotation signed "Theod. Leschetizky", consisting of eight bars from his L'Aver Improvisation - Opus 31 - No. 1, Wien, February 8th 1893, dedicated for Miss (Caddy) Kimball, whose father William Wallace owned the Kimball Piano Co. in Chicago. Finely framed in two windows with dark brown double matting and set into a dark brown wood frame. Excellent condition. Polish pianist, composer and professor who at age eleven performed a Czerny piano concerto in Lancur, with... More
The Great Railway Bazaar; By Train Through Asia
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975. 342 pages. 8vo, stamped tan cloth, dust wrapper. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1975). A very good(+) copy. More
Autograph Letter Signed
New York: 1989. A very warm and sincere A.L.S. "Affectionately - Jackie", to philanthropist Brooke Astor, 8vo. 2 pages, embossed letterhead, 1040 Fifth Avenue, May 1st 1989, in full: "Am so looking forward to seeing you Thursday. I thought you might like to know who will be there: I.M. Pei, Heyward Isham, Rose Stryon and Howard Adams. Howard was the curator of "The Eye of Jefferson" at the National Galleries Bicentennial Exhibition, is now doing gardens in history on TV... More
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. Illustrated. xvii + 932 pages, thick 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w.; dust wrapper rubbed. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1987). A very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper. More
Native American Portraits, 1862-1918: Photographs from the Collection of Kurt Koegler.
San Francisco: Chronicle, 1990. 100 gorgeous black-and-white photographs. 116 pages, glossy pictorial wrappers. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1990). A near fine copy. More