Ellen Saito, bookseller
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1952. Hardcover. 8vo (7.4 in, 18.8 cm). 285 pp. B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday (translator); Eleanor Roosevelt (introduction). First English language edition: First edition stated on copyright page and $3.00 on jacket flap. Anneliese Frank's diary documents her life in hiding during the Nazi occupation of Holland beginning..... More
New York & Toronto: Random House, 1961. Hardcover. 8vo (9.1 in, 23.2 cm). [x], 458 [2] pp. C. & p. First edition: First printing stated. Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was an American-born Canadian community activist noted for her incisive observations of urban planning and design. In her landmark book, Jacobs passionately..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1910. Hardcover. 8vo (8.5 in, 21.6 cm). [vi], 1-80 pp.; port., illus. Printed at the De Vinne Press. Book designed by Robert Wier Crouch. First edition: Blind, deaf, and mute, Helen Keller (1888-1968) was six when Anne Sullivan began to instruct her. Sullivan taught her..... More
Boston: Printed by George B. Wilcox, 1894. Softcover. 12mo (7.1 in, 18 cm). [ii], [1-4] 5-33 [blank] pp. Colophon: "This book was printed by George B. Wilcox, 299 Washington Street, Boston, in the year 1894." Sole edition: Emma Endicott Marean (1854-1936) dedicated her book of poetry to her daughter Edith..... More
(Geneva): Huldrichi Fuggeri for Henri Estienne, 1560. Vellum. Two volumes in one. 32mo (5.0 in, 12.7 cm). [2] 3-576; [2] 3-432 pp. a-z aa-nn^8; A-Z, AA-DD^8. Greek and Latin on opposite pages. Vol. I: "Pindar. Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia. Eight of the rest of the lyric verse Alcaeus, Sappho, Stesichorus..... More
London: C. Clarke for T. and J. Egerton, 1791. Full calf. 12mo (7.1 in, 18 cm). [2] xvi, 152 [2] pp. First edition: Joseph Ritson (1752-1803) was a literary scholar, anthologist, and bibliographer. Here are seven Middle English poems including Tom Thumbe. Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) is known for reviving the..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1938. Hardcover. Small 4to (9.4 in, 23.9 cm). [2], [4] 5-504 [2] pp.; frontis. Index. Tribute by Pearl Buck on jacket lower panel. First edition: Teacher, social worker, and nurse, Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) witnessed frequent pregnancies and botched abortions. Sanger founded the paper, The..... More
Cadiz: Imprenta Nacional, 1813. 1/4 Leather. 4to (21 cm, 8.3 in). [4], 694 pp., lacks frontis. First edition: The Spanish Inquisition was established in the 13th-century. The power of the Spanish Inquisition wavered over the centuries and was limited to the censorship of books and free speech by the early..... More
London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. Hardcover. 8vo (8.8 in, 22.4 cm). viii, 1-31 on every recto [3 blanks] pp. C. & p. For the first edition, 800 copies were printed on handmade paper and 30 copies on Japanese vellum. Of these, 800 handmade paper copies plus 20 Japanese vellum copies sold..... More