Ellen Saito, bookseller
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1899. Hardcover. 12mo (7.1 in, 18.1 cm). [i-xii], [1]-232 [blank]; printer's imprint; blank leaf; leaf xi-xii excised (as issued). Printed by The Riverside Press, Cambridge. Laid paper. First edition: 3020 copies printed. Author and naturalist, Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) belonged to a community of..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1922. Hardcover. Small 8vo (7.6 in, 19.3 cm). xix, 487 [488] pp., illus. First edition and association copy: Robert E. Park (1864-1944) was an urban sociologist considered one of the most influential pioneers of American socioiology. Park was also a student of race relations..... More
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1929. Softcover. 12mo (7.2 in, 18.2 cm). [2], 3-35 (blank) pp. Printed in Great Britain by the Co-operative Wholesale Society, Ltd. Sole edition: A-W indicates January 1922. A pioneer of adult education, Albert Mansbridge (1876-1952) founded the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) in 1903. Self and Society..... More
Garden City, (New York): Doubleday, 1971. Hardcover. 8vo (8.4 in, 21.3 cm). [5] 6-96 pp. Poems. Introduction by Ezekiel Mphahlele. First edition stated: "In Night of My Blood, Kofi Awoonor [1935-2013] uses the medium of the traditional Ewe song to lament the neglect of his ancestral shrines and gods by..... More
London: Hutchinson, 1961. Hardcover. 12mo (7.4 in, 18.8 cm). [6] 7-207 [208] pp. Jacket design by Peter Edwards. First edition stated: "Onuora Nzekwu is the assistant editor of the Nigerian Magazine. He was born in Kafanchan, Nigeria, in 1928. Before he joined the Nigeria Magazine he was a teacher. Wand..... More
New York: The Hunt Publishing Co., 1922. Hardcover. 12mo (7 in, 17.8 cm). [15] 16-111 [blank]; frontis. port. Translation by John Crosby Gordon from original Spanish [manuscript]. Sole edition: "Divided into seventeen short thematic chapters, The Color Question in the Two Americas surveyed the sociopolitical condition of Afro-Cubans and African-Americans..... More
New York: Viking, 1964. Hardcover. 8vo (8.5 in, 21.6 cm). [viii], 180 pp. First edition: "Historically, it had been a significant achievement. But what had it been like for the Student Heroes?" - front flap. "Calvin Trillin is a staff writer for The New Yorker... Mr. Trillin spent a year..... More
Providence, RI: Office of the Investigator, 1828. Hardcover. 12mo (7.3 in, 18.5 cm). [blank] vi, 7-132 [blank] pp. J.B. Yerrington, Printer. Preface by Z. Tobey. First edition: Abel Thornton (1799-1827) was an itinerant preacher of Christianity in New England as a member of the Rhode Island Quarterly Meeting. After his..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1940. Hardcover. Small 8vo (7.8 in, 19.8 cm). [i-vi] vii-xxiii [blank], 1-313 [3 blanks] pp. University of Chicago Sociological Series. First edition: Stated. Helen MacGill Hughes (1903-1992), was a member of the prominent Chicago School of urban sociology, prolific author, and women's rights advocate was known for..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1926. Hardcover. Small 8vo (7.4 in, 18.8 cm). [2 blanks] [1-10] 11-40 [41-42] [4 blanks] pp.; illus. The Westminster Press. First edition: Dorothy Violet Wellesley, duchess of Wellington (1889-1956), although privately educated, did not attend a university; she travelled widely in Egypt, India, Russia, and Persia..... More
Philadelphia: Whitmore Publishing, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo (8.3 in, 21.1 cm). xv [1 blank], 1-334 [2 blanks] pp. First edition: Signed by author Boyd Ellsworth Payton (1908-1084), vice president of the Textile Workers Union, on front free endpaper in 1970. Scapegoat tells the complete story of the ugly labor strike, of Boyd..... More
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press and T. Fisher Unwin, 1904. Hardcover. 3 volumes. 8vo (8.9 in, 22.6 cm). 1424 pp. First edition: George Elliott Howard (1849-1928), educator, historian, and president of the American Sociological Society in 1917, firmly believed in "the supreme function of culture to lift humanity..... More
New York: George Routledge, 1885. Hardcover. 13 volumes. 12mo (4.8 in, 12.2 cm). circa 1885. 4919 pp. 11 in, 27.9 cm shelf length. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was a poet and playwright, though his date of birth, spelling of his name, and countenance are not known. There is ample evidence of his..... More
New York: James Miller, 1870. Full calf. 2 volumes in 1. 12mo (7.4 in, 18.8 cm). [2] [ii], [1-4] 5-139 [1]; [3-433 [1] [2] pp.; frontis, ports. N.d.; ©1870; circa 1870. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1801-61) authored works to challenge the female stereotype. "Political and didactic, these works emphasized the right..... 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 & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893. Hardcover. 16mo (6.9 in, 17.5 cm). [2 blank] [viii], 1-309 [1 blank] [2 ads] [2 blank] pp. The Riverside Press, Cambridge. One of 2,000 copies. C. & p. First edition: Author and naturalist, Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) belonged to a community..... 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
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
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. Hardcover. 8vo (8.1 in, 20.6 cm). [2] xvi, 471 [1] [8 ads] [2] pp. First edition: William Addison Phillips (1824-1893) "became conspicuous as a radical anti-slavery journalist and politician." In Labor, Land and Law, Phillips "presented a program including: a graduated land tax for..... More
New York: Greenberg, 1947. Hardcover. Small 8vo (7.9 in, 20 cm). x, 245 [1] pp. C. & p. Composition, printing, and binding by American Book-Stratford Press. First edition: Biography of noted army doctor Douglas M. Kelley (1912-1958) on lower jacket panel. "He and his staff spent five months in interviewing..... More
London: Hogarth Press, 1955. Hardcover. 12mo (7.8 in, 19.8 cm). 159 [1] pp. First edition: Sir Laurens Van der Post (1906-1996) was a prolific African writer outspoken against apartheid. "In The Dark Eye he explores the tension between the white and black people in Africa in a dimension we truly..... More
New York: Grossman, 1966. Hardcover. 8vo (8.8 in, 22.4 cm). [vi], 185 [1]; illus. First edition signed: Deming's first published book. Lesbian activist, Barbara Deming (1917-1984) practiced feminist nonviolence to support human and civil rights. As an author, Deming had a devoted following. "This is the very personal account of..... More
New York: Anderson & Ramsay for James Miller, 1867. Hardcover. 3 volumes. 16mo (6.9 in, 17.5 cm. [2] xxiv, 17-458 [2] pp.; frontis. An early admirer of Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1801-61) authored works to challenge the female stereotype. "Political and didactic, these works emphasized the right of a...... More
Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo (8.1 in, 20.6 cm). [xvi], [3] 4-175 [1 blank] pp. First American edition: Prominent African author, poet, politician during the Nigerian Civil War, and scholar, Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) wrote widely on cultural, political, and social issues. Dominant African novelist, Achebe is noted for..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1929. Hardcover. 8vo (7.6 in, 19.2 cm). xi, [xii blank], 267, [268 blank] pp. The University of Chicago Sociological Series. Index. First edition: stated. American teacher turned sociologist, Frances R. Donovan (1880-1965) published The Woman who Waits (1920), The Saleslady (1929), and The Schoolma'am (1938);..... More