Chicago: Meyer & Brother, 1893. Cloth. Sm 8vo (8.0 in, 23.0 cm). xvi, 17-506 pp; frontis, 25 pls. Introduction by Bishop Thoburn of India.First edition: Amanda Berry Smith (1837-1915) narrates her story as a child slave in Maryland including how hard her father labored to purchase freedom for their family..... More

London: William Clowes and Sons for Henry Colburn, 1840. 1/2 Leather. 3 vols. Small 8vo (7.8 in, 19.7 cm). [i-iii] iv [v-vi], [1] 2-308 pp; frontis, illus, pl(s). [i-iii] iv; [1] 2-338 pp; frontis, illus, pl(s). [i-iii] iv, [1] 2-333 [blank] pp; frontis, illus, pl(s). Published in December 1839. First..... 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

N.p. N.p., N.d. Vellum. Sm 4to (9.2 in, 23.4 cm). Unpaginated; 77 [279 blanks] pp. Commonplace Book: "Personal notebook [often manuscript] in which the owner copied passages of interest from the writings and speeches of others, or in which he wrote his own compositions." - Glaister 107. "Notes 1852" written..... More

Smithfield (England): J. Evans & Son, [1817]. Broadside. Broadside (15 x 10 in, 38.1 x 25.4 cm). "Sold by J. Evans & Son, (Printers to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts) Long Lane, Smithfield; sold also by J. Hatchard, Picadilly, London; by Binns, Bath; Bulgin, Bristol; and by..... 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

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

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

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

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..... 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

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

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