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Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers, 1848. Pamphlet. 8vo (9.4 x 6 in, 23.9 x 15.2 cm). 71 [blank] pp. First edition: John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) was the son of second President John Adams and Abigail Adams. He was ambassador for President George Washington and President James Madison. He was..... More
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
Washington, D.C. Public Affairs, 1948. Hardcover. 8vo (8.5 in, 21.5 cm). xi, 640 pp. Translated from the original Gurarati by Mahadev Desai. First published outside of India and first American edition. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) famously inspired an entire country to practice nonviolent civil disobedience to attain India's self-rule in..... More
Paris: Chez Ladvocat, Libraire de S.A.R. Monseigneur le duc de Chartres, au Palais-Royal, 1825. 1/2 Leather. 10 volume set. 12mo (7.3 in, 18.5 cm). [6] i-viii i-xviii 399 [1], xx 380, xxiii 374, xi 370, xvi 375, xi 367, xii 387, xi 368, xi 414, viii 400 pp. First edition..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, 1896. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo (8 in, 20.3 cm). [2] i-xvi, 1-558 [4]; [2] i-x , 1-536 [2]; frontis. New edition with additions. Translated by Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett. Lovely set on the life of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) considered the greatest sculptor, painter, and architect of the Renaissance;..... More
[Tokyo]: N.p., [1919]. Hardcover. 8vo (19 cm, 7.5"). [4], 28 pp., ill. English. Madame Hirooka (1865-1919) was a noted businessperson, educator, and social activist. She saved the family coal business from bankruptcy and used the profits to open businesses including a bank and an insurance company. Hirooka was one of..... More
New York: Random House, 1961. Hardcover. 8vo (9.1 in, 23.1 cm). [2] xxxi, 502 [6] pp.; illus. Introduction followed by two-page genealogy. First edition: First printing stated. American professor of anthropology, Oscar Lewis initiated the theory of a culture of poverty. Lewis chronicled the suffering and brutality as well as..... More
London: Spottiswoode for Smith, Elder and Co., 1877. Hardcover. 3 vols. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.8"). [v] vii [viii], [1] 441, [1 blank] pp.; frontis. (port.), ill; p. 235 as 225. [v] viii, [1] 510 pp.; frontis. (port.), ill. [iv], [1] 395 [1 blank] pp. Third edition stated: Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)..... 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
London: Printed by J. Davis for the author, 1787. 1/4 Calf. 8vo (9", 22.9 cm). [2], x, 262 pp., folded plate: map. Printed by J. Davis for the author, and sold by Payne and Son, at the Mewse Gate; Cadel, in the Strand; Sewel, in Cornhill; and Flexney, in Holborn..... 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
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1936. Hardcover. 8vo (7.8", 19.7 cm). 223 pp.; plates, ports. First edition: Memoir/Autobiography. Graduate of M.I.T., instructor at Wellsley, professor and administrator at the University of Chicago, author, and co-founder of the American Association of University Women, Marion Talbot (1858-1948) dedicated herself for over thirty years..... 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
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