First Edition. A picture book, winner of many awards, including the Pura Belpré, Tomás Rivera, Jane Addams, and the Américas award. The author-artist was born in Mexico to American and Mexican parents; he attended high school and college in the US and now lives in Mexico. This book won the.....
Price: $75
First Edition. A picture book about Mahatma Gandhi, co-written by his grandson and illustrated by Evan Turk. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed, "Mary, Live as light" and signed by Gandhi, Hegedus, and Turk. Uncommon signed by.....
Price: $60
First Edition. With an introductory commentary and editorial contributions by Harry J. Jerison. Translated by Harry J. Jerison and Irene Jerison. vii, 340 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. This copy with Stephen Jay Gould's ownership signature. This copy came from.....
Price: $75
First Edition. A book that explores the idea that a comet colliding with the earth could have caused the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. This is the scarce hardcover version (there was a simultaneous issue in paperback). First edition (first hardcover printing). A near fine copy in a near fine.....
Price: $75
A phone book for a town in Washington. With listings for residents and companies, with ads. 136, 40 pages. 6-1/8 by 9-1/4 inches. Near fine copy.
Price: $75
First Edition. Part one of the Chronicles of the Low Realm. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a near fine (a bit of edgewear). Inscribed, "For Mary, you RAT! Josh Lieb." Scarce signed.
Price: $50
A manuscript catalog of a career Mexican military officer's library, totalling more than about 650 works in 600 volumes, numbered and organized by subject. The list includes the title, author, and in some cases observations on each book, along with their series and identification numbers. Not surprisingly, the largest section.....
Price: $500
First Edition. A Mexican edition of a history of the Haitian revolution, written from the perspective of the French, who were ousted from the island following a particularly brutal and bloody conflict. The book is predictably critical of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a leader of the revolution and the first ruler of.....
Price: $8,000
A late example of a Back-to-Africa movement organization. Materials from the African-American Repatriation Association are rather scarce. It may have been a mostly-regional association, but it had some juice. They convinced Representative Robert Nix of Philadelphia to introduce a bill calling for the Repatriation of Americans of African Descent into.....
Price: $250
First Edition. A four-part defense of the Freedmen's Bureau and its head, Major General Oliver O. Howard, spurred by a proposed amendment to cut the $5,000 budget for the hospital in Washington, D.C. and a speech accusing the agency of "plundering the public treasuring." The Freedmen's Bureau was a Reconstruction-era.....
Price: $150
First Edition. English translation of the title: The fantastical plants of Mexico: Introduction to the pharmacology of teonanácatl mushrooms, marijuana, cinnamon, chicalote (prickly poppy), poppy, colorín (coral tree), locoweed, peyote, sinicuiche (loosestrife), cozticzapotl, ololiuqui (morning glory), camotillo, toloache (datura), coca, ayahuasca, and cohombrillo (squirting cucumber). A well-known survey of the.....
Price: $750
First Edition. A collection of religious and devotional poems by a 19th century Mexican poet. He wrote the poems for his grandchildren and the manuscript remained unpublished when he died in 1910. This is one of the most attractive books, printed in yellow and black, from Casa Editorial Lozano, which.....
Price: $250
First Edition. Two bound volumes of the first two years of this scarce Mexican military periodical. According to the masthead, the magazine was published with the approval (aprobación) of the Mexican Secretary of the Army and Navy. According to the introduction, the goal of Mexico Militar was to promote the.....
Price: $1,000
First Edition. A Spanish translation of the "best French chronicle of the Revolution [which is] particularly valuable on naval affairs"—Howes US-iana, L169 (also listing this edition). This edition does not have any maps, but consistent with its focus on naval action, it does include a large fold-out table of ships.....
Price: $750
First Edition. Sarmiento, the Plenipotentiary Minister to the United States from Argentina, "arrived in New York a month after the assassination of the American president. He was moved by the nation’s mourning and resolved to write a biography of the fallen leader. Sarmiento, who believed in biography’s teaching by example.......
Price: $300
Two sammelband volumes, in similar bindings, of pamphlets on military subjects, all but one published in Mexico. Three are not recorded in OCLC; a fourth is recorded only in a much later edition; a fifth is only in microfilm. Volume 1: 1. Moral Militar. Libro de los deberes del soldado.....
Price: $1,250
First Edition. A significant scientific paper in which Bell, who had already patented the telephone, reports on experiments with Charles Morey's phonoautograph and Thomas Edison's phonograph. Bell was exploring the connection between music and vowels in speech and how recording devices could contribute to a better understanding of human sound.....
Price: $500
First Edition. This agricultural and industrial report covers many topics, including silk, paper, wax, ceramics, cacao, and other crops and natural resources. It also includes a relatively early mention of mezcal (mescal), which is described as an important product in many parts, especially in Jalisco and the Tequila region. José.....
Price: $350
First Edition. A Spanish translation of Great European Conflict. Franco-Prussian War: Chassepot - Rifle vs. Zundnadelgewehr, or the Needle Gun: Real Cause of the Struggle by a Mexican army general. 208 pages plus four inserted lithographic portraits of the leaders of the conflict (including Napoleon III and Otto von Bismarck).....
Price: $400
![Item No: #361790 [Candid Photograph, Signed]. Audre Lorde](/pictures/thumb/361790.jpg?v=1678049186)
An original black-and-white gelatin silver print photograph of Audre Lorde speaking, pictured in three-quarters profile. Lorde (1934–1992) is an influential and popular writer, a self-described, “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” The image is inscribed on the back (verso) and signed "Audrey Lorde." Printed on 8 by 10 inch Kodak paper.....
Price: $500
![Item No: #362639 Gli alberi [Die Bäume / The Trees]. Franz Kafka, Luca Barcellona](/pictures/thumb/362639.jpg?v=1677020719)
First Edition. An Italian translation of one of the most widely reprinted sections of Kafka's book Contemplations (Betrachtung), here printed in xylographic calligraphy. The artist Luca Barcellona carved the text into wood blocks and printed it over five pages of this eight-leaf book. Limited to 40 copies, signed by the.....
Price: $300
First Edition. A reprint of the first two Art & Beauty volumes, with the first publication of the third volume of drawings. This is one of 400 numbered copies signed by Crumb on a tipped-in bookplate (as issued by the publisher). 132 pages. 7-3/8 by 10-1/2 inches. First edition (first.....
Price: $200
First Edition. A scarce Moebius book with 56 color images, captioned on the facing page. This book was printed and bound on a Xerox DocuColor 100 the DocuWorld trade show held in Paris on February 1–2, 2000. [112] pages. 8-3/4 inches square. First edition (first printing). Minor shelfwear and slight.....
Price: $750
First Edition. A pop-up book about beetles, issued with a stag beetle constructed out of paper and housed in a paper frame. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine, complete copy, in the original plastic enclosure. This copy is generically inscribed (not to any particular.....
Price: $100
![Item No: #362635 [Original Painting of a Farm Scene]. Ludwig Bemelmans](/pictures/thumb/362635.jpg?v=1677020708)
A charming original painting by the author and artist of the Madeline books. The scene shows a farmhouse, a barn, and a field being plowed with a tractor. SIZE: 7-7/8 inches square. MEDIUM: Gouache, watercolor, or both on paper. Signed "Bemelmans" in pencil at the lower right. Very good to.....
Price: $2,500
