First Edition. A scarce signed copy of an important contribution to American business history. "Following in a tradition of black scholars such as Henry Minton, Booker T. Washington, and WEB Du Bois, Pierce published a major study in 1947 entitled Negro Business and Business Education. His scholarship is timeless.... The.....

First Edition. One of the most influential nonfiction works of the 21st century. In this book, Kahneman, a research psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics, explores how humans think, drawing on decades of research into intuition and biases. Thinking Fast and Slow is a highly readable but dense.....

First Edition. "This report evaluates the various characteristics of rural families on relief in terms of their effect on the families' need for aid."—letter of transmittal. Research Monograph XVII, xxiv, 161 pages. Illustrated with half-tone photographs, most uncredited but at least two are by Dorothea Lange, one by Ben Shahn.....

First Edition. A study of public school vocational training programs based on interviews with more than 3,000 students who had received full-time training under the provisions of the Smith-Hughes Act. Research Monograph XXV. xxxii, 152 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white halftone photographs, mostly by uncredited WPA photographers. First edition (First printing).....

An auction map for the sale of two city blocks in what is now Midtown Manhattan, just below Central Park. The area for sale ran from 7th Avenue to 8th Avenue and from 57th Street to 59th Street. The terms were 10% payable at the auction, 30% payable when the.....

A real estate auction map for three substantial properties in Manhattan in the mid-19th century: a lot stretching from The Bowery to Elizabeth Street; an entire block just up from Times Square; and another at the corner of Beaver and New Streets in the Financial District. Lithographed map on paper.....

A real estate map of a portion of Alphabet City in Manhattan that was razed to build the Lillian Wald Houses. The map shows properties for auction on 5th Street between Lewis and Mangin Streets (remnants of those streets remain lower in Manhattan). The map shows Tompkins St. as the.....

First Edition. A large (folio) auction catalog of sugar plantations and other properties in Antigua, with descriptions of the properties as well as large fold-out maps, with pink handcoloring, of the sites. This scarce printed description of several well-known sugar plantations provides details about the property, its cultivation, and the.....

First Edition. A scarce and interesting look at a Japanese laborer's view of the possibilities of working in America at the height of Japanese immigration to this country. "Based on the author's 4-year personal experience in America, this book presents facts on labor conditions and wages by skilled versus unskilled.....

First Edition. Scottish-South African explorer Archibald Colquhoun "traversed through the unknown lands of western China and scampered along the jungle-covered middle stretches of the Mekong River. When he returned to London he lectured widely and wrote... Burma and the Burmans... He had one message: All that stood in the way.....

First Edition. "A biography of the well known Issei pioneer, Ushijima Kinji (1864–1926), designed especially for young readers. Known in English as George Shima, the Potato King, the subject [of the book] was a native of the city of Kurume in Fukuoka Prefecture who came to America in 1888. His.....

A homefront poster from the middle of the Second World War explaining the need for gasoline rationing on the East Coast. It reads (ellipses or ... in the original), "Last year... we used about 22,000,000 gallons of gasoline a day in the gasoline rationed Eastern States alone. This year... Because.....

A poster announcing the beginning of rationing during the Second World War, accompanied by a notice that consumers will need to report how much canned and bottled goods they have in their pantries. The poster concludes with the admonition, "Do not buy more than you need." (The short-term shortages at.....