First Edition. A combined awareness and fundraising appeal for leftist prisoners across the United States, with brief histories of the cases against Angela Davis, Billy Dean Smith, John Line, Carlos Feliciano, H. Rap Brown, Ruchell Magee, and others. [8] pages. 8-1/4 by 10-3/4 inches. Printed in black and orange. A fine.....

Image of three ships, the Defender (launched late August 1896; see Wallace Martin, Sail and Steam, page 264) completed or nearly so, with two other ships under construction. 9.5 by 7.5 inches on a 14 by 11 inch mount. Ornate printed title using left-leaning script font. Plain back. Image faded, short.....

Fourteen 5-by-7-inch sepia-tone photographs documenting logging operations in a long-gone company town in the redwood forest north of Eureka, on the California coast. Two of the images show logging camps (Camps 7 and 8); one shows a logging railroad; the rest depict scenes in the forest during the handsaw era. These.....

First Edition. The text of a speech given by one of the vice-presidents of the Women's National Indian Association at their annual meeting in December 1894. The group of (white) women advocated for Native American rights and encouraged Native assimilation and conversion to Christianity. The gist of the speech is.....

First Edition. One of the earliest Florida Confederate imprints, on the press before and completed after the state voted to secede from the Union. This is a nicely-bound volume of the daily log of this legislative session in the Florida House, with the message of Governor Madison S. Perry and.....

Volume 1 only. 496 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. A very good paperback copy. Clean inside.

First Edition. Includes the Commissioners' Court Procedings, Union County, Illinois, 1818–1826 (with index) ; List of Property in the County of Union with the Names of Owners and the Value of the Property Attested by Thomas Ferrill for 1839; and Land Patentees and 1846 Land Owners, Union County, Illinois. Content consists.....

First Edition. A decade-by-decade local history of this small community located about 40 miles west of Chicago. 582 pages. Extensively illustrated with black-and-white photographes. First edition. A near fine hardcover copy. Signed by the author on the title page.

First Edition. A substantial and important colonial American book printed on the press of one of the country's founding fathers and its first great polymath (inventor, revolutionary, politician, diplomat, raconteur, writer, and entrepreneur), Benjamin Franklin. If Franklin had been nothing more than a printer, with his shop foreman, David Hall.....

First Edition. A notorious anti-Chinese book by a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, issued with a remarkable and visually compelling fold-out color map of "vice" in San Francisco's Chinatown. "For historians in search of a complete single work containing most of the indictments widely disseminated in the.....

First Edition. The biography of a Nez Perce chief. 304 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine hardcover copy in the publisher's original acetate jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.

In 1883, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch declared Madame Meyers (sic) "the best bearded woman in the business" (see February 15 issue). Viola E. Myers (6 June 1854 to 24 April 1931) was born in Wilcox, Pennsylvania and in the 1870s and 1880s was the most prominent bearded woman in the.....

First Edition. A survey of the history and influences of theosophy by one of the movement's early American supporters. The Cincinnati Theosophical Society, one of the first American branches of the Theosophical Society, started at Buck's house just a few months after he gave this speech. Buck was a homeopath.....