First American edition. A very good first edition of this travelog inscribed by Naipaul to his American editor, Robert Gottlieb. This book reports on Naipaul's travels in Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. As a young editor, Gottlieb acquired Joseph Heller's Catch-22 when he was at Simon and Schuster; he spent.....

First Edition. Larry McMurtry's copy of this book that described Japan, Korea, China, and the Philippines for an American audience. The author was an artist who was born in Iowa and split her time as an adult between China, Japan, and the U.S. Lum studied at the Chicago Art Institute.....

A 1-1/2 page manuscript letter from a former governor of the Leeward Islands expressing interest in succeeding Thomas Shirley in the position. The Leeward Islands include Antigua, St. Kitts, the Virgin Islands, and other British colonies. The writer had been governor from 1766 to 1771, governor of Antigua for twenty.....

An extraordinary eight-page manuscript letter from Ralph Cleghorn (1804–1842) who was born into slavery in St. Kitts in the West Indies and became a leading abolitionist and advocate for black civil rights in the British empire. Near the end of his short life, Cleghorn was appointed president of the Council.....

A contemporary fair manuscript copy of a seven-page will that has been reprinted and cited a number of times for its explicit acknowledgment of the author's "four Quadroon children" born to a formerly enslaved woman, Betty Grant, who the author bought and emancipated. This copy is docketed and designated for.....

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. Copy 1 of 151 signed copies illustrated with an original drawing, in this case a portrait of Bemelmans' poodle Little Bit, who accompanied the author-artist and his teenage daughter on the tour of Europe recounted in this comic memoir. 247 pages; illustrated from Bemelmans' line drawings. Bemelmans is.....

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. A Japanese literary critic and novelist comments on American life based on a year-long tour of the country, visiting Japanese American communities during the Great Depression. Kimura and two friends pooled their money and bought a Ford, ultimately putting 15,000 miles on the odometer before selling it for.....

Third edition. "An updated and expanded guide to America which has information on employment, the Texas Japanese rice colony, and a special section on women. The 54-page appendix consists of basic English."—A Buried Past, 118. This is one of many guides to studying and immigrating to the United States by.....

First Edition. A memoir of one of the Mercury Seven astronauts, co-written with his daughter. First edition (first printing, with a line of letters ending in A). With light shelf wear, thus a near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed, "For Ashton, Eric, and.....

First Edition. A travelog of a trip to Ecuador made on commission from magazines. Illustrated with four double-page color plates by the author (who is probably best known for his Madeline series of picture books). First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings). A near fine copy in.....

First Edition. London's popular account of an ill-fated two-year voyage to the South Pacific in a poorly-built 43-foot sailboat. BAL 11929. 340 pages, plus a color frontispiece. Illustrated with more than 100 half-tone photographs. First edition (first printing, with no later printings indicated). An about very good copy with some.....