First Edition. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian explores Frederick Law Olmstead's journey through the South just before the Civil War. (Olmstead later became the great American landscape architect of the 19th century.) Horwitz is probably best-known for Confederates in the Attic. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending.....
Price: $300
First Edition. An annotated bibliography of accounts of the discovery of the Americas before Columbus. The list is organized by discoverers, with sections for Chinese, Northmen, Arabs, Welsh, Venetians, Portuguese, Poles, and Martin Behaim. Scarce. 20 pages. First edition (first printing). A good copy in canvas wrappers. The front wrapper.....
Price: $125
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First Edition. A history of the United States, published on May 15, 1907, three months to the day following the signing of the Gentlemen's Agreement, which significantly curtailed Japanese immigration to the United States. This entry in the massive Imperial Encyclopedia, which filled hundreds of volumes over two decades, gives.....
Price: $500
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While not credited by name, this is (apparently) a Japanese translation of J. D. Quakenbos's Elementary History of the United States, offered as a high school textbook during the Meiji era. It is a relatively early account of American history published for a mainstream Japanese audience. This translation omits the.....
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First Edition. A well-known example of the popular 18th century British genre of collective biographies of women, with more than a hundred short entries on women dating back to ancient times. The subjects include Cleopatra; Sappho; the poet Anne Killigrew, described as "a great genius"; the painter and calligrapher Esther.....
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97 pages. 8-1/4 by 11 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección Premio. A study of a Cuban woman who published her memoirs in the late 1920s and whose writings offer considerable insight into upper class intellectual life in Matanzas in the decades around 1900. This book won the Premio de.....
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First Edition. With an annotated checklist of 250 books, pamphlets, and broadsides acquired from 2003 to 2009, or, white men explain American history. With 80 full-page color illustrations. One of 1000 letterpress copies. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no jacket, as issued.
Price: $50
First US edition. The Financial Times' columnist writes about the decline of liberal democracy in the age of Trump and Brexit. First American edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, "To Joe and Dierdre—my warmest regards, Edward Luce." Uncommon signed.
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First Edition. A biography of Abraham Lincoln written in Albanian. The author (1904–1989) was an Albanian Sufi Muslim journalist who emigrated to the US after World War Two. He worked for the Albanian section of the Voice of America and in retirement wrote several books (this seems to have been.....
Price: $50
