![Item No: #362496 [New York Republican Electoral College Slate for 1872]....](/pictures/thumb/362496.jpg?v=1674767088)
On November 5, 1872, 440,738 New Yorkers went into the voting booth to express a preference for Ulysses S. Grant over Horace Greeley. Under the American political system they were technically selecting voters in the Electoral College, including Frederick Douglass and thirty-four other men on the Republican party slate. This.....
Price: $12,500
First Edition. Two short texts by Booker T. Washington advocating for equality in voting between while and black men (women's suffrage is not addressed). The first text is a letter written to the constitutional convention in Louisiana supporting a test for voting so long as "no one clothed with State.....
Price: $2,500
A promotional card, illustrated with a half-tone portrait, of an unsuccessful candidate for superintendent of schools for mountainous Trinity County in far northern California. This card most likely dates from before 1911, when women won the right to vote in California. Katherine "Kittie" or "Kitty" O'Neil was born in California.....
Price: $95
44 pages. 8-1/4 by 12-1/4 inches. Published in an edition of 100 copies. A collection of patriotic poems printed letterpress on handmade paper and bound using silver cord. Some of the poems are printed over a linocut of a palm tree scene. The image, by Freddy García Azze, is repeated on.....
Price: $250
First Edition. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with wear to the corners. Signed by the author on the title page.
Price: $50
First Edition. The book Muskie wrote to promote his candidacy in the 1972 Democratic presidential primary. Muskie also served as senator, governor of Maine, and he was Hubert Humphries' running mate in 1968. First edition (stated). A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with an area of discoloration.....
Price: $125
First Edition. By the popular MSNBC host. First edition (first printing, with numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.
Price: $60
A small card promoting the candidacy of one of the first women to successfully run for elected office in Oregon. This piece includes a half-tone photograph of Susanne W. Homes, a candidate for Jackson County school superintendent. Her slogan, printed along the top of the card, was "Equal Opportunities for.....
Price: $125
A collection of tracts, including Wilkie's scarce report on the Iowa First in the opening months of the Civil War (a classic of war journalism written by an embedded newspaper reporter); two Copperhead (pro-slavery Democrats) pieces—the speeches of Clement Vallandingham and a pamphlet supporting the Dred Scott decision; Gen. Justus.....
Price: $1,250
![Item No: #306313 Profeta de la aurora [Prophet of Dawn]. Fidel Castro](/pictures/thumb/306313.jpg?v=1612064290)
Five sheets, each 6-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches, laid into a sleeve measuring 7-3/4 by 11-3/4 inches. One of 50 copies. A special publication to commemorate Fidel Castro's eightieth birthday. There are four poems about Fidel and a title page, printed letterpress on handmade paper. The sleeve is handpainted and shaped.....
Price: $300
![Item No: #306198 Canto a Fidel [Song for Fidel]. Ernesto "Che" Guevara](/pictures/thumb/306198.jpg?v=1614581120)
Pergamino structure in a folder. Unfolds to 6-1/2 by 10-1/4 inches. Colección del San Juan. Edition size not noted. A classic Cuban revolutionary text, a heroic poem to Fidel Castro by the most famous of the comandantes of the revolution. The cover design incorporates Castro's face in a tree. The.....
Price: $150
First Edition. A printed record of the testimony before the House Committee on Indian Affairs, charging Colorado's Territorial Governor, the ex officio Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the territory, of corruption. The charges were politically motivated—Alexander Cummings (1810–1879) opposed statehood and faced strong opposition from Colorado residents clamoring to join.....
Price: $300
First Edition. A scarce look at nuevomexicano life in the mid-19th century. Very few accounts by Mexican Americans are known from the nineteenth century and much of what survives was written later. However one seldom-tapped resource are the records of the New Mexican contested elections for the House of Representatives.....
Price: $500
8-1/2 by 8 inches. 110 pages. Black-and-white photographs of Ann Richards taken during her successful run to be governor of Texas. The photographs are printed only on the odd pages. First edition, first printing. A bit of wear to the edges, but generally a near fine copy. This copy is.....
Price: $40
First Edition. 2-1/4 by 2-15/16 inches. A miniature book printing a speech former President Ford gave to Visa International in Quebec, on November 8, 1980. The type is very small Trump Mediaeval. The edition was 500 copies, all signed; one hundred were issued in slipcases. 29 pages. First edition (first printing).....
Price: $125
8-1/2 by 11 inches. Mimeographed flyer, printed front side (recto) only. In 1969, the novelist Norman Mailer ran for mayor of New York City. He formed a ticket with the journalist Jimmy Breslin, who sought the presidency of the city council. This flyer encourages volunteer support to gather the signatures.....
Price: $200
