BASEBALL IN BLACKVILLE from HARPER'S WEEKLY
New York: Harper & Brothers, 27 July 1878. Print. Folio (11" x 16") extracted from an 1878 issue of HARPER'S WEEKLY, the woodcut image is quite likely the first depiction of blacks playing America’s game.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 27 July 1878. Print. Folio (11" x 16") extracted from an 1878 issue of HARPER'S WEEKLY, the woodcut image is quite likely the first depiction of blacks playing America’s game.
Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Library, 1951. First Edition. Softcover. Stapled photocopied sheets printed on rectos only in blue wraps; ix, 92 pages including a chronological index. Introduction by Arthur Hobson Quinn who describes how a number of the scarcest items in the library's collection were acquired.
Los Angeles: Creative Artists Agency, Inc., [1989]. First Edition. Wraps. Three-hole punched sheets (8-1/2" x 11") bound with brads in CAA printed white covers. SIGNED by Connell on the title page. First Draft screenplay based on Connell's novels MR. BRIDGE and MRS. BRIDGE. The 1990 Merchant-Ivory motion picture starred married.....
Boston: 9 November 1870. Letter. Two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER on both sides of a 4-1/2" x 7-1/4" sheet to "My Dear Davis," possibly Lt. Charles Henry Davis whom Dana had previously represented in court. In addition to being the author of TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, Dana was a practicing lawyer.....
Boston: 16 August 1850. Letter. One-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER on a 7-3/4" x 9-3/4" sheet of blue paper SIGNED as "R. H. Dana Jr." to an unknown recipient on legal matters regarding Caleb Smith. Dana is best known as the author of TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST.
Boston: 2 January 1894. Letter. A fine 1-1/4 page letter of @50 words on Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court 4-7/8" x 8" stationery SIGNED by the Justice to an unnamed correspondent. Holmes transmits the address of an editor that his correspondent might contact in order to have a piece of writing.....
Boston: Ginn, Heath, and Company, 1884. First Edition. Wraps. Reprinted from the Boston Daily Advertiser, by the Author's permission. First Separate Edition in self-printed stitched wraps (5" x 7-1/2"), 12 pages, of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s first printed speech, a celebration of his comrades, Union and Confederate, who gave their.....
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-lettered white cloth. We have handled several copies of this title over the years and all have been bound in printed boards. This is the first time we have seen this binding which is fancier and likely produced in a......
Philadelphia: J. Dobson; Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.; Carey & Hart, 1839. Second Edition. Hardcover. Modern cloth with later marbled endpapers; [ii], xix, [i], 5-262 pages. Introduction and notes by Charles Carter Lee, brother of Confederate general Robert Lee. The correspondence contains much material on Washington, Hamilton, Burr, Madison, and John.....
New York: Harper & Row, (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author filling most of the front free endpaper: "To David Hunter/Whose moral and financial/support have been of/inestimable value for the/continuance of my humble/efforts/Martin Luther King Jr."
5 April 1968. Document. Group of original teletype dispatches dated 5 April 1968 covering the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. comprised of three pieces. 1. Third World News Roundup (8-1/2" x 28-1/2"). "A stunned nation reacts to the death of Martin Luther King ... President Johnson reacts by.....
Philadelphia: Jacob Maas, 1829. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-decorated red morocco-backed marbled boards with matching morocco corners; 88 pages. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Jackson, an engraved title page, 4 plates (the Golden Wreath printed on white clay-coated stock, The Battle of New Orleans, The Hermitage, and The Capitol).....