Two fan letters from a woman reader to British crime fiction writer Patricia Wentworth, the creator of the character, “Miss Maud Silver,” the heroine of..... Read More about Two Fan Letters from a Woman to British Crime Fiction Writer Patricia Wentworth discussing...
Menu card celebrating the 500th performance of Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw’s greatest first-run success, Fanny’s First Play, signed by Shaw, Shaw’s wife, theatre managers..... Read More about Kingsway Theatre Menu Card celebrating the 500th Performance of George Bernard Shaw’s...
Surprisingly scarce history of the Branch Davidian religious sect of Waco, Texas from their foundation in 1955 and tracing back their roots in the 1930s..... Read More about The Davidians of Waco
Copy photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, the evening before his assassination, with his aide Jesse Jackson. Jackson..... Read More about Photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, the day before his assassination,...
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) was only the second woman and the first Jewish woman to serve on the court. The likeness was made circa..... Read More about Autograph Publicity Portrait of Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Signed by Allan Rohan Crite (1910–2007) on the title page, below which the illustrator has added his cyphered initials. An inscription on the front free..... Read More about Were You There When They Crucified My Lord, A Negro Spiritual in Illustrations by Allan Rohan...
Publicity photograph of the hip-hop duo Da-Lite and Kool Keem who performed as Better Knowledge. Based on the contact telephone numbers, it appears that the..... Read More about Publicity Photograph for Hip-Hop Artists Da-Lite and Kool Keem performing as Better Knowledge,...
Two early and substantial partly-printed forms, dated 1806. Both forms were printed by a job printer, likely in Philadelphia for William Banks, Ship-Broker. The form..... Read More about For Appraisement of Damaged Goods. [two partly-printed forms “Printed for William Banks,...
Official guide book to the exhibitions and grounds of the 1876 Centennial International Exhibition, the first official World’s Fair to be held the United States..... Read More about Visitors’ Guide to the Centennial Exhibition and Philadelphia. May 10th to November 10th, 1876....
First edition, in publisher’s original polished cloth, a collection of anti-slavery lectures by Amos A. Phelps (1805–1847), Congregational Minister in Boston and agent of the..... Read More about Lectures on Slavery and Its Remedy
Controversial patent medicine inventor and manufacturer William Swaim’s reply to a critique of his mercury-based concoction, Swaim’s Panacea, by the Philadelphia Medical Society. Swaim’s 21-page..... Read More about Some Remarks upon a Publication by the Philadelphia Medical Society concerning Swaim’s Panacea
View book of the White Mountain scenery and resorts of New Hampshire. The view book’s leaves fold out into a continuous strip showing 18 lithographic..... Read More about White Mountains. [cover title of concertina-fold, lithographic view book
Rare study of socialism prepared for the “Volksverein” of Pennsylvania, a Roman Catholic social reform society. The author’s analysis was guided by the “well known..... Read More about Socialism and Social Reform. Published for the members of the “Volksverein” of Pennsylvania
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Rare and decorative engraved broadside of the Declaration of Independence by George G. Smith (1795–1878), largely based upon the Binns edition, presenting the full text..... Read More about Declaration of Independence. In Congress July 4th 1776. [caption title
Memorial address for American physician and anatomist, Caspar Wistar (1761–1818) of Philadelphia, by William Tilghman (1756–1827), then Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, both men members of..... Read More about An Eulogium in Commemoration of Doctor Caspar Wistar, Late President of the American...
Presentation copy; inscribed and initialed by author Chief Justice Tilghman to his Pennsylvania Supreme Court colleague, Justice John Bannister Gibson (1780–1853), who succeeded Tilghman as..... Read More about An Address Delivered before the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture at its Anniversary...
Rare German-language treatise on growing carrots; apparently, the author’s experiences with processing carrots on a large scale. The author was the Director of the subsidiary..... Read More about Der Möhrenbau im Großen nach meinen neuesten Erfahrungen. [Growing carrots on a large scale...
Angelina W. Grimké (1880–1958) was an African-American female poet and reclusive celibate lesbian who was born into the noted biracial Grimké family, with its strong..... Read More about Rachel. A Play in Three Acts
Well-illustrated program for the Black women’s beauty contest or “Calendar Girl Pageant” sponsored by The Combination, an African American magazine published in Oakland California. The..... Read More about The Combination Calendar Girl Pageant presents 6th Annual The Twelve Choice of Beauty...
An important survey of African-American art with exhaustive text to accompany 147 plates, 32 in full color and 115 in black and white, all illustrating..... Read More about Two Centuries of Black American Art
French Jazz Age women’s fashion catalog from the House of Jean Patou, featuring items from the 1928 Winter and Demi-Saison collections. Both collections feature dresses..... Read More about Jean Patou. Cannes, Deauville, Biarritz, Monte-Carlo, Paris, 7, rue St. Florentin. [1928 Winter...
Published by antiquary and bookseller William Gowans, an 1862 edition of this late 17th century description of New York City and New York Province and..... Read More about A Description of the Province and City of New York; with Plans of the City and Several Forts as...
1896 school manual and 1899 academic program yearbook for The Kent Place School, a boarding and day school for girls in Summit, New Jersey. In..... Read More about Manual of The Kent Place School, at Summit, New Jersey, setting forth the Plan of the School, the...
Speech of Congressman Samuel S. Cox, Democrat of Ohio on the Wade-Davis Bill of 1864 introducing a legislative plan for Reconstruction. The bill “…was less..... Read More about The Nation’s Hope in the Democracy—- Historic Lessons for Civil War. Speech of Hon. S.S. Cox,...
Speech of Ohio Republican Congressman William Lawrence concerning a legislative bill from the Reconstruction Committee on the readmission to the Union of the former Confederate..... Read More about Admission of Georgia. Speech of Hon. William Lawrence, of Ohio, in the House of Representatives,...
