![A Woman of War and Other Stories. [Inscribed by the Author]. Felix Agnus, 1839–1925.](/pictures/thumb/3728151_1.jpg?v=1548184398)
Collection of Civil War short stories by veteran, Baltimore newspaperman, and sculptor Felix Agnus (1839–1925). Though fictionalized—the author calls them “tales built upon true incidents,”..... Read More
Born a slave in Thomasville, Georgia, Henry Ossian Flipper (1856–1940) became the first African-American to graduate from the United States Military Academy. The Colored Cadet... Read More
First Edition of Richard Wright’s fourth book. The haunting tale of his incredibly chaotic and extraordinarily difficult Southern childhood. One filled with constant hunger, a...... Read More
Autobiography from this Iowa native writing of her early life in North Dakota, her college degree achievement, and then her removal to Chicago during the... Read More
![Down These Mean Streets. A Stunning Autobiography of Corruption and Innocence. [Signed Copy]. Piri Thomas.](/pictures/thumb/3727385_1.jpg?v=1538433154)
Signed by the author, his first book. This copy owned by a Freedom Summer volunteer and Civil Rights protestor. Story of a young Puerto Rican... Read More
Published for the first time, the autobiography of this remarkable man born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation. Lynch rose to become Speaker of the... Read More
![[Cons and Cheats:] Out of the Depths. The Redemption of Jack Donovan. The Boy Thief, the Professional Pugilist, Actor, Gambler, Confidence Man, and Fugitive from Justice. Jack Donovan.](/pictures/thumb/3726662_1.jpg?v=1534790178)
Scarce first edition of Jack Donovan’s autobiography which begins with a stark catalog of vice which took him down into “the depths”: (1) A thief..... Read More
![Professional Thieves and the Detective [Autographed by Robert A. Pinkerton]. Allan Pinkerton, 1819–1884, 1848–1907, 1832–1900, Robert Allan Pinkerton, Francis “Frank” Horatio Stott.](/images/noimage-req.png)
Autobiography and crime memoir by Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884), noted Scottish-American private detective and spy. This copy has a presentation inscription from Pinkerton’s son and successor..... Read More
![Pickle for the Knowing Ones, or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress [with autograph of author, “Lord” Timothy Dexter]. Timothy Dexter, 1748–1806.](/pictures/thumb/3724748_1.jpg?v=1534362294)
A later edition of this curious work by the eccentric Timothy Dexter, a merchant of Newburyport, Massachusetts whose remarkable house stands today to amuse and... Read More
![Oh My Past…Memoirs of a Child [Unknown Manuscript Translation of the Autobiography of French writer Hughes Robert Charles Henri Le Roux]. Hugues Le Roux, 1860–1925, Edith Cornell Smith.](/pictures/thumb/145687_1.jpg?v=1534362280)
Hughes Robert Charles Henri Le Roux (1860–1925) was a French writer of travel literature and French colonies, a journalist, and an intimate of official French... Read More
