San Francisco, CA (1929): Pilot Publishing Co. First Edition. Octavo. 64(1) pp. Louis Baldwin was instrumental in bringing the first National Negro Businessmen's Convention to Boston in 1900, which was organized by Booker T. Washington. Baldwin was a member of the planning committee for the convention and was made member..... More
Boston: Houghton Miffliln and Co., 1910. First Edition. Small Octavo. First printing. 64 pages illustrated with four color plates. A lovely fairy story that illustrates the worth and beauty of love in human experience. Flutterfly was a little princess whose cruel father punished her by removing her from her royal..... More
London: Published by the Author at the Egyptian Hall, 1841. First Edition. Octavo. Two volume set, first issue with "Frederick" for "Zedikiah" on page. 104. The first edition of Catlin's famous book, one of the most important works on American Indians published in the 19th century. The book contains hundreds..... More
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1930. First Edition. Octavo. 257 pages. The author was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1933 along with Schrödinger. In one of the classics of quantum mechanics ('On the theory of quantum mechanics') Dirac in August 1926 incorporated Erwin Schrödinger's new wave mechanics into his own theory..... More
Cambridge 1903--1909: Riverside Press. Limited Editions. Octavo. In 22 volumes. Illustrated throughout with striking photogravures. The 12 volumes of the Centenary edition of Emerson's Complete Works are limited to 600 copies signed by the publisher and with one of Emerson's 2 page manuscript bound in. The present set is number..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894. Quarto. 683 pages. Perhaps the most important and exhaustive treatment of the American Indian in the 19th Century. While the Dawes Act (1887) was originally designed to either keep the Indian on the reservations (or else be assimilated into what they thought characterized an American)..... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1868. First Edition. Octavo. Engraved frontispiece 315pp., with a beautiful fore-edge painting depicting Queen Victoria and Prince Albert both flanking the Balmoral Castle. This work was written basically as a journal of the Queens favorite places of tour. She was asked by Mr. Helps to..... More