CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF THE EAST
ST. LOUIS MASSACRE IN “THE CRISIS”

In addition to regular “Departments”—DuBois’s editorial, “The Outer Pocket,” “Men of the Month,” and so on—this issue of The Crisis contains the first publication of Waverly T. Carmichael’s dialect poem “‘Taint No Need O’ Women Worrin’” and photographically-illustrated coverage of the congressional investigation into the Massacre of East St. Louis.....

SIGNED, LIMITED CATHER

First edition, limited to 333 copies signed by the author. This copy is number 96. The only collection of Cather’s essays published in her lifetime, containing six works reflecting mainly on life and literature prior to World War I. Cather believed that the essays would have “little interest for people.....

“HE GAVE HIS LIFE TO THE PRISONER:”
RARE ACCOUNT OF A TOKYO HOME FOR EX-CONVICTS, 1901

A rare account of a rehabilitation home for ex-convicts in Meiji Japan, run by a prominent Japanese businessman who became the first Christian bookseller and publisher in Japan.   Benjamin Chappell, author of this account of Taneaki Hara’s Tokyo Home for Ex-Convicts, credits Hara for much of the present work’s.....

IMPORTANT SERMON ON THE SIEGE OF LOUISBOURG
BY THE FUTURE “THEOLOGIAN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION”

One of the best contemporary accounts of the 1745 Siege of Louisbourg, with considerable detail on strategy, defenses, munitions, men, etc. by the influential American clergyman Charles Chauncy. Dedicating some eight pages of his sermon to the siege, Chauncy addresses the events leading up to it, the remarkably speedy preparations.....

LARGE ELECTRIC RAILWAY SHOP MANUAL
FOR THE CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILROAD,
FEATURING OVER 100 CYANOTYPES

An impressive and apparently unique photographically-illustrated shop manual relating to the early phase of electrification of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, supplemented with eight illustrated electric railway parts catalogs published by General Electric Co. between 1914 and 1920. This manual includes photos and illustrations of locomotives, rail lines.....

SENSATIONAL ALBUM OF OVER 1000
CIRCUS PHOTOGRAPHS, CIRCA 1940

An extraordinary album of over 1000 extensively captioned photographs evidently compiled by circus devotee, collector, and amateur photographer James Chloupek or someone close to him, chronicling the American circus scene in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly around the time of World War II. This remarkable album captures.....

SHEET MUSIC FUNDRAISER FOR GETTYSBURG ORPHANS
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION BASED ON AN AMBROTYPE
CLUTCHED BY THEIR FATHER IN DEATH

Scarce sheet music sold for the benefit of three children orphaned by the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated with a lithograph based on an ambrotype portrait of the children found in their dead father’s hand. The music is preceded by a “Sketch” describing the melancholic scene of the slain and unidentified.....

Number 210 of an edition of 450 copies. “This book, which is no. 25 of the Golden Cockerel Press publications, was crowned by the Double-Crown Club as being the best produced book of its price published during 1925” (Gill). First Golden Cockerel press book illustrated by Gill, brother of the.....

A.L. COBURN’S CAPTIVATING PORTRAITS
OF LEADING AUTHORS AND ARTISTS

First edition of Alvin Langdon Coburn’s celebrated volume of highly evocative photogravures of authors and artists. Coburn’s work as a portrait photographer was initially spurred in 1904 by Perriton Maxwell, editor of the Metropolitan Magazine, who—“Out of the kindness of his heart, or, perhaps, more to get rid of me.....

THE BLACK MAN IS NO DRAFT-DODGER:
WWI RECRUITING POSTER

A ‘negro uplift’ recruiting poster appealing to the Black community and countering the racist trope of African Americans being lazy.  This poster features an African American serviceman tenderly saying good-bye to his wife or girlfriend. The couple stands in a walkway in front of a residence while in the background.....

WORK ON PRECIOUS METALS PUBLISHED IN 1849

First edition. A history of mining throughout the world, fortuitously published at the beginning of the California gold rush. “The discovery of California gold made Comstock’s world survey appeal to a much wider audience. He hurriedly included information on California and added a final chapter entitled ‘Estimated Expenses of Outfits.....

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF CONRAD’S
AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS

First American edition. An appealing copy of Conrad’s 2nd book, inspired by his experience as mate of the steamer Vidar. Appleton’s Town and Country Library series, No. 198. REFERENCES: Keating 6; Cagle A2(b)2. CONDITION: Very good, with early ownership inscription in ink at head of chapter one.

RARE AND COLORFUL
FRENCH TRADE CATALOGUE
OF SEALING WAXES, WICKS, POWDERS & INKS

An unrecorded and splendidly illustrated trade catalog advertising sealing waxes for letters, packages, and bottles (champagne, etc.); sulfur wicks and powders for sterilizing wine barrels; and inks. The chromolithographic plates were produced by master printer Charles Verneau, the Parisian publisher of many famous posters, including most of the oeuvre.....