"WHAT WAS LOANED BY OUR PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR GOVERNMENT MUST BE REPAID BY FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS TO OUR PEOPLE"
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Hand-corrected manuscript for Looking Forward. No place, 1933.
Manuscript draft of Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 book Looking Forward, his clarion call for a “new deal” that was published in the month of his inauguration, with Roosevelt's handwritten corrections in ink on 22 pages. $48,500.
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“FOR 160 DAYS WE MARCHED THROUGH THE FOREST, BUSH AND JUNGLE”
STANLEY, Henry M. In Darkest Africa. New York, 1890. Two volumes.
Deluxe signed limited first edition, American issue, number 39 of only 250 copies signed by Stanley, of the classic 19th-century account of African exploration. Profusely illustrated with engraved frontispieces, 38 mounted plates on India paper, six additional full-page etchings (each signed by the artist), three color folding maps (two backed in cloth), a folding table of comparative vocabularies, and numerous mounted, in-text India-prints. $15,000.
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"ONE OF THE MOST DRAMATIC AND FAMOUS INCIDENTS IN THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT"
(BURNS, Anthony) PARKER, Theodore. Trial of Theodore Parker. Boston, 1855.
First edition of the fiery abolitionist's attack on the trial and rendition of Anthony Burns, and the federal government’s attempt to prosecute Parker and other key abolitionists—"one of the most remarkable and flamboyant works of the 19th century… on the right of free speech, the wrong of slavery, and the nature of judicial tyranny"—a distinctive presentation copy inscribed by him, "Mr. J— M— P— with the best wishes of Theodore Parker, March 2, 1856," a handsome copy in original cloth. $2800.
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