“AN INDISPENSABLE AUTHORITY”
STANHOPE, Earl (Philip Henry). Life of the Right Honorable William Pitt. London, 1861-62. Four volumes. First edition of Stanhope’s life of Pitt, with two engraved frontispieces, handsomely bound by Atelier. $1450.
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"'FAITH' IN THE FIGHT OF BLACK MEN FOR FREEDOM"
WRIGHT, Richard. Bright and Morning Star. New York, 1941.
First separate edition of one of Wright's earliest and most provocative looks at "racial injustice and violence in the American South," based on rumors he heard as a young boy about a Black woman who "avenged the murder of her husband" by shooting the white men responsible, a handsome copy in fragile original wrappers. $950.
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FOUR NURSERY RHYME POP-UPS BY GERALDINE CLYNE
CLYNE, Geraldine. Four pop-up books. New York, 1953. Four volumes.
Four (of eight) original, individual, fanfolded pop-ups from Clyne’s “Mother Goose Playhouse” series. $400.
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