1. White, Theodore.

“Negro Violence – The Black and White Picture. A distinguished reporter analyses a gathering storm that civil rights and desegregation alone cannot contain, and that may transform the American way of life beyond recognition”.

Reader’s Digest ARticle, c.1966. Octavo. 6 pages. Extracted, stapled original pages from a Reader’s Digest publication. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. Disturbing, very ambivalent article by Theodore White, condensing his thought about the “biological anarchy” of collapsing Negro communities after the uprising and riots of 1964 and 1965; “Teenage Savages” (″Negroes and Puerto Ricans of the late teens and early 20’s. These teenagers are an element that no one knows how to handle. Denied love or dignity or patrimony or tradition or any culture but television, they rock around on the deck of an unstable society, their bread given to them by underpaid welfare workers, their hopes at zero, their mothers despised, their hearth the gutter, a sub-culture in a general American urban culture which itself does not know where it is going”).

2. Beecher Stowe, Harriet.

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin – A Tale of Life among the Lowly – [c.1901 Edition] With Nineteen Illustrations” AND “The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Presenting The Original Facts and Documents upon which the Story is founded together with corroborative Statements verifying the Truth of the Work – [c. 1853 Edition].

Two Volumes. London, Publisher: S.W.Partridge & Co. [for the red cloth edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin] / Publisher: Clarke, Beeton and Co. [for the rare Volume of “The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin], [1853-1901]. Octavo. Pagination: 1. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”: Frontispiece, VIII, 416 pages plus Catalogue of books by Partridge to the rear / 2. “The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin”: Pastedown and endpaper with Ephemeral sticker about “The American Slave Code”, VIII, 504 pages. With Tables and Facsimile Letter of Slave Thomas Duckey to Mr.Bigelow. Hardcover / Original Publisher’s cloth. Condition of the Volume “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”: Excellent condition with only minor signs of foxing. The binding in unusually firm and beautiful condition. With a School-Prize-Sticker to the pastedown by the “School Board for London (Addington-Street School) – Awarded for Punctual and Regular Attendance during the Year 1901. / Condition of the Volume “The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Binding broken with fron board detached. Bookblock in excellent and firm condition.

3. Spears, Timothy B.

100 Years on the Road. The Travelling Salesman in American Culture.

New Haven/ London, Yale University Press, 1995. 23.4cm x 15.7cm. xx, 300 pages. Original illustrated softcover (Paperback). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

4. Edwards, Jonathan.

A careful and strict Enquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of Will, which is supposed to be essential to Moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, Reward and Punishment, Praise and Blame.

First British Edition. Boston / London, Re-Printed for Thomas Field, 1762. Octavo. IX, [5], 414, [8] pages plus two pages of advertising for Jonathan Edwards’ “Treatise concerning Religious Effections”. Hardcover / Original 18th century calf, rebacked with new spine and spinelabel. Interior all original and besides some minor signs of foxing in very good condition. Name of preowner in ink on titlepage. Binding overall excellent with only minor signs of external wear. A very rare and important book.

5. Barnouw, Erik.

A History of Broadcasting in the United States – Volume I: A Tower in Babel [Period from the Beginnings to 1933] / Volume II: The Golden Web – [Period 1933 to 1953] / Volume III: The Image Empire [Period from 1953 (to 1970)].

Mixed Editions: (Volume I in Second Edition / Volumes II/III in First Edition). Three Volumes (complete Set). Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1969-1970. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I – 344 pages / Volume II – 390 pages / Volume III – 396 pages. All Volumes with many illustrations and photographs throughout. Hardcover / All three Volumes in original publisher’s cloth with the dustjackets in protective Collector’s Mylar. The jackets with some loss and minor tears have been beautifully preserved. The Volumes all in excellent, very clean condition.

6. [Irving, Washington] Knickerbocker, Diedrich.

A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty – Containing, among many surprising and curious matters, The Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, The Disastrous Projects of William the Testy, and The Chivalric Achievements of Peter the Headstrong. The Three Dutch Governors of New Amsterdam : Being the only Authentic History of the Times that ever hath been published.

A New Edition. In Two Volumes (complete set). London, John Murray, 1821. Octavo. Volume I: XXXI, 341 pages / Volume II: [3], 282 pages. Hardcover / Original half-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Marbled paper on boards of both volumes slightly damaged. Otherwise both Volumes in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

7. Everett, Edward.

Address of the Hon. Edward Everett, delivered before The Boston Union Club, Thursday, April 9, 1863.

Liverpool, Printed at the “Daily Post” Steam Printing Works, 1863. 8°. 32 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Some rubbing fo front cover. As one of the most notable rhetorics of his time, Everett later that year gave his famous Gettysburg Oration. In his speech to the Boston Union Club, he addresses the struggle of the country due to the Civil War.

8. Serrano, Andres.

America and other work.

Köln, Taschen, 2004. 37,5 cm x 28,5 cm. 352 pages. With over 100 photographic images, full page and with some double pages Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. With full red cloth hardboards & spine and title embossed into cloth. The price for this heavy book includes international shipping per Courier ! The price for this heavy book includes international shipping per Courier !

9. Fell, Barry.

America B.C. Ancient Settlers in the New World.

New York, Wallaby, 1978. 22,5 cm x 15 cm. X, 312 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only slightly foxed.

10. Anonymus.

An Historical Review and Directory of North America: Containing a Geographical, Political, and Natural History of the British and Other European Settlements, the United and Apocryphal States, the General State of the Laws, particularly those affecting Commerce, Foreign and British Debts; also, Strictures upon Lord Sheffield’s Treatise upon American Commerce to which is added “A description of the Interior Parts of North America, general Face of the Country, Mountains, Forests, Rivers and the most noted Towns, Cities, Seats and Public Buildings. A Plan of the Roads and a concise account of the different Indian Nations. A copious Index to American State Papers. With a Great Variety of Tables necessary to all Merchants in their Intercourse with North America. [With a concise Account of the Island of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, together with the Manners, Customs, Policies and Trade of the Inhabitants and a short account of the Whale Fishery]. By a Gentleman immediately returned from a Tour of that Continent.

Volume II (of II). Cork, Printed by W. Matthews, 38 North-Main-Street, 1801. 10 cm x 17 cm. IX, 377 pages. Original Hardcover (full calf). The original binding with some stronger signs of external wear. Corners bumped. Endpapers and pastedowns a little scruffy. Otherwise in very good condition.