ABAA-HOLIDAY-2023 from Open Boat Booksellers

First edition. 8pp. Two 2pp. double-sided sheets with one folded 4pp. sheet. Extremely fragile piece, on brown and heavily chipped paper, with substantial loss to margins and some splitting, partially affecting text, though with minimal loss along folds. Edges friable and still flaking in portions. Please see note these issues, visible in the high resolution photos. A significant speech given… Read more about this item

First edition. Frontis portrait of Pokagon, with two additional single page illustrated plates and one two-sided page photographic plate at rear. Pink publisher's notice tipped in between copyright page and dedication. Ownership information to front pastedown. Some pen underlines to text, some dog-eared pages. Binding firm. Rubbing to cloth at ends of spine. A scarce first edition of what is often… Read more about this item

Folio album, with sketches, watercolors, and photographs by Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1867-1873, with a total of 51 pieces on paper mounts, sheet size 14" x 10", including 17 captioned photographs of Morocco, taken during his 1871 visit to North Africa. Joseph Dalton Hooker is best known for his role as the Director of Kew Gardends, and as Charles Darwin's closest friend… Read more about this item

First edition. Original wraps. Removed from a collection of pamphlets, with stitch markings visible at margins near spine along front and rear covers. Spine perished with binding cloth to replace it. Some rubbing and area of paper loss to front cover. Internally clean and bright. A significant document in the history of women's suffrage in the United States, this pamphlet records… Read more about this item

Sheet music supplement for the Chicago Sunday American, April 16, 1905, pp. 5-8. Paper toned but remarkably well preserved. 12.5" x 10.5". Wonderfully illustrated cover designed by Henry E. Brevoort, with an image of African American singer Abbie Mitchell in the center of the front cover, with the billing 'Sung by Miss Abbie Mitchell in "The Southerners"'. The Southerners was a… Read more about this item

'An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies; for promoting the Industry of the manumitted Slaves; and for compensating the Persons hitherto entitled to the Services of such Slaves.' [913]-939. Folio, disbound. Ownership signature along top edge, with some erased mathematical figures in pencil along the bottom. First and last leaves browned heavily chipped with substantial loss… Read more about this item

An apparently unrecorded broadside printed for the Saint John Temperance League of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. No date, circa 1850. Edges slightly rough, some bunching of paper at folds. 12.5" x 5.25". Signed in type by William Henry Hathaway (or Hatheway, 1825-1908) and Nathan Smith DeMill (1804-1864). Nathan DeMill was a Loyalist and a prosperous merchant, shipowner, and lumberman in… Read more about this item

First edition. Near fine in original yellow wraps. Clean, bright, unmarked, and sturdy, with original price stamped to front cover. No. 3 of The Flying Stag Plays for The Little Theatre. A scarce and well-preserved copy of one of the earliest publications of the Provincetown Players for the famed Playhouse.

Program from the Opera Comique Theatre for Edward Compton's production of Henry James' play The American, a theatrical adaptation of his 1877 novel. Single sheet, folded, with modest wear at corners of folds. From the collection of Maurice Sendak, sold at auction in February, 2023. His literary agent Wolcott Balestier negotiated a contract between James and Edward Compton of the Compton… Read more about this item

Short note written to Reverend George Cheever from the offices of Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly, dated October 18, 874, in (presumably) secreterial hand. Note regards receipt of payment for subscription and is signed 'Woodhull Claflin'. 6.25" x 4.35", with traces of mounting to reverse. Woodhull & Claflin's weekly was the radical periodical founded by 1872 presidential candidate Victoria Woodhull and her sister,… Read more about this item

Two signed, typewritten letters sent by Clara Barton while serving as part of the Red Cross mission accompanying United States forces during the Spanish-American War to Harriette L. Reed. 4 sheets total, two on American National Red Cross letterhead. The first letter, dated May 13, 1898, was written by Barton while aboard the USS Texas, waiting in Key West Harbor. The… Read more about this item

First Saeghman edition of Sebald de Weert's voyage through the Straits of Magellan on behalf of the Dutch East India Company. Collated and complete. Bound in paper patterned boards with quarter vellum spine. Internally clean and unmarked. Woodcut vignette on title, allegorical woodcut on verso, 4 woodcut or engraved illustrations in the text. Part 8 of the first volume of… Read more about this item

First edition. Mimeographed pages, with multicolor matte covers in plastic comb binding. Signed by author Cordelia Attack Him (1939-1987), a Lakota woman from Oglala Lakota County in Porcupine, South Dakota at end of introduction. #149 of 500 copies, though with only two copies appearing in institutional collections. A wonderfully illustrated collection of Lakota beadwork designs, interspersed with stories, anecdotes, and tribal… Read more about this item