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32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera
For passionate collectors and researchers, 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera discovers and preserves the authentic stories of cultural history. We provide a meticulously curated collection of over 13,000 rare books and ephemera items from pivotal social movements, scientific and artistic achievements and underrepresented voices, making significant historical artifacts accessible to all.
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi [Mahatma]; Edited by D.G. Tendulkar; M. Chalapathi Rau; et al. A Word for the Readers by Mohandas Gandhi; Introduction by Jawaharlal Nehru Gandhiji: His Life and Work Published on His 75th Birthday, October 2, 1944
$1,250.00
Bombay: Keshav Bhikaji Dhawale, 1944. Hardcover. 4to., 405 pp. Original publisher’s light brown coarse khaki cloth with dark brown leather spine, gilt lettering, patterned endpapers, illustrated with black and white photographs and tipped-in color plates, frontispiece.
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First unabridged edition of this tribute to Gandhi, with introductions by Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru and a biographical essay by Albert Einstein.
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Published in 1944 to both commemorate Mahatma Gandhi’s 75th birthday and support the Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Fund.
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Contains essays by various contemporaries examining Gandh’s political career, social reform efforts, and influence on Indian society as well as a curated selection of Gandhi’s own writings, including speeches and letters. Although Gandhi generally declined to participate in birthday commemorations, he wrote a preface for this volume, citing its charitable purpose. As a mid-career publication released during Gandhi’s lifetime, the book reflects the contemporary reception of his work and offers early interpretations of his role in the Indian independence movement.
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Published in India in 1944 to mark Mahatma Gandhi’s seventy-fifth birthday, Gandhiji: His Life and Work stands as one of the earliest comprehensive tributes to the spiritual and political leader of India’s independence movement. Issued before independence and while Gandhi was still alive, this commemorative volume documents his philosophy of non-violence, his leadership during the freedom struggle, and the global recognition of his influence.
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Copies of this edition are scarce, particularly in well-preserved condition, as many were printed under wartime paper constraints. A significant historical document from the final years of British India—offering both biographical insight and period authenticity.
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Very Good, intact with some age toning, soiling, handling and wear. Institutional ownership stamp on title page. Item #726202511
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Howard, Sir Robert The History of the Reigns of Edward and Richard II. with Reflections and Characters of Their Cheif Ministers and Favourites. Written in the Year 1685.
$450.00[6], xli, [1], 183, [1] pages; original calf, re-backed with later calf; marbled pastedowns & endpapers. Title page with publishers ornament in red. The publication date on the title page has been neatly altered in pen to 1699. Leaves A2 & A4, correctly signed; page 144 wrongly numbered 441. Moderate wear to covers at corners; cracks to leather leading top front corner and rear edge. Bottom and leading edges of text block soiled, top edge stained black. Title page shows some tanning; text pages relatively clean throughout with toning at edges. Nicely preserved.Â
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RARE FIRST EDITION OF FUGITIVE SLAVE NARRATIVE
Ball, Charles. SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man, Who lived forty years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a Slave, under various masters, and was one year in the Navy, with Commodore Barney, during the late war.
$1,200.00Lewistown, PA: Printed and Published by John W. Shugert, 1836. First edition. The subtitle continues “Containing an account of the manners and usages of the Planters and Slaveholders of the South, a description of the condition and treatment of the Slaves, with observations upon the state of morals amongst the cotton planters, and the perils and sufferings of a fugitive slave, who twice escaped from the cotton country.” Rare first edition of this important slavery narrative by Ball, one which covers forty years of his life as a slave and his several escapes, an account reprinted many times through the 1850s under various titles. Born into slavery in Maryland around 1780, separated from his mother when he was four, he was owned by several different masters and lived in three states. Attempting escape on numerous occasions, he eventually succeeded and lived on a small farm until he was recaptured in 1830. However, he escaped again, and moved to Philadelphia, where he wrote this autobiography with the assistance of Isaac Fisher, a white lawyer. Fisher’s preface in which he acknowledges omitting or ‘carefully suppressing’ Ball’s opinions on slavery, cast some doubt upon the authenticity of this work, but the second edition, just one year later, included a statement from two prominent Pennsylvanians “that we know the black man whose narrative is given in this book, and have heard him relate the principal matters contained in the book concerning himself, long before the book was published.” Two page preface by Isaac Fisher. Errata list on verso of title page. 400 pp, Fair condition only in original boards, resewn and rebacked with dark brown goatskin, endpapers replaced. Significant rubbing and wear to the edges of the boards, tidemarks and foxing throughout. Â Loss of approximately half an inch to the bottom edge of the first leaf after the title (the preface).
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rare 1901 Oklahoma Native American reference
Gideon, D. C. INDIAN TERRITORY Descriptive Biographical and Genealogical including the Landed Estates, County Seats Etc., Etc. with a General History of the Territory in One Volume
$1,996.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
NYC and Chicago: Lewis, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Item #2206028 1st printing. Beautifully rebound in three-quarter leather and cloth with gilt titles (slightly flaked) on spine and with new endpapers. 956pp. 100 photogravure portraits plus several other photos. A. E. G. (all edges gilt). Originally owned by and with the signature (three times) of “H. S. Suggs, Berwyn I. T.” The second Suggs signature was on a chipped sheet & in rebinding the binder affixed it to a sheet of matching tone and bound it in. The third signature of Mr. Suggs is written along the inner margin of where he is in the book (pps. 580-581). Suggs “… came to Berwyn in the Indian Territory, where he continued in the lumber business [from Texas] and also ran a cotton gin until 1901, when he sold his gin and is now engaged in the hardware and lumber business . . . he is interested [also] in the cattle business, and firm being known as Suggs and Brother.” The brother, Sidney Suggs, has an even longer entry in the volume and a portrait. A glossy photo of him and his family is laid in. It is printed from the archives of the Okla Hist Soc. One leaf (pps 931-932) was once detached but has been tipped back in. It has tears radiating out from the gutter and has 3 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ inch loss of text in the middle of the page. Title page has two edge chips. One index sheet has old cloth tape edge repairs. Throughout there are some edge tears that have not been repaired, but we have discovered none of a serious nature. Many tissue guards are missing. There is some browning/foxing on some pages, but not extensively. Some page corners are rounded from use. We have conservatively graded this copy “good,” but in our view with experience in these kinds of volumes, if it were in our personal collection we would have no issue grading it very good. Adams (Six-guns 1107) says, “Has a long section on all the outlaws of the Indian Territory, including the Dalton gang and the Cook gang …” [but Adams adds the author is mistaken about Belle Starr’s brother & repeats false information about her]. In this section there is glowing information on the famous Black Man, Deputy. U. S. Marshal Bass Reeves, and an account of one of his captures of outlaws involving gunplay. An Oklahoma rarity. Howes G158.
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219 half-tone photos of the war in the Philippines
Photos of “War” in Philippines 1890-1901
$250.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Manila: No publisher stated, 1898. Wrappers. Very Good. Offered here are 219 photos reprinted in early half-tones of photographs from the Spanish-American War in the Philippines. Uniform dimensions including borders 5 1/2″ x 7 1/2″. Whether these early reprints were individually produced or in a larger production I do not know, except to say that the uniform size suggests the former. Subjects widely varied but almost all related to Admiral Dewey’s fleet, the war, and the aftermath inclusive of the subsequent war after the American took control. A sampling of subjects includes: U. S. military units at “rest” and in battle lines, Spanish soldiers and officers, insurgents, indigenous people, graves of dead soldiers, a handful of scaffolding and hangings pictures, landmark buildings, Dewey’s ships, President McKinley’s “funeral,” indigenous bow & arrow and spear hunters, scantily clad women from Hawaii, soldiers holding skulls, children and families smoking cigars, personal daily prep and hygiene, much more. In generally very good condition. Just a few photos with edge tears. Some captions have been trimmed off or mostly off. Collectively this group is quite a picture of the war, the soldiers, and the people.
Offered for Sale by: Gene W. Baade Books on the West
