Boston: Published by Crocker & Brewster, 47, Washington Street, New York: J. Leavitt, 182, Broadway, 1829. First American edition. 12mo (8 x 5 inches), original rose cloth spine to an adhered-boards binding, drab boards, printed paper label, [i-iv], [13]-344 pages, untrimmed. Lithograph frontispiece portrait. “This edition of the Memoirs of..... More

New York: Published for the Author, 1870. First edition. 12mo, original green cloth, gilt lettering. Frontis, three plates. The misadventures of a homoeopathic doctor turned serial bigamist and his life on the run in upstate New York and New England. Despite Wright’s classification of this work as fiction, the recurrent..... More

[Imprint on verso:] Hartford, Conn. Kellogg Brothers, 1863. Image measures approx. 3.25 x 2.25 inches (on a 4 x 2.5 inch printed mount). An evocative image of a little girl who embodied all the tortuous complexities of American race, and who was for a time during the Civil War a...... More

Londres: Imprimé par G. Schulze, 1822. First edition of each title. 2 vols in 1, 8vo (8.13 x 5.25 inches), contemporary acid-stained boards, orange spine label, decorations at the head and foot of the spine, 13, [3]; [2], 83, [1] pages. Foldout frontispiece to the Vigilante approx. 22 x 18..... More

New York: Stanford & Delisser, 508 Broadway, 1858. First edition. 8vo (7.5 x 5.38 inches), original blind-stamped and gilt-stamped blue cloth, 522 pages. 12 plates. A jovial Yankee picaresque from the South Carolina novelist, the tall tales of a Cape Cod man with satirical flings at life in New York..... More

Chickopee [sic] Falls, Mass. Published and For Sale by the Author, and at the Office of the “Crisis,” 167 Hanover-st., Boston, 1856. First edition. Small 8vo (6.75 x 4.63 inches), original blind-stamped black cloth, [10]-180; [1]-25, [1]; [8]; [1]-4 pages. “I will now give some account of the great camp-meeting..... More

Cincinnati: Published by N. & G. Guilford. T. Surguy, Printer, [1837]. First edition. Original pictorial blue wrappers, stitched, 8.13 x 4.88 inches, [36] pages, untrimmed. Woodcut illustrations throughout. With the wrapper title and imprint, The Freeman’s Almanac for the Year 1838: Edited by Solomon Thrifty. Cincinnati: Published by Guilford and..... More

Philadelphia: Published by James Crissy, 1822. First edition. 12mo, original drab boards, printed orange paper label, 252 pages, untrimmed. Engraved title page. An attractive copy, bright and in the publisher’s original boards, of an early collection from industrious clergyman-poet; amid the expected religious themes one finds topical verses on the..... More

New-London: Printed by Timothy Green, 1760. Second edition of the Saybrook Platform; the first appeared in 1710. 16mo (5.63 x 3.63 inches), original sprinkled full sheep, [ii], 118 pages. With the Articles for the Administration of Church Discipline bound in with its own title page and the Timothy Green 1760..... More

Libanon, (Penn.): J. Schnee für M. Carey in Philadelphia, 1810. First edition in German. 12mo, contemporary full calf, brown leather spine label, gilt rules and lettering, 210 pages. Engraved frontis and six engraved plates (including a portrait of Washington). The Weems life of Washington (cherry tree anecdote and all), here..... More

Boston: Published by T. Bedlington, 31, Washington-Street, 1826. A later edition, first published in 1798 in Boston. 12mo (7.5 x 4.75 inches), original white paper spine, blue boards, 100 pages, untrimmed. Publisher’s large printed paper label (with a Greek key border) on the upper board. A popular anonymous defense of..... More

New-York: G. & C. Carvill, and Elam Bliss, 1828. Stated second edition of the first volume. 2 vols in 1, large 8vo, publisher's rose half cloth, pink boards, printed spine label, 192; [iv], 188 pages. Frontis engraved view of Trenton Falls inserted before vol. 1. "Let then Americans labour to..... More

[N.p., but Boston: n. p., 1847]. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, stitched as issued, 7.5 x 4.63 inches, 11, [1] pages. A detailed program with the lyrics to 21 songs, all from a two-part vocal concert extravaganza that Johnson had mounted in Boston in 1847; a puff in the Boston Musical..... More