[N. p. n. p.], 1938. First edition. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, 91, [24] pages. Illus. Published in conjunction with the Northwest Territory celebration. With the story of westward migration, Burr's conspiracy, descriptions of Greek revival architecture and regional paper manufacture, and one anecdote of a small-town swindle involving the alleged..... 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

N. p. n. p., ca. 1950s. Black and white print on paper roughly trimmed to 3.38 x 4 inches. A pip, a nonpareil, a keeper—a portrait of man cut from the Liebling mold, who here faces the camera in a genial manner. His shirt is open at the collar and..... 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

[Milford, Otsego County, New York, ca. 1817 to mid-1840s]. Two saddle-stitched gatherings bound together with stab-stitched soft doeskin thongs, approx. 13.13 x 8 inches, 40 leaves in autograph ink (with evidence of leaves extracted and a few portions of leaves and text torn out). A few ink diagrams in the..... More

Cornish, Maine: Published and Sold by the Author, 1827. First edition. 12mo (gathered in nines), contemporary full calf, dark blue morocco label, gilt lettering, 216 pages. A pleasantly crudely-made anthology, largely of English poems, though Key's "Star-Spangled Banner" does make an early appearance here. Even the poems on patriotic and..... More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1869. First edition, trade issue. 8vo, contemporary blue half morocco, spine elaborately gilt, blue cloth sides, 607, [1], [4] pages, t.e.g. Frontis portrait, engraved title page (as published). This copy from the library of Halleck’s biographer James Grant Wilson himself, with a small ink..... More

Barnardston [i.e., Bernardston, Franklin County, Mass.]: Sept. 8th, [1775]. Single leaf, 12.5 x 7.63 inches, approx. 240 words. With the integral address to Reuben Shattock, “Cambredg under Capt. Wells,” Col. Whitcomb’s regiment. A primary text conveying the patriotic sense of Providence in the earliest days of the Revolutionary War in..... More

Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, No. 146 Chesnut [sic] Street, 1830. A later edition. Original black morocco spine titled in gilt, “S. Farmer,” scant 6 x 3.5 inches, 143, [1] pages. Wood engraved frontispiece by George Gilbert. Contemporary ink Sabbath School ownership inscription on the rear paste-down. More

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, [n. d., but 1833?]. Evidently a later printing of this tract. 12mo, original printed wrappers, 24 pages. A comprehensive plan on the proposed spread and regulation of Sabbath schools through the west and the rural areas. Apparently first published under the pseudonym "Owen"..... More

Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 1854. A later American edition. 8vo, publisher’s blind-stamped polished brown calf, raised bands, 429 pages, a.e.g. A nice example of a deluxe publisher’s binding. More

New York: American Bible Society, 1859. 8vo, publisher’s elaborately embossed brown leather, gilt lettering, 112 pages. A lovely example of an American embossed publisher’s calf binding, the Pica Octavo edition of the Testaments, and just a little too late for Wolf’s From Gothic Windows to Peacocks. Early ink and pencil..... More

Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1858. First edition. 12mo, original gilt-stamped red morocco, 538 pages, a.e.g. Two folding charts (diagrams of the Assembly Chamber and the Senate Chamber) tipped in. Everything a legislator needs to know, from Agricultural Society, Officers of, to Villages, General provisions for erecting. The real attraction..... More