[Salem, Mass.? n. p., 1868]. First edition. 8vo, unbound pamphlet, [7] pages. Title-page vignette of a booted elephant draped with a blanket reading "Only $600,000" and bearing aloft a banner with the strange device, "Old Aqueduct." An obscure (but amusing) satirical political work, aimed against the sale of the Salem..... More

[Chicago: Rounseville & Co.; later, John J. Moon, 1845-1846]. 11 issues (of 12 published) bound into contemporary half roan and embossed cloth, gilt lettering, 352 pages (plus 48 pages [pp. 49-96] extracted from Godkin’s History of Hungary, 1853 & 3 numbers and front matter for the 1854 American edition of..... More

Washington, D. C. n. p., [ca. 1925]. First edition. Unbound brochure, approx. 5.5 x 3.5 inches, [4] pages. "The purpose of the Susan B. Anthony Foundation is: First, to create and maintain an interest in the Pioneers of woman suffrage and other reform movements which occupied the attention of the..... More

New-York: Published by Maria Monk, and Sold by Booksellers Generally, 1836. First edition thus. 12mo, original embossed rose cloth, printed paper label, 376 pages. Folding frontis plan and view of the nunnery. An expanded edition of this best-selling piece of anti-Catholic scurrility, purporting to give a first-hand account of the..... More

[Bloomington, Illinois, ca. 2010-2018]. 20 signs on card stock measuring 40 x 28 inches; 20 signs on card stock measuring 28 x 20 inches. Additional signs on foam board, cardboard, and an example on corrugated wax box stock with a wooden handle attached. The signs measuring 40 x 28 generally..... More

Cincinnati: J. H. H. Woodward, 382 John Street, [1876]. First edition. Single sheet printed recto and verso, 14 x 8.5 inches. "The name we propose for our paper is 'The Cincinnati Weekly Mah-Hah-Bone.' The word 'Hah-Hah-Bone' is one of great significance among Masons. To the Masons it is the synonym..... More

New York: Published by Request, 1836. First edition. Original printed pink wrappers, 8.5 x 5.25 inches, 22, [2] pages. “American slavery is a system of fraud, adultery, and murder.” The abolitionist educator here lays out concrete steps that Northern anti-slavery activists might take. Dumond, page 61; American Imprints 33780; Lib..... More

Poughkeepsie: Printed for the Author, 1812. First edition. 12mo, original wrappers, 119, [1] pages. “And so important did I conceive these things to be in the Christian world, that when taken ill last fall in New-York, and apprehensive that I should not live, it was on my mind to commit..... More

Fredonia, N.Y. W. B. Archibald, Author and Publisher, 1892. Likely a reissue of the first edition; the publication copyright date is a pasted-on cancel slip. Large 8vo, original black pebbled half cloth, blue cloth sides, printed paper label, 228 pages. Mounted leaf of index key on the title page. A..... More

(Bay City, Michigan: The Aladdin Company, 1920). Stated second edition. 8vo, original decorated red leatherette over flexible boards, 160 pages (including fold-out double page illustrations) plus inserted order leaf. Illus. An early catalog (the first was 1908) from this pioneer in pre-fabricated kit homes. Includes floorplans of the different styles..... More

[Philadelphia: Starkey & Palen, ca. 1880]. First edition? 16mo, unbound pamphlet, [8] pages. A promotional brochure from one of the better-known home oxygen treatment cures, this with two testimonial letters from temperance author and editor T. S. Arthur, who notes here in a letter dated January 1, 1878, "At that..... More

Paris: Aux Librairies Protestantes, 1890. First edition. 16mo, original printed blue wrappers, 78, [1] pages. Small map. Evidently an annual report on the work of the pioneering Protestant asylums founded by Calvinist pastor John Bost in La Force in the Dordogne, which took in abandoned and orphaned children, the mentally..... More

[Philadelphia? n. p.], October 6, 1842. Printed check measuring approx. 2.13 x 6.13 inches, signed “J. Fenimore Cooper.”. A check perhaps cashed to settle up accounts after Cooper’s return home from an extended stay in Philadelphia, where he had been at work completing his naval novel Wing-and-Wing; or Le Feu-Follet..... More