In the American West.
New York: Abrams, (1985). First edition. Hardcover. Original cloth, 14.25 x 11.38 inches, photo onlays to the covers. Illustrated after photographs by Avedon. Original acetate dust jacket. With an essay by Laura Wilson. More
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The James Means Control for Flying Machines, Based Upon the Principle of Mental Automatism [wrapper title].
Boston: James Means, 193 Beacon St. 1913. First edition. 12mo, original self-wrappers, [12] pages. Illus. "Mental automatism in balancing may be illustrated by the experience of the novice learning to ride the bicycle." From this aeronautical pioneer (best remembered for his Aeronautical Annuals, published from 1895 to 1897) comes this..... More
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Airship Facts and Meterological [sic] Possibilities, as Verified by Captain Thomas S. Baldwin [wrapper title; caption title:] Airship Facts and Meterological [sic] Possibilities.
New York: Captain Thomas S. Baldwin, [ca. 1906]. First edition. Originsl pictorial pink wrappers, scant 6 x 3.25 inches, 16 pages. “I have no secrets, but am anxious to promote and give to the world my knowledge of aeronautics and airshipping. I manufacture and have for sale balloons and airships..... More
Autograph letter signed Priest Abraham, evidently sent to Amherst professor William Seymour Tyler.
Ooroomiah [Urmia, West Azerbaijan, Iran], March 3rd, 1837. 3.5 pages in autograph ink in English on an unlined foolscap folio, 13.75 x 8.75 inches, approx. 850 words, no cover. Docketed in autograph ink, “Letter from Priest Abraham to Prof. Tyler, March 2, 1837.”. “Permit me to inform you, that the..... More
Memoir of Captain Nathan Hale.
New Haven: Printed by S. Babcock, 1844. First edition. 8vo, original printed blue wrappers, 16 pages. Per printed note on the front wrapper, "For the Hale Munment Association," this copy with a gift inscription from the Association's secretary, "George Beach Esq. with Respects of John W. Boynton, Sec. Hale Mem..... More
School of Living, Suffern, New York Announces a Lecture Tour by Ralph Borsodi On the Subject of "Education and Living" . . . [wrapper title].
[Suffern, N. Y. School of Living, ca. 1945]. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, approx. 8.25 x 5.5 inches, [4] pages. Vignette portrait. The standard dominant narrative of postwar America is that of the flight to suburban conformity; Ralph Borsodi and the School of Living had instead for a number of years..... More
The Search After Happiness: A Pastoral Drama. To which is added, Joseph Made Known to his Brethren: A Sacred Drama.
Philadelphia: Printed for Johnson and Warner, 1811. First Bailey edition. 12mo, original orange boards, 72 pages. Engraved frontis. A handsome little edition, printed by Lydia Bailey. The frontispiece is engraved by Tanner after Stothard. Rosenbach 442; Nipps, Lydia Bailey, 55. Frontispiece browned. More
Mr. Hewitt as a Philosopher and Statesman. His Theory of Cheap Raw Materials as a Basis for National Wealth, Power, and Civilization, Examined and Disputed.
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co., Industrial Publishers, Booksellers and Importers, 1884. First edition. 8vo, self-wrappered pamphlet, 8 pages. An uncommon attack on Abram S. Hewitt and his theories of free trade, from the arch-protectionist Henry Carey Baird, suggesting Hewitt's philosophies aim "to sink man to the nethermost hell of..... More
Unitarianism Untenable. A Letter Addressed to the Unitarians of Chester, Edinburgh and Norwich, Great Britain, and Pittsburgh, America; by W. J. Bakewell, their Former Pastor. With an Appendix . . . Interspersed with Remarks.
Pittsburgh, Pa. Printed by Johnston & Stockton, 1843. First edition. 8vo, contemporary (original?) blue wrappers, twine stitching, 48 pages. The former Unitarian clergyman, a native of England who had of late been the head of the Pittsburgh Unitarian society, outlines at length his reasons for leaving his church for the..... More
Review of a Pamphlet Purporting to be "A Statement of Facts in Relation to the Howe Street Society:" Containing also Additional Facts, by . . . Late Pastor of Howe Street Church--New Haven, Con.
New Haven: Printed by B. L. Hamlen, 1846. First edition. 8vo, original printed yellow wrappers, 28 pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in pencil at the head of the front wrapper to the Hartford State Supreme Court justice, "Hon. Thos. S. Williams, With respects of A.C.B." Moderately sordid charges and counter-charges..... More
The Infirmary Drainage Scheme. To the Right Honourable the Lord Provost, the Magistrates, and Council of the City of Edinburgh [caption title].
[Edinburgh: n. p., 1875]. First edition. 8vo, removed, 16 pages. Criticism of the health implications of a proposed Edinburgh drainage scheme from the Scottish physician who had done much to reform the sanitary condition of the British armed forces (cf. the DNB). He here touches on the varied compositions of..... More
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The Garland of Trials [caption title].
[London]: Printed and Sold by J. Pitts, 14 Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials, [between 1802 and 1819]. One of many editions of this popular ballad. Broadside, 8.5 x 13 inches. A penny ballad that seems to date at least to the mid-18th century, here printed on cheap paper, with..... More
Remarks upon Three of Mr. Ballou's Principal Wide-Spread Publications: Presenting to the Impartial, Unprejudiced Reader, a Clear View of the Ridiculous Absurdity of his Self-Styled Arguments for the Proof of Universal Salvation.
Concord [N.H.]: Published by George Hough, Sold at his Bookstore, 1822. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (lacking wrappers), 26 pages. The longtime Congregationalist minister warns Universalists of the follies of their doctrines; a typical salvo against some of the principal works of early Unitarian-Universalist (and then New Hampshire resident) Hosea..... More
An Attempt, with a Soft Answer, to Turn Away Wrath, in Letters Addressed to Mr. George Forrester, Calvinist-Baptist Preacher, in Reply to his Strictures on Works Entitled "Treatise on Atonement," and "Notes and Illustration of Parables."
Portsmouth, N.H. W. Weeks -- Printer, 1813. First edition. 12mo, contemporary calf spine, marbled boards, 179 pages. An uncommon and relatively early controversial work from one of the fathers of American Universalism, and a nice example of a Portsmouth imprint. Neat gift inscription dated 1905 on the front free endpaper..... More
The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Army, through the Revolutionary War, and the First President of the United States.
Boston: Published for T. Bedlington, No. 31, Washington-street, 1826. A later edition. 2 vols, original brown cloth spines, printed paper labels, marbled boards, 6.25 x 3.69 inches, 223, [1]; 218 pages. Engraved frontispiece and engraved title in each volume. First published in Worcester in 1807, and likely republished here with..... More
The Greatest Burglary on Record. Robbery of the Northampton National Bank . . . Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars in Money and Bonds Stolen. $25,000 Reward.
Northampton, Mass. Steam Press of Gazette Printing Company, 1876. First edition. Original pictorial wrappers, 8.75 x 5.75 inches, 24 pages. Illus., including a diagram of the cashier's home. The definitive contemporary account of one the biggest bank robberies in U.S. history. The robbers--who according to witnesses referred to each other..... More
The Ordinances as They Are, or Six Questions Answered; with the Baptist Articles of Faith: to which are Added a Poem on Creation.
Cortland [N.Y.]: S. C. Clisbe & Co. Printers, 1847. First edition. 12mo, contemporary black morocco spine, marbled boards, 166 pages. The Baptist pastor from McGrawville argues for immersion and against loose communion churches; includes some hint of the alliance of religious sentiment and Jacksonian populism: “I am a Republican, a...... More
Bajan Cookbook [wrapper title].
(Champaign County, Illinois: n. p.), [ca. 1974]. First edition. Original printed pictorial blue wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, [2], 13, [1] pages. With a label mounted to the inside from wrappers, “PREPARED BY: Marilyn Farley, 1974 IFYE Delegate to Barbados from Champaign Co., Illinois.” Likely a service project required of..... More
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Grimalkin, and Little Fido. [Bound with, as published:] Charles’ Journey to France and Other Tales. By Mrs. Barbauld.
Worcester [Mass.]: Edward Livermore, 1847. First Livermore edition of each title. 12mo, original gilt-stamped brown cloth, 72, 72 pages. Illus. Published here in the series “Uncle Thomas’ Stories for Good Children,” an early series from the Worcester publisher Livermore (who had the book printed by Merriam & Mirick in Greenfield..... More
An Apology for the True Christian Divinity: Being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People Called Quakers . . . First Stereotype Edition, from the Eighth London Edition.
New York: Printed by Samuel Wood and Sons, for the Trustees of Obadiah Brown's Benevolent Fund, 1827. Stated first stereotype edition of this evergreen classic of Quaker apologetics. 8vo, contemporary (likely publisher's) calf, red leather label, gilt lettering, 587 pages. Some penciled sums to the verso of the rear free..... More
An Oration on Death, and the Happiness of the Separate State, or the Pleasures of Paradise. . . . Also, An Oration of the Author's, written early in the spring of 1816, on the then present outpourings of the Spirit of God, in New England . . . Also, Four Hymns or Poems of the Author's . . .
Williamsburgh [Mass.]: Printed by Ephraim Whitman, 1817. First edition. 12mo, original tree sheep, brown leather spine label, gilt lettering, iv, 300 pages, all edges sprinkled. The Bard of the Berkshires, Bodman (1766-1850) was perhaps the last great efflorescence of the New England Puritan poets in the lineage of Michael Wigglesworth;..... More
Paper Finds Many New Uses in the Home.
[Parchment, Michigan: Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Company, 1931?]. First edition. 8vo, original pictorial boards, [2], 42 pages. Illus. Tipped-in price sheet to the verso of the front board. A promotional book on the many domestic uses (cooking, cleaning, writing) of the paper product of the Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Co. As befits..... More
Descriptive Price List of Barnes' Patent Foot and Steam Power Saws and Lathes. Rockford, Winnebago Co., Illinois [wrapper title].
[Rockford, Illinois]: Rockford Gazette Steam Print, [ca. 1875]. First edition. 24mo, original pictorial printed orange wrappers, 24 pages. Illus. "These machines are in demand not only by professional men with mechanical taste, for purposes of recreation and profit, but also for boys. There is hardly any form of education more..... More
The Deserted Chapel and Other Poems.
Cerro Gordo, Illinois: J. O. Barnhart, 1926. First edition, signed by the author on the verso of the frontispiece. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 86 pages. Frontis portrait, two plates, illus. The Brethren minister from Cerro Gordo (a small town east of Decatur, Ill.) here weighs in with verses on a...... More
Rev. Anthony Verren, Pastor of the French Episcopal Church of the Saint-Esprit, at New York. Judged by his Works. [Bound with, as issued:] Rev. Antoine Verren, Pasteur . . .
New York: Sold by the Booksellers [Chez les Libraires], 1840. First edition. 2 vols in 1, 12mo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering. Title page vignettes of a viper; one folding facsimile plate. A scurrilous libel accusing Rev. Verren of poor manners, gross language and attempted seduction: "The word *libertine* burst..... More