[Wrapper imprint:] Harrisburg, Pa. Gedruckt und zu haben bei Scheffer und Beck, 1853. A later edition. Original green-gray pictorial wrappers printed in red ink, 6.38 x 4.13 inches, [3]-38 [i.e., 36] pages. A popular German-language Volksbuch version of the medieval legend of Genevieve of Brabant, who after a false accusation..... More

Salem: Printed at the Office of "To-Day," Oct. 31, 1870. First edition. 8vo, original pictorial glazed white wrappers, 15 pages. Pictorial title page, illus. "If you ask the touris why he visits Salem, he will tell you that he has four reasons: to see the old houses, to feel the..... More

London: Printed and sold by J. Evans and Son, No. 42, Long-lane, [between 1814-1820]. Likely a later edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, 8 pages. Wood-engraved title page vignette of a woman leaning out of a window with flames burning around her and a ladder just out of reach. With the additional..... More

(Boston: n. p., 1857). First edition. 8vo, unbound pamphlet removed from a nonce volume, 12 pages. A lively, vituperative and uncommon attack on the financial policies that led to the Panic of 1857, with much in the way of sectional attacks on the South. Includes flings against former Mississippi senator..... More

[Enield, Mass. John Howe, 1844]. First edition. 16mo, unbound pamphlet approx. 6 x 5 inches, 8 pages, unopened. "Come all you bold seamen, and lovers likewise, / Give ear to a ditty that's caused many sighs." Entertaining verses of the path-of-true-love variety; per Philip Gura's article, "Early Nineteenth-Century Printing in..... More