Millerton, N. Y. Millerton Telegram Print, 1884. First edition. 12mo, original printed green wrappers, 11 pages. “All members of this Society shall hold themselves in readiness at the call of the managers for the pursuit of thieves.” A nice Dutchess county imprint for this anti-crime society. OCLC notes copies at..... More
Cincinnati: [n. p.], 1867. First edition. Original printed blue-green wrappers, 8.25 x 5.5 inches, 128 pages. Accounts of some of Cincinnati’s most memorable executions and murders, including such episodes as “The Summons Massacre; Arrison and the Infernal Machine; Mrs. Howard, who Avenged her own Wrongs; Nancy Farrer, the Child Poisoner,”..... More
Boston: Published by S. G. Simpkins, 1841. First edition. 16mo, original blind-stamped diaper grain blue cloth, gilt lettering, 48 pages. "No man of ordinary observation can pass through the streets of New York or Philadelphia, without meeting numerous living witnesses of the misery which exists in both of those cities..... More
Oakland, California: Carleton E. Null, Inc, [ca. 1940]. First edition? 8vo, original printed wrappers, 64 pages. Frontis portrait, illus. “Over a Quarter of a Million Miles in Highway Evangelism.” Null, based in Northern California, preached the Gospel on the road, generally in the West and Southwest, often undertaking prison ministry..... More
Philadelphia: n. p., 1853. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, contemporary (original?) blue paper spine reinforcement, 8.75 x 5.5 inches, 20 pages. “We visited the house of an astrologer in Small Street, below Seventh. ‘Crazy Nancy’ is the soubriquet borne by an old Negro woman who professes to ‘read the stars,’ and..... More
