Sterling, Windham County, Connecticut, May 4, 1802. Single leaf of foolscap, 13 x 7.75 inches, 2 pages. Approx. 400 words. A document dealing with law, violence, and an African American woman; one suspects at the remove ot two centuries the real possibility of self-defense being turned against a vulnerable domestic... More
[Manchester? n. p., ca. 1838-1846]. Broadside on card stock, approx. 4.5 x 6 inches. Engraved vignette, "Stephenson & Royston Del. & Sc." An attractive ephemeral relic of the political fight against trade restrictions on grains in England, an important early free trade movement, here decorated with an engraved vignette of... More
Greensboro: C. F. Thomas, Book and Job Printer, 1883. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 205, [1], [1] pages. A series of lectures on Hebrew poetry, largely Dick’s critical effusions on the verses from the Old Testament (though later poets of the diaspora are covered to a certain extent); the... More
Harrisburg, Pa. United Evangelical Publishing House, 1909. First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, black lettering, 199, [1] pages. Frontis portrait. Law was a state superintendent for the American Purity Federation and appears in contemporary local directories as a lecturer in Detroit; her work here avoids the sensationalist aspects of kindred... More
(London: Spectacular Times, 1986). A new edition; first published 1983, republished here in 1986. 16mo, original color wrappers, [32] pages. Illus. Spectacular Times pocketbook series number 12, from the Situationist Larry Law. More
(London: Spectacular Times, 1997). "First published 1982. This edition 1997." 16mo, original slick color wrappers, [48] pages. Illus. A later edition of an animal rights booklet from the Situationist Larry Law, this issued as number ten in the Spectacular Times pocketbook series. More
Troy, N. Y. From the Press of N. Tuttle, CCXXV River-Street, 1844. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped black cloth, gilt lettering, 315 pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in pencil on the front blank, “Presented to Prof. Yates with the respects of the Author.” One moderately legible bit of contemporary marginalia... More
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1838. First edition. 8vo, original embossed blue cloth, printed paper label to the upper board, [8], 93, [1] pages. “The great and important changes, introduced by this statute in the relation of debtor to creditor, seem to render it desirable as well as... More
Trenton, N. J. Printed and Published by P. J. Gray, 1832. First edition. 8vo, original violet linen spine, drab boards, vii, [1], 167, [1], 90 pages. In 1821, the Chesterfield Preparative Meeting made a loan from its school fund to Thomas L. Shotwell, and after the meeting split in 1827... More
Kjøbenhavn [Copenhagen]: C. A. Reitzel, 1894. First edition. 8vo, contemporary purple half sheep, black pebbled cloth boards, 168 pages. An argument for reform of mental health laws around institutionalization and consent, from a judge who had himself in 1889, at the request of his nephew, been certified insane by a.... More
Bury: Printed by J. Kay, Fleet Street, 1838. Second edition? Unbound pamphlet, approx. 6.5 x 4 inches, 8 pages, unopened. "The Kingdom to be divided into Unions for the purposes of this Act, and Guardians to be chosen for each, as the Commissioners may appoint; *provided always,* that no such... More
London: Printed for Charles Green, [1747]. First edition. Removed pamphlet glued into later wrappers, 7.5 x 4.88 inches, [4], 78, [2] pages. An object lesson in affairs of the heart from this notorious bigamist and MP, the public and at times fairly explicit defense of a rather sordid affair: Creswell... More
Wheeling, Va. Printed and Published by A. & E. Picket, 1831. First edition. 12mo, original black sheep spine, gray boards, gilt lettering, 140, [4] pages. A nice Wheeling, [West] Virginia imprint, and according to the preliminary advertisement in “strict conformity with the revised code of laws for 1830 & 1831.”... More
