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(Erie, Penna: Advertising Department, Hammermill Paper Company, 1971). First edition. Comb-bound portfolio in still red wrappers shaped like a paper price tag (complete with reinforced eyelets), approx. 12 x 9.25 at its tallest dimensions, 10 pages (one with a die-cut vignette). Bright illustrations throughout. With four inserted samples, three with... More
London: Published by L. S. A. Publications Ltd. 1936. First edition. Original printed blue-green wrappers, 7.13 x 4.88 inches, 85, [1], [2] pages. 6 inserted leaves of plates (11 images). From an instructor at the British College of Psychic Science comes this account under the London Spiritualist Alliance imprint of... More
Oberlin, Ohio, and Ypsilanti, Michigan, and Harbor Springs, Michigan, approx. 1913-1917. Oblong black cloth double post scrapbook, 10.5 x 13.5 inches (and approx. 3 inches deep at its most bulky), upper board printed in gilt with the Oberlin seal, printed title page completed in autograph ink, 42 stiff black paper... More
Boston: Published by John P. Jewett and Company, 1854. First edition. 12mo, original glazed green wrappers, 42, [2] pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the inside front wrapper, “With Respects of S. R. Phillips, Fitchburg Apr. 25/54.” A lengthy abolitionist poem attacking the Kansas-Nebraska act, making mention of... More
Los Angeles: Published by the Segnogram Publishing Co. [ca. 1906]. First edition. Original light brown wrappers printed in dark brown ink, 5.88 x 4.5 inches, 24 pages. An evidently unrecorded piece from the industrious author on occult topics (the extensive writings of Atkinson, Theron Q. Dumont, Yogi Ramacharaka, Swami Panchadasi... More
[LaPlace, Louisiana? n. p. ca. 1950?]. White card stock printed in black ink recto and verso, 4 x 4.75 inches. Halftone portrait of McClung in the coils of a large snake, with the caption noting that “this card entitles you to one free consultation,” and promotional copy on the verso... More
Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Printed by C. C. Adams and Co., for the Author, 1810. First edition. 12mo, contemporary calf spine, marbled boards, 214, [1] pages. An early autobiographical account of the eccentric itinerant religious figure Theophilus Gates (1787-1846), eventually known as the Battle-Axe. Gates would eventually found a small colony of... More
San Francisco, January 22, 1879. 2 pages on a single leaf of pictorial printed letterhead, approx. 230 words. With the original pictorial cover (stamp removed). A relative newcomer to the vital magnetic field, MacLennan writes back east to a more established colleague, “I have heard a good deal spoken of... More
![Hear Wm. Z. Foster Communist Candidate for President of U.S.A. Saturday, July 23, 7:30pm. Arena Gardens . . . [caption title]. Ford Hunger March, William Z. Foster.](/pictures/thumb/18484.jpg?v=1523647022)
Detroit: n. p. [1932]. First edition. Broadside, 11 x 8.75 inches. Vignette portrait of Foster. With reference to “the Ford Massacre on Bloody Monday,” and calls for an end to racial discrimination. Foster had escaped arrest in the wake of the violence in Dearborn in March. More
Detroit: n. p. [1931]. First edition. Broadside, 11 x 8.75 inches. A piece of the social ferment leading to the labor organization of the auto industry, this flyer calls for a mass demonstration and a march to protest the arrest of John Schmies, Communist candidate for mayor of Detroit; Schmies... More
Brooklyn, N. Y. “Laisves” Spauda ir Turtas, 1918. First edition. 8vo, original printed orange wrappers, 24 pages. An early example of several booklets of sexual health and instruction from this Chicago Lithuanian socialist doctor, here published by an evident socialist press in a period contemporary to the spread of Margaret... More
Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1832. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 32 pages. The German phrenology pioneer died in Boston of typhoid while on tour in America; he was given an elaborate funeral, including this laudatory address from the Harvard professor Follen, published here by perhaps the leading... More
Various places, various publishers, 1785-1871. First edition in Italian of Doppet’s Traité théorique et pratique du magnétisme animal. 4 vols in 1, 19th century purple half cloth stamped in gilt on the spine, “Opusculi Scientific Vari,” marbled boards, xv, [1], 77, [3] pages plus a folding plate; 57, [1] pages;... More
[Newark, N. J. Bureau of Moral and Hygienic Education, Inc.], 1929. First edition. Original printed yellow wrappers, 6.5 x 4.88 inches, 12 pages. With the printed legend on the front wrapper, “Adults Only.” Noted on the title page as “Book III,” in an unknown series (though the chiropractic sex education... 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
(Raleigh: Bynum Printing Co.), 1922. First edition. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, 31, [1] pages on newsprint stock. Illus. The conversion story of this reformed Florida criminal and traveling Free Will Baptist evangelist Moses LaFlaver Cummings (1876-1963), known as “Blackie of the North Woods.” There is much here of the terrors... More
New-York: Published by Daniel Cooledge, 1836. Stated third edition, much expanded over Cunningham’s 33-page Address Submitted to the Consideration of R. D. Owen . . . (New York 1833); no sign of a second edition found in the standard references. 12mo, original embossed green cloth, printed red paper label, 144... More
Yokahoma: K. Tamamura, [ca. 1890]. Original sepia albumen print, 4 x 5.5 inches on a slightly larger mount, photographer stamp in gilt at the foot. Tamamura was a pioneer in selling colored photographic views and albums of Japan to the tourist trade; his studio also took portraits, as here. More
[Boston? Banner of Light?:, 1898]. First edition. 8vo, original printed blue wrappers, 29, [2] pages. Frontis view of the Fox cottage in Hydesville. An address from the prolific Spiritualist and physician James Martin Peebles, delivered in Hydesville to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first spirit rappings of the Fox... More
(Cleveland: Press of the Publishing House of the Evangelical Association), 1908. Stated twenty-second edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt lettering, xvi, [1]-31, 31a-31b, 32, 32a-32b, 33-433, 15, [4] pages. Frontis portrait. Copyright 1878, though the (ample) testimonial letters run through 1905. On the impurity of blood as the root... More
Boston: For West & Richardson, Proprietors of the Copy Right, 1817. A later edition of Webster’s Grammatical institute of the English language. 12mo, original calf spine, blue boards, 168 pages. Illus. Includes fables; per Skeel, some of the engravings are by Alexander Anderson. Another issue of this edition has the... More
New York: (William C. Whitney), 1902. First edition. 8vo, publisher’s blue morocco, gilt turn-downs, gilt lettering, 261, [1], [1] pages. Frontis portrait. This copy is numbered 300 of an unspecified number of copies (evidently 500) printed at the De Vinne Press. A personal account from a friendly outsider of the... More
London: Illustrated London Library, [ca. 1850-1862]. First edition, with later titles in this series noted in the ads as “in preparation.”. 8vo, contemporary gilt-stamped red prize morocco, a.e.g., 324, [3] pages. Frontis, illus. With a prize presentation label on the front paste-down from Clapham Grammar School, with the signature in... More
New York: Wood & Holbrook, 1870. Stated ninth edition; the first appeared in 1866. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 304, [8] pages. Illus. "Women's equality in all the relations of life implies her absolute supremacy in the sexual relation." An important American work of popular physiology and sex education... More
![Business card for the eccentric Hungarian-Canadian gadfly and six-time candidate for Mayor of Toronto, “Traffic Summons Consultant and Chief Potentat [sic] of Direct Church.”. Trade Cards of Note, Kanada, Zoltan Szoboszloi.](/images/noimage.png)
[Toronto: n. p. ca. 1970?]. Palm card on yellow card stock, approx. 2.75 x 4.5 inches. With Szoboszloi’s characteristic heading to the card in large type, “God Save Everyone from the Queen!” According to the March 30, 1994 obituary of Szoboszloi that ran in the Globe and Mail, the self-proclaimed... More
