Boston: Printed for Sterne and Mann, 1818. First edition. Unbound and stitched as issued, approx. 7.13 x 4.5 inches, 28 pages. Unopened. Signed in type at the foot of the text, "End of the first number," but no other known numbers were published. The lyrics to popular songs; the patriotic... More about The Song-Singer's Amusing Companion. Being a selection of the best Philosophic, Sentimental,...

Derby Line [Vermont], May 1, 1843 [1844?]. Stampless cover, 2 pages on a single leaf, 11.88 x 8 inches, approx. 750 words. Docketed in ink, "Ruth May 1st, 1844 [sic?]," with the additional later ink inscription, "Uncle Albert gave me this letter of my Mother's Mary 1st 1879." "I think... More about Autograph letter, signed "Ruth," to her brother Albert, on her experiences as a...

Philadelphia: Published by James Crissy, 1822. First edition. 12mo, original drab boards, printed orange paper label, 252 pages, untrimmed. Engraved title page. An attractive copy, bright and in the publisher’s original boards, of an early collection from industrious clergyman-poet; amid the expected religious themes one finds topical verses on the... More about Poems

Bouckville [N. Y.]: B. Maynard, [ca. 1840?]. Original printed pictorial blue-green wrappers, 4.25 x 2.63 inches, [1-3], 6-18 pages. Illus. The evergreen edifying chapbook, based on Franklin's work of the same title; per the AAS catalog entry, "Butler Maynard moved his business from Hamilton, N.Y. to Bouckville, N.Y. in 1840... More about The Way to Wealth, to be Followed by Those Who Would be Good Children, and Rich and Wise Men

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1875. First edition. 8vo, original purple cloth stamped in black, gilt lettering, 129, [1], [2] pages. An early work against abortion by an American woman, noted in Brodie's bibliography but not otherwise explored; besides arguing against abortion, Evans also quotes Darwin, and counsels that... More about The Abuse of Maternity

New-York: Leavitt, Lord & Co. [et al.], 1835. Second edition. 12mo, original blind-stamped rose cloth, printed paper label, xxix, [1], 208 pages. One of the great early substantial works of American conspiracy theory, evidently expanded over the 188-page edition of the same year. "The writer entertaining these views has deemed... More about Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States. The Numbers of Brutus [pseud],...

[Boston: n. p., 1844]. First edition. Unbound bifolium, scant 10 x 8 inches, 1 pages of text in 2 columns. "If you wish slavery to cease, you cannot more effectually aid in its extinction, than by upholding this Fair." Dated at the foot of the text Boston, Feb. 8, 1844... More about The Eleventh Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair [caption title

New-York: Lane and Scott, for the Sunday-School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 200 Mulberry-street, 1851. Later printing. Printed pictorial yellow wrappers, 4.25 x 2.88 inches, 16 pages. Illus. A Sunday-school account of the life and work of the Moravian missionary David Zeisberger, who worked and lived among various Native... More about The Indians and their Missionary. Revised by D. P. Kidder

Lowell: n. p., Jan. 20, 1860. First edition. Single sheet printed recto only, 9.5 x 5.75 inches, printed in two columns on cheap wove paper. "Heard ye that wail of fearful woe, / Loud bursting on the air! / Listen! Oh listen, to those groans / And shrieks of wild... More about The Lawrence Disaster [caption title

New Britain, Conn. George L. Allen, 1871. First edition. Small 8vo, original gilt-stamped green cloth, 70 pages. A compilation of exemplary children in the Bible, suitable for younger readers, from the blacksmith-pacifist. The gilt-stamped book device to the upper board is especially bright and fetching. Christmas gift inscription dated 1876... More about The Children of the Bible

Harrisburg, Pa. Gedruckt und zu haben bey G. S. Peters, [ca. 1835-1839?]. Original printed pictorial glazed orange wrappers, 5.88 x 3.5 inches, 16 leaves printed on one side only. Fifteen color-printed illustrations. A nice copy of an early edition of the Peters edition of the Joseph story (the first evidently... More about Die Geschichte Joseph’s und seiner Brüder. Eine biblische Erzählung

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 about The Search After Happiness: A Pastoral Drama. To which is added, Joseph Made Known to his...

New-York: Published by Samuel Wood & Sons; Samuel S. Wood & Co., Baltimore, [1823]. A later edition, though with renewed copyright. Original pictorial blue wrappers, 5.25 x 3.5 inches, 32 pages. Illus. “The favorable reception which the Young Child’s A, B, C; or, First Book, and the New-York Primer, have... More about The New-York Primer; or, Second Book