Landaff [Grafton County, New Hampshire], Oct. 1, 1844. Ink autograph manuscript on one page (7.5 x 7.88 inches), faint stationery embossed device, notice signed Geo. W. Clement, Landoff, Oct. 1, 1844. Legal (great) disappointments, according to forms: “The subscriber having obtained satisfactory evidence from the word of God that the..... More
[America, ca. 1860?]. Glass box made from marbled and decorated paper scraps, with a presumed reused label over a wooden spine, “The Prize.” Contemporary or perhaps slightly later jointed doll laid in, as found. Contemporary or perhaps slightly later jointed doll laid in (as found). More
![Item #22642 Ode to My Shoes. By A Customer. [Caption title]. Advertising, “A Customer.&rdquo](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/22642.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779068644)
New York City: Hervey’s West-Side Shoe-Store, No. 416 West 125th Street, 1889. First edition. Broadside (9.25 x 5 inches), printed on rough rose paper stock. “You’ve been *worn out,* and *mended* new; When men wear out, they’re *men dead* too.” Fugitive and delightful doggerel verses suggestive of the merits of..... More
[Marshall County, Illinois? Tazewell County, Illinois? n. p., ca. 1844]. Single leaf (12.38 x 17 inches), wax crayon, ink and wash on heavy stock. Hints of Transcendental Romanticism in the early Midwest, a fine characteristic mourning scene of a woman leaning against a gravestone inscribed, “To the Memory of Harriet..... More
London: Printed for Edw. Pawlett, at the Sign of the Bible in Chancery-Lane, near Fleet-Street, 1701. 18mo (5.25 x 3.13 inches), elaborately tooled contemporary black morocco, [i-ii], 267-338, [8] pages, pages ruled in red, t.e.g. Paste paper endpapers. With the contemporary ink ownership signature to the front blank Jane Alston..... More
Boston: Bela Marsh, 25 Cornhill, 1852. First edition. 12mo (7.13 x 4.75 inches), original blind-stamped black cloth, gilt lettering, 167, [1] pages. Mezzotint frontis portrait of John Murray. The impetus for a curious chapter in American utopian thought and technology, Spiritualist messages from the founder of Universalism delivered through the..... More
![Item #22630 Wilson’s Patent Improved Copy Book . . . [wrapper title]. American Trade Bindings](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/22630.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779068643)
[N. p., but American, ca. 1850s?]. Original sprinkled coated wrappers (10.25 x 8.5 inches), leaves of tissue paper with rose blotting paper flyleaves. Printed index forms mounted to the inside of the wrappers. Printed green label to the upper wrapper. A lovely example of an unused letter copy book (presumably..... More
London: [n. p.], 1756. Second edition. Early added wrappers (8.5 x 5.13 inches) titled in autograph ink, [16], 20 pages. “There is no Man can be supposed ignorant of the Utility, or a Stranger to the Necessity, as well as the Difficulty, of keeping the Streets, Lanes, Courts and Alleys..... More
![Item #22627 Exhibition of Paintings and Works of Art . . . [caption title]. American Humor](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/22627.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779068643)
[N. p., but certainly America, ca. 1872]. Handbill broadside (8.88 x 5.88 inches), printed in two columns. Ample contemporary autograph pencil annotation on recto and verso. “No pains or expense have been spared to make this collection one of the best in the country. That famous individual, Elder Pennibacker, from..... More
[Imprint on verso:] Hartford, Conn. Kellogg Brothers, 1863. Image measures approx. 3.25 x 2.25 inches (on a 4 x 2.5 inch printed mount). An evocative image of a little girl who embodied all the tortuous complexities of American race, and who was for a time during the Civil War a...... More
![Item #22620 Oratio pro Crepitu Ventris Habita ad Patres Crepitante [i.e., Accademia degli Arcadi]...](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/22620.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779068642)
Regio-Brigae [Madrid?]: Ex Officina Aethonis [i.e., J. de Zuñiga?], 1737. First edition. 8vo (6.63 x 4.38 inches), early calf, [2], 28 pages plus blanks. A well-known instance of a mock-scholarly treatment of the history and benefits of farting, a supposed sermon from the Spanish scholar and Dean of the Cathedral..... More
[N. p., but Los Angeles? ca. 1902-1909?]. 35 pages, rectos only on onionskin fastened along the upper edge, with over 200 additions, corrections, and deletions in pencil and ink, likely in the author’s hand. A detailed and seemingly unpublished article or lecture from an agent of the American Red Cross..... More
Paris: Didier, Libraire-Éditeur, 1845. 2 vols, 12mo (7.25 x 4.75 inches), original brown or deep plum gilt-stamped publisher’s cloth enameled onlays, xxxvi, 304; [iv], 347, [1] pages. Frontis and engraved title in each volumes, plates. With contemporary bookseller tickets for Librairie de Grassart, Paris, on each front pastedown. The decorative..... More
Louisville: Contre Coup Press, 2012. First Contre Coup edition. Original French flap wrappers (9.25 x 6.13 inches), [4], 7, [3] pages. Tim Hawley on Twain on masturbation. About as nicely-produced a work on self-abuse as one might expect to find. With a colophon model of brevity: “20 copies.”. More
[N. p., but America? ca. 1870s?]. Albumen print (approx. 9.13 x 5.63 inches) mounted to a drab card stock album leaf. Albumen print of an another portrait of comparable dimensions mounted to the verso. Some wear and soiling, but a nice instance of an inadvertent view behind the scenes of..... More
Lyon: Benoist Rigaud, 1578. First Lyon edition, evidently preceded by two Paris editions of 1577 (and a lost Paris edition of 1547). 2 vols bound in 1, 16mo (4.5 x 3.25 inches), 18th century calf, 337, [1], [2]; 43, [1] pages. The Couillard is a synopsis of Biblical biography, cosmology..... More
Sag-Harbor: Printed by Alden Spooner, 1808. First edition thus. 12mo (6.75 x 4.25 inches), later brown half morocco and marbled boards by P. B. Sanford, gilt spine, 144 pages. Frontis portrait. Two local Great Awakenings under one nice Sag Harbor imprint, Buell’s original narrative first published in New York in..... More
New York: The Von Graef Trochee Company, [ca. 1885]. Original pictorial wrappers (5.63 x 4 inches), 32 pages. Illus. “Every schoolboy knows the terrible results of this abominable secret vice, and every observing man has seen about him examples of the results of such lustful excesses.” A characteristic pitch for..... More
Paris, ca. 1952 to, 1956. Oblong commercial photo album (9.88 x 13 inches), green faux alligator, 40 pages of card stock. 67 mounted photos, 11 loose photos laid in. 6 pages of clippings, one mounted poster (folded) advertising a match, various clippings laid in. Highlights and daily sporting life in..... More
New-London [Conn.]: Printed Typographically, by Samuel Green, 1811. Second edition. Oblong 8vo (5.5 x 9.5 inches), original sheep spine and sugar paper over millboard sides, [ii], 127, [1] pages. “As a psalmodist, he composed in both the indigenous New England idiom and the more florid style inspired by the English..... More
Londres: Imprimé par G. Schulze, 1822. First edition of each title. 2 vols in 1, 8vo (8.13 x 5.25 inches), contemporary acid-stained boards, orange spine label, decorations at the head and foot of the spine, 13, [3]; [2], 83, [1] pages. Foldout frontispiece to the Vigilante approx. 22 x 18..... More
Paris: Laboratoire Générale pour Emballages, (1935). First edition. Original pictorial kraft paper wrappers (10.63 x 8.38 inches), 99, [1] pages. Illus. An example of industrial art that one could imagine avidly consumed both by technocrat and Man Ray alike, a trade catalog that rises to the level of artist’s book..... More
London: Printed for Miller, Law, and Carter, and Sold by all the Booksellers, [ca. 1830?]. 12mo (5.63 x 3.5 inches), contemporary sheep, 310, [1], [1] pages. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title page. Illus. in the text. The unsigned frontispiece to this issue is a completely different engraving from the one dated..... More
![Item #22497 Gold un Blut [transliterated Yiddish from Hebrew characters]. Yiddish Popular...](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/22497.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1773764163)
[New York: Metropolitan News Co., ca. 1912]. First edition. 8vo, contemporary green quarter binder’s cloth, marbled sides, original pictorial wrappers bound in, 478 pages. A Yiddish-American novel from the prolific Polish-American labor writer, and to judge from the lurid cover art and from the title (“Gold and Blood”) something of..... More
Saxtons River [Vermont], August 5, 1840. Autograph letter signed R. A. Severance, two pages (plus a few lines to a third) on a folio measuring 9.5 x 7.75 inches, approx. 525 words. The practice of medicine in a village in Vermont, a physician writes to his colleague across the river..... More
