[Boston: n. p., ca. 1880?]. Slip approx. 2.25 x 3.5 inches mounted to a slightly larger card. Some measure of Alcott’s celebrity; another, presumably earlier example of this sort of card from Alcott (letterpress rather than spirit-duplicated) appeared at auction in 2015 together with a clipped signature. Alcott apparently had... More about Mechanically duplicated text in aniline ink (possibly an early hectograph), “Miss Alcott does...

Philadelphia: Published at 23 N. Second st. [1844]. First edition. Original printed pictorial yellow wrappers, scant 7 x 4 inches, 24 pages. Illus. “Out of the windows of nearly every Native American and Protestant Irishman in the district, hung the American and tri-colored flags. This was regarded as sufficient protection... More about The Full Particulars of the Late Riots, with a View of the burning of the Catholic Churches, St....

Boston: Engraved for the Author, by D. Fairman, and printed by W. Hooker, 1810. First edition. Oblong 12mo, blue wrappers, printed paper label, “Wrifford’s Writing Copies,” 2.75 x 7.75 inches, [8] pages letterpress. 6 engraved plates. The six principles of the Roman text hand taught with Wrifford’s own instruction system..... More about A New Plan of Writing Copies, with accompanying explanations and remarks, written, designed, and...

Boston: Published by J. P. Mendum, Investigator Office, 1887. First edition. 12mo, original printed blue-green wrappers, 7 x 4.75 inches, 24 pages. Title page vignette. “I desire to say at the outset that I do not intend any personal criticism of Christians, and that my purpose is free from malice... More about The Followers of Jesus: An Address Delivered in Investigator Hall, Boston, Before the Ingersoll...

[Nice? Monte Carlo?], n. d., but ca. 1920s. 2 pages on a single leaf of blue stock, 10.5 x 8.25 inches, approx. 145 words. A breezy letter redolent of fashionable Bohemian wealth living slightly beyond her own means, a presumably English woman on the Riviera thanking one Sir James for... More about Original autograph ink letter, signed Vivien, to one Sir James, accompanied by a series of...

Boston: Published by Wells & Lilly, 1816. First edition thus. 12mo, contemporary full sheep with multiple decorative blind-rolled ornaments, 72 pages. “Twin Carolinas, through your forests green, / In sixteen hundred sixty three began, / Where none but savage foot had ever been, / The new-born empire of the cultur’d... More about Poetical Chronology of Ancient and English History; with Historical and Explanatory Notes. By R....

Boston: Printed by Edward Mudge & Son, [1857]. A later edition. Original printed green wrappers, 7.38 x 4.63 inches, [1-2], [2], 3-16 pages. Growing out of a project of lectures begun by pioneering physician Harriot Hunt in the 1830s, instituted in 1848 and incorporated in 1850, this organization sought “to... More about Constitution and By-Laws of the Ladies’ Physiological Institute, of Boston and Vicinity

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

Concord, N. H. Published and Sold by I. and W. R. Hill, at their Book-Store, 1813. Original printed blue wrappers, [i], 47 pages (first and last leaf mounted to the wrappers). Frontis, illus. With the wrapper publication date of 1818 and the sole imprint of Isaac Hill. Even by the... More about The New-England Primer, or an Easy and Pleasant Guide to the Art of Reading

Providence, R. I., November 20, 1775. Unlined bifolium, 7.75 x 6.13 inches, 2 pages of text plus integral address and docketing. Approx. 400 words. Young college graduates looking for purpose in Revolutionary New England: Gair writes from Providence, where he had earned his A.M. as an early student at the... More about Stampless cover autograph letter, signed, to Dwight Foster of Northampton, Mass

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],...