[Manchester, Michigan: Fritz Swanson, ca. 2019]. First edition. Broadside, red ink on white card stock, approx. 9 x 12.5 inches. An attractive letterpress sentiment commemorating this cataloger’s second-favorite American cryptid, a whimsy in wood type from the Michigan printer Fritz Swanson. More
Newburyport: Printed by Angier March, 1802 [& 1798?]. State eleventh edition of the first title; first edition of the second. Two pamphlets stitched together into contemporary unbleached heavy cartridge paper, 8 x 5 inches, 14, [2]; 18 pages. The second title is completely untrimmed. “Therefore, my child, as a good..... More
Boston: Printed by Jonathan Howe, 1823. Second edition. Original grained sheep spine and tips, blue boards, 7.25 x 4.5 inches, 148, 16, 16 pages. Errata slip tipped in after the final page of text. The attorney Bartlett first published his collection of aphorisms in 1810 in Portsmouth, N.H.; this edition..... More
Philadelphia, January 17, 1844 [1845?]. Stampless cover, single page letter on an unlined folio, 9.88 x 7.63 inches, approx. 250 words. “The question of the abolition of capital punishment being again before the legislature of your state it is the desire of the friends of that measure to bring as..... More
[Steubenville, O.]: Published by Order of the Society, 1852. First edition. Original printed drab wrappers, 8.75 x 5.5 inches, 26, [2] pages, stitched. “To us, especially, he has given the new world and all its hidden treasures, with all the arts and sciences of the old. Europe, Asia and Africa..... More
West Brookfield, Mass. Merriam & Chapin, Printers, January, 1848. First edition. Removed pamphlet, 8.25 x 5 inches, 52 pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink at the head of the title page to a colleague just up the road in Ware, “Rev. Nahum Gale with the Respects of the Author.”..... More
[London? n. p., 1851]. Folio printed on blue paper, 10.81 x 8.63 inches, [4] pages. Addressed in ink autograph to Messrs. Smith and Dove, Andover, Mass., with a canceled three cent stamp and a red stamp for Boston, 20 December. “The prospects for contract business during the approaching season may..... More
Montreal: Lovell & Gibson, Printers, St. Nicholas Street, 1847. First edition in English. The edition in French, Manuel de la société de Tempérance, was published the same year—and published while Chiniquy was a leading force for Canadian temperance, and indeed while he was still both a Roman Catholic priest and..... More
Cincinnati: Published by J. F. Wright and L. Swormstedt, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the Western Book Concern, 1841. First edition. Contemporary blind-tooled and gilt-tooled full red morocco, 10.38 x 7 inches, [iv], 380 pages, gilt lettering. Engraved frontispiece view, three inserted plates. The complete file of the first..... More
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[New York: H. H. Hill, No. 264 William St. ca. 1906]. First edition. Wire stitched pamphlet in self-wrappers, 7.63 x 5.5 inches, [32] pages printed on cheap peach paper stock. Illus. A cheap compendium of suggestive and lightly smutty song lyrics and short humorous squibs, with titles like, “Sporty George..... More
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New York: McLoughlin Brothers, [ca. 1867]. First edition. Original color pictorial self-wrappers, 4.38 x 3.63 inches, [12] pages, added red plaid scrap cloth spine, machine-stitched with white thread. Wood engravings printed in black and red. Entertaining and moderately didactic verses for children, handsomely produced in the McLoughlin style. Per the..... More
Chester [England], Oct. 17, 1854. Stampless cover, unlined blue folio, 9.8 x 7.88 inches, 3 pages plus integral address. Approx. 600 words. Clear ink stamps for Chester and Liverpool. “I have a little piece of poetry, by me, which you have not had, and so I will send it. I...... More
À Mystificatapolis [i.e., Berlin]: Chez Momus, à la Marotte, 5784 [i.e., 1784]. First edition. Contemporary sprinkled half calf, sprinkled boards, yellow morocco label, gilt lettering, 6.75 x 4.38 inches, xvi, 286 pages. Engraved frontispiece. “Faites un Livre, ou nous vous casserons la tête”—write a book, or we will break your..... More
Andover: Printed and Published by Flagg and Gould, 1828. First edition. Original unbleached linen spine and drab boards, printed paper spine label, 7.5 x 4.75 inches, 118 pages, untrimmed. In anticipation of William James, a pioneer American work on religious psychology and charismatic evangelical practice, drawing in part on the..... More
Albany: Printed by E. and E. Hosford, 1810. Second edition. Original full calf, red morocco spine label, 7.13 x 4.5 inches, xxxvii, 620, [2] pages, all edges sprinkled blue. An early edition of the authoritative statment of Shaker theology popularly known as the Shaker Bible, preceded by the Lebanon, Ohio..... More
Boston: Published by Samuel T. Armstrong, and Crocker & Brewster, No. 50, Cornhill, 1823. First edition. Original pictorial wrappers, 5.5 x 3.5 inches, 36 pages (with the frontispiece first leaf mounted to the inside front wrapper, as published). “Thus died an amiable and excellent youth. His parents lost a beloved..... More
Boston, New-England: Re-Printed and Sold by Green and Russell, 1758. First American edition, published the year after the London first edition. Original sprinkled calf, morocco spine label, raised bands, gilt spine rules and lettering, [iv], [9]-110 pages (as published). An uncommon example of popular literature printed and published in America..... More
[N. p., but Rhode Island?, ca. 1840]. Blann book in black half sheep and marbled boards, 9.88 x 7.75 inches, [2], 195 [i.e., 196] pages, including 8 leaves inserted with wax wafers and numbered consecutively. An extensive anthology of verse, with a substantial portion devoted to the deaths of infants..... More
New-York: Published by the American Tract Society, 150 Nassau-Street; D. Fanshaw, Printer, [between 1832 and 1846]. A later edition. Evident publisher’s adhered boards binding of a lilac linen spine, printed spine label, marbled boards, scant 6 x 3.5 inches, 159, [1] pages. The pastedowns in this copy have evidently lifted..... More
Boston: Published by R. Bannister, 1823. First edition (but see below). Contemporary half sheep, red leather label, gilt lettering, marbled sides, 7.25 x 4.25 inches, viii, 424 pages. “Young people have been suffered too much to feed their reading appetites on any trash which might come in their way.... More
Philadelphia: Gedruckt bey Conrad Zentler, Für Daniel Bräutigam, No. 193, in der Zwenten Strasse, oberhalb der Wein-Strasse, 1818. A later “improved” edition of a Zentler ABC, this one of four issues published in 1818. Contemporary drab paper spine, decorated boards, 6.75 x 4.13 inches, 32 pages (pages [1] and [32]..... More
Utica: Hastings & Tracy & W. Williams, 1832. First edition. Original dyed roan spine, green boards, 6 x 3.75 inches, 162 pages. From the preface, dated January 1832, the compilers argue for their reform approach to devotional music, moving away from folk or popular tunes: “Impenitent men, for example, who..... More
Dover [N.H.]: Published by David Marks, for the Freewill Baptist Connexion, 1834. First edition. Original sheep spine, drab boards, 5 x 3.38 inches, 156, [4] pages. “As our Connexion has become so extensive that all cannot meet and confer together on doctrine as formerly, some are at a loss to..... More
Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, 1806-1807. First edition. Contemporary calf spine, red morocco label, marbled boards, 8.5 x 5.25 inches, [4], 378, [6] pages. An ex-library copy, with the bookplate of the Greenfield Historical Society on the front pastedown and their ink stamp to the title page. 24 numbers..... More
Philadelphia: Gedruckt bey Conrad Zentler, in der Zweyten, nahe bey der Rehs-Strasse, 1810. First edition. Contemporary calf spine, blue decorated paper over pasteboard, 5.75 x 3.38 inches, 180 pages. Two woodcut vignettes. An annotated version of the Peter Canisius catechism. Arndt 1780; American Imprints 19713. More
