Chicago: Tribune Company’s Book and Job Printing Office, 1863. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 248 pages. Howes C372; Sabin 12638. Spine notched, some traces of old glue to spine; evidently neatly removed from a nonce volume or a binding of boards. More
New York: [n. p], 1858. A new printing from the same plates as the 1847 first edition, with a reset title page. 12mo, original discreet blind-stamped unlettered black cloth, xiii, [1], 238 pages. With a printed notice mounted to the front paste-down, “Ladies or Gentlemen writing to Dr. A. M.... More
Ann Arbor: Printed at the “Signal” Office, 1847. First edition. Unbound bifolium, 7.13 x 4.75 inches, embossed edges, rounded corners, [3] pages. An early Ann Arbor imprint and an ephemeral publication from the University of Michigan’s third commencement. (The university had been granted a new charter in 1837 and moved... More
London: Printed and Published by A. Bonner, 1887. First edition. Self-wrappered pamphlet, 7 x 4.75 inches, 20 pages. “Commerce is an eloquent peace preacher; the frequent and more complete intermingling of unarmed peoples begets distaste for war; national prejudices die away under frequent contact; explanations are easier as peoples know... More
Philadelphia: “Kovos” Spauda, 1917. First edition. Original printed orange wrappers, 7.75 x 5.25 inches, 47 pages. An uncommon example of radical litrature aimed at women (the title translated roughly to “the Family in the Past, the Present, and the Future,” and published in a series of works for women), here... More
New York: Captain Thomas S. Baldwin, [ca. 1906]. First edition. Originsl pictorial pink wrappers, scant 6 x 3.25 inches, 16 pages. “I have no secrets, but am anxious to promote and give to the world my knowledge of aeronautics and airshipping. I manufacture and have for sale balloons and airships... More
[Hamtramck: n. p.], 1934. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, 16 pages, in English and Polish, wire stitched. “The only candidates ever elected in Hamtramck were those supported by the capitalist Parties’ political machines, in the interest of Chrysler-Dodge and the banker and real estate sharks, as against the interest of the... More
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1842. First edition. 12mo, original ribbed green cloth, printed paper label. A collection of essays and criticism from this Baltimore physician, though only one piece is given over to his native American literature and that examined rather abstractly in comparison to the literature of England; Collins... More
[Casey, Illinois? n. p.], (1910). First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, red lettering, [92] unnumbered pages. 10 inserted plates. An account of the life of a woman usually considered something of a Methodist saint, Lizzie Louvira Johnson (1869-1909), confined to bed in the family home in Casey, Illinois since age... More
Hartsville [Steuben Co., New York], Feb. 12, 1854. 3 pages on an unlined bifolium, 9.88 x 7.88 inches, approx. 850 words. No cover. Isaac Downs (1818-1910) writes to his parents with personal news and detailed discussion of local agricultural prices and his luck on working with a team of steers... More
New-York: Published by Daniel Hitt and Thomas Ware, for the Methodist Connexion in the United States, J. C. Totten, Printer, 1814. Fifth edition of the Wilkins; stated twenty-seventh edition of the Wesley. 2 vols in 1, as published, 12mo, original calf, gilt-ruled spine, 144; 142, [2] pages. A popular early... More
[Philadelphia]: Uriah Hunt.—101 Market Street; Nathan Kite.—Appletree Alley, 1838. First edition. 12mo, contemporary (publisher’s?) ribbon embossed cloth, black morocco label, gilt lettering, 100 pages. On oaths, from the Chester County Friend and mathematician, in an early cloth binding that is both attractive and curious. (The morocco label pushes it into..... More
Baltimore: John Murphy, Printer and Publisher; Puttsburg [sic]: George Quigley, 1846. First edition. 8vo, 19th century pebbled half mororro, marbled sides, 332, [4] pages. Frontis portrait, title page printed in red and blue. Six plates, plus presentation leaf printed in red ink. Collected verses from one of Delaware’s earliest poets... More
[N. p.], Jan. 4th, 1855. Stitched fascicle in autograph ink, 8.38 x 7.13 inches, [1], 58 pages, approx. 5500-6000 words. “It is not sought whether the relation is favourable to intelligence & moral excellence or unfavorable; not whether it adds to, or takes from, the means of national safety. It... More
La Clair, De Kalb Co., Illinois: June 8, 1854; and Cedar Lake [Lake Co., Indiana]: June 26, 1854. 2 letters in autograph ink of 2 pp. each, together on one bifolium sheet, 9.75 x 7.25 inches, approx. 410 & 630 words. Religious revivals and intimations of Civil War among early... More
Columbus, Ohio: Follett, Foster and Company, 1859. First edition. Original printed drab wrappers, approx. 8 x 5 inches, 29 pages. “Two years ago, on a steamboat trip down the Ohio River, I met a young man fresh from a counting-house in Rhode Island. He was a very intelligent man, in... More
[N. p., but France: n. p., ca. 1930-1940]. Single leaf of light card stock, 5.5 x 3.63 inches, printed in black ink recto and verso. Halftone image of the headless woman. An explanation of a fairly standard sideshow headless girl, this with the detailed explanation of the supposed medical origins... More
Hartford: S. M. Betts & Co. [etc.], 1868. First edition. Large 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 628, [2] pages. Double frontis, 12 steel engraved plates. A fine subscription doorstop of a book, with biographies of women ranging from Queen Victoria and Florence Nightingale, to Lydia Sigourney and Fanny Fern... More
Paris: Chez Briasson, 1735. First French edition. 4to, contemporary full calf, gilt spine, tan morocco label, gilt lettering, xiv, 389, [2] pages. Folding plate. The French edition of Woodward’s celebrated Essay Toward a Natural History of the Earth, first published in English in 1695. “Much of Woodward’s theory was inspired..... More
London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, 1727 [1726]. First edition. 8vo, early 19th century half calf, marbled sides, black morocco label, gilt lettering, vi, 392 pages. “In those blest Days of Jubilee, / When Pious Charles set England free / From Canting, and Hypocrisy; / Most graciously, to all restoring /... More
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1704. First edition. 8vo, 19th century half calf, marbled boards, gilt spine, black morocco spine label, gilt lettering, [6], 616, [8] pages. Engraved frontispiece. “A Stranger to the looser Joys of Love, / My Thoughts alone the Warmth of Friendship prove.” A miscellany including the... More
New York: Published by Hurd and Houghton, 1875. First edition. 8vo, original decorated terra-cotta cloth, gilt lettering, 316 pages. “586. Many persons have brought on serious sickness, by holding on to the knob of the front door while standing in a draft, and speaking ‘last words’ to friends and visitors.”..... More
Dallas: Northouse & Northouse, 1988. First edition, this copy letter U of a series of 26 lettered copies of an edition of 126. Eight broadsides plus title leaf, each approx. 19 x 13.5 inches. Illus. Each poem signed by the author. Original wood and plastic and plexiglass box/frame. A handsome... More
[Louisville?] On Board the Steamer Diana, May 24, 1846. 1 page, single leaf of blue ledger paper, 13.5 x 8 inches, approx. 310 words. The optimistic letter of a man leaving for war in Mexico by way of New Orleans. Heritage, on the verge of embarking from Louisville, writes his... More
New-York: Printed and sold by T. & J. Swords, 1807. Second American edition; the first appeared in 1798. 2 vols in 1, 8vo, contemporary calf, red morocco label, gilt lettering, xvii, [1], [4], 278; 144 pages. Engraved frontispiece in each volume, 21 additional plates. (The long folding plate on thin... More
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