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
[New York: Moss Photo-Litho, Inc., 350 W. 50th St., N. Y. C. - PLaza 7-3520, ca. 1956?]. Card stock, printed recto and verso, 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Halftone portrait of Moore. The Wetumpka, Alabama native Pete Moore (1932-1984) was born with osteogenesis imperfecta and never stood more than 16 inches... More
New York: Boar’s Head Books, 1949. First edition. 8vo, original green buckram, orange lettering. Illus. Original printed orange dust jacket. From the Boar’s Head imprint of the pioneering erotica dealer Samuel Roth, the detailed supposed curricula vitae of 99 New York City artist models, with notes on the sexual history..... More
Paris: Editions de la B. P. S., [1923]. First edition. Original printed green wrappers, 7.38 x 4.75 inches, 89, [1], [6] pages. The text of the French astronomer, psychical researcher, and proto-science fiction author Flammarion’s address as the newly-elected president of the Society for Psychical Research, taken from the Proceedings... More
![Perpetual Almanack [caption title]. Calendars.](/pictures/thumb/18834.jpg?v=1547160316)
[N. p., ca. 1786]. Autograph ink on laid paper, 3 x 7.5 inches. Neatly ruled border, calligraphic caption title. An attractive, neatly-executed tabular handy reference for the years 1787-1799; the list of years keys the day of the week to the date below the month in the table columns, i.e.... More
![I’m an Old-Fashioned Christian . . . [caption title]. Musical Saws, Charles C. Mourer, Trombone Christians.](/pictures/thumb/18833.jpg?v=1546979322)
[Cincinnati? n. p., ca. 1940]. First edition. Unbound brochure, 9 x 6 inches, [4] pages. With music and lyrics to Mourer’s gospel hymn, “I’m an Old-Fashioned Christian,” copyright 1940. Illus. An attractive promotional piece from the Cincinnati evangelist Charles Calvin Mourer, trombone, guitar and musical handsaw player, as well as..... More
N. p. n. p., [between 1918-1930, but ca. 1920]. Real photo postcard on AZO paper, 5.5 x 3.5 inches, sepia photograph crudely labeled in the image “The Miracle Man.”. The eccentric Canadian-born John Cudney (1847-1934), known as Brother Isaiah, was the self-proclaimed 88th incarnation of the prophet Isaiah and possessed... More
(Hove: Fenwick & Son, ca. 1906). Halftone postcard, approx. 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Correspondence on the verso, postal cancellation dated Uckfield (U.K.) Dec. 12, 1906. A fine portrait of the eccentric health reformer and early vegan activist Joseph Salomonson, striking a walking pose in his tunic and sandals, the portrait... More
New York: Printed by George W. Wood, 1847. First edition thus, a later edition of Plain Evidences with a few omissions. 12mo, original printed wrappers, 93 pages. Extracts from the Shaker Manifesto from this important early Kentucky Shaker. Small library stamp to the upper wrapper. Later stab holes. Richmond 520. More
Albany, N. Y. Charles van Benthuysen & Sons, 1873. First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 316 pages. Frontis portrait of Forrest, one plate. An anecdotal account of the American theatre, with a focus on Albany; Stone includes the hoax of an apocalyptic egg ca. 1825 (the shell bore... More
![The Wonderful Letter-Bag of Kit Curious . . . by Uncle Frank [pseud]. Children’s Science, Francis C. Woodworth.](/pictures/thumb/18820.jpg?v=1547160315)
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, (1852). First edition. Small 8vo, original gilt- and blind-stamped pictorial red cloth, 156, [2] pages, a.e.g. Frontis, engraved title page, six plates tinted sepia. Short miscellaneous sketches for children, including chapters on the hot springs of Iceland, the properties of magnets, life among the icebergs... More
![Die Land- und Haus-Apotheke, oder getreuer under gründlicher Unterrich für den Bauer und Stadtmann . . . Erste americanische Auflage. Herausgegeban von Johann Georg Homan [sic]. Johann Georg Hohman.](/pictures/thumb/18818.jpg?v=1546034139)
Reading: Gedruckt bey Carl A. Bruckman, 1818. First edition. 12mo, contemporary calf spine, marbled boards, [12], 169, [11] pages. Per Brindle and Unger (as quoted in the Atwater catalog), this early Hohman collection of recipes (many medical, and preceding his “powwow” book, Der Lang Verborgene Freund, first published in Reading... More
York: Printed by W. Alexander and Son, Castlegate, [et al.], 1828. First English edition. 8vo, early dark plum-brown straight grained morocco, red leather label, gilt decorations to the boards and spine, iv, 372 pages, all edges marbled. The memoirs of a well-read, thoughtful, and pious American woman, Susan Mansfield Huntington... More
Boston: Published by B. B. Mussey, 1841. Second edition. 12mo, original sheep, black leather label, gilt lettering, 265 pages. Frontis, one woodcut plate. “One of my women produced a calabash of black liquid; another took my left hand, squeezing it in hers so as to draw the flesh tight across... More
![Ivorism: It Cherishes, Cultivates, and Perpetuates the Language of Poetry and Song . . . [wrapper title]. Welsh Pride, John Courier Morris.](/pictures/thumb/18811.jpg?v=1545948443)
Utica: Press of the Utica Printing Co., [1914]. A later edition of this ephemeral and uncommon item. Original printed wrappers, approx. 6.5 x 5.13 inches, 12 pages. On the high ideals of Ivorite lodges, a philanthropic and Welsh-American cultural fraternal organization of the sort beloved by hyphenated Americans of the... More
![Life-Story of a Converted Dancer. The — Truth about The Stage [wrapper title]. Conversion, Ethel N. Barrington, Dance Panic.](/pictures/thumb/18810.jpg?v=1545948443)
(Altoona, Pa. Mrs. Porter L. Barrington), [ca. 1930-1940]. First edition. Original printed pink wrappers, 7.25 x 5.25 inches, 48 pages. Frontis portrait. Ethel Beck Barrington (1907-1962), Altoona native and a former dancer for Shubert musicals, on the evils of the stage, backstage life, cards, etc., her conversion account here adapted... More
Quebec: N. S. Hardy, Book Seller, 1880. First edition. Original printed blue wrappers, 5.5 x 4 inches, 40 pages, stitched. Rather oddly trimmed in production. On Canadian intemperance, crime, health effects (baleful) and adulteration—including a demonstration on stage of “an experiment which I now perform in your presence, by which... More
![Vision of the Cellar [wrapper title; caption title:] Vision of the Cellar . . . a Vision of James J. Jezreel, the Sixth Messenger of this Latter Visitation. Communal, James Jezreel, City of David.](/pictures/thumb/18803.jpg?v=1545948499)
Benton Harbor, Mich. Published by the Israelite House of David as Re-organized by Mary Purnell, [after 1970]. First City of David edition. Original printed green wrappers, 5.88 x 4.25 inches, 11, [1] pages. A separately-published sermon from Jezreel, the Sixth Messenger—generally taken as the source for Benjamin Purnell’s authority as... More
![Nonce volume with the spine title, Variety. (1) Bellegarde, [Jean Baptiste Morvan]. Politeness of Manners and Behaviour in Fashionable Society, From the French of the Abbé de Bellegarde. Paris: Sold at Galignani’s, 1817. Frontispiece; [x], 168 pp.(2) [Irving, Washington]. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. No. V. New-York: Printed by C. S. Van Winkle, 1819. [337]-443, [1] pp. (3) “The Vampyre; a Tale by Lord Byron.” [etc., in:] Spirit of the English Magazines [caption title]. Published half-monthly, by Munroe and Francis. Vol. V, no. 6. Boston, June 15, 1819. (4) Frisbie, Levi. Inaugural Address, Delivered in the Chapel of the University at Cambridge, November 5, 1817. Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, by Hilliard & Metcalf, 1817. 28 pp. (5) [Morton, Sarah Wentworth]. Ouâbi: or the Virtues of Nature. An Indian Tale in Four Cantos. By Philenia, a Lady of Boston [pseud]. Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1790. 51, [1] pp. (6) [Extracted fragment with the running title:] The Melodist. 179-194 pp. Nonce Volume, Exotics, Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton, John Polidori.](/pictures/thumb/18792.jpg?v=1543620532)
Various places, various publishers, 1790-1819. First edition of the Morton title. 8vo, contemporary red half morocco, marbled boards, [x], 168; [337]-443, [1]; [209]-248; 28; 51, [1]; 179-194 pages. Frontispiece to the Bellegarde; the Morton Ouâbi lacks the frontispiece. With an early label for John A. Williams, Roxbury on the front... More
Richmond: C. H. Wynne, Publisher, 1858. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt lettering, 363 pages. Recollections of early settlers of Lynchburg through about 1800. Howes C-3. More
Boston: Printed by Ezra Lincoln, 1821. First edition. 12mo, original blue boards, printed paper label, 156 pages, untrimmed. Frontispiece (woodcut of the Old State House), folding map. Besides directions and distances, the appendix includes a look at recent improvements in the area and suggests further drainage and reclamation projects. With... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1862. First edition. 2 vols in 1, 8vo, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, black leather label, gilt lettering, viii, 320; viii, 320 pages. Frontispiece in each volume, 37 pages. The first issue sheets and illustrations, here bound by a contemporary reader without the half-titles or ads... More
New Haven: Printed by B. L. Hamlen, 1846. First edition. Original printed peach wrappers, 9 x 5.63 inches, 12 pages. The outside wrappers covered in multiple examples of previous owners’ signatures, with the repeated autograph of the eventual Ohio federal judge Daniel Thew Wright, Sr. (1825-1912), presumably while he was... More
Paris: de l’Imprimerie Royale, 1751. Third edition. 12mo, contemporary marbled calf, gilt stamped spine, red morocco label, gilt lettering, xii, 144 pages. 4 folding plates, one engraved headpiece. First published in 1749 and then in a second edition in 1751, this third edition might well marks the first “handy” guide... More
[N. p. n. p., ca. 1875-1885?]. 3.75 x 2.38 inches on a slightly larger mount, no photographer imprint. Signed in violet pencil on the verso, “Aggie Zuletia, age 23.” A nice portrait of a woman who made her living as a Circassian albino on the sideshow circuit (she pops up... More
