Milwaukee, Wis. L. H. Morehouse, Publisher, 1879. First edition. 12mo, original brown cloth, gilt lettering, 226, [1], [1] pages. Something of a pious, Midwestern Tom Brown’s School Days, an uncharacteristic posthumous work from the Episcopal churchman, theologian, and educator, this a fairly didactic novel for boys that grew out of..... More
Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1869. First edition. 8vo, original gilt-stamped green cloth, gilt lettering, 215, [1] pages. A lightly-veiled satire on the contemporary controversies around physical culture, a supposed debate over the construction of a gymnasium in a New England town from an advocate for physical education, published while Tyler was..... More
New-York: P. Price, 1841. First edition. 2 vols, 12mo, original blind- and gilt-stamped black cloth, [1]-234; [i]-vi, [5]-284 pages. A posthumously-published novel from the South Carolina physician and man of letters (who also enjoyed giving electrical shocks to unsuspecting youngsters who wandered within reach of his galvanic medical batteries), this..... More
New York: G. W. Carleton, Publisher, 1869. First edition. 8vo, blind-stamped original green cloth, gilt lettering, 470, 8 pages. A characteristic pot-boiler from the novelist whose infamy as an abusive husband was secured after he was shot and killed by his teenage son Frank Walworth in 1873. (Mansfield had beaten..... More
Boston: John P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Henry P. B. Jewett, 1857. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering, [viii]. 360 pages. Backwoods smuggling in Maine and piracy in the West Indies—about everything one wants from a novel of the period from the Vermont politician and novelist..... More
Buffalo: Wanzer, McKim, 1856. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped blue-green cloth, gilt spine, 300, 12, 48 pages. Frontis, five plates by Frederick M. Coffin. A satirical novel that pokes fun at abolitionists and suffragettes, with digressive attacks on progressive authors, spiritualists and domestic upheaval of all stripes. Wright II, 2020..... More
New York: Charles Scribner, 1853. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped black cloth, gilt lettering, 344 pages. Frontis. An altogether more gentle satire than Shelton’s earlier Trollopiad, this a lightly comic novel from an Episcopalian clergyman of the daily life of a church rector (and of other small-town personalities) in Westchester..... More
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New-York: C. Shepard; Providence: Shepard, Tingley & Co., 1837. First edition. 12mo, original ribbon-embossed brown cloth, gilt lettering, 151, [1] pages. “What! must I always hear, nor e’er reply, / And shall John Bull for ever rend the sky? / Shall Owen, in a voice as thunder loud, / Shout..... More
Boston: Printed by Abel Tompkins, 1848. Second printing, the first appearing with an 1846 publication date. 12mo, original embossed brown cloth, gilt spine, 197, [1] pages. Frontis, two plates. Two humorous Universalist satirical novellas; the pious and bigoted slaveholder Elder Tub enjoys a colloquy with the ghost of Shadrach Paddle..... More
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Boston: Oliver Ellsworth, 1867. First edition. 12mo, original gilt-stamped green cloth, gilt lettering, 182 pages. Frontis, six plates, illus. A satirical look at Boston city life from a young bachelor in search of a room to rent, with flings at fashion, reformers, and forward Irish servants. Hamilton 934 (J. N...... More
New York: Published by S. Colman, 1840. Third edition (see below). 8vo, publisher’s gilt- and blind-stamped pebbled green sheep, 284 pages, a.e.g. Frontis, engraved title page, illus. An important and attractive early anthology of American verse edited by the book auctioneer Keese, with illustrations from American painter John G. Chapman..... More
New York: Charles Scribner & Company, 1871. First edition. 8vo, original brick red cloth, gilt lettering, 330, [2] pages. “I ate half a chicken croquette, and Susan placed the salad before Richard, and another plate. He did not speak till he had put the salad on his plate.” Wright II..... More
New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1878. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt lettering, 377, [1], [6] pages. Ink gift inscription on the front free endpaper, “Christmas 1878 To Mrs. M. J. R. as from one she mourns for.” Wright III, 2729. More
Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1896. First edition. Small 8vo, original decorated green cloth, gilt lettering, 244 pages. Frontis, three plates. An early collection from the eventual literary biographer. Bold ink ownership signature of one G. H. Nolte dated 1896 on the front free endpaper. Wright III, 5467. More
New York: J. C. Derby; Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1854. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering, 285, [1] pages. Frontis, pictorial title page. A pleasant novel of life in upstate New York, varied by letters from a cousin touring Italy; scenes of..... More
New York: Baker and Scribner, 1850. First edition. “I consider with dissatisfaction, sorrow, and pain, that my books, my once dear books, have been a chief cause of my unhappiness.” A curious bildungsroman of a suicide, told as though taken from his journal; the protagonist seems to fallen into poverty..... More
Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger; Montgomery, Ala.: Joel White, 1870. First edition. “The spring of 1865 was signalized by the final overthrow of the Confederacy, and by the first of June, the proud, the boastful, the defiant, ay, the victorious South! was wearing, well-set, the galling yoke of *subjugation,* with..... More
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. First edition. 12mo, original gilt pictorial blind-stamped lilac cloth, gilt lettering, 304 pages. Frontispiece view of the new mission building. Women’s mission work in the Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan, with some background on the brutal conditions of life there for the poor. The..... More
New-York: Blelock & Company, 1865. First edition. 8vo, original gilt-stamped green cloth, 552 pages. Wright II, 1212: “A defense of the Methodist church,” from the former Confederate officer. More
Zanesville, O. Printed for the Publisher, by Parke & Bennett, 1848. First edition. 12mo, contemporary black quarter roan, boards, 216 pages. A Methodist camp meeting hymnal which evidently saw some use in the field; the boards have been rubbed with loss of much of the covering paper stock and subsequently..... More
Boston: Rowe & Hooper, 1816. First edition. 8vo, contemporary calf, tan morocco spine label, gilt rules and lettering, 271, [1] pages. From a Methodist itinerant and intimate of Lorenzo Dow comes this New England novel of manners, partially epistolary. (With such characters and Jack Upstart and Tim Ignoramus appearing in..... More
Columbus, (O.): Printed by Jenkins and Glover, High-Street, 1831. First edition. 12mo, contemporary grained calf spine, marbled sides, vii, [1], 296 pages. This issue without the extended attribution on the title, "Late Commissioner Employed by the United States to Negotiate with the Indians of the Upper Mississippi, for the Purchase..... More
Winchester, Va. J. Foster, Printer, 1816. First edition. Small 8vo, original sheep, red leather label, gilt lettering, 219, [1] pages. An eccentric book-length poem from Elder Joseph Thomas (1791-1835), the wide-ranging charismatic North Carolina itinerant preacher known as the White Pilgrim for his habit of attiring himself in white apparel..... More
Philadelphia: Published by Johnson & Warner; Lydia R. Railey [! for Bailey], Printer, 1808. Second Philadelphia edition, the first appearing in 1803. 12mo, original calf, red morocco label, gilt lettering, [4], 140 pages. Engraved frontispiece, four plates, plus woodcut illustrations in the text. From an English work published by Newbery..... More
Paris: Chez Prault, 1784. First edition. 12mo, original blue wrappers, 7.13 x 4.3 inches, xxxv, [1], 251, [1] pages, unopened and untrimmed. An important study of animal magnetism and anticipatory of later psychological studies. Crabtree 116: "Thouret was a member of the Royal Society of Medicine in Paris and one..... More
