New York: Published by G. Vale, [1858]. Stated tenth edition. 8vo (7.75 x 4.75 inches), original brick red cloth, gilt lettering, 88, [1], [1] pages. Frontis, illus. The Atwater catalog notes that this edition adds a note from Owen’s associate Gilbert Vale, who published this edition, “in which he discusses..... More

(Calcutta [Kolkata]: Published by the C. V. E. Society; Bhowanipore: Printed by A. C. Banerjee at the Bhowanipore Press, 1881). 12mo (5.25 x 4.13 inches), original pictorial wrappers, 24 pages. Wood engraved wrapper vignette and wood engraved illustrations in the text. Text and title in Bengali/Bangla. An attractive and ephemeral..... More

[LaPlace, Louisiana? n. p., ca. 1950-1960]. White card stock (4 x 4.75 inches), printed recto and verso in black ink. With a striking halftone portrait of McClung in the coils of a snake. The pitch notes that Dr. McClung will offer advice in affairs of love, marriage, business, and health—“I..... More

Mountpleasant, Ohio: Printed and Sold by Elisha Bates, 1820. First Mountpleasant edition. 12mo (6.63 x 4.38 inches), original acid stained calf, leather spine label, gilt lettering, 303, [1] pages, edges stained yellow. Evidently the first book to issue from the press of this important Ohio Quaker printer, sold by subscription..... More

Boston: A. Storrs & Bement Company, 85 & 87 Franklin St. [ca. 1890]. Oblong wire-stitched pamphlet with a tape spine (4 x 7.13 inches), original printed yellow wrappers, 66 sample leaves bound in. “Everything a Printer, Stationer or Box Maker may use.” An uncommon and attractive paper sample book from..... More

Ware, Mass. Chas. W. Eddy, [ca. 1890]. First edition? Stitched oblong pamphlet in peach wrappers (4 x 5 inches), [2], 12, [2] pages. The ephemeral tract tale of a fashionable woman who stands up in front of a dancing party to explain how Jesus came to her in a ballroom..... More

Paris: Chez l’auteur, rue Caumartin, 13, 1863. First edition. 8vo (8.5 x 5.5 inches), 19th century green roan spine, marbled boards, [4], 539, [1] pages. Illlus. in the text. Crabtree 855: “Du Potet’s last and best major work on animal magnetism. Basically it is a summary of the experiences and..... More

Philadelphia [etc.]: Charles Eneu Johnson & Co., [ca. 1900]. 8vo (8.75 x 6.13 inches), original decorated blue cloth “stamped with Charles Eneu Johnson & Co.’s Bookbinders’ Inks,” [212] pages, printed rectos only on various paper stocks. Illustrated throughout in various inks. “We also make special inks, such as alkali-proof inks;..... More

Springfield: Samuel Bowles & Company, 1854. First edition. 8vo (7.88 x 5 inches), original blind- and gilt-stamped brown cloth, 275, [1] pages. An extensive history of the Stockbridge Mohegans, including a fragment of a work said to be written by the Indian Captain Hendrick Aupaumut. It consists of ten closely..... More

Erie [Penna.]: Joseph M. Starrett, Printer, 1845. First edition. 12mo (6.25 x 4.25), contemporary tree sheep, red morocco label, gilt lettering, 192 pages. A defense of Universalism (and its parallels to Republicanism) from a sometime editor of a Universalist paper, who had come to western New York in 1817 to..... More

Philadelphia: John Gregg, 1830. First American edition. 12mo (6.38 x 4 inches), original rose muslin spine, printed boards, printed paper label, 252 pages, untrimmed. “I saw moving on the surface below me immense masses, the forms of which I find it impossible to describe; they had systems for locomotion similar..... More

[Providence, R. I. n. p., ca. 1890]. 24mo (6 x 3.25 inches), original self-wrappers, [24] pages, stitched. Two related leaves of promotional material laid in. Entertaining promotional woodcut illustrations of surpassing crudeness and vitality in the text throughout. A catalog of novelties suitable for agents and purveyors of carnival slum..... More

Chartres: Petrot-Garnier, Libraire, 1862. First edition. 8vo (8 x 5.25 inches), contemporary red sheep spine, marbled sides, green vellum tips, 59, [5] pages. “Malheureusement, les personnes que l’on qualifie de somnambules ou de dormeuses, ne sont le plus souvent que des machines dressées et dirigées par des compères habiles et..... More