Pittsburgh: (Myers, Shinkle, & Co., Printers), 1896. Large 8vo, rebound in stiff wrappers with the original substantial fragments of the worn printed wrappers laid down, with a facsimile long-distance map and a facsimile C.D. & P. telephone ad mounted on the front and rear inside wrappers, 288 pages. An early..... More
(New-Haven: Hudson & Woodward, Printers), [1814]. First edition. 8vo, unbound as issued, 8 pages, untrimmed. Unopened. "From this fatal cause, we are bereft of the respectable standing we once held in the councils of the nation, impoverished by a long course of commercial restrictions, involved in an odious and disastrous..... More
Stockton: n. p., July 12, 1893. Single sheet, 10 x 8 inches, approx. 75 words. With the original printed cover (stamp clipped). A charming little example of the intersection of social life and faith in late 19th century America, Mr. Chestnut wood addresses Mss Huggins in a round, clear hand..... More
![Item #14180 Broadside of Masonic songs, "Waubansia Lodge, No. 160" [caption title]. Chicago...](/pictures/thumb/14180.jpg?v=1524605899)
Chicago: Democratic Press Print, 45 Clark Street, [ca. 1855-1857]. First edition. Broadside on heavy stock white coated paper, approx. 10-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches. An evidently unrecorded bit of Chicago ante-fire printing, the lyrics to four songs for Masonic brethren of Waubansia Lodge in Chicago. The imprint date seems probable: according..... More
[Washington, D. C.]: Blair & Rives, printers, [1840]. First edition. Removed unbound pamphlet, scant 9 x 5.75 inches, 4 pages. With the accompanying map, a sketch chart of Chicago Harbor, “showing changing shore line of Lake Michigan, 1821, 1838, and 1839” (Claussen & Friis), scant 9 x 11.75 inches, engraved..... More
Chicago: Tribune Company’s Book and Job Printing Office, 1863. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 30 pages. The Board of Trade and associated men of Chicago stand against the jealous guardians of the Upper Mississippi trade to call for an easy means of shipping its grain to..... More
Chicago: Daily Democrat Steam Press, 1858. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 8.25 x 5.5 inches, 40 pages. With much in the way of tabular data on the demographics of the delinquents (43 American born delinquents in 1858, 47 Irish born), education levels, crimes committed, sanitary condition of the homes from..... More
Chicago: Printed at the Daily Times Book and Job Office, 1857. First Chicago edition. Original self-wrappers, 10.25 x 6 inches, 15 pages, untrimmed. Unopened. Per Byrd, "This speech was the first public expression of his views on the Dred Scott decision. In it he accepted the decision and insisted that..... More
Rochester: Scrantom’s, 1937. First edition. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt lettering, 460 pages. Illus. Folding map tipped in the rear. Original pictorial dust jacket. Issued in the American Guide Series of the Federal Writers’ Project. Map endpapers. More
Cincinnati: Printed by Shepard & Co., 1844. First edition. 8vo, stiched (lacks rear wrapper; front wrapper detached but present), 32 pages. Includes an appendix detailing the death of the Cleaveland's daughter Caroline at age 10 in Ann Arbor. Rev. Cleaveland had been president of the failed Marshall College in Marshall..... More
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, Printers, 1846. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 9 x 5.75 pages, 48 pages. On its face a dispute regarding Adams’ refusal to grant letters of recommendation to Fairchild’s church (with a prefatory statement signed by a church committee) but in large part an attempt by Fairchild..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by John Binns, 1812. First separate edition, taken from Cobbett's The Rush-Light. 8vo, removed, 16 pages. At the head of the title, "Supplement to the Democratic Press." An address delivered in England in 1800, Cobbett makes a fairly intemperate attack against most American political figures but reserves admiration..... More
![Item #12498 Coldwater Michigan Carnival Souvenir, August 15 to 20, 1904 [wrapper title]. Michigan...](/pictures/thumb/12498.jpg?v=1465913965)
Coldwater: W. C. Bailey, Printer, [1904]. 8vo, original printed orange wrappers, [28] pages, entirely of ads. A souvenir program for the Coldwater Mid-Summer Carnival, with numerous ads for local businesses (including views of local buildings and businessmen), as well as a few ads for some of the attractions at the..... More
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., Printers, 1886. First edition. 8vo, original printed orange wrappers, 27 pages. Addresses from six worthies on the efforts to clean up corrupt elections in Cincinnati and Hamilton County. Includes speeches from Isaac J. Miller, E.W. Kittredge, Julius Dexter, Francis Lampe, Joseph P. Carbery, and Nicholas..... More
![Item #20159 Rules and Regulations for the Kingdom God’s [sic] Sake [caption title; wrapper...](/pictures/thumb/20159.jpg?v=1645397768)
[Benton Harbor: Israelite House of David as Reorganized by Mary Purnell, ca. 1930-1932]. Almost certainly the first City of David edition, perhaps the fourth edition of the Book of Rules overall. Original printed blue wrappers, 4.63 x 3.31 inches, printed in blue with Mary’s dove device, 16 pages printed in..... More
[Colophon:] Boston: Printed by Green & Russell, 1761. First edition. Unbound stitched pamphlet, 8.25 x 6.75 inches, 24 pages, untrimmed. Unopened. “This Answer was concise, and not much stuft with Arguments.” Perhaps more entertaining than one might expect in a controversial pamphlet about ecclesiastic polity (though seeing any pamphleteer flexing..... More
Hartford: Printed by Ebin. Watson, near the Groat [sic] Bridge, 1773. First edition. 12mo, 19th century maroon half calf, marbled boards, 47, [1] pages. An important early work published just prior to the second Yankee-Pennamite War (the ongoing conflicts between Pennsylvania and Connecticut settlers over title to the Wyoming Valley..... More
New Bedford: Capt. Thomas Crapo, Publisher, 1893 [i.e. 1900]. Second edition, here reissued after Crapo's death (with a brief account of his demise) by Crapo's widow. 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt lettering, 151 pages. Illus. A first-person account of the life of a New Bedford sailor and adventurer, including stories..... More
Millerton, N. Y. Millerton Telegram Print, 1884. First edition. 12mo, original printed green wrappers, 11 pages. "All members of this Society shall hold themselves in readiness at the call of the managers for the pursuit of thieves." A nice Dutchess county imprint for this anti-crime society. OCLC notes copies at..... More
Cincinnati: [n. p.], 1867. First edition. Original printed blue-green wrappers, 8.25 x 5.5 inches, 128 pages. Accounts of some of Cincinnati's most memorable executions and murders, including such episodes as "The Summons Massacre; Arrison and the Infernal Machine; Mrs. Howard, who Avenged her own Wrongs; Nancy Farrer, the Child Poisoner,"..... More
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1840. First edition. 8vo, removed, 24 pages. The Harvard-trained Unitarian here turns his formidable powers of logic and wide reading to the support of miracles as a foundation of Christianity. Faint offset from an old ink inscription to the final page. More
[N. p., but Danville? n. p., ca. 1906]. First edition. Oblong folio, approx. 12-1/4 x 9 inches, original printed green wrappers, [40] pages. Numerous halftone views from photos, maps. With views of all the hallmarks of early 20th century industrial greatness, with plenty of views of mines and open pits..... More
![Item #17176 The Magnet . . . Hanover, N. H. Nov. 4, 1835 [caption title, with:] The Magnet . . ....](/pictures/thumb/17176.jpg?v=1452630186)
(Hanover, N.H. T. Mann, Printer, 1835). First edition of the second and third number of this Dartmouth literary journal (which ran to four numbers). 2 vols, 8vo, unbound as issued, [17]-32 & [33]-48 pages, untrimmed, unstitched. The second and third numbers of a short-lived literary journal, with an essay on..... More
![Item #14964 The Antiquities and Platycnemism of the Mound Builders of Wisconsin. By J. M. [sic]...](/pictures/thumb/14964.jpg?v=1465913975)
[N. p., but Chicago? n. p., 1878?]. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (retaining wrappers), 15 pages. Illus., fold-out plate. A presentation copy to the geologist "A[lexander] Winchell, From the Author. 23 Jan. 1879." On the mounds and Mound Builders of Wisconsin from this antiquarian and early archaeologist, with descriptions of..... More
New-England [Providence?]: Printed for the Publishers, 1825. Second edition, greatly expanded over the 12-page first edition of 1822. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 32 pages. "But other persons, who were of an Epicurean rather than a Stoical temperament, being unwilling to admit that every thing is nothing, lest they should..... More
