Cincinnati: Published by Corey and Fairbank, 1835. First edition. 8vo (7.25 x 4.13 inches), original rose diaper grain cloth, printed yellow paper label, 160, [6] pages. “The following lectures, delivered in Boston, in the year 1831, and in Cincinnati, in the year 1833, are now presented for the patronage of..... More
Cincinnati: Published by Corey and Fairbank, 1835. First edition. 8vo (7.69 x 5 inches), original ribbed blue cloth, printed orange paper label, [6], [2], 160 pages. “The following lectures, delivered in Boston, in the year 1831, and in Cincinnati, in the year 1833, are now presented for the patronage of..... More
[Remington, Indiana]: James L. Alter, 1905. First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, 206, [2] pages. Frontis portrait, numerous illus. An astonishing collection of verse in celebration of the sights of North America and such new possessions as Puerto Rico and the Philippines, from a Hoosier sweet singer and apparent lecturer..... More
Chicago: Published by Root & Cady, 67 Washington Street, 1866. First edition of the first number of this juvenile musical quarterly. Small 8vo, contemporary marbled boards, cloth spine and tips, [ii], 5-61, [2] pages (lacks wrappers; this may be an issue sold in boards). Illus. Each number of this quarterly..... More
[Chicago: Rounseville & Co.; later, John J. Moon, 1845-1846]. 11 issues (of 12 published) bound into contemporary half roan and embossed cloth, gilt lettering, 352 pages (plus 48 pages [pp. 49-96] extracted from Godkin’s History of Hungary, 1853 & 3 numbers and front matter for the 1854 American edition of..... More
![Item #18434 Bajan Cookbook [wrapper title]. Barbados, Food, Drink](/images/noimage.png)
(Champaign County, Illinois: n. p.), [ca. 1974]. First edition. Original printed pictorial blue wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, [2], 13, [1] pages. With a label mounted to the inside from wrappers, “PREPARED BY: Marilyn Farley, 1974 IFYE Delegate to Barbados from Champaign Co., Illinois.” Likely a service project required of..... More
Mansfield, Ohio: L. D. Meyers & Brother, Book and Job Printers, 1874. Second edition. “I commenced the investigation with the confident hope of finding Mr. Beecher guiltless. Had such been the result of my examination, the verdict of acquittal would have been a pleasant one, and the task of upholding..... More
Chicago: Published by S. C. Griggs & Co., 1851. First edition. 8vo, modern half black cloth, marbled boards, gilt lettering, 24 pages. With two pages of “Historical Notes” on the church, as well as a 3-page list of books for sale at the “Literary Emporium of the West,” S. C...... More
Detroit: Stroh’s Brewery Company, 1974. Plastic-coated printed corrugated carton with folding lids, approx. 16.5 x 11 x 9.5 inches. Despite the storied role of Cannabis as the psychoactive drug of choice and agent of historical change for the Cass Corridor scene (cf. John Sinclair’s “Ten years for two joints,” etc.)..... 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
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
[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
Cincinnati, May 15, 1913 and May 16, 1913. 2 letters, 9 pages and 10 pages (approx. 1700 words total) in pencil on rectos and versos, Remington Typewriter letterhead measuring 6.5 x 8.5 inches. With one original cover addressed to Elden’s sweetheart, Miss Grace Weeter, postmarked Cincinnati, May 15, 1913. Lively..... 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
[N. p., but Bellevue, O. 1892]. Image measures approx. 7.75 x 9.75 inches, on a somewhat larger plain mount. Bands, banners, flags, and orphans: everything one needs for a fine 19th century patriotic celebration. A large, detailed view of a parade in this northern Ohio town. The evidence for the..... More
New York: (William C. Whitney), 1902. First edition. 8vo, publisher’s blue morocco, gilt turn-downs, gilt lettering, 261, [1], [1] pages. Frontis portrait. This copy is numbered 300 of an unspecified number of copies (evidently 500) printed at the De Vinne Press. A personal account from a friendly outsider of the..... More
![Item #18803 Vision of the Cellar [wrapper title; caption title:] Vision of the Cellar . . . a...](/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
![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
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
[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
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
Detroit, Mich. Rutkus Printing, 338 W. End Ave. 1917. First edition in Lithuanian. Original pictorial yellow wrappers, approx. 7.75 x 4.75 inches, 31, [1] pages. Illus. Free thought from American atheist M. M. Mangasarian, who founded the rationalist Independent Religious Society in Chicago; evidently first published as Who Made the..... More
