Buffalo: Peter Paul & Brother, 1893. First edition. Small 8vo, original printed wrappers, 16 pages. Portrait of Ingersoll on the inside front wrapper. A theological argument for “Christology,” with an indirectly sexual thrust, arguing that Christ had brought the religion of Almighty Love to replace the judgmental God of Theology..... More

Salem [Mass.]: John W. Archer, 1836. Original printed blue wrappers (stitching renewed), 7.5 x 4.5 inches, 28 pages. The reformer Cheever had been appointed the pastor of Howard Street Congregational Church in Salem in 1833, and "two years later he attained national prominence with his enormously popular temperance tract, Enquire..... More

[New York: n. p., 1867?]. First edition thus. Single sheet, 9.75 x 8 inches, printed recto and verso. An argument against the need for unanimity on juries, later printed as the pamphlet The Unanimity of Juries (1867). With ten marginal textual changes in a contemporary hand; these changes were integrated..... More

[Boston: n. p., 1878]. First edition. Broadside handbill, approx. 8 x 5.25 inches. "Whereas, in consequence of the long continued prostration of business and lack of employment of the working classes . . . in as much as hundreds of deserving poor people of both sexes are nightly turned away..... More

(New York: Simplified Spelling Board), 1915. Stated fourth edition. Unbound wire-stitched pamphlet, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 8 pages. "They may even have lerning enough [sic] to indulge in a hackneyed quotation, and tell us that the mountain has been in labor and brought forth a mouse. They forget that the..... More

Dedham [Mass.]: Abel D. Allene, Printer, 1817. First edition. Original blue sugar-paper wrappers, 8.38 x 5.5 inches, 22, [2] pages. Williams decries the long custom of a "prevailing inattention and ignorance respecting the proper design and performance of psalmody, the most painful and pernicious abuse and perversion, in this part..... More

Boston: American Peace Society, 1843. First edition, an ex-library copy with their early embossed stamp on the title page. 8vo, removed (spine reinforced with paper and title page neatly reattached), 24 pages. On the Christian basis of pacifism. More

New York: Fowler & Wells Co., 1884. Stated fourth edition. Original printed drab wrappers, 7.25 x 4.88 inches, 34, [10] pages, wire stitched. First published by the phrenological and health reform house Fowler & Wells in 1881, essentially an extended advertisement for the Health Food Company of New York—which appears..... More

New-York: Printed at the Office of the Gospel Herald, 1830. First edition. Unbound stitched pamphlet, 7.5 x 4.88 inches, 12 pages, untrimmed. “I see around me men of all sects, who, however they may differ on some points of religious belief, yet cordially unite in maintaining the equal rights of..... More

New York: Printed for the Author, 1832. First edition, all published. Original pictorial front wrapper, renewed and laid down on later wrappers, 104 pages. Illus., music. “The unprincipled and the profligate make common cause against those who expose their vices. When their vices are exposed, they will assume even the..... More

[New York: n. p.], 1875. First edition. Small circular printed recto and verso, 7 x 4.75 inches. A characteristic and ephemeral argument in favor of orthographic spelling reform from the English-born American abolitionist, sometime sex reformer, and spelling reformer who taught Freedmen in the South and styled herself "Eliza Burnz."..... More

Detroit: Tribune Book and Job Establishment, 1869. Third edition? 8vo, original printed rose wrappers, 11 pages. An argument at length from this Detroit resident that export duties on cotton will allow the United States to redeem currency with specie payments; this will also allow for eventual abolition of other duties..... More

[New York]: Published for the National Civil-Service Reform League, 1895. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 33 pages. Schurz casts an optimistic if somewhat jaded eye on the prospects for Civil Service reform and an end to wholesale political spoliation. Ink autograph number at the head of the front wrapper..... More