Peoria, Illinois: Published by the Author, 1910. First edition. 12mo, original green cloth, [viii], [11]-161 pages. "While it was his purpose to discredit the supernatural origin of religions in general and of Christianity in particular, the author feels that in doing so, he has done no injury to the cause..... More
[Milwaukee: n. p.], 1920. First edition? 12mo, original printed wrappers, 64 pages. An entertaining, thoughtful, sarcastic rejoinder to the xenophobic anti-British pamphlet by Hearst writer Philip Francis, The Poison in America’s Cup (1919) and on the Hearst approach to suppressing thoughtful discussion in general. Noted on the front wrapper as..... More
Harrisburg, Pa. United Evangelical Publishing House, 1909. First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, black lettering, 199, [1] pages. Frontis portrait. Law was a state superintendent for the American Purity Federation and appears in contemporary local directories as a lecturer in Detroit; her work here avoids the sensationalist aspects of kindred..... 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: Loyal Publication Society, 1865. First edition. 8vo, unbound pamphlet, 4 pages. At the head of the title, Loyal Publication Society, 863 Broadway. No. 79. The pioneering political scientist and Union polemicist’s essay, dated February 1, 1865, urges the junior senator from New York to support passage of the..... 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
South Norwalk, Conn. Michael Monahan, June 1914 - November 1914. Small 8vo, six numbers bound into red quarter cloth (retaining original pictorial wrappers to each number), orange-yellow boards, partially unopened. The first volume of this little magazine, the successor to Monahan’s Papyrus; Phoenix ran to six volumes through December, 1916..... 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
London: Printed for the Sanitary Association, by John Nichols, Milton Steam Press, 1852. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 19 pages. An attack on proposed legislation from Lord Manners to modify the Metropolitan Interment Act of 1850, touching on the effectively regressive expense of extramural interment, the perfidy of..... 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
Philadelphia: Printed by William F. Geddes, August 1, 1832. Stated third edition. Original printed orange wrappers, 8.75 x 5.5 inches, 28, [4] pages. Matthew Carey’s defense of Jackson’s position against South Carolina and the ordinance of nullification. Carey seems to have had various editions of this example of his political..... 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
Philadelphia: Printed for the Society. Merritt, Printer, 1817. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, 53 pages (title page detached but present). "The citizens of Philadelphia were induced by the inclemency of the season, and the consequent distress among the poor, to assemble on the 17th February, 1817, for the purpose of..... 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
San Francisco, April 19, 1924. 1 page, approx. 8.5 x 11 inches. Highlighted in color pencil (presumably secretarial) for an executive summary. On the progress of this Red Light District abatement organization, to the banker in Sacramento who was its principal financial backer. 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
Koln: Peter Quentel, 1529. First edition of each title. 2 vols in 1, recent quarter parchment and linen boards, [28], 167, [1], 63, [1] pages; [66] leaves. Woodcut Schoeffer device in the colophon of the first title. Woodcut armorial device to the title page of the Ferber. Two works from..... 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
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
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
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Adriani Wyngaerden, 1656. First edition. 4to, 18th century calf, gilt spine, [8], LXX, 294, [4], 77, [1], 67, [1] pages. Engraved portrait of Saumaise. A posthumous work of the French Protestant critic and scholar Saumaise (1588-1653), collecting previously published epistles and a new life of Saumaise by..... 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
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Le Roy, Genesee County, N.Y. [followed by] Rochester, N. Y. David Slie, October 15, 1845 to September & October, 1847. First edition. Contemporary sheep spine (scant evidence of a black leather label now lacking), marbled boards, 9 x 6.13 inches, 240 pages. (Includes two leaves of Index, but seemingly no..... More
