Covington, Ky. Printed for the Author at the Office of the "Licking Valley Register," 1846. First edition. 8vo, contemporary tree calf, red leather label, gilt lettering, 480 pages. "Is it therefore unreasonable to conclude, that in former times, in that warm country where the passions are known to be strong..... More

Boston: Gray and Bowen; Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown, 1831. First edition. 12mo, original deep purple muslin spine, drab boards, printed paper spine label, viii, 175, [1] pages. Nice early orange book ticket for bookseller C. Whipple, Newburyport, on the front paste-down, with a small later Newburyport ownership label mounted just..... More

[Boston?]: National Divorce League, 1893. First edition of this extract from the Minutes of the Association. On how to combat the decline of family life, the increase in divorce, and the prevalence of sexual vice in contemporary society. Blame in part is laid to the absence of men on business..... More

Bethany, Va. [now West Virginia]: Printed and Published by A. Campbell, 1838. First edition, an ex-library copy. 8vo (gathered in sixes), original quarter calf, marbled boards, gilt lettering, 574, [2] pages. The annual file for 1838 of this monthly from the founder of the Disciples of Christ; the volume includes..... More

New York: Published jointly by Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement, (1921). First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, x, 182 pages. Frontis, 10 plates. A detailed and interesting semi-sociological study of mission work among the immigrants and migrant agricultural workers of the U.S., with attention paid..... More

[N. p. n. p.], 1679. First edition. 4to, later blue wrappers, [2], 69 pages. A contemporary summary (in Dutch) of various portions of the unfolding Popish Plot. Oates had not too long previously been expelled from the English seminary at St. Omer. Small label on the front wrapper. Goldsmiths-Kress 2324..... More

(Cincinnati: Wm. J. Ferris, Printer, 1830). First edition. 8vo, unbound, 8 pages. A fairly early Ferris imprint, and a handy overview of the ebb and flow of Baptist life in the Ohio Valley, with bare-bones reports from such locales as Duck Creek and 1st Stone Lick. Early ink ownership signature..... More

Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Printed by C. C. Adams and Co., for the Author, 1810. First edition. 12mo, contemporary calf spine, marbled boards, 214, [1] pages. An early autobiographical account of the eccentric itinerant religious figure Theophilus Gates (1787-1846), eventually known as the Battle-Axe. Gates would eventually found a small colony of..... More

Boston: Printed by T. R. Marvin, 1826. First edition. 8vo, removed, 27, [1] pages. A detailed sermon on the good works of this rescue mission for prostitutes in Boston, with much in the way of anecdote and first-hand accounts of conversions. "One came to the Refuge who was led astray..... More

London: The Book Society, [ca. 1860-1870]. 16mo, original wrappers imprinted with an advertisement for an exhibition of paintings by J. W. Bain at Tremont Temple in Boston, “accompanied by songs, music, and lecture,” 384 pages. Frontis. A curious promotional giveaway, a cheap London edition of Pilgrim’s Progress with wrappers advertising..... More

Reading: Gedruckt für Charles M’Williams, 1820. First American edition? 12mo, original quarter calf and decorated boards, 142 pages. Striking woodcut frontispiece. An interesting work of apocalyptic exegesis, this edition including a striking wood engraved frontispiece of the seven-headed dragon rising from the sea. First published in Germany under Armbrüster’s name..... More

[Bellevue, O.?]: Chamberlin Photo, 1915. Real photo postcard, approx. 3.5 x 5.5 inches, postally unused. A fine interior view of the revival tabernacle erected by the Indiana-based traveling revivalist George T. Stephens. The hall is draped in bunting and the dais includes a piano and a printed sign reading "Business..... More

New Lebanon, N. Y. [Charles Van Benthuysen & Sons, Printer, Albany], 1867. Fourth edition. 12mo, original printed yellow wrappers stitched, 192 pages. Stated fourth edition at the head of the title. The title page and ads are reset, otherwise printed from the identical plates of the first edition published by..... More