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(New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1945). Stated third edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 47, [1] pages. Trotskyist arguments for racial equality and civil rights from the long-time editor and labor activist Breitman and fellow Trotskyist Burch , including extensive coverage of the Detroit riots of 1943. More
London: Printed and Published by A. Bonner, 1887. First edition. Self-wrappered pamphlet, 7 x 4.75 inches, 20 pages. “Commerce is an eloquent peace preacher; the frequent and more complete intermingling of unarmed peoples begets distaste for war; national prejudices die away under frequent contact; explanations are easier as peoples know..... More
Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1884. First edition thus, one of 75 large paper copies published in the Bibliotheca Curiosa series. 8vo, original printed parchment wrappers, 29 pages, untrimmed. A new edition of the 1610 English translation of a French anti-Roman Catholic tract in the wake of the assassination of Henri IV..... More
Philadelphia: Gedruckt bey Conrad Zentler, in der Zweyten, nahe bey der Rehs-Strasse, 1810. First edition. Contemporary calf spine, blue decorated paper over pasteboard, 5.75 x 3.38 inches, 180 pages. Two woodcut vignettes. An annotated version of the Peter Canisius catechism. Arndt 1780; American Imprints 19713. More
(Lansing, Mich. Press of Robert Smith Printing, 1902). Likely first edition, one of two published dated 1902; OCLC also notes one with a Chicago imprint. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 170 pages. Inscribed and signed by Bronson on the front free endpaper. A lengthy allegorical verse tale, replete with..... More
Providence, R. I., November 20, 1775. Unlined bifolium, 7.75 x 6.13 inches, 2 pages of text plus integral address and docketing. Approx. 400 words. Young college graduates looking for purpose in Revolutionary New England: Gair writes from Providence, where he had earned his A.M. as an early student at the..... More
(Ann Arbor: Destroy All Frothers, September, 1984). First edition of this number. Side stapled zine, 11.25 x 8.5 inches, photocopied, [10] pages. Illus. An early number, issue #5, of this long-running situationist zine, with articles on Tom Monaghan’s proposed ersatz Frank Lloyd Wright headquarters north of town (since built) and..... More
Anderson, Ind., Kansas City, Mo. Gospel Trumpet Company, (1919). First edition. 16mo, original printed wrappers, 63, [1] pages. From the publishing branch of the Church of God, the expected biblical evidence brought to bear against Mrs. Eddy and her church, "in doctrine very like the heresies of ancient times." More
Richmond: William F. Ritchie, Public Printer, 1859. First edition of the Governor's annual message. 8vo, unbound pamphlet (no wrappers), stitched, 48 pages. This appears to be the House of Delegates issue of Gov. Wise's biennial message, here in two parts; the first part is largely taken up with the John..... More
[Wrapper imprint:] Washington, D.C. Press of Byron S. Adams, [1914]. First edition. 8vo, original printed beige wrappers, 28 pages. On the "judicial recall fallacy" and the socialist-tinged folly of the hue and cry over "this 'Government by Judges.'" More
Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, (1918). Stated second edition, greatly expanded from Brown's earlier Indian Legendary Poems (New York 1912), which included only four Indian-related legends. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 264 pages. Frontis portrait. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper and..... More
New-York: n. p., 1851. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, stitched as issued, approx. 9 x 6 inches, 19 pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink at the head of the title page, "C. C. Cabinet, from the Author. April 25, 1851." "What I propose then, is: that the government of every..... More
New York: D. Appleton, 1855. First edition. 12mo, original gilt-printed glazed white wrappers, 58 pages. The title poem is a satiric attack on the conduct of the European powers during the period of the Crimean. Includes an interesting footnote on the legends of Vampires in Hungary. BAL 1572. More
London: Smith, Elder, 1871. First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering. A lengthy dramatic monologue. Later bookplate on the front paste-down. NCBEL III, 443. More
New-York: Published at the Literary Rooms, Abraham Paul, Printer, 1822. First edition. 8vo, removed, 48 pages. "We hazard nothing when we affirm, that, never since the sons of Noah were scattered after the building of Babel, has any form of government been devised by men, so admirably accorded with its..... More
London: Printed by A. Wilson, Published by Samuel Tipper, 1807. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 28 pages. On the election and positions of the radical Burdett as the MP from Westminster, itself a hotbed of the radical movement; as noted by the DNB, "That Burdett spoke in parliament..... More
New-York: Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge, 1857. First edition. 12mo, original printed green wrappers, 23 pages. An attempt to answer the question of what distinguishes the Episcopal Church from other bodies of worship on might encounter in New England; in part, he attempts here to counter..... More
Lowell: A. E. Newton and A. O. Ordway, 1843. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 20 pages. A rather tepid attack on slavery (amounting to an apologetic work) from the long-time Lowell minister: the Bible allows slavery but none of the Southern slaveholders are adequately observing its precepts. "With..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1904. First edition. 2 vols, 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering, xii, 390 & ix, [1], 372 pages. Frontis portrait in each volume, 38 plates. Illus. The first standard biography of the painter, from his widow Georgiana Burne-Jones (née Macdonald--she was one of the remarkable Macdonald..... More
Kilmarnock: M’Kie & Drennan, Printers, [1878]. First edition. Pamphlet bound into slightly gray boards neatly hand-lettered in ink on the upper board, 16 pages. Title page vignette of the proposed monument. An extensive subscription list in response to the call that went out at the 1877 Burns Night celebration; a...... More
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, (1938). First edition. 8vo, original red cloth, 412 pages. Frontis portrait. Lacks dust jacket. More
Glasgow: Printed and Published by David Wilson, 1881. A later edition; the first appeared in 1867, a revised edition in 1870. 2 vols in 1, large 4to, publisher's green half morocco, green cloth sides, gilt spine, gilt decorations, lxiv, 440, 224, cx pages. Numerous plates, including maps, facsimiles (one folding..... More
London: Frederick Warne, [ca. 1870-1885]. Published in Warne's Chandos Poets series. 8vo, contemporary red morocco, gilt turn-downs, gilt lettering, a.e.g., 614 pages. Frontis portrait. More
(New York: Woman's National Sabbath Alliance), [1895]. First edition. Small 8vo, unbound pamphlet, 7, [1] pages. "It is said that when burglars go prowling about at night they take with them a clever boy to climb over the transoms and open the door. The Sunday newspaper is the tupenny door-opener..... More
Washington: Printed by Jno. T. Towers, 1850. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 29 pages. Butler, a native of Troy, N.Y., was then chaplain for the U.S. Senate and in reading here between the lines one finds much in the way of sectional conciliation in the wake of the Compromise..... More
