Boston: Published for T. Bedlington, No. 31, Washington-street, 1826. A later edition. 2 vols, original brown cloth spines, printed paper labels, marbled boards, 6.25 x 3.69 inches, 223, [1]; 218 pages. Engraved frontispiece and engraved title in each volume. First published in Worcester in 1807, and likely republished here with..... More
Northampton, Mass. Steam Press of Gazette Printing Company, 1876. First edition. Original pictorial wrappers, 8.75 x 5.75 inches, 24 pages. Illus., including a diagram of the cashier's home. The definitive contemporary account of one the biggest bank robberies in U.S. history. The robbers--who according to witnesses referred to each other..... More
Cortland [N.Y.]: S. C. Clisbe & Co. Printers, 1847. First edition. 12mo, contemporary black morocco spine, marbled boards, 166 pages. The Baptist pastor from McGrawville argues for immersion and against loose communion churches; includes some hint of the alliance of religious sentiment and Jacksonian populism: “I am a Republican, a...... More
(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
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Worcester [Mass.]: Edward Livermore, 1847. First Livermore edition of each title. 12mo, original gilt-stamped brown cloth, 72, 72 pages. Illus. Published here in the series “Uncle Thomas’ Stories for Good Children,” an early series from the Worcester publisher Livermore (who had the book printed by Merriam & Mirick in Greenfield..... More
New York: Printed by Samuel Wood and Sons, for the Trustees of Obadiah Brown's Benevolent Fund, 1827. Stated first stereotype edition of this evergreen classic of Quaker apologetics. 8vo, contemporary (likely publisher's) calf, red leather label, gilt lettering, 587 pages. Some penciled sums to the verso of the rear free..... More
Williamsburgh [Mass.]: Printed by Ephraim Whitman, 1817. First edition. 12mo, original tree sheep, brown leather spine label, gilt lettering, iv, 300 pages, all edges sprinkled. The Bard of the Berkshires, Bodman (1766-1850) was perhaps the last great efflorescence of the New England Puritan poets in the lineage of Michael Wigglesworth;..... More
[Parchment, Michigan: Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Company, 1931?]. First edition. 8vo, original pictorial boards, [2], 42 pages. Illus. Tipped-in price sheet to the verso of the front board. A promotional book on the many domestic uses (cooking, cleaning, writing) of the paper product of the Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Co. As befits..... More
[Rockford, Illinois]: Rockford Gazette Steam Print, [ca. 1875]. First edition. 24mo, original pictorial printed orange wrappers, 24 pages. Illus. "These machines are in demand not only by professional men with mechanical taste, for purposes of recreation and profit, but also for boys. There is hardly any form of education more..... More
Cerro Gordo, Illinois: J. O. Barnhart, 1926. First edition, signed by the author on the verso of the frontispiece. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 86 pages. Frontis portrait, two plates, illus. The Brethren minister from Cerro Gordo (a small town east of Decatur, Ill.) here weighs in with verses on a...... More
New York: Sold by the Booksellers [Chez les Libraires], 1840. First edition. 2 vols in 1, 12mo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering. Title page vignettes of a viper; one folding facsimile plate. A scurrilous libel accusing Rev. Verren of poor manners, gross language and attempted seduction: "The word *libertine* burst..... More
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Syracuse, N. Y. Crouse-Hinds, 1934. First edition. Brad-bound printed folder collecting 2 price lists and 26 technical bulletins dated 1932-1934 from the floodlight company (each generally 2-4 pages, though a 56-page Airport and Airway Lighting Equipment catalog with illustrated wrappers is bound in). Illus. Of especial interest among the sales..... More
[Philadelphia: Philadelphia Game Mfg. Co., 1915]. First edition. Single leaf of letterhead with a printed mimeo letter, approx. 11 x 8.5 inches, with an approx. 7x 6 order form ("1915 Line-Ups Now Ready") and an attached leaflet printed recto and verso (with halftone illus. of the game) measuring approx. 6.25..... More
[Townsend, Mass., 1913-, 1915. Original brown wrappers and brown buckram spine, lined copy book ruled to make graph paper, approx. 8.25 x 6.75 inches. 38 pages of tabulated game-by-game player statistics in pencil, three mounted carbon-copy typescripts of full-season individual and team statistics, small mounted newspaper clipping in three pieces..... More
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[Addison or Elmira, N. Y.?]: n. p., [ca. 1906?]. First edition. Broadside, approx. 5.5 x 11 inches. “Great apprehension is felt by many of our best citizens for the future of our nation. Discordant and disintegrating elements are multiplying.” What poses this threat to the “foundation rock” of America? The..... More
Chicago: Gamble Hinged Music Co., (1940). First edition. Oblong 16mo, original printed wrappers, approx. 3.375 x 4.25 inches. Illus. with halftones throughout. A flipbook animation demonstrating proper technique for this baton twirling trick. With a number of ads on the versos of the illustrated pages for various models of Gamble..... More
[New York: n. p., ca. 1901]. First edition. Small 8vo, original pictorial glazed yellow wrappers, 15, [1] pages. Illus. Home battery systems, including the “20th Century Battery,” from the agency best known for its electric belts. The batteries are said to cure paralysis, rheumatism, neuralgia, etc., the whole illustrated with..... More
[New York: P. G. Williams, 1902]. First edition. 8vo, original printed green wrappers, 40 pages. Extensively illustrated. Medical dry cell batteries, electrodes, accessories, Rhumkorff Induction Coils for office X-ray work, the Williams X-ray outfit, etc. (The Williams concern boasts in part of the quality of cabinet makers employed for constructing..... More
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[New York: S. R. Beckwith, ca. 1896]. First edition. Small 8vo, original printed peach wrappers, 64 pages. Illus. The potential customer is asked to carefully notice “our discovery bears no relation to electricity as generally understood, which by its jars, shocks and bunching of tissue is harmful. The force we..... More
New-York: Published by the American Tract Society, 150 Nassau-Street; D. Fanshaw, Printer, [between 1832 and 1846]. A later edition. Evident publisher’s adhered boards binding of a lilac linen spine, printed spine label, marbled boards, scant 6 x 3.5 inches, 159, [1] pages. The pastedowns in this copy have evidently lifted..... More
Rivas, Nicaragua: Tipografia Comercial, 1923. First edition. 12mo, printed wrappers (spine renewed, endpapers inserted, later rear wrapper supplied), 74 pages. Inserted portrait (fore-edge neatly repaired). With a preface from Enrique Aquino and a poem from Julio Linares Cerda. More
(Birmingham, England: Press of Hudson & Son), [ca. 1899]. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, approx. 8.75 x 5.5 inches, 4 pages. Promotional material (including testimonials) for this "school for young stammerers" run by Mr. and Mrs. Beasley in Brampton Park, near Huntingdon, "Where Education in all its branches, embracing the highest..... More
Cambridge: The MIT Press, (1990). First American edition. Hardcover. Original black cloth, 11.75 x 9.5 inches, 223 pages. Illus. Original pictorial dust jacket. 223 photos (with a brief history and technical overview) of blast furnaces. 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
Andover: Published by Flagg and Gould, and Sold by Henry Whipple, Salem, 1819. First edition. 8vo, unbound, stitched, untrimmed, 54 pages. Unopened. "The progress of society from the pastoral to the agricultural and commercial state, amalgamated tribes and constituted nations. By these changes, and the reduction of human life to..... More
