Burlington [Iowa]: Acres, Blackmar & Co., [1880]. First edition. Original printed blue wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 63 pages. Something of a kissing cousin to the community cook book is the community exhibition, what today would be called a pop-up cabinet of curiosities—here some 2000 items ranging from Indian relics..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by Bartram and Reynolds, 1807. First American edition. 12mo, original full sheep, tan morocco label, gilt lettering, 131, [1] pages. First published in England in 1805, from the Danish author who had come to England in search of work; his position as a Dane in Britain during the..... More
[Nice? Monte Carlo?], n. d., but ca. 1920s. 2 pages on a single leaf of blue stock, 10.5 x 8.25 inches, approx. 145 words. A breezy letter redolent of fashionable Bohemian wealth living slightly beyond her own means, a presumably English woman on the Riviera thanking one Sir James for..... More
London: Published by William Cobbett, 183 Fleet-Street, 1828. First edition. 8vo, later 19th century polished half calf, marbled boards, [269] unnumbered pages. Three plates. On the cultivation of American corn, with much on American agriculture and customs; the first two leaves are printed on corn paper. Cobbett also includes glances..... More
London: Charles Griffin and Company, 1895. First edition. 8vo, original pebbled maroon cloth over flexible heavy card-stock wrappers, gilt lettering, vii, [1], 51, [1], 32 pages. Color frontispiece, illus. Inserted folding table. “The subject being one which concerns the general public as well as its scientific and technical members, the..... More
![Item #18613 The Unfired-Fooder’s (Apyrtropher’s) Bulletin. December 1924 [wrapper title]....](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/18613.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1537150321)
[Chicago: Apyrotropher Publishing and Supply House], 1924. First edition. Original self wrappers, 8.88 x 6 inches, [20] pages. Illus. A wonderful look at alternative living in Roaring Twenties Chicago, essentially an extended advertisement for Drews’s concern: raw foods, sunlight baths, uplifting publications on vegetarian raw diets, food mills, carrot graters..... More
Harrisburg, Pa. Printed and Published by Gustavus S. Peters, 1833. Fifth edition. Original grained sheep spine, marbled boards, 5.75 x 3.5 inches, 107, [1] pages. Decorative type borders. From the press of G. S. Peters (who was to become a pioneer in American color printing), this a handy little forms..... More
Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, for the Author, 1787. First edition. 8vo (8 x 5 inches), original sheep, red leather label, gilt rules and lettering, 258, [12] pages, all edges stained green. Frontispiece portrait. The early American epic that helped shape the Columbus “discovery” story into part of the..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, in Market-Street, 1747. First edition. 8vo, 6.75 x 4.5 inches, 19th century tree calf and a later morocco spine label, gilt lettering, 174 pages. This copy lacks the final leaf, the errata page. Leaf K2 here trimmed by the binder a little close along the..... More
Keene, N. H. J. and J. W. Prentiss, 1838. A new edition; the first appeared in 1782. 8vo, original roan spine, embossed blue cloth sides, gilt rules and lettering to the spine, 312 pages. "The present work has long been out of print, though it is often sought for; and..... More
Dover [N.H.]: Published by the Trustees of the Freewill Baptist Convention, 1836. First edition. 16mo, contemporary (likely original) calf, 159 pages. A relatively early publication in the Randall line of the Free Will Baptists. Small corner of one leaf torn, with loss to a few letters (but no loss of..... More
Dover [N.H.]: Published by David Marks, for the Freewill Baptist Connexion, 1834. First edition. Original sheep spine, drab boards, 5 x 3.38 inches, 156, [4] pages. “As our Connexion has become so extensive that all cannot meet and confer together on doctrine as formerly, some are at a loss to..... More
New York: Sheldon & Company, 1862. First edition. 8vo, original gilt-stamped green cloth, 331 pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the title page, "George L. Mosher, from the author with the hope that he will read it," with an autograph ink attribution in the same hand below the..... More
Yorkville, Ill. James M. Gale, 1898. First edition. Unbound bifold pamphlet, approx. 7.25 x 4.75 inches, [6] pages. Gale proposes in great detail a scheme of radical monetary and currency reform, as well as the establishment of national bank, with a new bank to be built in each town (creating..... More
New-York: Published by Inskeep & Bradford, 1813. First New York edition. 24mo, contemporary (likely original) dyed red sheep, gilt rules and lettering, 117, [1] pages. An early American card playing book, the standard work on the game from one of the great whist masters; a Boston edition appeared in 1812..... More
New York: T. and J. Swords, 1828. First edition. 12mo, original pink linen spine, drab boards, printed paper label, x, 196 pages, untrimmed. An important early American horticultural manual from this prominent early American professional nursery family and proprietors of the first commercial American nursery. Early institutional bookplate partially removed..... More
Rochester, N. Y. D. M. Dewey, Publisher, Arcade, 1877. A later printing of a popular manual. Small 8vo, original blind-stamped black cloth, gilt lettering, 128 pages. Illus. On growing fruit, with an addendum on roses. Neat early ink ownership inscription for a Toronto nursery on the front paste-down; blue-pencil inscription..... More
Chicago, Ill. Keen and Lee; Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1857. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped and gilt-stamped red cloth, 451, [5] pages, all edges marbled. Frontis, two plates. Three inserted folding color maps. Illus. Detailed description of Illinois, intended as a lure and a guide to immigrants. Includes a catalog of..... More
Auburn, N.Y. J. C. Derby and Company, 1848. A later printing of this gift book anthology. 16mo, original gilt pictorial blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt spine, 126 pages. Color lithograph floral frontispiece. With poetical extracts from Bryant, Brainerd, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Elizabeth Barrett, etc. etc. Early Detroit penciled ownership signature to the..... More
Worcester: Published by S. A. Howland, 1850. An early reprint. 16mo, original gilt pictorial embossed green cloth, gilt spine, 128 pages, a.e.g. Gilt lithograph frontispiece. With an 1848 copyright for J. Buffum, New Hampshire, who also issued an 1850 printing under his imprint. Neat teacher gift inscription on the front..... More
[Wrapper imprint:] Chicago: The Early & Halla Printing Company, 1894. Later printing; copyrighted by Godfrey in 1885. 8vo, original printed blue wrappers, 27 pages, wire stitched. Per the title page of Godfrey’s 1885 The World’s Spiritual Conquest Or Its Conversion to Christ (Kansas City, Mo., 1885), Godfrey was a minister..... More
![Item #19242 Verkündiger der Lezten [sic] Zeit: Licht und Wahrheit. Geschrieben durch einen...](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/19242.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1603912623)
Lancaster, (Penn.): n. p., 1836. First edition. 16mo, contemporary sheep spine, marbled boards, [4], [6], 3-124 pages. One assumes the blind servant and deaf messenger here should be understood as allegorical rather than literal. Göhring separately published the second book of this title in 1839; of the three copies of..... More
![Item #20424 The Last Martyrs of Eromanga [Erromango]. Being a Memoir of the Rev. George N. Gordon...](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/20424.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1671574772)
Halifax. N. S. MacNab and Shaffer, 15 Prince St. 1863. First edition. 8vo (7.5 x 5 inches), original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt lettering, viii, 294 pages. Frontis portrait of the couple. Posthumous memoirs drawn in part from letters and reports of this missionary and native of Prince Edward Island, who..... More
Boston: Printed by Thomas Badger, Jr., No. 10, Merchants’s Hall, 1823. First edition. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, 10.63 x 9.13 inches, 152 pages. Printed music throughout. An attempt by the singing-school teacher (and penmanship instructor) Gould to “furnish the Public with a volume of Music, calculated for the convenience..... More
![Item #18543 “Boxcar Art.” [In:] Railroad Magazine. Vol. XXVI, No. 2. July, 1939. Graffiti,...](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/18543.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1527108333)
New York: Frank A. Munsey Company, 1939. First edition. 8vo, original color pictorial wrappers, 144 pages on pulp, illus. Incunabular American graffiti tagging, a three-page article on early railroad car graffiti artists and a survey of the artwork and stylized signatures of the hobos and railroad workers who marked up..... More
