Cincinnati: Published by N. & G. Guilford. T. Surguy, Printer, [1837]. First edition. Original pictorial blue wrappers, stitched, 8.13 x 4.88 inches, [36] pages, untrimmed. Woodcut illustrations throughout. With the wrapper title and imprint, The Freeman’s Almanac for the Year 1838: Edited by Solomon Thrifty. Cincinnati: Published by Guilford and..... More
Chicago: Published by Root & Cady, 67 Washington Street, 1866. First edition of the first number of this juvenile musical quarterly. Small 8vo, contemporary marbled boards, cloth spine and tips, [ii], 5-61, [2] pages (lacks wrappers; this may be an issue sold in boards). Illus. Each number of this quarterly..... More
Chicago: S. S. Boyden, Publisher, 1868. First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 200, [3] pages. Verses from a resident of Bostwick Lake, Michigan (outside Grand Rapids), with much occasional verse (Independence Day celebrations, an address to the Progressive Lyceum), as well as the lengthy narrative title poem recounting..... More
Chicago: Published by S. C. Griggs & Co., 1851. First edition. 8vo, modern half black cloth, marbled boards, gilt lettering, 24 pages. With two pages of “Historical Notes” on the church, as well as a 3-page list of books for sale at the “Literary Emporium of the West,” S. C...... 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
Cincinnati: Published by Corey and Fairbank, 1835. First edition. 8vo (7.69 x 5 inches), original ribbed blue cloth, printed orange paper label, [6], [2], 160 pages. “The following lectures, delivered in Boston, in the year 1831, and in Cincinnati, in the year 1833, are now presented for the patronage of..... More
![Item #14180 Broadside of Masonic songs, "Waubansia Lodge, No. 160" [caption title]. Chicago...](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14180.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1524605897)
Chicago: Democratic Press Print, 45 Clark Street, [ca. 1855-1857]. First edition. Broadside on heavy stock white coated paper, approx. 10-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches. An evidently unrecorded bit of Chicago ante-fire printing, the lyrics to four songs for Masonic brethren of Waubansia Lodge in Chicago. The imprint date seems probable: according..... More
[Washington, D. C.]: Blair & Rives, printers, [1840]. First edition. Removed unbound pamphlet, scant 9 x 5.75 inches, 4 pages. With the accompanying map, a sketch chart of Chicago Harbor, “showing changing shore line of Lake Michigan, 1821, 1838, and 1839” (Claussen & Friis), scant 9 x 11.75 inches, engraved..... More
Chicago: Tribune Company’s Book and Job Printing Office, 1863. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 30 pages. The Board of Trade and associated men of Chicago stand against the jealous guardians of the Upper Mississippi trade to call for an easy means of shipping its grain to..... More
Chicago: Daily Democrat Steam Press, 1858. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 8.25 x 5.5 inches, 40 pages. With much in the way of tabular data on the demographics of the delinquents (43 American born delinquents in 1858, 47 Irish born), education levels, crimes committed, sanitary condition of the homes from..... More
Chicago: Democratic Press Job and Book Steam Printing Office, 45 Clark St. 1854. First edition. Original pictorial wrappers, 9.5 x 6 inches, 80 pages, printed in double columns. Dated in type at the head of the first page of text, January 31, 1854, with the note, “Second edition of Five..... More
Cincinnati: Printed by Shepard & Co., 1844. First edition. 8vo, stitched (lacks rear wrapper; front wrapper detached but present), 32 pages. Includes an appendix detailing the death of the Cleaveland's daughter Caroline at age 10 in Ann Arbor. Rev. Cleaveland had been president of the failed Marshall College..... More
[Marshall County, Illinois? Tazewell County, Illinois? n. p., ca. 1844]. Single leaf (12.38 x 17 inches), wax crayon, ink and wash on heavy stock. Hints of Transcendental Romanticism in the early Midwest, a fine characteristic mourning scene of a woman leaning against a gravestone inscribed, “To the Memory of Harriet..... More
[Cincinnati]: Robert Clarke & Co., Print. 1873. Unbound folio circular (11 x 8.5 inches), [4] pages. Vignette view of the coffin factory, woodcut illustrations of the coffin models. Printed in black, red, green, and gilt. “We claim for Cincinnati that she has no rival as a shipping center, as *all..... More
Milwaukee, Wis. L. H. Morehouse, Publisher, 1879. First edition. 12mo, original brown cloth, gilt lettering, 226, [1], [1] pages. Something of a pious, Midwestern Tom Brown’s School Days, an uncharacteristic posthumous work from the Episcopal churchman, theologian, and educator, this a fairly didactic novel for boys that grew out of..... More
Ann Arbor, Mich. Published for the University, 1890. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 248 pages. Ink signature at the head of the front wrapper, "Bertha E. Pritchard." (Per the Bentley Library, Pritchard matriculated in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and graduated with an A.B. in 1891.)..... More
St. Louis: n. p., 1910. First edition. Small 8vo, original printed blue wrappers, 32 pages. “Wherever Rousseauism has gained a foothold, the divorce evil has grown beyond bounds; and after the patient toil of nineteen centuries in which the Church has snatched so large a portion of humanity from barbarism..... More
(Dixon [Illinois]: Telegraph Print, 1867). First edition. Unbound pamphlet, approx. 7.75 x 5 inches, [4] pages. Vignette illus. A fine attractive program with characteristic period display types for a local Illinois cornet band, with the program on the final page and the two interior pages taken up with ads for..... More
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
![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=1537150319)
[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
New York: Edward O. Jenkins, Printer, 1869. First edition. 8vo (9/38 x 6.25 inches), original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering, [i-ii], [1-4], [3]-615, [1] pages. Lithograph frontis portrait, inserted engraved plate. Midland Notes 96: “He arrived in St Clairsville, Ohio, in 1817, and became closely associated with Benjamin Lundy, in..... More
New York: Edward O. Jenkins, Printer, 1869. First edition. 8vo (9/38 x 6.25 inches), original blind-stamped brown cloth neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down, gilt lettering, [i-ii], [1-4], [3]-615, [1] pages. Lithograph frontis portrait, inserted engraved plate. Midland Notes 96: “He arrived in St Clairsville, Ohio, in 1817..... 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
[Chicago? n. p.], December, 1847. First edition. 8vo, original wrappers bound into later full cloth, gilt lettering, 16 pages. An important step in the development of the Illinois Central Railroad, an early argument for the Chicago route for a railroad from Cairo to Galena, the financial (and even military) advantages..... More
(Burlington, N. J. New Jersey Enterprise Book and Job Printing Establishment), [1875?]. Second separate edition. 8vo, original gilt-printed brown wrappers (lacks rear wrapper) bound into later plain wrappers, 38 pages. First published in Featherstonehaugh's Monthly American Journal of Geology and Natural Science in 1831 (with an offprint of 100 copies)..... More
