Louisville: Contre Coup Press, 2012. First Contre Coup edition. Original French flap wrappers (9.25 x 6.13 inches), [4], 7, [3] pages. Tim Hawley on Twain on masturbation. About as nicely-produced a work on self-abuse as one might expect to find. With a colophon model of brevity: “20 copies.”. More
Boston: Printed for the Author, at the office of S. N. Dickinson, Washington-st. 1831. First edition. Small 8vo (6.19 x 3.88 inches), contemporary (likely original) maroon sheep spine, drab boards, gilt lettering, 191, [1] pages. "Reader, I will now say to you, that last November, after having taken legal advice..... More
New-York: Blelock & Company, 1865. First edition. 8vo, original gilt-stamped green cloth, 552 pages. Wright II, 1212: “A defense of the Methodist church,” from the former Confederate officer. More
Lexington [Kentucky]: Printed and Published by T. T. Skillman, 1815. First Lexington edition. 12mo, original calf, brown leather label, gilt rules and lettering, 308 pages. A nice imprint for one of the great missionary accounts, the posthumous memoirs of this first-wave missionary to India. The Dwight sermon has a separate..... More
Lexington (K.): Published by Joseph Charless. Printed by John W. Scott, Philadelphia, 1804. One of two evident Charless editions published in 1804 (see below). 12mo, original calf, red morocco label, gilt rules and lettering, 287 pages. Per the Imprints Inventory (Kentucky) 218, this title was also published with the imprint..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1878. First edition. Large 8vo, original lilac-gray cloth stamped in black, gilt lettering, 163, [1], [4] pages. Illus. Travel writings from Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, printed from the magazine plates and collected here in book form. Includes two pieces by Lanier, “St. Augustine in April”..... More
Charleston: Ewd. Perry, Printer, Stationer, and Bookseller, 155 Meeting Street, 1870. 8vo (7.75 x 5 inches), black full sheep presentation binding lettered in gilt, 120 pages interleaved with binder’s blanks through page 57. Frontispiece. Upper board stamped in gilt with the name of Charleston planter McMillan C. King (or perhaps..... More
Macon [Georgia]: Printed by Rose & Slade, 1830. First edition. Unbound pamphlet (10.25 x 5.88 inches), 16 pages, stitched as issued, unopened and untrimmed. From the Baptist planter and apologist for slavery comes this discourse and against foot-washing (the expected comparisons to the Pharisees, etc.), in as nearly close to..... More
Fayetteville, T. [Tennessee]: Printed for the Cumberland Presbyterian Synod, by E. and J. B. Hill, 1827. First edition. 12mo, original tree calf, black leather label, gilt rules and lettering, 222, [1] pages. An early Tennessee imprint from the important early Cumberland Presbyterian figure and active anti-Mormon agitator in Missouri. By..... More
Richmond: Published by the Author, John O’Lynch, Printer, 1810. First edition. 8vo (8.63 x 5.25 inches), original full calf, [viii], 446, [2] pages. “In every generation, there will be some odd and eccentric religious men; who, like Sampson and Jonah, do much good, with a considerable mixture of evil. Mr..... More
Alexandria [Va.]: Printed by Cottom and Stewart, for Samuel Bishop, 1802. First American edition, with considerable additions. 12mo (6.5 x 4.25 inches), original full calf, red morocco label, gilt rules and lettering, 313, [1] pages. A nice imprint from the Irish emigre Alexandria booksellers, John Ainsworth Stewart and Peter Cottom..... More
Richmond: C. H. Wynne, Publisher, 1858. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt lettering, 363 pages. Recollections of early settlers of Lynchburg through about 1800. Howes C-3. More
Wheeling, Va. Printed and Published by A. & E. Picket, 1831. First edition. 12mo, original black sheep spine, gray boards, gilt lettering, 140, [4] pages. A nice Wheeling, [West] Virginia imprint, and according to the preliminary advertisement in “strict conformity with the revised code of laws for 1830 & 1831.”..... More
Louisville: Prentice and Weissinger, 1847. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers (lacks rear wrappers), 36 pages. Folding lithograph plate of fossil specimens. From these two early Kentucky physicians, a study of fossil specimens found in the Louisville area and a comparison to species found in New York and in Europe..... More
