Toronto: Review and Herald Publishing Co., (1890). Large 8vo (9 x 6.5 inches), publisher’s stamped sheep, leather spine labels, gilt lettering, 766 pages. Frontis, illus. Published under the Review and Herald imprint with an 1890 copyright notice for Ellen G. White, with the printer’s slug on the copyright page for..... 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
New-York: Published by Maria Monk, and Sold by Booksellers Generally, 1836. First edition thus. 12mo, original embossed rose cloth, printed paper label, 376 pages. Folding frontis plan and view of the nunnery. An expanded edition of this best-selling piece of anti-Catholic scurrility, purporting to give a first-hand account of the..... More
Avignone: Presse Fr. Seguin Aîné, stampatore e librajo, 1817. 12mo (5.5 x 3.5 inches), contemporary black half sheep, marbled sides, gilt lettering, 214, [2] pages. A monolingual Italian translation of this popular historical novel (first published in French in 1747), with earlier editions from the Seguin press (both in Italian..... More
New York: Charles Scribner & Company, 1871. First edition. 8vo, original brick red cloth, gilt lettering, 330, [2] pages. “I ate half a chicken croquette, and Susan placed the salad before Richard, and another plate. He did not speak till he had put the salad on his plate.” Wright II..... More
Keene [N.H.]: Published by John M. Putnam, 1826. An early American edition. Original blue sheep spine, marbled boards, 5.38 x 3.63 inches, 111, [1] pages. An early and popular work on early childhood education, first published in London in 1819, with an edition appearing in New York from the press..... More
New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1878. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt lettering, 377, [1], [6] pages. Ink gift inscription on the front free endpaper, “Christmas 1878 To Mrs. M. J. R. as from one she mourns for.” Wright III, 2729. More
[Casey, Illinois? n. p.], (1910). First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, red lettering, [92] unnumbered pages. 10 inserted plates. An account of the life of a woman usually considered something of a Methodist saint, Lizzie Louvira Johnson (1869-1909), confined to bed in the family home in Casey, Illinois since age..... 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
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. First edition. 12mo, original gilt pictorial blind-stamped lilac cloth, gilt lettering, 304 pages. Frontispiece view of the new mission building. Women’s mission work in the Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan, with some background on the brutal conditions of life there for the poor. The..... More
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. First edition. 12mo (7.38 x 5 inches), original gilt pictorial blind-stamped lilac cloth, gilt lettering, 304 pages. Frontispiece view of the new mission building. Women’s mission work in the Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan, with some background on the brutal conditions of life there..... More
Cincinnati: Published by J. F. Wright and L. Swormstedt, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the Western Book Concern, 1841. First edition. Contemporary blind-tooled and gilt-tooled full red morocco, 10.38 x 7 inches, [iv], 380 pages, gilt lettering. Engraved frontispiece view, three inserted plates. The complete file of the first..... More
Chambersburg [Penna.]: Printed by Dover & Harper, for Mathew Carey, Philadelphia, 1796. Second American edition. Original marbled boards rebacked with white paper (with typewritten titling), 6.5 x 4 inches, 84 pages. An example of Carey’s practice of partnerships with far-flung printers, this uncommon revival of the essays of Hannah More..... More
Philadelphia: Published by Jacob Johnson, 1808. First edition. 16mo, original orange wrappers, [36] pages. Illus. with copperplate engravings. An amiable botch of a production and an object lesson in the hazards of collation and binding, with a number of the otherwise attractive copperplate illustrations bound in upside-down and leaves of..... More
Hillsdale, Mich. Published by the Author, 1871. Second edition; the first appeared in 1869. 8vo (8 x 5.5 inches), original green cloth, gilt lettering, 216 pages. This edition printed in Lansing by W. S. George & Co. Generally verses of piety and sentiment, with several on rural life and a...... More
York: Printed by W. Alexander and Son, Castlegate, [et al.], 1828. First English edition. 8vo, early dark plum-brown straight grained morocco, red leather label, gilt decorations to the boards and spine, iv, 372 pages, all edges marbled. The memoirs of a well-read, thoughtful, and pious American woman, Susan Mansfield Huntington..... More
Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1896. First edition. Small 8vo, original decorated green cloth, gilt lettering, 244 pages. Frontis, three plates. An early collection from the eventual literary biographer. Bold ink ownership signature of one G. H. Nolte dated 1896 on the front free endpaper. Wright III, 5467. 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
Springfield [Mass.]: Printed by Henry Brewer, Jan. 1807. A later American edition. Contemporary sheep spine, marbled boards, 5 x 3.13 inches, 107, [1] pages. An attractive later edition of this popular (or at least oft-republished) work for children, which first appeared in London in 1789 and went through a number..... More
