Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co., Industrial Publishers, Booksellers and Importers, 1884. First edition. 8vo, self-wrappered pamphlet, 8 pages. An uncommon attack on Abram S. Hewitt and his theories of free trade, from the arch-protectionist Henry Carey Baird, suggesting Hewitt's philosophies aim "to sink man to the nethermost hell of..... More

[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

Various places, 1819 (for the Carlile imprint) but generally 1832 and, 1833. 6 vols in 1, 8vo (7.75 x 4.88 inches), early half calf, marbled sides, red leather spine label lettered in gilt, “Pains [sic] Life &c.” 48; [2], 88; 95, iv, [1]; 44; 12; 24 pages. The Scottish imprints..... More

Boston: Published by D. K. Hitchcock, 1836. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 55, [1] pages. A radical response to the great flurry of controversial pamphlets to follow in the wake of William Ellery Channing's 1835 publication of Slavery, this title the response to James Trecothick Austin's..... More

Imprint along fold: New York: National Dem. Committee, [1876]. First edition? Unbound single sheet, approx. 26 x 11 inches, folded to make 32 pages (in proper order only when read as a broadsheet). A pro-Tilden campaign pamphlet, intended to cement the Democratic position as the party of reform. Includes pro-Tilden..... More