Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, Printers, 1846. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 9 x 5.75 pages, 48 pages. On its face a dispute regarding Adams’ refusal to grant letters of recommendation to Fairchild’s church (with a prefatory statement signed by a church committee) but in large part an attempt by Fairchild..... More

[Colophon:] Boston: Printed by Green & Russell, 1761. First edition. Unbound stitched pamphlet, 8.25 x 6.75 inches, 24 pages, untrimmed. Unopened. “This Answer was concise, and not much stuft with Arguments.” Perhaps more entertaining than one might expect in a controversial pamphlet about ecclesiastic polity (though seeing any pamphleteer flexing..... 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

(Boston: n. p., 1857). First edition. 8vo, unbound pamphlet removed from a nonce volume, 12 pages. A lively, vituperative and uncommon attack on the financial policies that led to the Panic of 1857, with much in the way of sectional attacks on the South. Includes flings against former Mississippi senator..... More

Boston: Printed by T. Fleet, for Daniel Henchman, over-against the Brick Meeting-House in Cornhill, 1738. First edition. 20th century full red cloth, 7.5 x 4.38 inches, [8], [xii], 116 [i.e., 216] pages. Woodcut tailpieces. “Now considering these Things; and considering withal, what an *honorable,* as well as vastly beneficial, *Addition..... More

Paradise [Lancaster County, Penna.]: Printed by Henry Witmer, 1823. First Paradise edition. 8vo (8 x 5.13 inches), contemporary and likely original quarter calf and marbled boards, [i-iv], [8]-116 pages. A popular graphic anti-Jacobin work from the polemicist Cobbett, first published in Philadelphia in 1796 and appearing in a number of..... More

Salem: Published by Henry Whipple & Son; Boston: B. H. Greene, 1854. First edition. 8vo, original printed buff wrappers, 26 pages. An attack on the radical Unitarian Frothingham's controversial sermon against the rendition of Anthony Burns (and the complicity of Christianity in slavery), the anonymous author here citing the various..... More

Boston: Printed by E. C. Beals, for R. Lothian, Jun., No. 75, State-Street, 1807. First American edition. Contemporary calf spine, marbled sides, black spine label, gilt rules and lettering, 7.13 x 4 inches, 151, [1] pages. “Perjury in religion is worse than perjury in the market; but unhappily for the..... More

Boston: Printed by Bense & Morgan, 1848. First edition. 8vo, original strikingly-printed blue wrappers, 38 pages. The pastor of the North Chelmsford Congregational Church comes to the defense of Samuel Parker, a parishioner who had been convicted of false testimony before grand juries regarding an agreement to pay extra interest..... More

Concord [N. H.]: Printed by George Hough, 1810. First edition. Original marbled wrappers, 7.5 x 4.88 inches, 177, [3] pages. An early example of Worcester’s move toward Unitarianism, published several years prior to his definitive conversion to pacifist activism, and one of his early theological salvos against traditional Congregationalist doctrine..... More