Newburgh [New York]: Printed by Parmenter & Spaulding, for the Dialectic Society, 1829. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 7 x 4.5 inches, 24 pages, stitched. “The following pages were originally written for the Dialectic Society of *West-Point,* composed of Cadets of the U. S. Military Academy, and the author had..... More
Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1841. First edition. 8vo, unbound, 12 pages, untrimmed. Adams weighs in on the complicated point of international law surrounding an incident in the wake of the Canadian Rebellion of 1837; McLeod had been arrested in New York after bragging he had been among those..... More
Boston: J. H. Eastburn's Press, 1861. First edition, apparently a duplicate from Harvard's library, with an early pencil gift notation noting receipt from an alumnus on the verso of the title page (but no other evident library marks). 8vo, original wrappers. A moderately complex sermon on the issues of the..... More
Northampton: Printed by William Butler, 1788. First edition. 8vo, unbound pamphlet, stitched, 48 pages. An early imprint from the press of long-time Northampton printer William Butler, who had come to Northampton in 1786 to establish a newspaper; in 1795 he established a paper-mill there. Allen, Chesterfield's Congregational minister, here attacks..... More
Eben-Ezer bei Buffalo im St. N.Y. [Die Gemeinde der wahren Inspiration], 1854. First edition. 12mo, original black sheep spine and tips, marbled boards, 244 pages. At the head of the title, "J. J. J." An uncommon relic of the communal Inspirationalist society that evolved into the Amana Society in Iowa;..... More
N. p., ca. 1820-1830. Autograph ink manuscript (in brown and blue ink) to a pasted-together sheet of heavy unbleached wrapping paper measuring approx. 23.75 x 12.5 inches. Approx. 550 words in two columns. Docketed on the verso, “Lines of [sic] James Bird.” With the name “Daniel” in contemporary ink in..... More
Leominster, Massachusetts: Printed by John Prentiss & Co. for Thomas Thacher, Princeton [Mass.], 1798. First edition. 12mo, original sheep, red leather label, gilt lettering, 114 pages. A posthumous selection of sermons from Rev. Peter Thacher (1716-1785) of Attleboro, one of a long line of Congregationalist Peter Thachers, this collection put..... More
Boston: Published by Wells & Lilly, 1816. First edition thus. 12mo, contemporary full sheep with multiple decorative blind-rolled ornaments, 72 pages. "Twin Carolinas, through your forests green, / In sixteen hundred sixty three began, / Where none but savage foot had ever been, / The new-born empire of the cultur'd..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839. First regularly published edition of Sargent's second book. 12mo, original floral-embossed brown cloth, gilt lettering, 110 pages. A play, revised from the preceding privately printed edition. Front free endpaper neatly excised. BAL 17201. More
Boston: Rowe & Hooper, 1816. First edition. 8vo, contemporary calf, tan morocco spine label, gilt rules and lettering, 271, [1] pages. From a Methodist itinerant and intimate of Lorenzo Dow comes this New England novel of manners, partially epistolary. (With such characters and Jack Upstart and Tim Ignoramus appearing in..... More
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Libanon, (Penn.): J. Schnee für M. Carey in Philadelphia, 1810. First edition in German. 12mo, contemporary full calf, brown leather spine label, gilt rules and lettering, 210 pages. Engraved frontis and six engraved plates (including a portrait of Washington). The Weems life of Washington (cherry tree anecdote and all) here..... More
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New-York: G. & C. Carvill, and Elam Bliss, 1828. Stated second edition of the first volume. 2 vols in 1, large 8vo, publisher's rose half cloth, pink boards, printed spine label, 192; [iv], 188 pages. Frontis engraved view of Trenton Falls inserted before vol. 1. "Let then Americans labour to..... More
[Milford, Otsego County, New York, ca. 1817 to mid-1840s]. Two saddle-stitched gatherings bound together with stab-stitched soft doeskin thongs, approx. 13.13 x 8 inches, 40 leaves in autograph ink (with evidence of leaves extracted and a few portions of leaves and text torn out). A few ink diagrams in the..... More
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Barnardston [i.e., Bernardston, Franklin County, Mass.]: Sept. 8th, [1775]. Single leaf, 12.5 x 7.63 inches, approx. 240 words. With the integral address to Reuben Shattock, “Cambredg under Capt. Wells,” Col. Whitcomb’s regiment. A primary text conveying the patriotic sense of Providence in the earliest days of the Revolutionary War in..... More
Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1858. First edition. 12mo, original gilt-stamped red morocco, 538 pages, a.e.g. Two folding charts (diagrams of the Assembly Chamber and the Senate Chamber) tipped in. Everything a legislator needs to know, from Agricultural Society, Officers of, to Villages, General provisions for erecting. The real attraction..... More
Crockett, Kentucky: Rod and Staff Publishers, Inc., (1984). 8vo, original pictorial glazed cloth, 398 pages. Illus. "James and Rhonda cheerfully labored in the hot sun, helping Mother weed carrots. The carrots were planted in wide beds. Together they were able to weed 24 square feet of carrots each hour. At..... More
Boston, Mass. Published by the Author, 1882. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, 8.5 x 5.25 inches, stitched, 11 pages. "Spooner, now living in retirement in Boston, contributed two final additions to the anti-state literature which, although producing little new thought, were the most amazing and daring of all in that they..... More
Salem: Printed at the Office of "To-Day," Oct. 31, 1870. First edition. 8vo, original pictorial glazed white wrappers, 15 pages. Pictorial title page, illus. "If you ask the touris why he visits Salem, he will tell you that he has four reasons: to see the old houses, to feel the..... More
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Boston: Sold at the Bible & Heart, in Cornhill, [ca. 1780-1805]. Broadside printed in three columns, 14.75 x 9.88 inches. Backed onto a leaf of a Vermont newspaper dated ca. 1811. “Here’s one penny’s worth of wit, / To them that go astray; / If warning they will take by..... More
Boston: Printed by S. N. Dickinson & Co., 1846. First edition. 12mo, unbound, 12 pages. The war-cry of Popery and Puseyism has long resounded in our ears. . . . Our Rt. Rev. Bishop has thrown the gauntlet into the face of one of the most beloved and respected of..... More
[Salem, Mass.? n. p., 1868]. First edition. 8vo, unbound pamphlet, [7] pages. Title-page vignette of a booted elephant draped with a blanket reading "Only $600,000" and bearing aloft a banner with the strange device, "Old Aqueduct." An obscure (but amusing) satirical political work, aimed against the sale of the Salem..... 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
Philadelphia: C. W. Alexander, 1869. First edition in German. 8vo, later cloth spine and marbled boards, [1-4], 21-78 pages (evidently complete; this nearly matches the similarly erratic pagination of the English-language edition). Illus. A fugitive German-language edition of the uncommon sensationalist anti-Catholic tract, Convent Horror; or The true narrative of..... More
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Fairhaven, Mass., March 5, 1829. Unlined folio in autograph ink, 13 x 7.75 inches, 1 page. Approx. 140 words. An early instance of primary evidence behind the grassroots political organization of the first third-part populist political movement in the United States, a public here statement signed by 25 men of..... More
Fredonia, N.Y. W. B. Archibald, Author and Publisher, 1892. Likely a reissue of the first edition; the publication copyright date is a pasted-on cancel slip. Large 8vo, original black pebbled half cloth, blue cloth sides, printed paper label, 228 pages. Mounted leaf of index key on the title page. A..... More
