[Houston: n. p., ca. 1906-1910?]. First edition. Self-wrappered wire stitched pamphlet, 5.75 x 3.5 inches, 8 pages on green stock. Promotional pamphlet for a drug addiction sanitarium in Houston, here at 1316 Boulevard, Houston Heights (in the charge of Dr. Edward Purdy; downtown office at 614-1/2 Fannin Street), specifically aimed..... More

Harrisburg, Pa. n. p., 1843. An early (stated third) edition, but see below. 12mo, original black morocco spine, marbled boards, 84 pages. An early edition of Hohman’s well-known folk magic and remedy book, first published in Reading in 1820 and with scattered Pennsylvania editions following throughout the 1820s and 1830s..... More

Boston: Re-printed by Rogers and Fowle, for J. Edwards in Cornhill, 1746. Removed from an 18th century calf binding (with traces of the calf to the spine), 176 pages. 1746 was an unusually bad year for the “bloody flux” or dysentery in Massachusetts (see both Nash, Historical Sketch of the..... More

Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Merrihew & Gunn, 1837. First edition. 12mo, original rose linen spine, printed drab boards, 84 pages. Poe enthusiast Joseph Jackson was fresh off his triumphant 1920 attribution to Poe of the uncommon pseudonymous anti-Dickens English Notes (Boston, 1842) by “Quarles Quickens,” when, in Jackson’s own..... More

[New York: P. G. Williams, 1902]. First edition. 8vo, original printed green wrappers, 40 pages. Extensively illustrated. Medical dry cell batteries, electrodes, accessories, Rhumkorff Induction Coils for office X-ray work, the Williams X-ray outfit, etc. (The Williams concern boasts in part of the quality of cabinet makers employed for constructing..... More

(Birmingham, England: Press of Hudson & Son), [ca. 1899]. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, approx. 8.75 x 5.5 inches, 4 pages. Promotional material (including testimonials) for this "school for young stammerers" run by Mr. and Mrs. Beasley in Brampton Park, near Huntingdon, "Where Education in all its branches, embracing the highest..... More

(Cincinnati: Pulvermacher Galvanic Co., 1879). [but ca. 1891]. A later version of this promotional pamphlet. 8vo, original blue printed wrappers, 30, [8] pages. Illus. On the myriad benefits of this galvanic belt, aimed in large part at male sexual debility and impotence; Pulvermacher was one of the pioneers in this..... More

Fall River, Mass. Wm. S. Robertson, Steam Printer, 1877. Second edition; the 47-page first edition appeared in Irvinton, N.J., in 1848. 8vo, unbound, 40 pages. On October 28, 1858, Bourne was asked to attend Christian Chapel in Westerly, R.I., and to this request evidently "said within himself, 'I would rather..... More

[Des Moines, Iowa: Chamberlain Medicine Company, ca. 1890-1900?]. 8vo, original decorated self wrappers, [16] pages. An advertising pamphlet for patent medicines: Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera & Diarrhea Remedy, Chamberlain's Antiseptic Liniment, Chamberlain's Salve (good for burns, piles, sore nipples, etc.). Interspersed with the testimonials are a number of humorous stories, jokes..... More

Bound Brook, N. J. Asa K. Butts, 1886. A later American printing of this landmark work on contraception, but with an interesting imprint. (See below.). 8vo, original printed wrappers, 47, [1] pages. Frontis portrait of Besant. Besant had revolutionized the publication of contraceptive information in England after her republication of..... More

Boston: J. P. Mendum, at the Office of the ‘Boston Investigator,’, 1875. Stated tenth edition, reissued here with an cancel title page. 8vo, original decorated brown cloth, gilt lettering, 88, [1] pages. Frontis, illus. This edition includes the note from Vale in which (per Atwater) “he discusses conception and its..... More

Wilmington, Del. Ferris Bros., Printers and Bookbinders, 1886. First edition. Original printed blue wrappers, 6.25 x 4.5 inches, [i-iv], [7]-31, [1] pages. “When I was nineteen years of age I walked a thousand miles to overcome a constitutional ailment that was dragging me down to an early grave. I spent..... More

Philadelphia: Published by Collins & Croft; W. Brown, Printer, Prune Street, 1819. First American edition. 12mo, original tree calf, green spine label, gilt ruled spine, gilt lettering, xix, [5], 155 pages. In an attractive binding; the text is of interest in part as a fairly early detailed study of the..... More