[Remington, Indiana]: James L. Alter, 1905. First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, 206, [2] pages. Frontis portrait, numerous illus. An astonishing collection of verse in celebration of the sights of North America and such new possessions as Puerto Rico and the Philippines, from a Hoosier sweet singer and apparent lecturer... More
Chicago, July 22, 1855. Three pages in autograph ink on a foolscap bifolium, 14 x 12.5 inches, approx. 980 words. “I hoped to stay over night in Ind. there was a mill dam near the hotel so after tea I took my ‘Rod & Reel’ (which by the way is... More
[Ann Arbor]: (Courier Print), [1881]. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, [4] pages. Dramatic title page vignette. “Blow every fish horn loud and clear, / And yank the chapel bell, / Old Mathematicus non est, / He’s dead and gone to ——!” The satirical program for the ritual... More
Chicago: North-Western Pulpit, 1860. First edition. 8vo, original printed yellow wrappers, 13 pages. “The substance of the following Sermon was first preached as an Introductory Sermon, at an Annual Meeting of the Cleveland, or Rocky River Association, in Ohio. . . . The Sermon has since been revised and materially... More
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(Champaign County, Illinois: n. p.), [ca. 1974]. First edition. Original printed pictorial blue wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, [2], 13, [1] pages. With a label mounted to the inside from wrappers, “PREPARED BY: Marilyn Farley, 1974 IFYE Delegate to Barbados from Champaign Co., Illinois.” Likely a service project required of... More
Chicago: Published by S. C. Griggs & Co., 1851. First edition. 8vo, modern half black cloth, marbled boards, gilt lettering, 24 pages. With two pages of “Historical Notes” on the church, as well as a 3-page list of books for sale at the “Literary Emporium of the West,” S. C...... More
Detroit: Stroh’s Brewery Company, 1974. Plastic-coated printed corrugated carton with folding lids, approx. 16.5 x 11 x 9.5 inches. Despite the storied role of Cannabis as the psychoactive drug of choice and agent of historical change for the Cass Corridor scene (cf. John Sinclair’s “Ten years for two joints,” etc.)..... More
![Academy of the Christian Brothers, St. Louis, Mo. . . . Prospectus . . . [caption title]....](/pictures/thumb/16845.jpg?v=1449504006)
St. Louis: VanderHaeghen Lith. [ca. 1855-1859]. First edition. Lithographed broadside, approx. 10.5 x 8 inches, with a variety of accomplished display typefaces. With an approx. 3.38 x 5.75 inch view of the academy at the head of the sheet. An attractice prospectus advertising for students at this Christian Brothers school... More
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Chicago: Democratic Press Print, 45 Clark Street, [ca. 1855-1857]. First edition. Broadside on heavy stock white coated paper, approx. 10-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches. An evidently unrecorded bit of Chicago ante-fire printing, the lyrics to four songs for Masonic brethren of Waubansia Lodge in Chicago. The imprint date seems probable: according... More
Chicago: Tribune Company’s Book and Job Printing Office, 1863. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 248 pages. Howes C372; Sabin 12638. Spine notched, some traces of old glue to spine; evidently neatly removed from a nonce volume or a binding of boards. More
[Washington, D. C.]: Blair & Rives, printers, [1840]. First edition. Removed unbound pamphlet, scant 9 x 5.75 inches, 4 pages. With the accompanying map, a sketch chart of Chicago Harbor, “showing changing shore line of Lake Michigan, 1821, 1838, and 1839” (Claussen & Friis), scant 9 x 11.75 inches, engraved... More
Chicago: Tribune Company’s Book and Job Printing Office, 1863. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 30 pages. The Board of Trade and associated men of Chicago stand against the jealous guardians of the Upper Mississippi trade to call for an easy means of shipping its grain to... More
Chicago: Daily Democrat Steam Press, 1858. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 8.25 x 5.5 inches, 40 pages. With much in the way of tabular data on the demographics of the delinquents (43 American born delinquents in 1858, 47 Irish born), education levels, crimes committed, sanitary condition of the homes from... More
Chicago: The Times Steam Book and Job Printing House, 1864. First edition. Self-wrappers, stitched as issued, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 64 pages. With much in the way of floor speeches against the despotic Lincoln and the inept handling of the war. Howes C-370; Ante-Fire Imprints 807. More
Chicago: Printed at the Daily Times Book and Job Office, 1857. First Chicago edition. Original self-wrappers, 10.25 x 6 inches, 15 pages, untrimmed. Unopened. Per Byrd, "This speech was the first public expression of his views on the Dred Scott decision. In it he accepted the decision and insisted that... More
Cincinnati: Printed by Shepard & Co., 1844. First edition. 8vo, stiched (lacks rear wrapper; front wrapper detached but present), 32 pages. Includes an appendix detailing the death of the Cleaveland's daughter Caroline at age 10 in Ann Arbor. Rev. Cleaveland had been president of the failed Marshall College in Marshall... More
[N. p., but Bellevue, O. 1892]. Image measures approx. 7.75 x 9.75 inches, on a somewhat larger plain mount. Bands, banners, flags, and orphans: everything one needs for a fine 19th century patriotic celebration. A large, detailed view of a parade in this northern Ohio town. The evidence for the... More
New York: (William C. Whitney), 1902. First edition. 8vo, publisher’s blue morocco, gilt turn-downs, gilt lettering, 261, [1], [1] pages. Frontis portrait. This copy is numbered 300 of an unspecified number of copies (evidently 500) printed at the De Vinne Press. A personal account from a friendly outsider of the... More
![Vision of the Cellar [wrapper title; caption title:] Vision of the Cellar . . . a Vision of James...](/pictures/thumb/18803.jpg?v=1545948499)
Benton Harbor, Mich. Published by the Israelite House of David as Re-organized by Mary Purnell, [after 1970]. First City of David edition. Original printed green wrappers, 5.88 x 4.25 inches, 11, [1] pages. A separately-published sermon from Jezreel, the Sixth Messenger—generally taken as the source for Benjamin Purnell’s authority as... More
Cincinnati: [n. p.], 1867. First edition. Original printed blue-green wrappers, 8.25 x 5.5 inches, 128 pages. Accounts of some of Cincinnati’s most memorable executions and murders, including such episodes as “The Summons Massacre; Arrison and the Infernal Machine; Mrs. Howard, who Avenged her own Wrongs; Nancy Farrer, the Child Poisoner,”... More
[N. p., but Danville? n. p., ca. 1906]. First edition. Oblong folio, approx. 12-1/4 x 9 inches, original printed green wrappers, [40] pages. Numerous halftone views from photos, maps. With views of all the hallmarks of early 20th century industrial greatness, with plenty of views of mines and open pits... More
![Kas Padare Dievus? Pagal M. M. Mangasarian, Sutaise ir Išleido K. Rutkus . . . [wrapper title]....](/pictures/thumb/17375.jpg?v=1551561520)
Detroit, Mich. Rutkus Printing, 338 W. End Ave. 1917. First edition in Lithuanian. Original pictorial yellow wrappers, approx. 7.75 x 4.75 inches, 31, [1] pages. Illus. Free thought from American atheist M. M. Mangasarian, who founded the rationalist Independent Religious Society in Chicago; evidently first published as Who Made the... More
[Detroit? n. p., ca. 1876-1880]. First edition. 16mo, original printed pictorial yellow wrappers, [8], 16, [6] pages. A fine, attractive little promotional booklet for Detroit businesses, with instructions for the care of the canary bird. The first four leaves and final three leaves all have typographically attractice ads for such... More
Ann Arbor, Mich. Pulished for the University, 1890. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 248 pages. Ink signature at the head of the front wrapper, "Bertha E. Pritchard." (Per the Bentley Library, Pritchard matriculated in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and graduated with an A.B. in 1891.)... More
Chicago, May 23, 1868 and Mary 25, 1868. 2 leaves, each approx. 9.75 x 8 inches, with the J. D. Easter name and Chicago address printed at the head, alongside a vignette cut of a Marsh Harvester. Everyone wants a piece of the hot new technology: "In regard to more... More
