[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 about Book of Song Poems. The Hoosier Rambler, Embracing the Following Subjects: Song Poems on Nature...

[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 about Crematio Mathematicae sub Classum, ‘83 et ‘84 Auspiciis . . . Idibus Junii, Anno...

(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 about Bajan Cookbook [wrapper title

Oxford, Ohio: Published by the Order of the Society, 1840. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 15 pages. The life and career of a promising young man who had graduated from Miami and gone to Harvard Law School; he died in the fire aboard the Lexington. With an early... More about An Eulogy upon the Character of George Swan. Delivered before the Miami Chapter of the Alpha...

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 about Academy of the Christian Brothers, St. Louis, Mo. . . . Prospectus . . . [caption title

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 about Proceedings of the national Ship-Canal Convention, Held at the City of Chicago, June 2 and 3, 1863

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 about The Necessity of a Ship-Canal between the East and West. Report of the Proceedings of the Board...

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 about Official Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention, Held in 1864 at Chicago

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 about Christian Submission. A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of Mrs. Susan Heard Cleaveland, (Wife of...

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 about The Hermitage-Zoar Note-Book and Journal of Travel

[Goff, Kansas?]: Blanton, Traveling Photographer, [1897]. Original photo measuring approx. 3 x 1.75 inches on a slightly larger mount, fine view of Alavin facing the camera. Photographer imprint to the lower edge of the mount. Printed form mounted to the verso completed in autograph ink. Per the form on the... More about Carte de visite (CDV) mugshot of Kansas safe robber John Alavin

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 about Kas Padare Dievus? Pagal M. M. Mangasarian, Sutaise ir Išleido K. Rutkus . . . [wrapper title

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 about Calendar of the University of Michigan for 1889-90