New York: John F. Trow, 1861. First edition; there appears to have also been a 44-page issue or edition. 12mo (scant 6 x 4 inches), original brown cloth over card-stock wrappers, gilt lettering, 36 pages, a.e.g. Lithograph frontis portrait of Mrs. Dodge by Sarony, Major & Knapp. An attractive bit..... More
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1875. OL17. First edition. 8vo, original printed orange wrappers, 23 pages. A reform pamphlet attacking Grant's policies on Reconstruction and calling for a complete reworking of the Constitution to create a unified nation as opposed to a federal system. Penciled notation "Dup" on the front wrapeprs..... More
New York: Stereotyped for and Printed by Order of the Trustees of th Residuary Estate of Lindley Murray, 1847. A later edition of this pacifist work. 8vo, original printed brown wrappers, 124 pages. Tipped-in "Notice to the Reader" before the title. With the intriguiging autograph ink inscription at the foot..... More
Providence: H. H. Brown, Printer, 1844. First edition. "Christianity has sent out many missionaries and teachers to convert men, but a hundred times as many have gone out to destroy men." A pacifist address: Hall points up the inconsistency of professing Christianity yet pursuing war (with examples); he suggests working..... More
Hartford: J. Hubbard Wells, Print, 1834. First edition, this issue with the Annual Report of the Society included (on pages [29]-31); another issue ends on page 27. 8vo, original printed brown wrappers, 31 pages. An address on the aims of the society and its progress (when judged by missionary work..... More
Hartford: J. Hubbard Wells, Print, 1834. First edition, this issue with the Annual Report of the Society included (on pages [29]-31); another issue ends on page 27. 8vo, removed and lacking wrappers, 31 pages. An address on the aims of the society and its progress (when judged by missionary work..... More
Milano: Società Editrice Avanti! 1921. First edition. 8vo, oriignal printed wrappers, 50 pages. Illus. Front wrapper stamped in violet ink, “Printed in Italy” with a stamped price of 25 cents. (Stamped price of 23 cents on the rear wrapper.) With the large, likely slightly later violet ink stamp to the..... More
New York: Samuel S. & William Wood, [1848]. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 16 pages. A Quaker pacifist pamphlet from the era of the war with Mexico. "We are aware that when the public mind is strongly excited, it may require great moral courage, and a deep and abiding..... More
Cambridge: Printed by Hilliard and Metcalf, 1812. First edition. 8vo, removed (lacks wrappers), 20 pages. Osgood was a long-time minister and staunch Federalist; this was one of the most widely-circulated pulpit attacks on the War of 1812. Sabin 57778; American Imprints 26630. More
Boston: American Peace Society, 1843. First edition, an ex-library copy with their early embossed stamp on the title page. 8vo, removed (spine reinforced with paper and title page neatly reattached), 24 pages. On the Christian basis of pacifism. More
Worcester: Published by Henry J. Howland, 1846. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 4.38 x 2.88 inches, 96 pages. Frontis. “He is a most devoted Peace-man, and would not be willing to shed the blood even of a woodchuck without necessity.” A collection of characteristic reform writings from the pacifist autodidact..... More
![No Gold Stars for us -- Our Boys Stay Home! [wrapper title]. Ann Rivington](/pictures/thumb/13418.jpg?v=1465913966)
(New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1940). First edition. 8vo, original self wrappers, 30, [2] pages. Illus. From the era of the Soviet-Nazi non-aggression pact, Communist Party agruments against U.S. entanglement in the European war and minimization of Soviet aggression in the Baltics and Poland. More
Philadelphia: Solomon W. Conrad, Printer, 1804. Fourth American edition, first published in London in 1796; preceded in America by a 1799 Philadelphia edition, an 1800 New-Bedford edition, and an 1801 Sharon, Conn., edition. Small 8vo, removed, 24 pages, untrimmed. A fairly popular tract. With pencil annotations to the title and..... More
![Bobby Wants YOU [wrapper title]. Allen Solganick, contributors John Roemer](/pictures/thumb/15186.jpg?v=1465913976)
(Brooklyn: PLP Publications), [1967]. First edition. 16mo, original pictorial self-wrappers, [32] pages. The text of a Progressive Labor Party forum held in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 1967, under the title, "Kennedyism: The Liberal Offensive against the Anti-War Movement," with the expected attacks on such figures as Bobby Kennedy, Galbraith..... More
Stockholm: Printed by Central-Trycteriet, 1892. First edition thus in English (there were also editions in French and Swedish) of this extract from Bjorklund's Om Utvecklings-anarki (1892), here published by the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society for the Congress of Peace in Bern in August, 1892. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 22..... More
![Stop It . . . March Nov 15 [caption title]. Vietnam Moratorium, New Mobilization Committee to End...](/pictures/thumb/17877.jpg?v=1488308323)
Berkeley: Berkeley Graphic Arts, [1969]. Single leaf, offset printed recto and verso, 11.25 x 8.88 inches, illus. With map of the march routes on the verso. Publicity handbill with a volunteer form, in preparation for the San Francisco segment of the Vietnam Moratorium rally (said to have drawn some 200,000..... More
Denver: [n. p.], (1932?). First edition, nominally ex-library with a small ink stamp on page three but no other marks. 12mo, original printed stiff wrappers, 36 pages. A moderately disjointed pamphlet on the new human consciousness and the role of eugenics, biology, sociology and psychology in shaping national policy to..... More
Providence: Printed by Miller & Hutchins, 1818. Stated third edition; the first appeared in 1816, Sabin also notes a stated third edition published in Philadelphia in 1818. 8vo, contemporary quarter calf, blue boards, 126, [1] pages. The attribution to Whelpley (1766-1817) is first revealed in this edition, on the final..... More
[Colophon:] Helsinki: Information Centre of the World Peace Council, 1977. First edition. 8vo, original printed yellow wrappers, 76, [1], [3] pages, printed on newsprint. Illus. A relic of one of the great fears of this cataloguer's childhood. A detailed argument against the neutron bomb, with testimony from various international figures..... More
