Boston, April 3, 1830. 2 pages on 1 leaf, 10.13 x 8 inches, approx. 530 words. A fair copy of one of the American editor’s three great American legacies—Hale was not only the author of “Mary’s Lamb,” and the motive force behind the Thanksgiving holiday (as well as the longtime..... More
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[Boston? n. p., 1840?]. First edition. Unbound bifolium, 9.75 x 7.75 inches, [2] pages. “Believing slavery to be a direct violation of the laws of God, and productive of a vast amount of misery and crime; and convinced that its abolition can only be effected by an acknowledgment of the..... More
Harrisburg [Penna.]: Printed by Francis Wyeth, 1828. Stated third edition. Original calf spine, marbled boards, 6.75 x 4.25 inches, 280 [i.e. 279] pages. With the half-title reading, “Printed for the Subscribers. Third Improved Edition.” The Irish-born slaver-turned-abolitionist here gathers a series of miscellaneous essays and verses on the status of..... More
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(Hollywood: Wonder Books Co.), [ca. 1962?]. First edition? Original pictorial wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, [48] pages. Illus. A canned biography of the ex-vaudeville conjoined twins, this account itself fastened inextricably as published to a detailed novelization of the 1951 exploitation film Chained For Life—a potboiler starring the twins that..... 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
New York: J. S. Redfield, Publisher, 1870. First edition. 8vo, original terra-cotta cloth, gilt lettering, 240 pages. “The means used for preventing conception, more particularly affecting women, together with the more bodily injurious, more nervously exhausting and more sinfully demoralizing procedures, for the purpose of destroying and making away with..... More
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[Lexington? n. p., 1867]. First edition. Printed one-page circular on a two leaf folio, autograph address cover to a New Hampshire correspondent with four hand-canceled 3-cent Washington stamps. Large vignette illustration of the Lexington House, the primary school building. An uncommon promotional circular for the upcoming 1867 fall term for..... More
New York: J. S. Redfield, Publisher, 1870. State fifth edition. 8vo, original terra-cotta printed wrappers, 240. [12] pages. “The means used for preventing conception, more particularly affecting women, together with the more bodily injurious, more nervously exhausting and more sinfully demoralizing procedures, for the purpose of destroying and making away..... More
New York: [n. p], 1850. A new printing from the plates of the 1847 first edition. 12mo, original discreet blind-stamped unlettered black cloth, xiii, [1], 238 pages. “In France, and on the Continent of Europe generally, a covering (used by the male), called a *baudruche* (known as the French Secret)..... More
Providence: Printed by B. Wheeler, 1802. First edition. Original marbled wrappers, 6.88 x 4.5 inches, 13, [1], [1], [1] pages, stitched. “In this assembly, I behold hearts throbbing with sensibility, and countenances brightening with benevolence.” The president of Union College here outlines (in fairly lush language for the pulpit) the..... More
[Philadelphia: n. p.], Sep. 1808. First edition. Removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 8.88 x 5.5 inches, 28 pages. An early instance of opposition research in politics, an attack on the important early Pennsylvania Federalist (and Western Pennsylvania land speculator) James Ross (1762-1847); the publication of this former Pittsburgh resident’s allegations that..... More
[Ann Arbor: n. p., 1872]. First edition. Unbound bifolium, 9.5 x 6 inches, [4] pages. The ephemeral program for commencement, notable for the candidate named for a Bachelor of Arts degree, Madalon [sic, for Madelon] L. Stockwell, the first woman to receive an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan..... More
Chicago: April 18 to April 26, [1936]. Original photo portrait of Mrs. Lawton mounted to printed card stock, the ticket measuring approx. 2.5 x 4.25 inches. Per contemporary newspaper reports, sponsored by 70+ women’s clubs and organizations, with exhibitions, Good Government lectures, talks on women’s issues, etc. More
Lowell: Leonard Huntress, Printer, 1841. First edition. Unbound stitched pamphlet, 9 x 5.63 inches, 24 pages. The former mayor of Lowell answers attacks on the labor and social conditions of the factory girls in the mills in Lowell, with much on the systems and laws in place to insure education..... More
