Chicago: Published by Sam Stone. [Printed by Robt. O. Law Co. Chicago], 1904. A miniature campaign book in lemon wrappers, advocating Theodore Roosevelt's election to the Presidency in 1904. 1-7/8" x 2-1/4." Original printed and illustrated wrappers [some wear, affecting a few letters on the spine]. Front wrapper with a...... More
Philadelphia: E.C. & J. Biddle, 508 Minor Street, 1858. Original printed wrappers, stitched. 20pp plus color folding frontis entitled "Geological Cross Section in Western Warrants. McKean Cy. Pa." Light dusting. Circular rubberstamp on front wrapper: "Blood's Penny Post. Mar. 18 Philada." Verso of front wrapper has the bookseller stamp of..... More
Boston: 1799. 23, [1 blank] pp, with the half title. Half title and title leaf foxed at upper portion. Disbound. Good+. Evans 35816. More
London: Printed for the Editor; J. Ridgway, York-Street: H.D. Symonds, Paternoster Row: and D. Holt, Newark, [1795]. Four volumes, with seventeen engraved, uncolored plates [including frontis engraving in each volume], and four folding letterpress tables. Collation: pages [2- frontis: Falls of St. Anthony], viii, [26- 13 engravings plus their blank..... More
London: Printed for the Author; and sold by Charles Dilly, in the Poultry. . . 1788. Four volumes: [26], 504; [8], 584; [8], 499, [1 blank]; [8], 445, [1, blank], [34- Index], [2 blanks] pp. Complete with nine folding maps: The United States of America; Boston, and its Environs; New..... More
Boston: Printed and Sold by Samuel Hall, 1793. 12mo. 24pp., stitched. A few stab holes in inner blank margin. Institutional rubberstamp at head of title page [partly enters title]. Light wear, light toning. Good+. Evans 25203. NAIP w012503. More
New York: For Sale at J. Katzenelenbogen, 35 Ludlow Street, New York, [c. 1891]. Oblong Broadside, 9" x 14." The English alphabet is printed, with each English letter in type and typescript, upper and lower case. Edge-chipped, old vertical center fold with splits not affecting text, Each English letter in..... More
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Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., [1882]. [2], 19-110, [2] pp. Original printed and illustrated front wrapper [rear wrapper lacking]. Full-page illustrations. Occasional light foxing. Good+. The man in question, John F. Hogan, was the victim of "husband-hunters." Such women "are as genuine and real pests of society as professional prostitutes, gamblers..... More
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Philadelphia: Barclay & Company, 1878. Original printed and illustrated front wrapper [lightly spotted and worn; rear wrapper absent]. Stitched. [2], 19-91, [3- publ. advts] pp. Stitched. Illustrations. Good+. A typically lurid Barclay production. "Hunter had lost $7,000 when he invested in Armstrong's music-publishing company. Thinking to turn his loss into..... More
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Baltimore: Printed for the Purchaser, 1815. 8pp. Illustrated title page. Expert restoration of an old horizontal fold split. Text remains visible. Good+. This Baltimore edition of an oft-printed story of thwarted love, under several variant titles, is not on OCLC or American Imprints, or at AAS [which owns a Troy..... More
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Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1780. 134pp. "By Joseph Huntington D.D." written in neat ink beneath the title. Ezra Stiles's copy, with inscription at head of title: "To Revd E. Stiles. Nov. 23 1780." Several learned marginal notes by Stiles, with some text underlined. Stitched and untrimmed. Lacking the final blank..... More
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New York: Published by W. Borradaile. . . 130 Fulton-Street, 1823. [2], 36pp, as issued. Disbound and lightly foxed. Frontis hand-colored sketch, "Etched by Prudhomme," with elegantly typescript caption: The Twin Sisters determining on their Journey to London. Good+. The twin sisters' adventures end at page 31. Page 32 begins..... More
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Boston: Printed and Sold by Kneeland and Adams, next to the Treasurer's Office in Milk-Street, 1771. 24pp, but lacking the half title. Death's Head ornamentation on title page. Disbound and uniformly toned. Closed tear to title leaf [no loss] repaired; evidence of repair at outer margin]. Inner margin of title..... More
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Middleborough, (County of Plymouth): Printed and Sold by N. Coverly, 1788. 38, [1- publ. advt], [1 blank] pp. Stitched. Lightly foxed and toned. Very Good. Contemporary ownership signatures of Stephen W. Clark and [more elaborately and frequently] Philip Curtis. Beadle, of Wethersfield, "killed his wife and four children, and then..... More
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Philadelphia: Seddon, Spotswood, Cist, and Trenchard. 1787. Pages 615-674 pp, as issued. The U.S. Constitution is printed at pages 659-665, in Very Good condition. Frontis folding meteorological table; folding plate of the Virginia Natural Bridge; full-page plate after page 654. Disbound, a few fox spots, else Very Good. This exceptionally..... More
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[Charlestown MA]: Printed, for the Proprietors, 1800. iv, [3], 34, [4 blanks] pp. Stitched in original marbled wrappers. Spotted. Stitching loosened. Upper corners turned. Signed in ink by Thomas Stutson, the Secretary. "With the names of the committee of twenty-one who drew up the rules, p. [v], and a blank..... More
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Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., [1881?]. [2], [19]-44, [4] pp [as issued]. Stitched in original printed and illustrated purple wrappers [light edge and spine wear]. Three full-page woodcut plates, including the murder and the lynching, and a small cut of Snyder in death. Very Good. An attractive and typically lurid Barclay..... More
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New York: M.J. Ivers & Co., [1881]. 64pp, stitched. Illustrated pink wrappers. Wrap worn at edges and spine. Illustrations. Clean text. Very Good. The wrapper calls this the "2d edition. Complete." McDade says, "This is a New Haven, Connecticut, case in which Jennie Cramer was found dead, face down in..... More
np: nd. Card stock, oblong 5-1/4" x 2-7/8." Fine. "During the American Civil War he upheld the cause of the North and opposed slavery, and his sermon on the death of Abraham Lincoln was an eloquent expression of the character of both men. His sermon at Harvard's commemoration of the..... More
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Newport: Reprinted, and sold by S. Southwick, 1772. viii, 208 + 6-pages of subscriber's names (of 8, lacking the final subscriber leaf). Flaw at page 119 affects several words. Lightly toned, contemporary paneled sheep [somewhat shaken, with a few early leaves loosened. Good+. Third American edition, and the first to..... More
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Putney, VT: Published at the Office of the Spiritual Magazine, 1847. 504pp. Original publisher's cloth, rebacked. A complete text with spotting on many leaves. Good. "Noyes, who founded the Oneida Community, the most successful of the nineteenth century American Utopian farms, here sets forth his ideas of Perfectionism, a personal..... More
[Washington: Buell & Blanchard, 1856]. 8pp, caption title [as issued]. Disbound with some loosening, but a clean copy. Signed at the end in type by Thomas Webb. Housed in a modern dark slipcase with gilt-lettered spine title. Good+. The New England Emigrant Aid Society was formed in 1854 to promote..... More
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[Roswell]: Printed for Private Circulation, 1908. 113pp. Original stiff printed tan paper wrappers. Punch holes in blank inner margin. Inner margin of front wrapper partially split. Discreet rubberstamp at blank corner of inner rear wrapper. Very Good. "Defense of his gubernatorial conduct, with a discussion of mining and timber-land frauds"..... More
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Amesbury MA: 1890. Card stock, oblong 5-3/8" x 2-7/8." "I am truly thy friend, John G. Whittier, Amesbury, 2nd Mo m15, 1890". Very Good. More
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San Jose [CA]: Printed at the Reporter Office, San Jose, Corner First and Santa Clara Streets, [1860]. Octavo leaf, folded to [4] pp, each page 5" x 7-3/8." Printed in several different typefaces on rectos only. At head of title is the motto: "Animus Incorruptus, aeturnus, rector humani generis est."..... More