Crown Point, Indiana: John Millikan, Printer, 1878. Terms- - Sixty cents per year, in advance. Original printed wrappers [chipped at blank upper corner of front wrapper; rubberstamp at its outer margin]. Library pencil notation on verso of front wrap. Stitched, 20 clean pages. Except as noted, Very Good. The first..... More
New York: J.A. Fraetas, Printer, 1846. 10, [2 blanks] pp. Original printed blue wrappers, stitched. Light wear. Signed in type at the end, "Councillarius." Very Good. OCLC attributes authorship to James Gordon Bennett, editor and publisher of the New York Herald. For New York's upcoming constitutional convention, the author urges..... More
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Philadelphia: T.K. and P. G. Collins, Printers, 1854. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 24 clean pages. Very Good. The "Colored Department" of the House of Refuge had opened its doors in December 1849. The House of Refuge's Board of Managers thanks Governor Bigler for his remarks "delivered at the new building..... More
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New York: William Burnett & Co., 1824. 4to. 4pp. Caption title, as issued. Light to moderate foxing, disbound. Each page printed in four columns. Good plus. "A nondenominational religious weekly. This issue contains an article on the history of the Shakers" [Lomazow]. The Telescope calls them "Shaking Quakers." "The Telescope..... More
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, Printers, 1838. 81, [1 blank], [1] pp. Original printed blue wrappers [inconspicuous rubberstamp on front wrap]. Scattered foxing, Good+. Ownership signature of Thomas B. Ripley. AI 49645. More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923. Original printed wrappers. [20], 546 pp, with half title. From the AMERICANIZATION STUDIES series directed by Allen T. Burns. Bound in original publisher's cloth. Several light wrapper chips, Near Fine. Claghorn [1864-1938] was a pioneering woman sociologist, author, reformer, and economist..... More
[Washington? 1837?]. 17pp, caption title [as issued], disbound with light to moderate wear. Good+. A Democratic Congressman from Chenango County, New York, Clark opposed the Loco-Foco, or radical wing of the Democratic Party. He gives examples of Loco-Focos' "deadly hostility to the credit and banking system;" and asserts, "To that..... More
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Boston: Printed by Rogers and Fowle, for J. Edwards in Cornhill, 1744. 95, [1 blank] pp, but lacking the half title. Light scattered spotting. Good+ in modern cloth. Colman was Senior Pastor of the Brattle Street church, one of the most prolific and best known of 18th century sermonizers and..... More
[Manchester]: Printed by Order of the Society for the Information of the Ley-Payers, [1794]. [4], xxx, 31, [1 blank] pp. Disbound. Title page dusted, inner margin and spine reinforced. Else a clean and Very Good text. On the taxation of citizens for the "support and government of the poor" of..... More
Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1871. "Tracts of Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. No. 2." 24pp. Disbound [first leaf loosened] and lightly toned. Good+. The Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association was formed in 1869. The roster of Vice Presidents included Harriet Beecher Stowe and her husband, Rev. C.E. Stowe. In order to..... More
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[Columbus, Ohio? 1859]. Caption title, as issued. 16pp, untrimmed. Margin-foxing, Good+. The occasion was a celebration of German Democrats, "whose thrifty and pleasant homes are mostly in the Fifth Ward." In this scarce pamphlet Cox lauds the German opposition to tyranny, their love of "Constitutional government and law;" and their..... More
Boston: 1821. Disbound, 31pp, scattered foxing. Good+. A Massachusetts Whig closely allied with John Quincy Adams, Davis urges Congress to exercise its express constitutional power to enact a uniform bankruptcy law. The urgency to do so is magnified by the recent economic Panic. He argues, "A generous policy requires that..... More
Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1821. Disbound. 41, [1blank] pp. Scattered spotting. Good+. Signed at top margin, 'Hon. Rheuben H. Walworth M.C. Washington.' Walworth was a New York Congressman at this time. A Massachusetts Whig closely allied with John Quincy Adams, Davis urges Congress to exercise its express constitutional power to..... More
Albany: 1857. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 24pp. Wrappers lightly worn, text clean and Very Good. President of the New York State Temperance Society, Delavan hopes to enlist the newly-installed Governor King in the Cause. He cites Prohibition's correlation with reduced crime, more employee productivity, drunkards' reformation, and increased national wealth..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Company... 1848. Original printed wrappers [loosened], port. frontis with tissue guard. 86, [2] pp. Very Good. DAB cites this pamphlet as one of the "chief sources" on the life of New York's great jurist and legal reformer. For a sketch of the life of Duer..... More
[np: 1872]. 4pp, caption title [as issued], disbound. Printed in double columns. Disbound, else Very Good. The Republican Party has been the force behind the drive for an eight-hour workday law. President Grant, Vice President Wilson, and the Republicans established an eight-hour day for federal employees, with no reduction in..... More
Lancaster [PA]: Bryson & Forney, 1837. Original plain yellow wrappers [lightly dusted], stitched. 7, [1 blank] pp. Minor dustsoil. Very Good. Franklin College was Franklin & Marshall's predecessor. The Founding Trustees include prominent Pennsylvanians of both English and German descent, including Thomas Mifflin, Henry Muhlenberg, Benjamin Rush. The Lutheran and..... More
Philadelphia: William Fry, 1824. 12mo, contemporary plain wrappers with publisher advertisements on inner wraps. 34, [1] pp. Light uniform tanning. Very Good. The Society was established in 1824. These are its founding documents. Mathew Carey was a vice president and member of several committees. In addition to the material described..... More
Galesburg: Southwick Davis, Printer, 1847. 15, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, lightly foxed, Good+. This is probably the earliest Galesburg imprint; it is Southwick Davis's first, according to OCLC. Terry Tanner, amending Byrd 1088, states: "No press is known to have been active in Galesburg in 1846." [Tanner, Some Corrections and..... More
Peoria: Printed by Benjamin Foster, 1857. Original printed wrappers, stitched. 31, [1] pp. Very Good. McMurtrie [Peoria] 52. More
Peoria: Printed by Benjamin Foster, 1855. Original printed wrappers, stitched. 28 pp. Very Good. McMurtrie [Peoria] 45. More
Peoria: Printed by Benjamin Foster, 1856. Original printed wrappers, stitched. 32 pp. Very Good. McMurtrie [Peoria] 49. More
Philadelphia: Printed for Robert Campbell & Co. by John Bioren, 1797. viii, 387, [1 blank] pp. Scattered spotting, title page laid down. Good+ in modern calf. The utopian Godwin believed that "all rational creatures could live in harmony without laws and institutions...." [PMM 243]. "Through his influence on Thompson and..... More
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Philadelphia: Printed by Bioren and Madan, 1796. 12mo. Two volumes, each with the half title. Volume I: xvi, [1], 22-362 pp. Volume II: viii, 400 pp. Light foxing. Bound in modern cloth, gilt-lettered spine titles and gilt spine bands. Very Good. With contemporary ownership signatures of Jonas Ingham and Alpheus..... More
[Whitesboro, NY]: Press of the Oneida Institute, 1842. 120pp. Disbound, lightly foxed, Good+. At head of title: "CHRISTIAN INVESTIGATOR.- NO. 8. WHITESBORO, N.Y., SEPTEMBER 1842." Another printing, apparently otherwise identical to this one, has 'Whitesboro' in the imprint. Goodell, a legal utopian and founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society, argued..... More