Providence: Printed by Bennett Wheeler, 1800. 14, [2 blanks] pp. Disbound, title leaf and final blank with some spotting, Good+. The Federal Adelphi was the first organization made up of graduates of Rhode Island College, later Brown University. The Society "had its origin in the refusal by the Harvard branch..... More

New York: Sinclair Tousey, 1863. Original printed glossy blue wrappers with wrapper title [as issued]. Disbound, rubberstamps, else a clean text and Very Good. 28pp. This poem is dedicated to all "who believe that all mankind are created with equal rights; that God is the common father, and holds men..... More

[New York]: 1848. Oblong folio, with original printed wrappers [chipped, loosened]. 11, [1 blank], pp, plus six full-page line drawings plates on rectos. Scattered foxing, loosened. Each text page printed in two columns. Good+. More

London: Printed and Sold by J. Wilford... 1731. 12mo. [12], 46, [2 publ. advt.] pp. Widely scattered foxing, front free endpaper remargined, else Very Good, in modern cloth. Preceded by a couple of London printings in the early 1700s, this is a satire on the "Sort of People, who call..... More

Hartford: 1785. [8], 304, [1- errata], [1 blank] pp. Contemporary unlettered sheep [light wear]. With the errata leaf, which is "not present in all examined copies" [BAL]. The signature 'L' is present. Four leaves transposed during the original binding. Else Very Good. Dwight called this the first epic poem "to..... More

1850. [n.p., 1850?]. [2 blank], [205]-216pp [as issued]. Original plain wrappers [light wear, ink inscription on front wrap], stitched. Light scattered foxing. Very Good. Grimke tries to explain why American literature has not yet measured up to the literature of European countries. He attributes this lag "chiefly to the extraordinary..... More

Monmouth, Ills. Review Office Print. 1867. 12pp. Stitched in original printed title wrappers. Lightly worn, Very Good. The Society's purpose is "to improve those qualities with which God in his infinite wisdom has endowed us." Membership was open to students of Monmouth College-- unless an applicant received "four negative votes."..... More

Winchester, Va. Brooks & Conrad. 1835. Original cloth-backed boards [spotted and rubbed]. 132pp. Lightly foxed title and endpapers. Good+. First edition of an epistolary novel set mostly in Switzerland but also in Virginia. Letters are from Switzerland, Richmond, London, New York, and Paris, although the narrative is more philosophical than..... More

New Haven: Hamlen, 1841. 48pp, Disbound, light scattered foxing. Very Good. Donald Grant Mitchell is Ik Marvel, who graduated from Yale in 1841 and was an editor of the Yale Literary Magazine. This piece, his first published work [other than whatever of his may have appeared in the Literary Magazine]..... More