Essex Junction, VT: Roscoe Printing House, [1922]. First edition. Octavo (23 cm). Saddle-stapled yellow wrappers printed in black; 24 pp. This commemorative booklet includes a poem by Nora B. Pitts; "Early Residents and Office Holders of the Town of Colchester" by B. F. Gale and J. Murray Wright; "Farming in... More
n.p., [ca. 1896]. One sheet folded to make four 10.25" x 7.25" pages. Promotional material and programme for two performances of a tableaux in 17 parts arranged by the charlatan, Margaret L. Shepherd. Musical selections from "The Mass," "The Litany of the Virgin Mary," "The Benediction," "Rosary," etc. were performed... More
Boston: J. H. Eastburn, City Printer, 1852. First edition. Quarto (24.5 cm). Publisher's blind and gilt-stamped cloth; 288 pp.; large folding map in rear. An ex-library copy with stamp to front pastedown, pocket and security tag to ffep, and stamp to bottom of page 288 (no external markings). Corner of... More
![[The Story of Gettysburg in Pictures (cover title)] - Historic Views of America's Greatest Battlefield Gettysburg](/pictures/thumb/05769.jpg?v=1536970033)
Gettysburg, Pa.: Blocher's. Oblong 8vo (8.5" x 10.75"); stapled, lithographed wrappers, [48] pp, illus. Mostly black & white photographs with some illustrations of monuments, markers and locations that played a prominent role in the Battle of Gettysburg. Some foxing to wrappers with owner's label to top corner of front wrapper... More
Sacramento: Jos. M. Anderson, Printer, 1906. First edition. 12mo; stapled, yellow wrappers printed in black and red, 17 pp. An early and scarce publication from the congregationalist pastor, scholar and theologian, Rev. Henry Kendall Booth (1876-1942), who recounts the Biblical story of the apostle Paul and the slave Onesimus. Booth... More
[Needham, Massachusetts]: Rosemary Press, 1921. First edition. Blue, threadbound gilt wrappers; 26 letterpressed pages on handmade paper; photographic frontispiece. Two addresses delivered before the Attleboro Community Fellowship, September 12, 1921. For the use of the members of The Chile Club. Charles Dana Burrage was a Boston lawyer, naturalist, Orientalist and... More
Deerfield Beach, FL: Betty Bugbee Cusack. Limited ed. Paperback. 4to.; glossy, photo-illustrated wrappers, 112 pp., facsimile documents. One of 500 copies. A collection of documents and correspondence related to the debt owed by the federal government to Massachusetts for services rendered during the Civil War. Assembled by Massachusetts businessman, William... More
Chicago: Privately Printed for the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, 1943. Limited ed. Thin octavo; burgundy, gilt-stamped cloth; 55 pp.; frontispiece, plates. Limited to 500 copies and signed by the author to the colophon. Author’s presentation inscription on ffep to Fred[rich] Olsen, “fellow chemist and fellow lover of history.” A compilation... More
Washington, D. C.: Historical Division, Office of Administrative Services, Office of the Chief of Engineers, 1985. First edition. Paperback. 8vo.; perfect-bound wrappers, xvii, 124 pp., illus, photographs. From the Foreword: “Thomas Owen’s letters and diary reveal the life and duties of a volunteer Engineer who served as a sergeant and... More
St. Louis: H. E. Gross, [n.d.]. Original printed brown wrappers housing 34.75" x 27.25" map, with index to streets, schools and bus lines. Map Near Fine. Wrappers have some edgewear and chipping with triangular piece from front bottom cover missing. Scarce. We find one copy at Syrcause Univ. of this... More
Albany, N. Y.: Press of Brandow Printing Co., 1899. First edition. 8vo; green, gilt-stamped cloth, top edge gilt, others deckle, 266 pp, plates. The biography of the wealthy Albany entreprenuer who, along with his brother George, started Cleveland's Superior Baking Powder Company, which was later sold to Royal Baking Powder... More
Lexington, Mass.: Jefferson Union Company, [ca. 1915]. First edition. Stapled, embossed wrappers; 32 pp.; photographs, illustrations, diagrams. Product catalog from Jefferson Union Company located in Lexington, Mass. Jefferson manufactured unions, flanges and pipe fitting specialties. Laid in is an illustrated price list for “Strong Non-Return Stop Valves.” A beautifully designed... More
Elkhorn, WV: Elkhorn Press, 1995. Reprint. Orange, stapled wrappers; 47 pp. one photograph. A facsimile reprint of the 1916 edition. The author chronicles several violent, late 19th/early 20th century feuds in Kentucky including, The Tolliver-Martin or Logan Feud, the Hargis-Cockrell Feud, & the Thompson-Daviess Tragedy. A Fine copy. More
[Chicago: August Geringer], [ca. 1914]. Small stapled wrappers (4¾” x 6½”), 48 pp. A scarce account of the death of Victor Lamar, a teenage boy who drowned in dubious circumstances in 1908 at the Bimini Baths in Los Angeles. The Lamar family alleged that he was molested and murdered by... More
![The Community Church of Boston [1963 program] [Sacco & Vanzetti interest]. Rev. Donald G. LOTHROP, Minister.](/pictures/thumb/05302.jpg?v=1524422675)
[Boston: The Community Church of Boston], 1963. One sheet folded to make 4 pp. A program for the social justice Community Church of Boston, which at the time was presided over by the Rev. Donald G. Lothrop. The address for Sun., Nov. 3, was from white civil rights activist and... More
Boston: J. K. Wiggin & Wm. Parsons Lunt, 1866. First edition thus. From an edition of 250 small quarto (22 cm) copies hand-numbered and initialed by the publishers Wiggin & Lunt (this being copy '79'). There were also 35 royal quarto copies issued. Boards are 1/2 leather and 1/2 marbled... More
n.p.: Mercer County Regional Planning Commission, 1977. Reprint. Oblong 8vo; comb-bound, illustrated wrappers, 47 pp printed recto only, 8 maps, photographs of every site discussed. An inventory of historical sites in Mercer Co., PA, with accompanying maps showing the development of municipalities in the County. Most structures date from the... More
Fourth edition. Square octavo (24.5 x 20 cm). String-bound onion skin dust wrapper over red-printed wrappers; 65 pp.; two leaves of chromolithographs; photographic plates. A somewhat confounding title from the food faddist and inventor of shreeded wheat, Henry D. Perky. Includes 254 recipes with most including shredded wheat in some... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. First edition. Octavo (22.5 cm). Green cloth stamped pictorially in gilt; top edge gilt; xiv, 463 pp.; 48 pages of photographic plates and a folding map in rear. A travelogue of the American West replete with photographs of landscapes and indigenous people encountered along... More
![The Hawaiian Revolution (1893-94) [with] The Hawaiian Republic (1894-98) and Its Struggle to Win Annexation [2 vols.] [INSCRIBED]. William Adam RUSS Jr.](/pictures/thumb/03164.jpg?v=1509131662)
Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania: Susquehanna University Press, 1959. First edition. Two octavo volumes uniformly bound in gilt-stamped blue cloth; v, 372 pp.; viii, 398 pp. Each volume with the author's inscription to the title page. An important scholarly undertaking relating, in depth, how the United States acquired the Hawaiian Islands. Cloth is... More
![Four Days in October [SIGNED]. John W. SCHILDT.](/pictures/thumb/05199.jpg?v=1520132217)
[Chewsville, Maryland]: Published by the author?, [1978]. First edition. Paperback. 8vo.; perfect-bound, photo-illustrated wrappers, v, [1], 71 pp., photographs, maps. SIGNED by the author on title page. An account of Abraham Lincoln’s visit to Antietam, “telling why he came, how he arrived, and what he did during those eventful days... More
Southern University Press, 1969. Second printing. Paperback. 8vo.; perfect-bound wrappers, iv, [2], 51 pp., maps, photographs, illustrations. Charles O’Connell’s journal is the “story of his wartime service on the famed Confederate ram ‘Tennessee’ and his imprisonment after her capture at the Battle of Mobile Bay.” Private Charles Brother’s journal concerns... More
n.p., [1955]. First edition. Paperback. 8vo.; stapled, brown wrappers printed in black; 94 pp., author’s presentation sheet laid in. The biography of “an average man” whose recollections idealize the “Golden Age” of San Francisco, from his birth in 1876 until 1909. He recounts his youth, life at the University of... More
New York: Samuel T. Callahan, Printer. Printed wrappers; 16 pp. Although in its original wrappers, this copy appears to have one time been bound and then disbound, perhaps by a library, as erasure and sticker residue to front wrapper indicate. Congressman Stanton (1814-1894) provides “a very imperfect sketch of the... More
[Charlottesville, VA]: Albemarle County Historical Society, 1964. Paperback. Thick 8vo.; perfect-bound wrappers, 210, [3] pp., illus. One of 1,000 copies printed. A special Civil War issue of the Albemarle County Historical Society’s magazine. As stated by the eds. in the preface: “The purpose of this publication is to set forth... More