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
Willimantic: Enterprise Print, [1876]. An early 5” x 8 ½” handbill printed on newsprint announcing a two-day meeting of the anti-Masonic Connecticut Christian Association Opposed to Secret Societies, a chapter of the National Christian Association (NCA). According to the handbill, the first day involved a “half hour devoted to Prayer... More
Philadelphia: Thomas Kite, 1829. Third American edition. 12mo. (18 cm); iv, [1], 6-102 pp. Brown ribbed cloth with rubbed and worn leather spine label. Cloth is worn at parts, some loss to tail; insect grazing to rear gutter; pages browned. Bookseller's ticket of Philadelphia book seller and publisher, H. Longstreth... More
Philadelphia: The Mary Gaston Barnwell Foundation, 1959. Fourteenth edition. Octavo (22 cm); 363 pp.; photographs. Red cloth stamped in gilt. A near fine copy with the tiniest hint of rubbing. Clean and unmarked throughout. More
Philadelphia: Published by the Grand Lodge, 1935. First edition. Octavo (9" x 6"); 435-884; two photographic plates. Original wrappers stamped in black. Some general scuffing, soiling, with a thin ribbon of dampstaining to the bottom page edges. Only VG. Includes all of the minutiae about the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania... More
Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., State Printer, 1906. First edition. Octavo (22.5 cm); 297 pp; frontis, illus. Navy blue cloth with blind-stamped ruling and gilt titling to front board. Pages all clean and unmarked. Includes black & white photographic portraits. Only two copies found in OCLC; none in the trade. More
[Cincinnati]: Ohio Liberal Society, [1900]. A small card printed on card stock (ca. 3 ½” x 5 ½”) announcing four public lectures held at College Hall, 416 Walnut St., Cincinnati, OH, in January, 1901. These included D. F. Kennedy on “Trade Unions and Industrial Combinations: their present and future,” Noah... 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
Philadelphia: The Red and Blue, 1903. First edition. Octavo. Original, illustrated wrappers; iv, [2], 36, [1], v-ix pp.; plates. Scarce issue of this undergraduate, Univ. of Penn. student publication, which began in 1889. Poetry, essays and editorials by George Wharton Pepper, Conrad Orton Milliken, William Alexander Lamberton, Edwin Bateman Morris... More
Philadelphia: The Red and Blue, 1902. First edition. Octavo. Original, illustrated wrappers; iv, [2], 26, [2], v-ix pp.; plates. Scarce issue of this undergraduate, Univ. of Penn. student publication, which began in 1889. Poetry, essays and editorials by Conrad Orton Milliken, Robert Carson, William Otto Miller, Thomas Potter McCutcheon, Jr.... More
Boston: Key Publishing Co., [1931]. A 10 ½” x 14” promotional poster for the 1931 edition of a 200-page illustrated book presumably titled, "Sex and Love Relations for the Young Adult." But we could find no book published by that name. The poster begs the questions: "Is spooning dangerous?" "Does... More
New York: AMS Press, 1972. Reprint. Reprint of the 1908 ed., which was issued as v. 1, ch. 13 of the 1906 Annual report of the American Historical Association. Octavo (23.5 cm); 235-450 pp. Green cloth with gilt to spine. Other than some very light dust-soiling to the cloth, book... More
[Philadelphia]: Triangle Publications, Inc., 1957. First edition. Quarto-size. Blue cloth stamped in gilt; 108 pp. A survey conducted by Alderson & Sessions for The Philadelphia Inquirer in December 1956. This survey "was designed to offer to advertisers, and to business firms generally, a current record of various social and economic... More
[Elmira, N. Y.]: The Summary Press, 1927. Octavo (23.5 cm); 92 pp of text; 80 pp. of plates; large fold-out plate of New York State Reformatory Inmate Military Organization measuring approximately 48 x 18.5". Red, gilt-stamped cloth; corners bumped and a trifle worn. Previous owner's name stamped to bottom edge... More
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1940. First edition. Octavo. 3/4 illustrated paper over purple cloth boards; gilt spine; red top-stain; 377, xix, [1] pp.; photographic frontispiece + 25 other, mostly, photographic plates; dust jacket. A Near Fine copy with some darkening to gutters from binding glue; bookstore ticket to bottom... More
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1875. First edition. 12mo. (19 cm); xii, 339, 47 pp; extensively illustrated with three hundred diagrams and woodcuts. Brick red cloth stamped in gilt and black to front board and spine. Cloth is rubbed and starting at joint ends; corners bumped and fraying; bookplate of... 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
Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott, 1901. First edition. Octavo (24 cm). Blue buckram with gilt spine; 233 pp.; photographic frontispiece of Rev. Brown; photographs, illustrations, map. The book is organized in two sections: the first containing autobiographical information on Rev. Brown and historical matter on the Presbytery and the second... More
n.p. [1903]. First edition. Octavo. Side-stapled light grey wrappers stamped in black; 205-252 pp.; illustrated. Nearly two dozen black & white photographs and half a dozen illustrations augment the text. Most early issues of this publication are not illustrated. A Very Good copy with the caveat that the spine paper... More
Philadelphia: Friends' Book Store, 1882. Later edition. Octavo. Black-ruled and decorated brown cloth over beveled boards with gilt spine; vi, 467 pp. Paper over hinges cracked, but a still tightly bound copy. Very Good. An 1882 inscription from a mother Biddle to daughter, else clean throughout. Originally published in 1847... More
Philadelphia: For Sale at Friends' Book Store, 1882. Octavo. Green cloth ruled in black; gilt spine. A Very Good+, strivingly Near Fine copy with some negligible dust-soiling and paper over front hinge starting. This copy with a gift inscription to Samuel Biddle, of Bailey, Banks and Biddle Jewelry Store, from... More
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1935. Second printing. Octavo (22 cm). Green cloth printed in burgundy; dark top-stain; xiii, 186 pp.; black & white photographs; dust jacket. "A psychograph of the South - a paradox of unrest in a land of contentment." Cason, a Southerner, provides a.... More
Catskill, N. Y. Republished from The Catskill Examiner by the Greene County Historical Society, 1932. First edition thus. Octavo. Original printed wrappers; 136 pp.; one illustration, two photographs. A Very Good copy excepting a faint, thin ribbon of dampstaining along the upper fore-edge, which does not affect any text; vertical... More
Milan, Illinois: Truth and Light Publishing House, 1913. First edition. Octavo (22 cm). Original yellow wrappers; 87, [1] pp., [4] pp., adverts; illus. A scarce social reform title by the Klan sympathizer and virulent anti-Catholic lecturer, writer and publisher, William Lloyd Clark, who presents a sensationalized report of contemporary urban... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1920]. 12mo. (18 cm). Red, illustrated cloth; xi, [3], 3-155, [1] pp.; frontispiece of Buffalo Bill. With D-U to copyright page (April, 1920). Part of the Harper's Young People Series, this biography of Buffalo Bill is divided into two sections: The Adventures... More
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