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
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[New York: The Democracy of Thomas Jefferson of the City of New York], [1896]. First edition. A scarce surviving broadside (9 ½” x 15”) printing the proposed platform, constitution and resolution of the Democracy of Thomas Jefferson (officially, The Democracy of Thomas Jefferson of the City of New York), a...... 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
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, 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
[McKeesport, PA], [193-?]. A 7 ½” x 9 ¾” broadside printed on newsprint. A 2" closed tear and two tiny slivers missing along the fore-edge, VG. Broadside announcing a union meeting held in McKeesport, PA, featuring Charles B. Davis, President McKeesport Central Labor Union, Ed Miller, Vice President of the The A...... 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
[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
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
[Boston?], 1920. First edition. A sardonically penned anti-Loyal Coalition pamphlet written by the Boston attorney, Francis A. Campbell, who was a prominent member of Boston’s Irish-American community serving as Clan na Gael leader, a member of the Irish-American Historical Society and as editor of “The Hibernian.” The Loyal Coalition was..... 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
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900. Original side-stapled wrappers; 81 pp. A series of statements by religious figures and (mostly female) temperance advocates in favor of banning the sale of alcohol at Army canteens. Some dissenting statements by military figures who argue that its easier to control the quantity their men..... More
[Lancaster, Pa.]: Lancaster Press, Inc., [1950]. First edition. Saddle-stapled red wrappers printed in black; 48 pp.; illustrations and photographs. A history of the Franklin Institute up to 1949 from its director of Museum Research. A scarce account. We find no other copies offered for sale in the trade; 10 institutions..... More
New Bedford: Capt. Thomas Crapo, Publisher, 1893 [actually, ca. 1899]. Octavo. Brown, blind-stamped cloth with gilt spine; 151 pp.; plates. Although the title page states '1893' this is the reissue of Crapo's memoir published by his indigent wife after he perished at sea in 1899. The book provides biographical information..... More
n.p. n.p., [1892]. First edition. Thin twelvemo. Publisher's gilt-stamped brown cloth; red-stained page edges; 51 pp.; 1 leaf, two plates. Cummings surveys the various churches and sabbath schools associated with their mother church, the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. A Very Good copy with some slight rubbing and dust-soiling to..... More
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1911. First edition. Octavo (20 cm); 154 pp.; color frontispiece illus. Buckram cloth boards printed in brown with overlaid illustration to front board; decorative endpapers. Cloth is slightly rubbed and dirty, but overall Very Good. Many illustrations. Scarce first edition. More
Deerfield Beach, FL: Betty Bugbee Cusack. Limited ed. 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 C...... More
[Rahway, N. J.]: [1941]. First edition. Tall octavo (23.5 cm); 80 pp.; black and white photographs; dust jacket. Dark blue cloth stamped in gilt to front board; all pages clean, although some pages very loosely stuck together due to ink and papers (easily pulled apart). An uncommon piece of New..... More
Boston: Press of Wm. A. Carrie & Co., 1901. First edition. Octavo (23 cm); 57 pp.; [11] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimile, portraits. Original brown wrappers printed in black. Some light chipping to corners and edges; a thin ribbon of dampstaining across half the text block, although not affecting..... More
New York: Vantage Press, 1968. First edition. 8vo; green boards with gilt spine, pp. 9-152, photographs, dust jacket. A nostalgic memoir of growing up above a train depot in Kansas where the author's father was "a freight and express handler, a telegrapher, a ticket seller, custodian of the depot, expediter..... More
Denver: The Vampyre Publishing Co., 1901. First edition. A bound run of the first six issues of this obscure “little magazine” edited and published by Frank C. Evans in Denver, CO, from 1901-02. In the inaugural issue, the editors (the first two issues were co-edited by Evans and J. Forrest..... More