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
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
Minneapolis: Wall & Haines, 1901. First edition. Oblong (14.5 x 22.5 cm), saddle-stapled wrappers; [56] pp.; photographs throughout. Scarce booklet issued to profile the town's prominent citizens, industries, residences and commercial buildings. Fold-out advertisement for the Southern Minnesota Investment Company affixed to front wrapper verso (as issued?). No other copies... 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
Salt Lake City: Press of F. W. Gardiner Co. 1913. First edition. 16mo. (16.5 cm). Illustrated red wrappers; 142 pp.; illus. An account of the crimes and exploits of the Mexican outlaw, Rafael "Red" Lopez who reputedly murdered at least 30 people in Mexico and the Southwest. He was later... 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
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=1475423925)
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
![Dr. Drake's German Cough and Croup Remedy. The Great Guaranteed Cure for Croup, Coughs and Whooping Cough. [caption-title]. The Glessner Medicine Co.](/pictures/thumb/03158.jpg?v=1475423925)
[Findlay, Ohio]: [The Glessner Medicine Co.], [ca. 1910]. One sheet measuring 8 3/4" x 5 3/4" printed on both sides in blue. No date given, but as the 'German' was dropped in 1912 in the lead-up to WWI, the flier was published sometime between 1905-1912. Advertisement for Dr. Drake's (opium-based)... More
n.p. 1955. First edition. Quarto. Saddle-stapled, illustrated wrappers; unpaginated. Program for the 32nd Annual Charity Ball organized by the Women's Auxiliary to Cooper Hospital in Camden, NJ. Lists of committee members, patrons and patronesses, women's auxiliary news, many pages of advertising. General wear, toning and some abrasions to wrappers; dampstaining... More
Geneva, N.Y.: Press of W. F. Humphreys, 1912. First edition. 12mo. Illustrated cloth boards; 148 pp.; map, illustrations by H. DeF. Patterson. An account of the author's trip across the plains to Denver in 1865 and of life in the Far West in the later sixties. Includes a "Map of... More