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
[Rochester, N.Y.]: [UAW-ACWA, AFL-CIO], [196-?]. An 8.5" x 11" flyer for an undated labor rally in Rochester, NY, featuring Robert Kennedy as a speaker. The rally was sponsored by the UAW-ACWA, AFL-CIO. Creases from being folded for mailing, minor creasing. 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
n.p.: Mexican-American Political Association / Farm Workers Political Education Committee, [1968]. Three items in support of Hubert Humphrey’s 1968 Presidential campaign, which he ran unsuccessfully against Richard Nixon. Humphrey publicly support Cesar Chavez’s national boycott and even met with him privately when campaigning in California. His attempt to extend the..... 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
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
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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
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
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