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 about Colchester Old Home Week and One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary of the Town's Settlement, August...

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 about Hand Book of the Central High School of Philadelphia, 1956-1959

[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 about Labor Rally, See Hear Bob Kennedy

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 about The Railroad Jubilee. An Account of the Celebration Commemorative of the Opening of Railroad...

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 about The Red and Blue, Mid-Fall Number, 1902

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 about Three items related to Chicano support for Hubert Humphrey's presidential campaign

[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 about The Families of the Delaware Valley: A Report on Their Economic and Occupational Status and Activity

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 about Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld

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 about Onesimus, the Slave: An Incident in the Life of the Apostle Paul

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 about The United Brethren Church in Lebanon County. Paper Read Before the Lebanon County Historical...

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 about A Memoir of Mary Capper, Late of Birmingham, England, A Minister of the Society of Friends

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 about The Battle Against the Slums; or, Life in New York's Great Underworld

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 about Sale of Intoxicating Liquors at the Army Canteens. Hearings Before the Committee on Military...