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...

[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 about The Democracy of Thomas Jefferson [of the City of New York]: Proposed Platform, Proposed...

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

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 about Proceedings of the 40th Annual Encampment of the Department of Pennsylvania, Grand Army of the...

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 about The Red and Blue, May, 1903

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 about This Might Have Been Prevented But She Stayed in the Rumble Seat Too Long! (Promotional Poster...

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 about The History of Events Resulting in Indian Consolidation West of the Mississippi

[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 about Hand Book of the New York State Reformatory at Elmira

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 about The Mechanic's Friend; A Collection of Receipts and Practical Suggestions Relating to Aquaria,...

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 about A Tribute to Rev. Allen H. Brown By the Presbytery of West Jersey Commemorating His Eightieth...

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

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 about 90° [degrees] in the Shade

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