London: Quaker Peace and Service, 1980. First edition. Saddle-stitched wrappers; 32 pp. Written in 1975, the author, who was a founder of Amnesty International, contends that torture has become systematic and elicits little reaction due to four contemporary attitudes: historical remoteness, geographical remoteness, moral revulsion and reluctant acquiescence. Northern Ireland... More
New York: Isaac T. Hopper, 1833. Octavo (19 cm); iv, 186 pp. Paper over green cloth boards; paper spine label absent. Paper rubbed and spotted with some evidence of dampstaining internally; faint foxing to some pages; owner's name in pencil to front endpaper. Still, a tightly bound, complete copy. Excerpts... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1939. First edition. Octavo (22.5 cm); xxiv, 368 pp.; tissue-protected woodcut frontispiece by Clare Leighton and other illustrations. Blue cloth with gilt to spine; stamp of Wm. Caless to front pastedown, else clean throughout. Seven plates. More
Philadelphia: Wm. H. Pile's Sons, 1892. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's brown cloth with blind ruling and embossing to front board and gilt to spine; viii, [1], 10-408 pp. Ann Branson was the leading women's minister of Quakerism in Ohio from the 1860s to the 1880s. Some very minor rubbing &... More
Philadelphia: Friends' Book Store. 18.5 cm; 32 pp. Gilt-blocked burgundy cloth over thin paper boards; cloth slightly dust-soiled and leaves age-toned, but a very nice copy of this classic work. 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
Philadelphia: Benjamin and Thomas Kite, 1822. Octavo (22 cm); viii, 412 pp. Marbled calf boards with gilt-stamped, red leather title label to spine. Leather is scuffed and worn, with some cracking along spine; owner's name(s) to endpaper and flyleaf and to top of Preface; foxing throughout; lacking rear endpaper. A Good+ copy. More
London: Isbister and Company Limited, 1903. Octavo (19.5 cm); xxvii, 512, [4] pp. Blue cloth stamped in black to front board and spine; publisher's blind-stamped device to rear board. An about near fine copy with slight rubbing to extremities and corners gently bumped; endpapers a bit liver-spotted, cheap paper browned - clean throughout. More
![Memoirs of the Life and Gospel Labours of Stephen Grellet [Two Vols.]. Stephen GRELLET, Benjamin SEEBOHM.](/pictures/thumb/02887.jpg?v=1543177735)
Philadelphia: Henry Longstreth, 1860. First American edition. First American edition. Two octavo volumes (23 cm); viii, 478 pp.; viii, 492 pp.; tissue-protected engraved frontispiece of Grellet by John Sartain in vol. 1; vol. 2 has an engraved frontis of the Grellet home in Burlington, NJ. Publisher's brown, pebbled cloth with... More
Philadelphia: At Friends' Book Store, 1886. First edition. Twelvemo. Brown, ruled cloth stamped in gilt to front board; pale blue endpapers; viii, [1], 10-258 pp. Christopher Healy (1773-1851) was a Quaker minister from Rhode Island who traveled extensively around the U.S. visiting Quaker meetinghouses and fellow Friends. A Very Good+... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1880. First edition. Twelvemo (17.5 cm); vi, 287 pp.; tissue-protected engraved frontispiece of Rachel Hicks by artist and engraver, Alexander Hay Ritchie. Publisher's green cloth stamped in black to front board and in gilt to spine; chocolate brown endpapers. A very good copy with... More
Philadelphia: Elijah Weaver, 1834. First edition. Octavo. Contemporary 3/4 paper over cloth boards; viii, 279 pp. Lacking paper spine label; paper to board edges chipped; heavy foxing throughout, which is typical for this title. A Good, but complete and tight copy. Famous legal case of internecine Quaker squabbling. More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1916. First edition. Small octavo (19 cm); xxvii, 249 pp.; frontis; ill. Cream cloth boards stamped in black and red. Light rubbing to cloth; corners gently bumped; crude tape mend to title page, else clean throughout. "An authentic narrative, freely arranged from the supposed... More
Philadelphia: John C. Winston & Co., 1893. First edition. Octavo (20.5 cm); gilt-stamped cloth with gilt spine, 269, [1] pp.; frontis + over 40 illus. Caleb Cresson Wistar's copy with his signature to top of title page and some penciled marginalia throughout. Wistar was a member of the prominent Philadelphia... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949. First edition. Small octavo. Blue cloth boards with gilt spine; 144 pp.; dust jacket. A Very Good+ or better copy with some negligible rubbing to board edges; book plate of Religious Society of Friends of Philadelphia to pastedown along with owner's name. The... More
Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Rakestraw, No. 256, N. Third Street, 1819. First edition. 18 x 11.5 cm; iv, 62 pp. Presumed original binding with paper boards and leather spine. General rubbing with minor spotting to paper; chipping to spine ends, esp. tail. 'Property of Makefield (?) Preparative Meeting' to recto... More
Philadelphia: Henry Longstreth, 1856. First edition. 8vo (24 x 16 cm); wrappers, 68 pp. Grellet (Étienne de Grellet du Mabillier, 1773-1855) was a French born Quaker missionary who relocated to Burlington, NJ, and died there in 1855. Cortlandt van Rensselaer was a Presbyterian minister in Burlington. Some light toning and... More
Philadelphia: Henry Longstreth, 1891. First American edition. Octavo (19.5 cm); 211 pp. Dark purple cloth with faded gilt to spine; decorated endpapers. Cloth is mottled with some light wear to spine ends; hinges cracked, although the binding is still solid. Owner's penciled name to half title page, otherwise clean throughout... More
Philadelphia: At Friends' Book Store, 1893. First edition. Octavo. Brown, blind-ruled and embossed cloth with gilt spine; xiv, [1], 10-433 pp. A Very Good copy with some light rubbing to cloth, which is a little more worn at corners and one place on board edge; owner's name to front flyleaf... More
Philadelphia: Smith, English & Co., 1873. First edition. Slim octavo. Dark cloth stamped in gilt to front board and spine; yellow endpapers. Penciled name written in spidery handwriting to front endpaper, else clean throughout. Small tear in cloth to crown and one small hole to joint, else Near Fine. A.... More
![The Fells of Swarthmoor Hall and Their Friends; with an Account of Their Ancestor, Anne Askew, the Martyr. A Portraiture of Religious and Family Life in the Seventeenth Century, Compiled Chiefly from Original Letters and Other Documents, Never Before Published [ASSOCIATION COPY]. Maria WEBB.](/pictures/thumb/00334.jpg?v=1518233051)
London: F. Bowyer Kitto, 1867. Second edition. Twelvemo (17 cm). Brown cloth with gilt spine; xvi, 382, [2]; engraved frontispiece of Marsh Grange, home of the Askew family. An important association copy from the noted Quaker minister and suffragist, Deborah Fisher Wharton (1795-1888), to Stephen R. Hicks (1823-1892), of the... More
Philadelphia: Henry Longstreth, 1877. Later edition. Later edition (first American edition was 1868, a year after it was first published in London). Octavo (19.5 cm); 446 pp. Publisher's brown, pebbled cloth with gilt to spine. General rubbing with fraying, chipping to head extending half an inch down joints; donation sticker... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill, Inc., 1950. First edition. Octavo (21 cm); 280 pp. Burgundy, gilt-stamped cloth. A Near Fine copy with a hint of foxing and dust-soiling to page edges. In a Very Good, rubbed dust jacket with the $2.50 price remaining on the flap. The author traces the development of... More