New York: Ross & Tousey, 1856. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's cream wrappers printed within decorative border; 41pp. Wrappers a bit chipped and dust-soiled, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. More
[Boston: Massachusetts Colonization Society / T.R. Marvin], 1853. First Edition. The Massachusetts politician's survey of the Society's activities in Africa in what would eventually become Liberia, described here as "the germ of a Republic, which, however prosperous, is but still in its infancy" (p. [1]). Of course, Everett, like most..... More
New-York: Francis Hart & Co. Printers and Stationers, 1861. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); removed; 20pp. Stock slightly darkened, else Very Good or better. One of a small handful of medical works written by the great woman educator Emma Willard (1787-1870), best known for her work providing women with advanced education..... More
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little & Wilkins, 1831. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); removed; 88pp. Shallow chipping along title page extremities, light foxing throughout, else Very Good and sound. Anonymously penned tract regarding claims that arose during the conflict with France from 1798 to 1800, and the Convention of 1800. SABIN 25751;..... More
New-York: Printed for the Author, 1801. First Edition. Libretto (issued without the music) of a pastoral opera set amongst the woodcutters and farmers in the environs outside New York City. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 934. Octavo (21cm.); removed; viii,[9]-68,[6]pp. Ex-New York Historical Society with their small withdrawn rubberstamp to final leaf..... More
Boston: 1850. First Edition. Sensationalist pamphlet on the 1849 Parkman-Webster murder, issued before the trial had actually taken place, at which Oliver Wendell Holmes provided one of the earliest instances of forensic evidence. George Parkman, a wealthy Boston businessman and physician, was found dismembered and partly burnt in the privy..... More
Boston? 1855. First Edition. Resolution regarding the removal from the bench of Judge Edward Greeley Loring with testimony by Richard Henry Dana Jr., Wendell Phillips, and Theodore Parker. Loring gained notoriety following his decision to return Anthony Burns to slavery under the Fugitive Slave Act. Dana, who had represented Burns..... More
New York: The New York Ace, 1972. First Edition. Attractive, early issue of this New York underground paper, described by Steve Kraus as "the bastard offspring of the East Village Other." Contents include contributions by Ray Schultz, Lynda Crawford, Thomas Forcade, Pat Morris, Louise Tallmer, D.A. Latimer, Jim Buckley, P.J...... More
New York: The New York Ace, 1972. First Edition. Attractive, early issue of this New York underground paper, described by Steve Kraus as "the bastard offspring of the East Village Other." Contents include contributions by Pat Morris, Lynda Crawford, Dana Beal, Thomas King Forcade, Ray Schultz, Jim Buckley, P.J. O'Rourke..... More
New York: Survey Associates, Inc., 1943. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Heinz Soffner, Maxwell Stewart, S. B. Zisman, Mark McCloskey, Anne Roller Issler, James Kilpatrick, Katherine Glover, Frank Loomis, and Leon Whipple. Cover photograph by Dorothea Lange. Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[369]-416; illus. Heavily toned and a bit..... More
New York: Survey Associates, Inc., 1943. First Edition. Contents include contributions by John M. Clark, Max Lerner, Mary Bartlett Dahl, Paul H. Landis, Grace Naismith, Arthur Katona, and Eduard Lindeman. Cover photograph by Dorothea Lange, taken while working for the FSA. Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[241]-272; illus. Light wear..... More
New York: Survey Associates, Inc., 1943. First Edition. Special issue, "From War To Work," the eight installment in magazine's "Calling America" series. Contents include contributions by Stuart Chase, A.F. Hinrichs, Samuel Fels, Elmo Roper, Beardsley Ruml, Sidney Hillman, Frieda Miller, Marriner S. Eccles, Maxwell Stewart, and others. Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial..... More
New York: Survey Associates, Inc., 1942. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Vera Micheles Dean, Heinz Soffner, Therle Hughes, Ben Henderson, Lester Granger, W.H. Cowley, and others. Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[305]-336; illus. Light wear to extremities, with a faint vertical crease at center; about Near Fine. More
New York: Survey Associates, Inc., 1941. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Kathryn Close, Beulah Amidon, A. Maude Royden, Dexter Masters, Russell Lord, Heinz Soffner, Leon Whipple, and others. Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[669]-716; illus. Shelfworn, evenly toned and a bit dusty, with wear and a short split at..... More
New York: Survey Associates, Inc., 1941. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Richard Neuberger, M.L. Wilson, Paul McNutt, Russell Wilder, Henry Sherman, Lewis Hershey, Claude Wickard, Henry A. Wallace, Frances Perkins, Thomas Parran, Allan A. Michie, and others. Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[365]-412; illus. Light wear to extremities, touch..... More
New York: Survey Associates, Inc., 1940. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Victor Weybright, Vera Micheles Dean, Wilbert Snow, Beulah Amidon, Francis Hackett, Avis Carlson, Francis Biddle, and others. Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[369]-416; illus. Toning and shelfwear, a few tiny nicks, with some splitting along spine-fold; penciled phone..... More
New York: Survey Associates, Inc., 1939. First Edition. Special issue on schools, the second in the magazine's "Calling America" series. Contents include contributions by Beulah Amidon, Eduard Lindemaan, John Chamberlain, Helen Post, Alvin Johnson, Farnsworth Crowder, and others. Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[561]-656; illus. Shelfworn, oxidation to staples, with..... More
New York: Survey Associates, Inc., 1939. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Audrey Grannenberg, Victor Weybright, Michael M. Davis, Frank Waugh, M.L. Brown, Ralph Borsodi, Arthur Pollard, Richard Neuberger, Raymond Brandt, Leon Whipple, and others. Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[417]-464; illus. Light wear and dustiness to wrappers, with a...... More
New York: Survey Associates, Inc., 1938. First Edition. Contents include contributions by R.O. Berg, Victor Weybright, Richard Neuberger, William Haber, Richard Griffith, Loula D. Lasker, Webb Waldron, Louise Burton Laidlaw, William Hard, John Palmer Gavit, Leon Whipple, and others. With photographs by Walker Evans. Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[577]-640;..... More
Washington DC: P. Force, 1841. First Edition. Address by the Secretary of War and co-founder of the National Instutition, later incorporated into the Smithsonian in 1862. "There can be no doubt that a National Institution, such as we contemplate, having at its command an observatory, a museum containing collections of..... More
Salem: Cushing and Appleton, 1824. Second Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); removed; [4],140pp. Stock slightly toned and a bit dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Blistering attack on John Adams by his former Secretary of State, the unwavering Federalist Timothy Pickering (1745-1829), written in response to the publication of correspondence between Adams..... More
Boston: Bela Marsh [Bela Marsh and Redding and Company], 1850. First Edition. "There is so much smartness and sense in this snarling tract , that one is provoked,--catching something of its irritable temper,--that it should be spoiled by petulance, bad taste, and lamentable lack of dignity" (from a contemporary review..... More
Philadelphia / London: Judah Dobson / John Miller, 1828. Octavo (21cm.); removed; 51pp.; illus. in text. Some foxing to textblock, small damp spot at top fore-edge corner of first few leaves, else Very Good and sound. First edition for a British readership. Missed by Sabin. More
New York [Chicago]: Harper & Brothers [Western News Company], 1870. First American Edition. Apparently unrecorded state retaining the Harper & Brother sheets bound in the wrappers of the Western News Company, though all publisher's advertisements, including upper cover verso and rear wrapper recto and verso for works published by Harper..... More
Boston: Lincoln & Edmands, [1822]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); removed; 26pp. Light spotting, else Very Good and sound. Sermon by the Calvinist minister arguing that "The office of the first propagators of Christianity is here represented as a /warfare/; and their success is, in the same verse, represented as a...... More
