New York: New York Labor News Company, 1962. Full text of an address given after the assassination of President McKinley. "De Leon shows that the deed had nothing to do with Socialism. Instead, it was attributable to a philosophy inherent in class-ruled society - the belief, natural enough in a...... More
New York: New York Labor News, 1967. Fourteenth Edition. "A Roman Catholic newspaper posed 15 questions intended to knock the props from under Socialism. De Leon's replies prove that Socialism is built, not upon props, but upon the bedrock of science. Each answer by De Leon is a brilliant exposition..... More
New York: New York Labor News Co., 1935. "A personal and political attack on Foster, by a Socialist Labor Party leader, who reviews Foster's early apprenticeship in social-democratic reform, his change to anarcho-syndicalism, his support of World War I, and his subsequent career in the communist movement, where he has..... More
Albany: Steam Press of C. Van Benthuysen and Co., 1843. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); removed; [2],58pp.; tables. Some general dust-soil, else Very Good and sound. Address on local education, going into such detail as to cover individual textbooks and publishers by subject (the New York State Society for the Diffusion..... More
Philadelphia: John H. Gihon, 1848. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); removed; 18,[1],[1](ads)pp. Errata slip tipped to title page (serving as upper cover), slip starting to separate, text uniformly foxed, contemporary manuscript note at head of title page, else Very Good and sound, retaining leaf of publisher's advertisements on p. [20]. Quite..... More
![The Missionary Legacy [No. 476]. AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY](/pictures/medium/49979.jpg?v=1593828487)
[New York: American Tract Society, n.d., ca. 1840s]. First American Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.) bifolium. Light dust-soil to extremities, a hint of wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. Presumably first published in Great Britain, the tract opening with reference to "those lovely and fertile vales with which England abounds."..... More
Princeton: John Bogart, 1835. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); removed; 42pp. A Near Fine, fresh copy albeit lacking original wrappers. Address by the former Representative from North Carolina William Gaston, delivered before Princeton's oldest and still-extant debate society. More
![Proposals of the Phenix [sic] Mining Company; with a statement of the history and character of...](/pictures/medium/49972.jpg?v=1593828487)
New-York: J. Seymour, 1831. First Edition. Prospectus for the reopening of the copper mine in Simsbury (now East Granby), Connecticut. These were the country's earliest incorporated copper mines, later converted into a prison after the American Revolution. Quite uncommon. SABIN 61402. Octavo (21cm.); removed; 30pp. Textblock rather foxed and slightly..... More
Albany: Packard and Van Benthuysen, 1834. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); removed; 34pp. A hint of toning and dust-soil else a Near Fine and fresh copy albeit lacking original wrappers. SABIN 89742. More
Boston: Charles Stimpson, 1846. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); removed; 58pp. Errata slip tipped to title page (serving as upper cover), slip somewhat creased, contemporary pencil ownership signature of a G.W. Grandey; Very Good or better. Attributed to Bishop of Central Pennsylvania Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe (1809-1895) by OCLC no..... More
Albany: S. Southwick, 1811. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; 35pp. Textblock a bit toned, else Very Good and fresh. Early surveying report on what would eventually become the Erie Canal. Text signed on p. 35 by seven commissioners, including Gouverneur Morris, Stephen Van Rensselaer, and DeWitt Clinton. SABIN 53900; SHAW..... More
Worcester: Manning and Trumbull, 1819. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); stitched self-wrappers; 30pp. Some shallow chipping and curling along extremities, title page (serving as upper cover) rather foxed and a bit soiled, coin-sized loss to pp. 29/30 and final leaf (blank) not approaching text; still, overall Very Good and sound. Contents..... More
Philadelphia: John Townsend, 1830. Early reprint of an important popular Hicksite tract attributed to Joseph Parrish, a Pennsylvania physician. The work, which went through at least nine editions between 1828 and 1890, "remained the most popular Hicksite reply to those outside the Society about the Orthodox charges of 'blasphemy and..... More
Quebec: William Cowan et Fils, 1843. First Thus. Compilation drawn from several texts, including the manuscripts of Ramusio and Hakluyt on three voyages made by Cartier. SABIN 10620. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; iv,[2],130pp.; two folding plates. Title page (serving as upper cover) separated but present and extremities rather chipped, stock generally..... More
Bath: Joseph G. Torrey, 1827. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); removed; 17pp. Faint vertical fold, old ink signature to title page (serving as upper cover), else Very Good and sound. Address to, and about the duties and history of, the Medical Society of Maine. Quite uncommon. SHOEMAKER 28065. More
![The Collected Greed, Parts 1-13 [Limited Edition, Signed]. Diane WAKOSKI](/pictures/medium/49931.jpg?v=1593828486)
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. First Edition. Limited to 200 signed copies of which this is no. 169. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's red cloth-backed pictorial boards, printed paper spine label, clear acetate dust jacket; 248pp.; illus. Corners gently bumped, jacket a bit wrinkled, else Very Good or better. Signed by..... More
London: Heinemann, [1973]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's boards in blue pictorial dust jacket; [8],212pp. General shelf wear to jacket extremities, spine a bit sunned, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. More
![Greed Parts 5-7 [Limited Edition, Signed]. Diane WAKOSKI](/pictures/medium/49929.jpg?v=1593828486)
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First Edition. Limited to 200 signed copies of which this is no. 119. Slim octavo (25cm.); publisher's striped linen-backed pictorial boards, printed paper spine label, clear acetate dust jacket; 46pp.; illus. Bottom fore-edge corners bumped with very brief exposure, else Very Good, internally fine..... More
Cardiff: Penmark Press Limited, [1946]. First English Language Edition. Small, slim octavo (19cm.); publisher's boards in cream decorative dust jacket; 121pp. Light wear to jacket extremities, the whole a bit toned and dust-soiled, spine panel rather darkened, corners gently bumped else Very Good and sound. Collection of short stories by..... More
[Washington: 1862]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); removed; 85pp.; folding hand-colored map bound in rear, one additional full-page map in text. Light toning to extremities, else Very Good and fresh, map in fine condition. Reports chiefly made by James Wickes Taylor, special agent of the Treasury Department serving in northwest Canada..... More
[Boston]: Cummings, Hilliard & Co., 1825. First Edition. One of a series of essays by the Harvard professor on improvements he began making following his appointment, including a revision of disciplinary practices, and the expansion of the modern languages department. SHOEMAKER 22472. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's tan printed wrappers; 48pp. Upper..... More
![Do Your Children Reverence the Sabbath? [No. 336]. AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY](/pictures/medium/50007.jpg?v=1593748386)
[New York: American Tract Society, n.d., ca. 1840s]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.) bifolium. Faint dampstain along bottom margin, else Very Good and sound. Advisory tract addressed to parents, warning them to "Think not, that because you may count the failure a small one--your servants only are detained from public worship--your..... More
New York: American Tract Society, [1859]. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm.); stitched self-wrappers; 60pp.; woodcut illus. throughout. Light dustiness and a bit of wear at extremities, else Very Good and fresh overall. More
![The Island Planter. An Authentic Narrative [No. 365]. Benjamin GILDERSLEEVE](/pictures/medium/50004.jpg?v=1593748386)
[New York: American Tract Society, n.d., ca. 1840s]. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); self-wrappers with minor evidence of having been removed from larger volume; 8pp. Light foxing and toning to extremities, else Very Good and sound. Attributed to the Reverend Benjamin Gildersleeve by OCLC no. 83325642 (with imprint variant listing D...... More
![The Infidel Reclaimed [No. 351]. A. W. BURNHAM](/pictures/medium/50002.jpg?v=1593748386)
[New York: American Tract Society, n.d., ca. 1840s]. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); self-wrappers; 8pp. Minor wear and toning, else Very Good and sound. Parable by a New Jersey pastor based on his interactions with a local doctor who allowed his daughter to teach at, and his younger children to attend..... More
