[New York: G. Long, Printer], 1816. First Edition. A note on p. 4 states: "The Catalogue not being yet ready will be published hereafter, in a form which will admit of its being annexed to, and bound up with, the [present] Bye Laws, as now printed," though the Catalogue appears..... More

Philadelphia: Printed for Bradford and Inskeep by J. Maxwell, 1814. First Edition. Account of the Episcopal Church in the United States by John Henry Hobart (1775-1830), one of the Church's youngest appointed bishops, his rapid rise through its ranks in part due to the "depressed state of his church in..... More

London: Jonathan Cape, [1937]. First Thus. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's cloth in black decorative price-clipped dust jacket, blue topstain; 383pp.; color frontispiece and three plates, additional text illus. throughout, decorative endpapers. Light chipping and shelf wear to jacket extremities, corners a bit bumped and boards very slightly bowed, else a Very..... More

[Norwich, VT]: American Letters Press, [1963]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.) bifolium. Faint soil at bottom spine corner, light wear and a hint of toning, ownership signature inside upper panel, else Good to Very Good. Poetry keepsake by the Canadian author. More

London: John Lehmann, [1952]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket by John Minton; 223pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, corners bumped, brief toning to free endpapers and rear jacket panel, else Very Good or better. Collection of three novellas as told by an aging..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. Uncorrected Proof. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's blue printed card wrappers; xxii,[2],295pp. A hint of shelf wear, spine rather faded with small dampstain, else Very Good and sound. Publicist's business card stapled to first leaf of text. Includes Updike's introduction to the collection, which included works by..... More

Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 1950. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; [4],15pp. Small chip at bottom fore-edge corner affecting entire textblock, light toning to extremities, else Very Good and sound. An address delivered at the University of British Columbia by the Canadian political historian and anarchist. "Lecture Series no..... More

Boston: Russell and Cutler, [1809]. First Edition. One of a series of pamphlets issued by the New England Federalist on the rising diplomatic tensions between the United States and Great Britain following the Chesapeake-Leopold Affair of 1807. SABIN 42443; SHAW & SHOEMAKER 17933. Octavo (23.5cm.); disbound; 52pp. Signatures loose and..... More

[Boston? North American Review, 1845]. Offprint. Octavo (21cm.); drab stitched wrappers; [349]-384pp. Wrappers rather chipped along extremities, spine partly perished, faint vertical crease, else Very Good overall. Offprint book review of the London, 1843, edition of Mill's three volume work. Inscribed on upper cover to Congressman from Massachusetts Rufus Choate..... More

N.p. ca. 1880s. First Edition. Brief tract by the Maine educator Abba Goold Woolson (1838-1921) on the concept of the kindergarten as laid down by German pedagogue Friedrich Fröbel. Woolson describes the kindergarten in eight stages, which include access to materials rather than books "and from these, used with care..... More

Indianapolis: H. Lieber, 1869. First English Language Edition. Uncommon tract by the German-American freethinker Karl Heinzen (1809-1880). Of this edition a contemporary reviewer wrote "The author...may claim the merit of frankness, if no other; for he boldly takes his stand as an atheist and materialist, and treats all the Christian..... More

Boston: Thomas B. Wait & Co., 1809. First American Edition. Collection of sermons by the Swiss-German Enlightenment theologian George Joachim Zollikofer (1730-1788). Of young pupils the author advises: "Guard them from being hasty in forming conclusions, and avail yourself of all opportunities for leading them, by observations, to circumspection and..... More

Pittsburgh: William Allinder, 1836. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); removed; 22pp. Rather worn and somewhat soiled and toned, remnants of original wrappers along spine margins; Good or better overall. The fourth and final report issued by the Society, including letters from missionaries in western Africa, the Ganges, and among the Native..... More