Boston: John Wilson & Son, 1855. First Edition. Signed by the editor (Amos' son) on flyleaf to his nephew with inscription "Amory A. Lawrence, From his aff. uncle William. Boston May 16th 1855" Octavo (9.5" x 5.75"); xii, 307pp. Three plates with tissue guards including portrait frontis, all present..... More
Boston, MA: Benjamin Russell, 1790. Saturday July 17, 1790. Folio. 4 pp., printed four columns per page. General wear and light spotting with some chipping to edges. Includes what would come to be known as the Copyright Act of 1790, passed by Congress the previous Spring and signed..... More
Boston: Published by Order of the City Council, 1896. First Edition. Tall octavo. 77 pp. Black and white photographs with tissue guards. Blindstamped dark brown boards decorated in gilt. Dark brown endpapers. Boards bumped at corners with some general scuffing and rubbing. Binding is sound and pages clean..... More
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Woodbridge Suffolk (England) and Winterthur (Delaware): Antique Collectors' Club and The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 2007. First Edition. Signed on titlepage by both authors. Quarto (30x24.5x3cm); 287pp including appendices with firm marks, genealogies, bibliography and index. Richly illustrated throughout with photographs of exceptional pieces in the Winterthur collection..... More
Boston: Wright & Potter, 1868. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); stitched self-wrappers; 15pp. Slightly ex-New York State Library with their faint rubber-stamp to upper cover, stock a bit toned and very slightly foxed, tiny loss at bottom fore-edge corner of rear two leaves not approaching text, else Good to..... More
Boston: W.B. Clarke Company, 1900. First Edition. Octavo (25x16x1cm); 32pp with 21 additional unpaginated full-page B&W document reproductions bound in. Black card covers with silver stamping on spine and front cover. Textblock in sewn gatherings, the whole stab-bound with silk thread. Cover is erratically chipped around edges and cracking..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936. First Thus. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket, cloth slipcase; [2],xi,[1],255pp.; color frontispiece, nine leaves of plates, color pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket rather unevenly toned and quite heavily restored with archival paper backing and extensive color touch-ups along margins; boards bright and square with..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; [2],188pp.; illus., blue pictorial endpapers. General light shelf wear to jacket extremities, spine panel and spine cloth faded, old tape to both jacket flaps and pastedowns (tape yellowed and perished), else Very Good and..... More
Boston: Alexander Young, 1793. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); 20th century brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 80pp. (A-D4). Light wear to cloth extremities, half title present and slightly soiled, glue residue inside upper cover from previously removed ex libris replaced with ownership rubberstamp; overall, Very Good and sound. Half title: "Dr. Thacher's..... More
Boston: C.C. Little & Co., 1838. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green leaf-textured cloth, gilt-lettered spine; iv,484pp; engraved portrait frontispiece (tissue guard). Some scuffing to cloth extremities, bottom third of front joint split, spine a shade toned, textblock uniformly foxed, else a Good to Very Good, internally sound copy... More
Boston: J.W. Alden, 1843. First Edition. Octavo. 4 pp. Printed wraps. Dated October 12, 1843. Stained and soiled. Scarce abolitionist pamphlet, ending with colorful language, calling out the slaveholding Tyrant Paupers, who have "applied their horse-leech-suction to the pockets of every free laborer... and hatched the great cockatrice..... More
Boston: John H. Eastburn, 1832. First Edition. Octavo. Removed. 21 pages. Upper edge of title page a bit soiled. Evident ex-library copy with "Dup discard" in pencil on title and call number to rear. Quincy lectures on the American Revolution as the result of historical circumstances rather than..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. Wellesley: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, 1997. First Edition of 4000 copies. Folio (14.25" x 9"); 247p. Illustrated translucent dustjacket over blue cloth boards with blindstamped patter and bronze lettering. Jacket rippled with light edgewear, but no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are clean with front board..... More
Boston: Fowle & Draper, 1760. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); 20th century crimson morocco over cloth-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine; 25,[1]pp (A-B4 C6). Light wear to extremities, faint soil to rear cloth cover, ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else a Very Good copy. Bound with half title, "Mr. Appleton's Discourse On the..... More
Boston: D. Fowle, 1755. First Edition. Octavo; full contemporary blind-tooled paneled calf, two black gilt-lettered spine labels; [2],xxvi,[4],512pp. ([a]4 b-d4 B-2K8). Boards somewhat crudely reattached and restored along extremities, brief cracking to spine affecting gilt without loss of meaning, attractive contemporary calligraphic ownership inscription to front free endpaper of a...... More
Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1793. First Edition. Octavo (21.5 x 13 cm); vi, 7 - 339, [1] pp. Partial fold-out frontis map (approximately 15.5 x 13.5 inches) of the County of Worcester by "Charles Baker Esq. & Capn. John Pierce of said County." Top left portion of map missing (approximately..... More
Medfield, MA: George H. Ellis, 1876. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 56pp. Textblock lightly toned, else Good and sound, though apparently lacking wrappers. More
Boston: S. Kneeland, Printer to the Honourable House of Representatives, for D. Henchman, 1733. First Edition. Octavo; 20th century cloth tape over stiff marbled card, typescript label mounted to upper cover; [2],36pp. [[A]-E4]; typographically decorative initials, head- and tail-pieces. Lacking half title page, textblock lightly toned and foxed, ownership rubberstamp..... More
Boston: Green, Bushnell, and Allen, for D. Henchman, 1743. Second Edition. Small octavo (15cm.); contemporary blind-ruled calf; [2],vi,216,[2],[2](ads)pp. (A-O8 P2); woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Leather a bit scuffed with brief chips at corners and along upper spine edge, lacking free endpapers, preliminaries toned along extremities, contemporary ownership inscription to..... More
Northampton, MA: Hopkins, Bridgman & Co., 1850. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's reddish-brown blind-embossed cloth sympathetically recased, original gilt-lettered spine laid down; xii,[13]-227,[1]pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece of Jonathan Edwards, five leaves of plates. Cloth a bit sunned at extremities, discreet evidence of repair along corners, later (1885) gift inscription to..... More
Donald McKay. Second Printing. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. Stated Second Printing, August 1951. Signed by the author without inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo; 221pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $3.00 price; book in patterned red cloth with white title block to spine. Jacket torn and chipped at..... More
[Boston?]: State Teachers College at Westfield, 1941. Slim octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's blue gilt-stamped cloth; 114pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, seven leaves of photographs printed on rectos only. Light shelf wear and minor soiling, spine gilt a bit dulled, else Very Good and sound. More
Boston: International Jubilee Convention, 1901. First Edition. 12mo (7.25" x 5"); 184p. Numerous ads and illustrations throughout. Rebound in three quarter leather over pebbled black cloth. Index and terminal ads (pages 167-178) brought to front with pages 179-184 remaining at end. Boards are sturdy with light shelfwear and a few..... More