Boston: Press of Rockwell and Churchill, 1884. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue decorative cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, floral endpapers; xiii,[1],405pp. Moderate wear to cloth extremities with occasional exposure, most notably at corners and spine ends, textblock uniformly browned and a bit brittle, else..... More
Hartford: Press of The Case, Lockwood & Brainerd Company, 1897. First Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's black cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 602pp.; photographic author portrait frontispiece, illus. throughout, including eighteen plates (collated complete). Brief scuffing at cloth extremities, small gouge at spine foot, shallow chipping along margins of a few late leaves..... More
America - Printed at Providence (R. Island): Carter and Wilkinson, and Sold at their Book and Stationary Store, Opposite the Market, 1794. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 83 pp. + folded leaf "A Synoptical Table of Prophetic Numbers." Stringbound wraps laid into contemporary plain wraps, separated from text block. Light wear..... More
New-York: Printed for E. Sargeant, No. 39 Wall-Street, opposite the United-States Bank, 1806. First American Edition. 12mo (18cm.); full contemporary sheep, green gilt-lettered spine label; xxvi,190,[4]pp. (collated complete with half title, errata, and table of contents in rear). Leather quite dried with subsequent flaking along spine, margins rather scuffed, small..... More
![Item #28277 Poems; Poems: Second Series; [and] Poems: Third Series. T W. Higginson, eds Mabel...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28277.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701875263)
Boston: Roberts Bros., 1891-96. First Series is a fifth printing, with "1891" on title page and "Fourth Edition" on copyright page. Second Series conforms to Meyerson's fourth or fifth printing with "1892" on title page and "Fourth Edition" to copyright page. Third Series a first printing with 1896 to title..... More
New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., 1876. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xxxii,[33]-504pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece, text illus. throughout. Boards rather scuffed at extremities, fairly ubiquitous soil throughout textblock, stock uniformly toned; a Good to Very Good, sound example. Complete humoristic tales and vignettes by..... More
Chicago: Meyer & Brother, Publishers, 1893. First Edition. Octavo. 506 pp. Black and white illustrations including frontis with tissue guard, complete. Dark maroon cloth stamped in gilt; navy endpapers. Boards worn along edges and joints; mild scuffing to spine; corners bumped. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription in pen to preliminaries..... More
Tuscaloosa, AL: Marmaduke J. Slade, Printer, 1837. First Edition. Octavo. 52 pp. Wraps, removed. Light chipping and soiling to wraps; loss along spine of front and rear wraps; binding sound; pages unmarked. Overall a Very Good copy of Woods' farewell address to the University of which he was President for..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. First Edition. Small octavo; publisher's purple pictorial cloth embossed in gilt, top edge gilt, brown glazed endpapers; iv,205pp. Moderate rubbing to cloth extremities, spine a bit toned, as is textblock, else Very Good and sound. BAL 5250. More
New York: Office of the Anti-Slavery Reporter, 1834. First Edition. 12mo. 46 pp.; wraps, removed. Light soiling and rubbing to wraps. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Very Good. James Birney was a prominent Kentucky planter and slave owner who gradually grew enamored first of the concept of colonization..... More
[Boston]: [Printed and sold by Rogers and Fowle in Queen-Street, next to the prison], [1743]. First U.S. Edition, though unfortunately incomplete, lacking the following: leaves A1-A2, including title and half title, top half of G2, near entirety of G3 (the final page of text) with only a small remnant remaining..... More
London: Printed for H.D. Symonds, in Paternoster Row, and Thomas Clio Rickman, No. 7, Upper Mary-Le-Bone Street, 1792. First Edition? 12mo (20cm.); modern brown cloth, gilt-lettered morocco spine label; 40pp. (A12 B6 C2, lacking half title page, otherwise collated and complete). Very occasional soil to textblock, else a Very Good..... More
London: J. Ridgway, 1795. Reprint. Slim octavo (21cm.); modern brown cloth, gilt-lettered morocco spine label; vi,[7]-60pp. (A-G4 H2, collated complete). Textblock a shade toned, occasional light soil, else a Very Good or better example. Later appearance of Paine's oft-reprinted 1782 pamphlet addressed to the French Abbe Raynal, whose critical..... More
Utica, NY: White & Floyd, Printers, Corner Broad and John Streets, 1881. First Edition. Octavo. 398 pp. + iv pp. contents bound at rear. Frontis; black and white illustrations. Brown cloth stamped in black and gilt. Boards show moderate wear and fraying along edges with general chewing. Binding is sound..... More
Boston: John P. Dale and Company, 1875. Second and Revised Edition. Thick octavo. 700 pp. + 1 page announcement. Black and white illustrations, complete. Black cloth stamped in silver. Boards edgeworn with shallow loss at base of spine, brief exposure to corners. Opens easily between gatherings but binding is holding..... More
![Item #28148 A Second Visit to the United States of North America [Two volume set]. Sir Charles Lyell](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28148.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1700505698)
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1849. First U.S. Edition. Two octavo volumes. 273 & 287 pp. + publisher's 12 pp. catalog dated July 1849. Fourteen in-text black and white illustrations. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Boards edgeworn with chipping to crown of vol. I; general fading..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1895. Octavo; publisher's burnt orange pictorial cloth stamped in five colors; viii,[2],269pp.; frontispiece, full-page illus. throughout. Cloth margins a bit scuffed, light dust-soil to boards, spine gilt rather dulled, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, lacking rear free endpaper, else a Good to..... More