Hartford: Hale & Hosmer, 1814. 12mo (14cm.); contemporary gilt-lettered calf over marbled paper-covered boards; vi,[7]-90pp. (collated complete); woodcut frontispiece of a young woman reading. Boards scuffed with exposure along margins and corners, faint foxing and damp stain to early leaves, else Very Good and sound. Early American edition of..... 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

Hartford: Peter B. Gleason and Co. 1819. First Edition. Octavo; modern blue wrappers; 31,[1]pp. (collated complete). Very faint foxing to title page, textblock a shade darkened, else Very Good and sound. Concludes with the "Charge" by Amos Bassett and "Right Hand of Fellowship" by Zedekiah S. Barstow. More

Cincinnati: Swormstedt & Poe, 1855. Later edition. 16mo. 166, [2[, 197 p. Original blue-green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration. First published in 1844-1845, the memoirs of a retired itinerant Methodist minister. Boards worn with exposure. Hinges starting but binding holding. Foxing to pages but overall text legible. [Howes S-953]. 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

New York: Chas. Magnus, 12 Frankfort St., n.d. [but 1865]. Small broadside lithographed song sheet (20.5x12.5cm), top third adorned with an oval portrait of Abraham Lincoln mourned by a Union soldier. A fresh and Fine example. A popular song sheet disseminated in the wake of Lincoln's assassination by..... More

London: J. Drury, 1821. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's plum blind-embossed textured cloth, gilt-tooled spine label; [4],224pp. (lacking errata leaf); lithographed frontispiece, thirteen plates (collated complete). Cloth expertly rebacked with original spine laid down, margins a bit scuffed with exposure at corners, brief discoloration to rear cover, remnants only of 19th-century..... More

N.p.: ca. 1910, though photographs developed ca. 1950. Oblong octavo (15x21cm.); hand-made photo album of contemporary ribbon-bound linen boards; [12]ll. of stiff card stock to which are mounted twenty-four (24) cyanotype photographs measuring ca. 9.5x12cm, occasionally captioned with ballpoint pen. Boards a bit bowed, minor soil to binding and interior..... More

St. Louis, MO: William K. Bixby, 1907. First Edition, Limited to 487 copies of which this is no. 212. Quarto; publisher's three-quarter calf over cloth, gilt-lettered spine, housed in original paper-covered slipcase; xxvii,[1],263pp.; frontispiece, large folding map, and thirty (30) leaves of plates, chiefly facsimiles. Slipcase rather scuffed and toned..... More

Portland, ME: Arthur Shirley, 1822. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); removed; 41pp. Some faint foxing to text block, contemporary ownership signature (illegible) at head of title page, neat 20th century ex libris to title page verso, else Very Good overall. Political pamphlet signed in text by Alford Richardson himself, regarding..... More

Washington, DC: Alonzo O. Bliss Company (Successors to the Dr. Perkins Medical Co.), 1892. Octavo (20cm); machine stitched self-wrappers; 24pp. Light wear to margins, stock uniformly browned due to inferior paper quality, faint damp stain to upper wrapper, else a Very Good example. Early trade catalog issued by the..... More

Vladivostok, Siberia: 31st Infantry Regiment, 1919. First Edition. Oversized tabloid (59.5cm); 6pp. Folds, chips and a few splits along edges; paper toned and a bit brittle; Good to Very Good.  Quite scarce publication from the 31st Infantry Regiment, published "Every Once In A While," "Wherever We Happen To Be."..... More

Philadelphia: Moses Thomas, 1815. Six volumes bound in one; octavo; contemporary sheep over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],524,4(ads)pp.; three engraved frontispieces including two portraits, as well as added engraved title page, plus three portrait plates bound at head of separate issues, text illus. throughout. Boards rather scuffed, Ex-New Castle Library..... More