Lag's Lexicon
London: Routledge & Keegan Paul LTD, 1950. 234 pp. Dictionary of slang terms used in 1950's era English Prisons. Some rubbing, staining, and cracking to the dust jacket.
London: Routledge & Keegan Paul LTD, 1950. 234 pp. Dictionary of slang terms used in 1950's era English Prisons. Some rubbing, staining, and cracking to the dust jacket.
Gaylord Watson: Gaylord Watson, 1857. 70, [2] pp. Embossed boards with folding map. Ex-library with bookplate.
New York: Geo. W. Avery, 1872. Binding has fading Good condition with small pocket glued on the inside back cover Lacking the map A brief guide for visitors to New York with many ads 165 pp pp.
Hillacre: 1917. 41 pp. Uncut. Dust jacket lightly worn and faded. Waldo Pierce's copy with his bookplate and a note signed "Waldo" laid into the front. Reed was an active American Communist who died in Russia in 1920.
Boston: W.J. Reynolds, 1851. Letterhead dated Boston, Oct. 23rd, 1851. Good condition but likely had another leaf and was a stampless letter sheet. The left side of the letterhead lists 18 titles published by this company including music, poetry, schoolbooks and more. The letter to H.M. Vilar (?) is in.....
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1889. 78 pp. Hardcover with gold gilt on the cover and spine. Wear to the covers including fading/sunning most prevalent on the spine. Spine is bumped at the top and bottom with some light rubbing. What looks like a small ink mark on the.....
Greenfield, Massachusetts: Ansel Phelps, 1825. 108 pp. Boards stained and worn, hinges cracking and the interior is foxed and stained. First American edition of this important work on finishing furniture and decoration objects.
London: C. and G. Kearsley, 1792. 239 pp. Very ggod in full calf. Binding sound. Minor stains and foxing. Has a bookplate of Lord Sinclair with an ink inscription to his daughter.
Chicago: Nina Van Zandt, 1887. 91 pp. Binding damp stained. Spies was anarchist and one of 4 men hung in Chicago in the aftermath of the Haymarket affair.
Albany: C. Van Benthuysen, 1862. 94 pp. Soiled and light wear and occasional notes in pencil. McDade 137. Illustrated with plates that document the study of blood splatter. Rev. Budge was accused and convicted of murdering his wife by cutting her throat.
Benton Harbor: R. James Taylor, 1992. 142 pp. Stiff paper wraps and in good condition. Taylor is the leader of the small Christian Israelite community known as Mary's City of David. This work traces the 7 messengers from Joanna Southcott through Mary and Benjamin Purnell.
Canaan Four Corners: Press of the Berkshire Industrial Farm, [1903]. 27 pp. Good with a small chip to the spine. This includes a speech White gave at a meeting of the Equal Rights Club of Hartford, Connecticut. White was a Shaker sister and part of the progressive North Family at.....
Boston, Newburyport: Weeks, Jordan & Co., 1840. Third. 296 pp. Stains, wear, and foxing. There are numbering mistakes on a few pages, but the book is complete. This third edition seems to be unique and has a label affixed to the front cover for the Weeks, Jordan Co. They likely.....
Boston: Boston & Worcester Railroad, 1853. Broadside. 7"x 11". Top edge a with minor crumpling. This broadsheet lists times for trains from Boston to Albany where you can take trains to Western New York, Ohio, and other points west. or catch a steamer in Buffalo. The verso has a map.....