Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth Century Essays
Wayne State University Press, 2001. New and still shrink wrapped.
Wayne State University Press, 2001. New and still shrink wrapped.
Rochester: American Public Health Association, 1890. 190 pp. Binding moderately faded, corners bumped and most of the rear free end paper has been removed.
Cincinnati: The Eagle Carriage Co., circa 1910. 56 pp. Very good condition with light soiling to the wraps and corners bumped. This also includes a tipped-in price list.
1912. Broadside. 8" x 10". Staining along the edges but otherwise in good condition. Formerly framed. The loose backing board from the frame has a note in ink indicating this piece was printed in 1912 and hung in the Beersville Hotel in 1912.
c.1830. 12 cards in box with directions. An unusual railroad game in English, French and German. Each card represents a business that has been altered by the construction of railroads in Europe and counsels the only way to survive is to speculate in railroad stocks. Complete with cards and directions.....
New York: Printed for the Author, 1885. 120 pp. Wraps chipped and soiled. A scarce pamphlet reviewing colonial laws on witchcraft.
Fargo: F. Jay Haynes, circa 1880. Avery good and clear image of a Assinaboine Native American encampment. Haynes was an important photographer in the Yellowstone area.
1860-1867. Three lottery tickets for the Grand Consolidated Lottery, Mechanics Art Union, and the International Joint Stock Company. Good condition and very attractive designs.
New York: circa 1907. Zacker was a twenty-four-year-old housekeeper in New York City and was accused of stealing from her employer. Good condition in storage envelope and a clipping on the case.
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.
Mount Lebanon, NY: The Shakers, circa 1910. Silk bookmark mounted on cardstock. The Shakers order a large quantity of these but for some reason never distributed them. Good condition but top edge of the silk bookmark is glued to the cardstock.
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.
London: T. Cadell, 1805. 329, 403 pp. Good in full calf with hinges starting to crack, occasional foxing, remnants of small labels on the front covers.
Dorchester, MA: 1800-1801. [32] pp. Fair condition withs oiling, corners dog-eared. 2 pages lacking that contain the months Sept.-Dec. As a young man Bedlam travelled to Argentina and remained there until his death in 1814.
Philadelphia: Gustavus V. Town, 1856. Broadside. 12" x 18". Good with folds. Not examined out of the frame.
Washington: The Washington Star, 1935. 25 pp. Good condition. Reprinted from The Washington Star. An illustrated guide to FBI training.
New York: 1883-84. 8 medical School lecture tickets for courses taken by Jay Humphreys at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Medical Department of Columbia Collage, City of New York Session of 1883-84. 8 cards for classes in Pathology, Physiology, Chemistry, Anatomy, Obstetrics, Matriculation Ticket, General Ticket, Surgery. Good condition.....
Trade card for Nolconi & Co. who specialized in supply medical products for sailing ships. Good with soiling and a charming folk-art painting on the reverse of a boy fishing. Circa 1850's.
Philadelphia: D. Landreth & Sons, 1898. 64 pp. Good condition with decorative color wraps. Illustrated in black and white. Some wear to the spine.
Alfred, ME: The Shaker, c.1915. Two postcards of the Alfred Maine Shaker village. The bottom image pictures the Church Family showing the 3rd dwelling house recently finished to replace the 2nd dwelling which had burned to the ground. The top image pictures the Second or Gathering Family which was where.....
1850. 93 pp. Wraps soiled but otherwise in good condition. John Dunlavy of one of the most important Shaker theologians. Richmond 521, Ericson 2636.
East Canterbury: Shakers, 1907. 16 pp. Good condition. The first edition of this often-republished introduction to Shaker life and beliefs. Richmond 684, Ericson 3307.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1937. 251 pp. Very good condition in jacket. A reprint with great graphics on the dust jacket. This is a novel about a woman who falls in love with a Treasury Department agent who is on the trail of a counterfeiting agent.
London: J. Johnson, 1792, 1796. 266, 348 pp. 2 titles in matching bindings. Very good with light wear to the bindings with minor loss to the head and tail of the spines. John Aikin was a doctor who devoted much of his life to writing and worked in conjunction with.....
Cincinnati: L. Swormstedt & A. Poe, 1856. 354 pp. Binding rubbed, interior foxed and light damp staining. Finley was a Methodist minister who was raised on the Ohio frontier. He ministered to the Wyandot tribe and later was the minister at the Ohio state penitentiary for four years. He describes.....