St. Louis: St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern Short Line, 1875. Folds out to a good map of the West. Minor stains, tears and wear. About good.
Mount Lebnon: The Shakers, 1890. 34 pp. Chipping to the wraps and stamps from a former owner. Born in 1815 Avery became one of the most important Shaker leaders and was doing his best to stem the tide of the decline of the Shakers when he died.
London: James Burns, 1871. vii [1[, 120 pp. Good with minor chips to the wraps and a small inventory number written in on the corner of the title page. The number indicates it was once used at Canterbury. Elder Frederick Evans was born in England and joined the Shakers at.....
Windsor: Nahum Mower, 1805. Complete issue for July 30, 1805. 8 pages. Foxed, folds, removed from a bound volume. One ad clipped out of the last page. Almost two complete pages printing the Constitution of the new country of Haiti.
Brooklyn: J.E. Paine, 1864. A photographic copy of a pen and ink drawing and transcript of the Emancipation Proclamation. 20"x 27". Good with light fading and edge wear. Lincoln is pictured without his beard.
Hallowell, ME: Printed and Published by Glazier Co., 1826. 582pp. Bound in a worn contemporary full calf with gilt spine decorations and a crimson spine label Despite the wear the book is still quite tight and in very good condition internally. This is the first edition published in.....
Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, and Benjamin Loring & Co., 1841. [13], 223 pp. First edition. Five full-page engravings. Original full sheep with calf label. Interior has some minor foxing. Dana was a young Harvard-trained lawyer. This standard 19th century treatise on seamanship and maritime law resulted.....
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard. 1843. vii, 232pp. Bound in red morocco over marbled boards. Light wear to spine ends and edges, but a very nice copy of one of Cooper’s scarcer works. Ned Myers was an early shipmate of Cooper’s on the merchant vessel Stirling (Cooper spells it Sterling.....
Boston: B.F. Wood Music Co., circa 1890's. 5, [1] pp. Lightly soiled. A piece of sheet music from this poplar burlesque opera of the day.
Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Co., 1854. 124 pp. First edition. Head of the spine lacking, and the front board has remnants of a label adhered to it. The First few leaves are foxed. Haitian born slave Toussaint wnt on to be a well-known hairdresser in New York city and a......
Cambridge: The M.I.T. Press, 1965. 245 pp. In very good condition with a clipped and lightly soiled jacket.
Mt. Lebanon, NY: The Shakers, 1880's. 4 1/4"x 3 3/8". Clipped from a larger sheet. Four Shaker chair trade mark decals that were placed on commercially made Shaker chairs. The trade marks were used to counter the sale of counterfeit Shaker chairs.
Coney Island: C.A. Bradenburgh, c.1883.
Chicago: Fergus Printing Co., 1873. 16 pp. Fair condition with soiled and worn wraps. The right edge of the front wrap is crudely repaired. The inside front cover has the bookplate of Reuben Jay Flick (1871-1940) who lived in New York City and Lenox Massachusetts and was a member of.....
Croydon: W.G. Harding, 1819. 13 pp. Removed and edges trimmed when bound. A man named Wench who sold wine desperately need money and sold the Abbotts wine for under cost. The Abbotts encouraged Wench to purchase good wine from other merchants on credit and sell to them for less than.....
1896. 3 page typed account of interrogation of African American suspects Arthur Mayhew and John Wayne. Pinkerton writes how they worked on the suspects. Arthur Mayhew was convicted and electrocuted a year later. Wayne was convicted of manslaughter.
Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1822. 315 pp. Label removed from the verso of the front board and there is a small library stamp on verso of the rear board. Binding worn and rubbed and the lower corner of the title page is lacking. "The Carsons had been married.....
Knoxville: Bran, Warters & Gaut, 1899. 217 pp. Wraps stained, staples rusted. The White-Caps terrorized Sevier County Tennessee for several years punish those thought to be immoral. Eventually a second group called the Blue Bills was organized which was less violent was organized to try to end the White Caps.....
[San Francisco]: 1940. First edition? Numbered and signed by the author. Very good condition with a tear on the half title which runs through the author's signature. A graphic novel without text on the struggle of labor. Scarce.
Montreal: Messrs. Elliott and Brokovski, 1875. [10], 127, [9] pp. Good condition with original wraps and bound in later 3/4 cloth with marbled paper covered boards. Lepine was born in Ireland and became involved in the strife between the Metis and English speaking factions in the Red River area.
New York: National Police Gazette office, 1880. 72, [8] pp. Fair condition with wraps attached with tape and flyleaf torn. Likely the first edition of this scarce account of the underworld of New York. Good content on crime and vice.
Durham: George Walker, 1759? 47 pp. Very good in later binding. One copy located at Harvard. Likely printed circa 1800. Aram was a teacher and convinced a friend with an inheritance to purchase luxury goods on credit. Aram then killed the man and stole the goods. A body was found.....
Randolph, VT: Dix J. Camp, 1883. Broadside. 4 1/2" x 12". With business card. Good with folds and browning of the paper.
Rapid City, D.T. Rapid City Republican, 1886. 8"x 15". Broadsheet. This speech promoted the Rapid City area of South Dakota and is unrecorded. Some wear and loss but good condition.
Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1945. 26"x 36". Folded. Minor stains on the verso and tack holes to all four corners. A very attractive image.
