Montgomery, (AL): Press of the Alabama Journal, 1846. First edition. 12mo. 260 pp. A high-spot (if such a thing may be said to exist) of antebellum pro-slavery literature. Historian John Ashworth finds in Estes “the fullest expression” of the menial theme in pro-slavery literature: “[Estes] was prepared to ‘state it..... More
Berlin: S. Mode's Verlag, nd [ca. 1880]. 9. vermehrte und verbesserte auflage. 12mo. xii, 200, (6, ads) pp. Frontispiece (illustrating six tricks, each citing a page number for reference), in-text illustrations from wood engravings. OCLC locates editions from 1866 (1st?), 1888 (12th ed.), and 1893 (15th ed.), each in one..... More
Baton Rouge, (LA): Baton Rouge Gazette, December 29, 1827. Printed broadside extra, 21 1/8 x 14 3/4 inches, headline in large bold type. The first notice is a long advertisement for a slave, 'Negro woman, named Annis, 18 years old, a good house servant" and other property; included thereafter are..... More
(New Orleans: Privately Printed (for Charles Heartman, Heartman's Historical Series No. 50), 1936. First edition, "limited" (without a statement of number). 8vo. (6), 9-77 pp. Illustrated from photographs, title pages, ephemera, advertisements, etc., plates. Describes 13 of the "Blue Books," directories and advertising works for New Orleans "houses of ill..... More
[Washington DC: A. & G. Way, 1811]. Printed broadside, 16 1/2 x 11 1/8 inches, untrimmed, as issued, with wide margins all around, folded to 3 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches. This is a statement of payments due to eight different craftsmen and tradesmen for their work in furnishing the..... More
Urbana, OH: 1812. Folio manuscript document, one-page, approximately 250 words, a deposition to be "red in evidence in a suit ... in Mason County, Kentucky," apparently over ownership of property, including the "Negro woman," John Phillips as plaintiff, the descendants of Moses Phillips as defendant. Pinckard, as a justice of..... More
(Washington, DC): 1829. Autograph letter. 4to. 4-pages on a bifolium sheet of paper (watermark “Amies Philada.” with their dove mark), approximately 250 words, in part: “My Dear General, I entreat you to send me word of hope or comfort, for my situation is mortifying and distressing beyond all expression! After..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878. [printed later, an attempted forgery; the first edition requires a title page dated 1879]. With the first issue point of 79 titles listed in the publisher's Half-Hour Series at the front, but this copy issued without a printed date on the title page ("1878"..... More
Liverpool: Printed by J. M. M'Creery for Cadell & Davies, London, 1802. First edition. 4to. (4), iv, 487 pp. Engraved view on title page; with the half-title. Poggio (1380-1459), an Italian scholar and humanist, "was responsible for rediscovering and recovering many classical Latin manuscripts, mostly decaying and forgotten in German..... More
(Kampala: U. P. & P. Co.), nd [between 1934 and 1944]. 8vo. 24 pp. The King's African Rifles was a British East Africa regiment recruited from native inhabitants of the various territories and commanded primarily by officers from the regular British army; it was active from 1902 through the early..... More
Windsor (VT): Vermont Republican & Yeoman, November 25, 1818. Monroe's second State of the Union address. Printed broadside, 20 x 12 inches, the title printed above the first column of the message's text, with no other news or advertisements. A rare printing, in fine original state, from the American provincial..... More
New York: nd [ca. 1850]. Beautiful painted trade sign, 11 7/8 x 14 inches, watercolor and gouache in gold, black, and several shades of blue, with some remaining traces of pencil outlining, all enclosed within an embossed gilt border. Signed by the artist in lower corner: "I. L. Lazarus /..... More
(Cologne: In domo Que[n]tell i[m]presssum, 1505). 8vo (14 cm). A-K8. (159) pp. [verso of final leaf blank, here filled with annotations in an early hand). Printed in Roman type. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) was a French Benedictine abbot of the Cistercian order who played an important role in church..... More
Richmond, (VA): West & Johnston, 1862. First Confederate edition. 8vo. viii, 220, (4, publisher’s ads) pp. Sabin 97374. Howes T-394: “Original edition suppressed on its publication in 1836; date 1856 was fictitious. A prophetic foretelling of the Civil War.” Parrish & Willingham 6586. Outer quarter of blank front endpaper excised..... More
NP: np, nd [ca. 1925]. Promotional. 16mo (16 cm.). Four-page leaflet: Illustrated cover title (with entire text enclosed within a single bold rule border with ornaments at the corners), interior pages with a short biographical sketch and a transcription of Pyott's birth certificate, verso of integral leaf with a repeat..... More
NP: np, nd [but 1889 or 1890]. 16mo (15 cm.). 16 pp. Title page wood engraving (repeated on the front wrapper). Dudley Foster was born in Nova Scotia in 1877 (text gives 1871) and died in 1894. Touted as the smallest man alive, he weighed five pounds at age five;..... More
New York: Beadle and Co., (c1866). 6mo (17 cm.). (4), [9]-100 pp. Frontispiece. Sabin 52154 (for the English edition). BAL 14919. Johannsen Dime Novels 96: "A logging camp in northern Maine in 1863-1864." OCLC locates 11 copies (Buffalo/Erie Co. Public, Columbia, Colorado, Yale, N. Illinois, Kansas, American Antiquarian Society, Tulsa..... More
New York: C. P. Huestis (stereotyped by Vincent L. Dill), nd [ca. 1848-1853]. 12mo. 24 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings. "Huestis is listed as publisher and bookseller at 104 Nassau St. in New York directories for 1848 through 1853" (AAS catalogue). Cover title: "Death of Cock Robin." OCLC locates seven..... More
Chicago, (IL): Belford, Clarke & Co, 1883. First edition, mixed issue (no text after page 196, but 5/8" between rules on copyright notice) cloth binding. 8vo. 196 pp. 16-page publisher's catalogue at rear. Very good copy housed in a custom burgundy cloth clamshell box. Original black-stamped decorated green cloth (spine..... More
New York: J. Slater, Publisher, nd [ca. 1850]. 16mo (16 cm.). iv, [7]-96 pp. In-text illustrations from wood engravings; publisher's ad on rear wrapper. The legend of Robin Hood told in verse. OCLC locates two copies (American Antiquarian Society, lacking the rear wrapper; Goucher). Rather persistent foxing, but a very..... More
London: James Cawthorn, 1810. Fourth edition. 8vo. vii, 85, (3, ads) pp. With the half-title. Portrait frontispiece (trimmed at lower edge, taking most of the second line of the publisher's statement). Armorial bookplate of "H. Hargreaves" on front pastedown. One ad leaf torn, affecting several words; otherwise very good. Somewhat..... More
London and Tonbridge: Ernest Benn Ltd., (c1977). First edition, 1/150 copies (this # 89) of the De Luxe edition, signed by the author and Jim Nice, the flydresser (limitation leaf included for both volumes). 8vo. Two volumes: 288 pp; volume two with one page of text and four recessed leaves..... More
Pocono Manor, PA: 1916. Oblong 8vo (5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches). 45 photographically reproduced cartoons of couples, a few children, and several unaccompanied men, plus two original cartoons mounted to leaves of black paper making up a small album ("Photographs" embossed on front wrapper), each with the name of..... More
Maine: 1928-1938. Photograph album, 7 3/8 x 11 1/2 inches, 44 [of 48] leaves employed, both sides used for either mounting photographs or describing them, or both, with short narratives about trips occasionally interspersed; affixed to two leaves are reproduced copies of a 1937 manuscript map, executed by Erastus Haring..... More
Arlington, VT: Isaac Oelgart, 1983. First edition, 1/60 copies (this #28). Miniature 8vo (2 7/8 x 2 1/8 inches). 105 pp. Hand-colored frontispiece (fly-fisherman in a stream initialed and numbered by Al Barker), title-page printed in brown and black, brown chapter titles and tail-pieces, three feathers tipped into text. Accompanied..... More
