New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1859. First edition. 16mo. 70 pp. Frontispiece portrait of George Washington, engraved plate of Mt. Vernon. BAL 3967. Some light foxing, but very good. Original gilt-stamped brown cloth (a little faded). (4640). More about MOUNT VERNON: A Letter to the Children of America, by the author of "Rural Hours,"...
Philadelphia, [PA]: Printed by Mathew Carey, No.122, Market-Street, 1808. 15 cm. 122pp. plus six plates, including frontispiece. Contemporary leather and rubbed marbled boards, spine gilt. Scattered foxing. Contemporary ink inscription on title page. First American edition of the poems composed by John Gay. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 15090. ROSENBACH 365. More about GAY'S FABLES. In One Volume. Complete From the Last London Edition
Washington, D.C. Buell & Blanchard, 1853. 21 cm. [4], [2], 302, [2] pp. Original printed wraps, untrimmed. Slightly chipped around edges of wrappers and spine. WRIGHT Vol. 2, 12. LCP/HSP Afro-American Catalogue, 52. An anti-slavery fiction based on true events. A South Carolina law required the imprisonment of black mariners... More about MANUEL PEREIRA; OR THE SOVEREIGN RULE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. WITH VIEWS OF SOUTHERN LAWS, LIFE, AND...
New-Haven, [CT]: Printed by George Bunce, 1799. 14 cm. 145 [i.e. 119] pp.; 12, 23-99, 110-119, 126-145. Paper boards with leather spine with creative early stitching through spine. Last page glued to board. SHIPTON and MOONEY 35769. More about THE WIDOW OF THE VILLAGE, or, Adventures of innocence. A moral tale, by the celebrated Marmontel....
(Detroit, MI: Gale Research), 1994. First separate edition, an offprint from the DLB, 1/20 copies bound for private distribution. 4to. (2), 327-341, (3) pp. Illustrated from photographs, portraits. The final three pages print "one of Wyllie's entries for a proposed 'ideal Sabin,'" a detailed description of the various issues and... More about JOHN COOK WYLLIE. From the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 140
(Wilmington, NC: Commercial Printing Co., c1908). First edition. 12mo (16 cm.). 68 pp. Illustrated from photographs, two plates. Pirate related fiction set in the waters near Wilmington. Thornton 6479. Powell 270: "Story of buried treasure on an island near Wilmington in the 17th century by Captain Kidd and a 19th... More about MONEY ISLAND
