Littlestown, PA: "News" Print, 1876. Printed broadside, 15 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches, the text and title enclosed within an ornamental border. A local minister defends himself against perceived slanders by another minister, presenting "his side of the story" from beginning to end. The Littlestown News was published by Barton... More about A Card to the Public. / [followed by two columns of dense text in five long paragraphs]. Signed...

New York: Wright & Swasey (Wright gravure co.), 1892. 21 x 30 cm. 4pp., 80 plates. Original red morocco boards (rubbed), recently rebacked, corners repaired. Old tape marks on front board. Title page with edge wear, and a few plates with corners bent. "This book is one of an edition... More about CARICATURES PERTAINING TO THE CIVIL WAR; Reproduced from a Private Collection of Originals...

[Greensboro, AL]: Alabama Beacon, 1868. Printed broadside, 8 3/4 x 4 1/4 (both sides trimmed, not affecting text). It gives a somewhat defiant tone to events of the recent past "A people rising in their might / To sweep oppression from the land; / Defeated in the cause of right... More about Carrier's Address / of the / Alabama Beacon / December 25th, 1868. / [followed by six verses of...

[Portland, Maine: 1848]. 29 x 16 cm. Broadside. Printed in two columns, with typographical border. The address extolls the election of "A leader to the people's mind... / ...the country's friend / And champion, often keely tried, / Found true as steel-- the nation's pride!" [Zachary Taylor, hero of the... More about CARRIER'S ADDRESS TO THE PATRONS OF THE [Portland, Maine] DAILY UMPIRE, JANUARY 1, 1849. [caption...

NP: The club, 1902. 12mo. 44 pp. Includes the club's certificate of incorporation, constitution, by-laws, rules, and lists of governors, officers, and members. Cover title: "Carteret Gun Club, 1902." Club formed for live-pigeon shooting, employing live pigeons for targets instead of clays. Reports of several Carteret Gun Club shooting meets... More about The Carteret Shooting Club, Shooting Grounds at Garden City, Long Island, N.Y. Organized:...

Boston, Mass. Issued by the Massachusetts Public Interests League, 210 Newbury St, nd (ca. 1924). Broadside, 11 x 5 1/2 inches. Arguing against ratification of a proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution to reform child labor laws: "If the so-called Child Labor Amendment is ratified and becomes the law of... More about THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG [caption title, followed by 12 paragraphs of text

Paris: Georges Petit, 1910. 4to. 49 pp. 27 plates, picturing 118 examples, the text describing each individually. This copy extended by the addition al description of five more examples in manuscript, photographs of each mounted on four inserted leaves. Contemporary roan-backed red cloth, gilt spine title and gilt title on... More about Catalogue des Anciennes Faïences Peersanes, Damas, Rhodes, et Koubatcha Composant la Collection...

Philadelphia: The company, nd [1876?]. 4to. 8 pp. [printed double column]. OCLC locates two copies (Burndy, Winterthur). Folded (short split at fold). More about Catalogue of a Choice Collection of Practical, Scientific, and Economic Books, for Sale by Henry...

New York: Geo. A. Leavitt & Co., Auctioneers, 1884. Auction sale catalogue. 8vo. viii, 434 pp.; eight-page prospectus printed on yellow paper, with a portrait of Murphy, bound in at the rear, but without the 9-page addenda. 3142 lots (unpriced). From the library of Americana collector Frank C. Deering, with... More about Catalogue of the Magnificent Library of the Late Henry C. Murphy, of Brooklyn, Long Island,...

Hamilton, (AL): Ford Bros. Printers, (1907). 8vo. (34) pp. Illustrated, class portrait plates. Original printed gold wrappers, stapled. Very good. Courses of study with texts, facilities, expenses, pupils listed by class, seventh to tenth grade, etc. Scarce; OCLC locates this title only at Auburn and there only 1906-1907 and 1916-1917. More about CATALOGUE OF THE WEST ALABAMA AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, HAMILTON, ALABAMA, THIRTEENTH...

(Virginia Beach, VA: The hotel [Thomsen-Ellis Co., printers, Baltimore & New York]), nd [ca. 1925]. 4to. (25) pp. Illustrated, plates, 3-page folding panorama of the hotel and its beach club. Original illustrated marbled wrappers, tied; tour company stamp on front wrapper and endpaper, else very good. First edition (?). Elaborate... More about The Cavalier Offers Comfort, Refinement, Hospitality

Cloth, net $10.00. Half Calf, net $15.00. New Orleans, LA: F.F. Hansell & Bro., [1903]. Prospectus. 12mo. (3) pp., title leaf with portrait profile of Gayarre, interior double-page further description of the work, and a full-page illustration of the Hansell establishment. Very good. Printed self-wrappers. (#5545). More about Centenary Edition: History of Louisiana by Charles Gayarre, with a Biography of the Author by...

NP [Boston]: A.T. Bliss & Co., Printers, 164 Hanover Street, nd [ca. late 1870s?]. 22 cm. 3pp. [4th page blank]. Single sheet, folded, vignette of the dining room in the center of the title page; 2 internal pages list the bill of fare for supper and breakfast. A manuscript note... More about CENTRAL HOUSE DINING ROOMS, FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, CHESTER BALL, PROPRIETOR. MONTGOMERY...