[Providence: J. Carter, 1803.]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 12; uncut; recent marbled wrappers; slight toning, else near fine. Timely reprint of the 1764 act establishing Rhode-Island College, which in the following year became Brown University. Among its clauses was one exempting the college president and professors from state taxes. American..... More

Saint Paul: Marshall, 1861. 8vo, pp. 448; original green printed wrappers, back wrap torn away, small piece of pp. 447-448 torn away near top outer corner slightly affecting text, minor nicks along faded spine, corners of cover dog-eared, some soiling; else a good copy or better. Martin 378, locates only..... More

Boston: published by Benjamin Russell, Wednesday, August 13, 1788. 14¾" x 9¾ ", pp. [4]; 3 columns per page; central fold, removed from binding. Front page Miscellany from the New York Museum "Virtue the Happiness of a People", foreign and domestic news, ship news, including a short description of "His..... More

Providence: [Merrymount Press], 1917. 8vo, pp. 13, [3]; illustrated title page and 7 full-page photo illustrations; fine in original printed wrappers. Designed by D. B. Updike and printed at The Merrymount Press. Laid in is a tri-fold leaflet on Courses of Instruction at the Women's College for the School Year..... More

N.p., n.d. [Providence? publisher not identified, 1860.]. First edition, 12mo, pp. 10, [2]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; very good. Not in Bartlett; Parks 20. More

New York: Grolier, 1964. Edition limited to 2100 copies, 12mo, pp. ix-[xi], 114-[118], illus. after photographs and facsimiles on rectos and versos of 12 plates; original gray cloth-backed boards with some water staining on covers and spine. More

Easthampton: Warwick Press, 2004. Edition limited to 75 copies signed by Blinn, approx. 7" x 5", pp. [28], [8]; 5 facsimile plates of letters and ephemera, facsimile of Blumenthal's obituary; original yellow cloth-backed dyed paper-covered boards; fine. Original prospectus laid in. A tribute to their friendship and the man himself..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1937]. 8vo, pp. 471, [1]; orig. brown printed wrappers; some spotting, very good. Advance proofs "photographically reproduced from uncorrected English proofs." His first novel, the importation of which was subsequently banned in South Africa, owing to its commentary on the Great Trek to the Transvaal in 1836..... More

Loughborough, Leicestershire: Plough Press, 1979. Edition limited to 25 copies (this, no. 18), 8vo, pp. 25, [7]; 10 plates plus other illustrations; original quarter purple morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine; fine. Recounting the murder of the binding tool producer, John Pass by the the bookbinder, James Cook in..... More

Chicago: Walter M. Hill, [1938]. Edition limited to 1000 copies, 8vo. pp. [2], xiv, [2], 150; 28 plates, 23 photo-reproductive; original blue cloth with gilt title on spine; gift inscription on front free endpaper; a near fine copy. An account of Lincoln's life in Indiana by a local. Not in..... More

New York: Scribner's Sons, [1963]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, [2], 615; portrait frontis, 10 illus. on rectos and versos of 4 plates; very good copy in the jacket. More

Tokyo: Shima-itokku, 1861. 2 volumes, fukurotoji, 7" x 5", [4], 45; 22 leaves; original blue wrappers, printed paper labels on upper covers; about fine throughout. With an unusual American provenance: each volume with the early ownership signature of "L. A. Waterman, U. S. N." Inside the cover of the first..... More

New York: G. S. Fellows & Co., 1888. 8vo, pp. [5], 6-143, [3]; original brown cloth; gilt lettering on front cover; spine extremities scuffed; textblock toned; otherwise very good. The bibliography of mnemonics, 1325-1888, runs for 25 pages at the back. More