Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, Jun'r, [1825]. 12mo, [24]pp. alternately printed and paged [1]-12; hand-colored vignette title page, with 11 half-page hand-colored illustrations personifying the various parts of speech; original printed yellow wrappers, removed from a later binding with sewing holes and wear along cover edge, spine perished, covers soiled and chipped..... More

Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1840. 8vo, pp. 14, [2]; printed paper selfwrappers, covers spotted, else very good. A positive review of an "unremarkable" but "useful" temperance story. Hall was a liberal Unitarian minister who advocated for temperance and abolition. More

Paris & London: Masson et Cie [and] University of London Press, 1918. 8vo, pp. xxiii, [3], 312, [1], 23 (ads), [1] ads; ads also on rear pastedown; 96 figures in the text and 2 plates; good and sound in original brown cloth, soiled. Issued in the Military Medical Manuals series..... More

Newbury Port, [MA]: 1806. Holograph receipt, approx. 3" x 7.5"; "To Caleb Cross Dr to 4 Quires of Quarantine Notices - $6.00" dated July 18th. Prior fold, near fine. Evidence of job printing in the early 19th century US. More

[Iowa City]: Toothpaste Press, 1982. Edition limited to 70 signed and numbered copies, 10.5" x 14" prose broadside printed for Bookslinger Editions on the occasion of the author's reading at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. More

New York: William Osborn, 1840. First edition, 8vo, pp. 25, [1]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting, light foxing; very good. Sterns was the late president of the Medical Society of New York, a New York State senator; a founder of the American Tract Society, and president of the New York..... More

n.p. [publisher not identified], 1850. First edition, 8vo, pp. 20; removed from binding, wanting wrappers; very good. "Among the people of this country - on the floor of Congress, and to some extent in the Navy itself, there is a prevailing sentiment that our naval organization does not come up..... More

[Philadelphia? no publisher given], [1830?]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 18; stitched, as issued; moderately foxed; very good. NUC, locating three copies, notes: "One of the reports made to the U.S. Anti-Masonic Convention at Philadelphia, Sept. 1830; and also published in its volume of proceedings." Contains a full statement of facts..... More

Providence: Associates of the John Carter Brown Library, 1946. 8vo, printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, pp. vi, 88, frontispiece, 21 facsimiles on plates, fine copy in terracotta cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt title direct on spine. More

Providence: Benjamin F. Moore, 1842. First edition, 8vo, pp. 16; original printed salmon wrappers with ownership signature "Metcalf Esq." at the top; near fine. Entirely devoted to expressing opposition to the acts of the Dorrites. Not in American Imprints; NUC records eight copies, although none are in Rhode Island. Not..... More

[Boston? printed by order of the Association, 1853. First edition, 8vo, pp. 17, [3]; original plain brown wrappers, nearly loose, but present. On the front wrapper is the inscription "Chief Justice [Lemuel] Shaw with the respects of the author." Shaw was the Chief Justice of the Mssachusetts Supreme Court and..... More

Harrisburgh, [Pa.]: Theophilus Fenn, 1838. First edition, 8vo, pp. 12; original salmon wrappers; very good. At the time Stevens was a lawyer in rural Pennsylvania, but was later elected to Coingress where he was "one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s..... More

Boston: published by Moore and Sevey, 1832. First complete edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 32, [1]; original printed yellow wrappers; the last 8 leaves with a short tear at the top gutter not touching any letterpress; wraps a bit soiled and with some damp; a good copy. Inscribed "Thomas Grey Jun..... More