Boston: W. G. Corthell, 1885. 12mo, pp. [2], xv, [1], 285, [3]; wood-engraved frontispiece and 15 illustrations (6 full-page); original pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt and black; 2-inch chafe mark along edge of rear board, all else very good and sound. The first edition was published the previous year..... More

Buffalo: Mount Mercy Academy, 1942. First edition, small 8vo, pp. xviii, [2], 132; 14 plates (3 printed in color); very good copy in original blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine and upper cover. More

Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, [1908]. First American edition (originally published Toronto, 1907, as Comrades Two), 8vo, pp. 319; title-page printed in blue and yellow with leaf motif, photographic frontispiece and 3 photographic plates (all in color); light wear to extremities else near fine in the rarely seen dust jacket printed..... More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. 8vo; pp. [2], [i]-iii, [iv-vi], 325; frontispiece and twelve plates by George Sloane; original decorative green publishers' cloth, t.e.g.; near fine. Gift inscription dated 1909 on the front free endpaper. Wright III, 2068 for the first edition of 1892. More

Hardwick, Vermont: July 1, 1879. 8vo, on 2 ruled sheets 8" x 10" folded; written in pencil, the first page quite faint. Lydia is not pleased with her husband, and in this closely written letter of eight pages, she catalogues his misdeeds and faults including the time he was caught..... More

Lahore: The Times Publishing Company, [1929]. Large 8vo, pp. 213, [1]; portrait frontispiece of Herbert Hoover and 14 plates plus text illustrations; original black cloth; very good in a toned and shallowly chipped green pictorial dust jacket. Uncle Sham was a response to Mother India, a book focused on child..... More

Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 1986. Edition limited to 200 copies (this, no. 15), 12mo, pp. [6], 15, [3]; frontispiece wood engraving by John DePol, two line engravings after Eric Gill's original blocks; original blue cloth, printed paper labels on spine and upper cover; fine. From the library of Kim..... More

Boston: T. H. Carter & Co., and Benjamin B. Mussey, 1844. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 9-216; original olive-green cloth; decorative blind-stamping on covers; faded gilt lettering on spine; spine extremities a bit chipped; front hinge cracked; corners scuffed; otherwise good and sound. A collection of vignettes intended to educate..... More

Boston: printed by Hosea Sprague, 1807. 16mo, pp. 96; disbound; small tear on the last leaf (no loss), all else very good. Originally published in 1774. An elderly and infirm doctor writes letters to his daughters on the conduct of life. American Imprints 12694; see Osborne, p. 712 and Rosenbach..... More

London: printed for John Dunton at the Raven in the Poultry, 1694. Only edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 240, 161-352, 301-484, 401-528; A⁴ B-Q⁸ 2A-2M⁸ 3A-3L⁸ 3M⁴ 4A-4H⁸; lexicon in double column; full contemporary calf ruled in blind, unadorned spine; covers a little pock-marked, light rubbing and wear, minor paper flaws..... More

Boston: Hilliard, Gray and Company, 1837. First edition, 12mo, pp. vi, 124; original brown printed paper wrappers; rear wrapper loosening, else near fine. The work was finished in the summer of 1826 but was not published until ten years later due to the reticence of the author. American Imprints 44641..... More

London: Andre Deutsch, [1972]. 2 vols., limited edition, 1 of 2000 copies, 4to, 256; 256; profusely illustrated; 1 vol. in fine condition is bound in black cloth-backed marbled paper covered boards with printed paper label on spine, the other vol. is bound in patterned paper wraps with light rubbing at..... More

Philadelphia: Jas. B. Rodgers Co., 1872. First edition, 8vo, pp. 14, [2]; self-wrappers, removed from binding; prior old fold, text clean and sound, very good. Henry Hartshorne "was a strong advocate of the rights of women to study medicine" (DAB). The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania was the second medical..... More