Detroit: Advertiser Power Presses, 1852. 8vo, pp. 52; disbound, ex-library book with usual markings; a sturdy and unmarked copy. Tappan's first address as the first official President of the University of Michigan, a position newly created by the 1850 state constitution. Tappan was a strong proponent in the German model..... More

Boston: Elam Bliss, for R. M'Dermut, 1810. Third edition, 12mo, pp. 16, 5 engraved plates, 1 folding; original printed paper wrappers; covers toned and spotted, spine perished with string repair, corner of lower cover perished and corner of last plate worn (no loss of letterpress), plates foxed, good. The first..... More

Oxford [Ohio]: printed by W. W. Bishop, 1838. First edition, 8vo, pp. 22, [2]; disbound, stab holes; scattered light foxing. Thomas (1806-1866) was a Midwestern journalist and novelist "remembered as a loyal friend and correspondent of Edgar Allan Poe" (DAB). He here exhorts his listeners to "behold the respect and..... More

St. Paul: Saint Paul Public Schools, [2002]. 4to, pp. [10], 106, xxiv, [4], 109, [1]; text in double column; printed paper wrappers; lower wrapper bumped with short closed tear, else fine. More

Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1862. Boston edition (reprint), 214, [2]; engraved frontispiece, text illustrations throughout; original black cloth over drab pictorial boards; covers darkened, extremities a bit scuffed; later rubber stamp on front pastedown, else a very good, sound copy. At head of title: "Tower's Second Reader." 2 pp. of..... More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1954. First edition, 8vo, pp. 85, [1]; near fine in original blue cloth, in a lightly worn, clipped and soiled dust jacket. More

Boston: Etheridge and Bliss, 1807. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 20; disbound; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings, modern staples and numerous pin holes along gutter edge from previous binding; first and last leaves heavily foxed, occasional spotting throughout. Shaw & Shoemaker 13751; Sabin 20587. More

Philadelphia: John Young, 1830. First edition, 8vo, pp. 16; removed from binding, small closed tears to fore-edge of last two leaves, light waterstaining. Tyson was a lawyer and historical writer who served on many educational boards, including as Manager of the Apprentices' Library Company, and as a director of the..... More

[London]: Andre Deutsch, [1955]. New, enlarged, and revised edition, 8vo, pp. 239; original boards in tan dust jacket; mild shelf wear to jacket edges, else about fine. "Principles that govern the writing of the language [illustrated] with examples" (jacket blurb). Published in The Language Library series, edited by Eric Partridge..... More

Terre Haute: Friends of the Cunningham Memorial Library, 1999. First edition limited to 50 copies, 4to, pp. xix, [1], 171; original cream pictorial spiral-bound wrappers; fine. More than 1500 entries. Indiana only in OCLC as of December, 2013. More

New York: E. Duyckinck, T. & J. Swords [et al.], 1803. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. lvi, 353; [2], 470, [10]; contemporary full sheep, black morocco labels and red morocco numbering pieces on spine; the text is tones, both bindings rubbed and worn, but sound. In fact, not the first American..... More

Philadelphia: printed for John Conrad & Co. No. 30, Chestnut-street, M. & J. Conrad & Co., no. 140, Market-street, Baltimore; and Rapine, Conrad & Co. Washington City. J. Bioren, printer, 1801. Ostensibly, the first American edition (see below); 16mo, pp. xvi, 186, [2] ads; contemporary full sheep, red morocco label..... More