Boston: Webster & Southard, 1836. First edition. Wraps. 8vo. (48)pp. Sewn wrappers. Illustrated with woodcuts. A conventional almanac but with text and memorable dates relating to anti-slavery issues and people. There is a particularly gruesome cut opposite November of a Negro Hunt . The first in a series of anti-slavery..... More
London: Published by the Author, 1841. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 4to. viii, 264;viii, 266pp. Original deep blue-green cloth, coated endpapers. Folding map in Vol. I, and two full page maps in Vol. II. Errata slip present in Vol. I. Illustrated throughout. Even though the standard references call for 3112..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (6),252pp. followed by 24pp publisher's catalog dated December 1864. Original brown pebbled cloth, gilt spine title, and with the boards blocked in blind. Chocolate coated endpaper. Spine tips and corners worn, cloth rubbed, spine and inner hinges neatly mended, else a...... More
(Harrisburg): Clarence M. Bush, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Large 8vo. COntemporary half leather, marbles paper boards. Rebacked in matching leather with guilt spine titles. Inner hinges repaired. Illustrated with color plates and maps. A very good set. Frontier forts of Pennsylvania; Indian forts of the Blue Mountains; Frontier..... More
n.p. n.p., n.d. (1939). Tunnel Book. Colour pictorial upper scene with single central peep-hole, four cut-away panels and a back-scene, all printed in color, 5 by 6¼ inches. When opened accordion style it shows the Grand Concourse from the 1939 New York World's Fair, culminating in a picture of the..... More
Boston: Christian Scientist Publishing Company, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. 456pp. Publisher's black patterned cloth; gilt spine title; plain endpapers. Errata page tipped-in at rear. One of 1000 copies of the first edition. A fine, bright copy, with only the barest traces of wear, notably at the head of..... More
