Oneida community; an autobiography, 1851-1876. Edited, with an introduction and prefaces by Constance Noyes Robertson.
Syracuse, N.Y. Syracuse University Press, 1981. Paperback. xvi, 364p., wraps, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 30152
Syracuse, N.Y. Syracuse University Press, 1981. Paperback. xvi, 364p., wraps, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 30152
Berlin: Hofmann & Co., 1851. Hardcover. 64p., text in German printed in Fraktur, illustrated with humorous etchings by Scholz and other artists uncredited, foxing throughout, bound in lightly worn marble boards with red cloth spine backing. First of a series. Scholtz was a caricaturist and illustrator for the Kladderadatsch newspaper..... More
Cat.No: 191293
New York: Leonard Scott & Co., 1850. Magazine. Pp.157-312p. (i.e., about 150 pages), printed doublecolumn throughout on reasonably alkaline paperstock, sewn textblock in paste-fastened green printed wraps. Untrimmed, very edgeworn with dirt and a stain to foredge and foxing to top edge, short splits and small chips to head and..... More
Cat.No: 242322
Washington, DC: Printed by Jno. T. Towers, 1850. Pamphlet. 16 pp., unbound. 9.75 x 6.25 in. Two old horizontal folds. Printed and folded, but unbound, uncut, and edges untrimmed; can easily be unfolded into a full sheet. Textual record of a debate on January 30, 1850, regarding a resolution proposed..... More
Cat.No: 298654
n.p. 1858. Approximately 9.75x14 inch woodblock print, very good, backed with a piece of used scrap paper bearing Japanese calligraphy. The oddly-shaped characters depicted on the print are typical of such designs, intended to symbolize good fortune. The auspicious syllable "fu" can be found hidden in numerous places, such as..... More
Cat.No: 298011
Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1855. Pamphlet. 16p., self-wraps, foxing, edge wear, minor soiling, else good condition. More
Cat.No: 84389
[Budapest]: Gondolat, 1981. Paperback. 224p., illus., wraps, wraps slightly worn, price sticker on rear wrap, else very good condition. Text in Hungarian. Magyar Historia. More
Cat.No: 229986
New York: American Temperance Union, 1851. Pamphlet. 16p. pamphlet bound with thread, minor foxing. Letters in favor of Maine's Temperance movement. More
Cat.No: 275304
[Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], [not before 1850]. Handbill. 1 sheet. 10 x 5.25 in. Three horizontal folds, otherwise Good. Poem about the author's residence on the shore of Lake Sunappe, New Hampshire. Sturoc was a Scottish-born poet and freethinker who moved to Montreal and resettled in..... More
Cat.No: 310399
Mount Pleasant: The Cumming Press, 1974. Hardcover. xii, 154p., introduction, very good first edition thus limited to 487 copies in orange cloth boards and gilt. One of several books in a series. More
Cat.No: 214408
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1947. Hardcover. xvii, 94p., very good hardcover in dj. More
Cat.No: 43601
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1970. Hardcover. x, 184p., illustrated from period images, semi-finepress treatment from Ward Ritchie, hardbound in 9.5x6.5 inch black cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the paper-covered slipcase. A fine copy in every respect: sound, clean and unmarked, slipcase ditto. More
Cat.No: 303492
[ca. 1850s]. Woodblock print. Three 10x14.25 inch prints, rather worn with some wormholing; pasted onto plain paper substrate. Later handwritten label pasted on the first sheet. Not found in any online databases, otherwise perhaps not worth listing in this condition. More
Cat.No: 298015
Melbourne: William Heinemann Australia Pty Ltd, 1970. Hardcover. xxx, 204p., illustrated with a b&w frontis photoportrait. Hardbound in brown papered boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. We see no damage whatsoever: a fine copy in every respect. More
Cat.No: 297158
Washington DC: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1852. Pamphlet. 24p., unfastened signatures, 9.5x6.3 inch self-wraps. Rhode Island Historical Society stamp and label and donor's name in sepia nib, plus careless institutional penciled emphases on the cover; dust-soil, faint foxing, untrimmed edges show mild crumpling, old transverse fold-lines (now flat)..... More
Cat.No: 174793
Osaka: n.pub. 1851. Woodblock print. Three 7.25x10 inch prints, neatly joined and backed, very good. A depiction of the actors in a kabuki play about a samurai whose ill-fated love for a prostitute leads to their double suicide. More
Cat.No: 298013
New York: Rudd & Carleton, [1858]. 256p., publisher's ads; first edition diced greygreen cloth gilt, panelled blind, original matte endpapers, an intact copy with with the following flaws : edgewear, flecks of board showing and a nick and a tiny tear; dimmed and slightly soiled with handling, spine title still..... More
Cat.No: 81141
Boston: J.P. Mendum, [1836?]. Hardcover. Two volumes bound as one [xlviii, 408, 416p. + ads for the Boston Investigator and related publications], frontispieces (vol. 1 portrait of Voltaire, vol. 2, family portrait). Original publisher's ribbed black cloth panelled and ruled in blind, spine title gilt (quite bright), boards are edgeworn..... More
Cat.No: 142105
Boston: Printed and Published by J. Q. Adams, 1836. Leather Bound. Two volumes bound as one: frontis portrait tissue-guarded, lii, 408, 2 [light cardstock "Family Record" leaves], frontis (of family) with tissue, lii [repeated material], 416p., first edition recased in late 19thC red morocco gilt: a custom-bound production with pleasing..... More
Cat.No: 194898
Chicago: Elephant Paperbacks, Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1990. Paperback. xxvii, 258p., wraps, reprint of 1924 edition, with new introduction. Very good condition. More
Cat.No: 21576
Hong Kong: John Warner Publications, 1981. Paperback. 112p., wraps, 9.25x12 inches, profusely illus., very good first edition. More
Cat.No: 271762
Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, A XEROX Company, 1974. Paperback. ix, 322p., a photocopied dissertation with minor bindery flaws: images recto only with often careless register, this copy somewhat manhandled with dog-eared corner-tips, a couple marginal tears, a marked-up bibliography. Covers edgeworn with short tears and a dimmed cover-label, Good reading..... More
Cat.No: 282903
Westport: Negro Universities Press, 1970. Hardcover. vii, 168p., reprint of 1863 edition, cloth boards, no dj, very good. More
Cat.No: 47398
Salem, OR: [Panther Printing Company], 1972. Pamphlet. 26p., 5.25x7 inch wraps; frontis., illus., slight toning, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 310677
New York: Vintage Books, 1983. Trade Paperback. lix, 140p. [facsimile pages], xxxiii [notes and chronology], trade-size wraps. Paperstock toned, nick to back cover, else very good. Reissue of the 1859 novel by an African American woman that attacked the racism of the North as well as the slave system of..... More
Cat.No: 180441