New York: Amerikanischen Traktat-Gesellschaft [American Tract Society], 1833. 20p. (including cover), the cover loose but intact, save a split up the lower portion of the spine. No. 81. The story of a Long Island man misled into infidelity, and his restoration of faith, rendered in German for an immigrant audience..... More
Cat.No: 191420
's-Gravenhage: Staatsuigeverij, 1978. 112p., captioned period photography throughout, amidst text, 11x8 inch cardstock wraps, mild edgewear and rubbing, a good copy. More
Cat.No: 162923
Washington DC: GPO, 1838. Pamphlet. 101p., terminal blank, disbound 9x6 inch self-wraps held with old binder's cord sunk into the textblock (old stab-holes are empty), quite sound but heavily foxed and has a mild marginal dampstain. Cover leaf is so thickly foxed it is hard to read, mere splotchiness thereafter..... More
Cat.No: 194126
Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1838. 131p., disbound, sewn, slightly edge worn, foxing. More
Cat.No: 124799
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1964. Hardcover. xxxii, 246p., folded map, illustrations from old prints; one of 1550 copies, dust jacket, very nice clean copy. Special publication number 39. More
Cat.No: 43259
London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1830. 80p., title and "Note" leaves, untrimmed 8.5x5.5 inch sewn signatures. Original thread partially absent, holding withal, externally quite dust-soiled and foxed with pressure-marks to textblock; small chip at the head (not affecting print) and Roman numerals in sepia nib which repeat publishing date. A...... More
Cat.No: 173427
Berkeley Heights, NJ: The Oriole Press, 1965. 9p., wraps, 4.5x7.5 inches. One of 75 copies. Reprints an 1839 editorial by Bryant. More
Cat.No: 35074
Philadelphia: Young, printer, 1832. Pamphlet. 32p., disbound, foxing, 5.25x8.25 inches, tables. This copy lacks the two maps and illustrations called for. Second edition. More
Cat.No: 197388
Washington DC: s.n., 1837. Single 9.5x6 inch leaf, about 120 words printed recto; some edgewear and corner-creasing, scattered large blots of foxing, a good-only copy. 24th Congress, 2d session. 183. We find a Gersham Wakeman who traces to Fairfield CT, married in 1757. More
Cat.No: 174799
Manchester: Neil Richardson, 1985. Pamphlet. 82p., foreword, postscript, illustrated with maps and photos, sosftbound, a good pamphlet in pictorial stapled wraps. More
Cat.No: 98717
Washington DC: s.n., 1837. Single folio leaf printed and folded to present a 13p. text, 9.5x6.2 inch self-wraps; some partial tearing of fold-lines, some crumpling of untrimmed edges, scattered light foxing, good copy. Regards "ten sections of land granted to said Territory (of Arkansas) for the erection of a public..... More
Cat.No: 174798
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1838. xii, 388p., engraved plates as called for (inserted yellow stock) , two engraved title pages (versions by each artist) and printed title leaf with presswork credit verso; first American illustrated edition cased into modern half calf boards over homemade marbling. Textblock was printed on..... More
Cat.No: 177655
Norwich, CT: Wm. Faulkner, 1833. 704p., fourth edition ('revised, corrected and improved'), staining and foxing throughout, full calf casing is exceedingly rubbed and worn with a torn head (yet still intact and handleable), spine label present but illegible. The autobiography of one of the great itinerants of the second great..... More
Cat.No: 118447
Boston: Printed for the publisher, 1834. 134p., disbound, old stab holes, period previous owner's name on title page, last leaf detached or nearly so. "An eloquent address in behalf of Abner Kneeland, delivered by his attorney..." *McCoy D282. More
Cat.No: 169168
Paris: Gallimard/Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1980. Hardcover. xiii, 1534p., 4.5x7 inches, text in French, very good in goatskin, gilt, dj and glassine. Plain slipcase. Attractive edition. More
Cat.No: 129328
New York: Random House, 1973. xxii, 257p., preface, introduction, extensive footnotes, illustrations, bibliographical essay, index, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 16938
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1984. Paperback. 60p., wraps, very good condition, 4.25x6.75 inches. Young America series no. 1. More
Cat.No: 232290
Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1833. Leather Bound. iv, 163 p., small hardcover, half-calf marbled boards, leather spine and corners somewhat scuffed; ownership signature in pencil on title page dated 1846, another early penned signature on front endpaper, both front and rear endsheets are quite good, as are the hinges. Textblock..... More
Cat.No: 216324
New York City: American Tract Society, 1835 [but later]. Very nice copy. 243p. plus publisher's menu, has a tissue-guarded steel-engraved portrait of Mr Page and bound in 6x4 inch cloth boards with panelling blind and spine-title gilt. Find two very old ownership signatures and a mild crack to front hinge..... More
Cat.No: 259268
Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. Hardcover. xi, 231p., very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 35138
Stamford: Knights Press, 1984. Paperback. 221p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Novel. Set in the 1830s in Egypt. Second novel in the Trilogy of the Theban Band which included "The Spartan" and "The Lion Warriors" More
Cat.No: 30667
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1971. xii, 210p., reprint in cloth boards and dj; jacket (which features an anachronistic Black power salute) is rather worn. Includes a brief biography of Hildreth. More
Cat.No: 20147
New York: Pantheon Books, 1968. Hardcover. 384p., illustrated with a few facsimiles and six line maps, hardbound first American edition in decorated cloth boards and dust jacket, tinted top edge, nice production that is entirely clean and sound. A very good copy. More
Cat.No: 203860
Kent: The Kent State University Press, 1990. xv, 263p., dj. On the American Home Missionary Society and its opposition to slavery. More
Cat.No: 11592
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Hardcover. xi, 222p., first printing, very good condition in a slightly edge worn dj with light scratches on the back panel. The most skillful narrative (up til this date) of the charismatic perfectionist cult of the 1830s, right down to the surprising fate of..... More
Cat.No: 144479
