Baltimore: 1868. Unbound. This envelope measures 5.5” x 3”. It bears a hand-stamped corner card from the “Baltimore Association for the Moral & Educational Improvement of the Colored People,” and is addressed to Miss Rebecca Primus at Royal Oak, Maryland. It is franked with 3-cent Washington stamp (Scott #65) that... More

Philadelphia: International Printing Company, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Complete. 97 pages plus frontispiece. Signed by the author on the title page. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Almost no wear to cover. Somewhat scarce biography about a staunch supporter of... More

Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1835. Hardcover. First edition. Hard cover, 4.75” x 7.25”. Complete with endpapers, title page, context, and 165 text pges. Clean, toned pages. Cloth cover with original spine label reading “Channing on Slavery.” Bookplate of Franklin H. Chase inside the front cover. Some occasional minor foxing... More

[Vicinity of Saigon]: 15 October 1968. This eight-page mimeographed fact sheet with typewritten cover was prepared for the Commanding General of the 199th Infantry Brigade. It is dated 15 October 1968 and was written while the unit was responsible for defending the northern approaches to Saigon. Its stated... More

[Philadelphia]: T. M. Scroggy, 1855. _. Broadside. Songsheet lyrics for a popular minstrel song originally published as sheet music several years earlier. 6" x 8". African-American dialect.Light wear and marginal toning. Very faint vetical crease. Five stanzas recounting a slave's surreptitious trip to Charleston to visit a woman while his... More

Philadelphia: George W. Taylor, 1853-1854. Half leather. 24 monthly issues bound together. Complete; each volume contains 104 text pages. Half-leather with marbled boards; 6.75” x 10.25”. Sound binding. Clean pages with light intermittent foxing. Old pencil annotation at top of the first title page. Light dampstain to the first six... More

Gibson County, Tennessee: 1836. Unbound. This partially printed document measures 7.75” x 13.5” It is in good shape with some moderate soiling and short split along one storage fold. The document requires the administrators of Harris Bradford’s estate to provide a complete inventory of his property and belongs within two... More

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1939. Hogan, Inez. First Edition, 1st Printing. Hard Cover. 12mo. Complete with dust jacket. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages. Cover has light wear and soiling; a split along the spine is just starting. Minor wear to most of the dust jacket, but missing about... More

[Vicinity of Toledo, Ohio]: Circa 1910-1913. Album. This faux leather album measures approximately 7.5” x 6” and contains 50 photographs (mostly silver gelatin but two cyanotypes as well).. The photos vary slightly in size, but most are about 5.5” x 3.5” inches. The album is identified as the “Property of... More

New York: Wm. Hall & Son, 1848. First Edition. Sheet Music. Complete with 5 pages including the front cover. Wonderful black, white, and tan cover illustration with six vignettes, five of which show the Campbells performing both male and female roles in blackface. Once bound in a private album, so... More

Louisville, Kentucky: 1929. This small 2” x 3” typewritten advertisement was enclosed in the accompanying envelope with a printed return address that reads, “Presbyterian Colored Missions, Incorporated, 314 South Hancock Street, Louisville, KY.” The advertisement reads, “EXTRA ****** WANTED—TEACHERS At the Presbyterian Colored Missions, 314 S. Hancock St. Won’t YOU... More

Germany: Pestalozzi Verlag, Circa 1950. Pictorial Cover. 8vo. Circa 1950, possibly earlier as the last page shows a 1930s era automobile. Cardboard leaves with cloth spine. Pestalozzi-Verlag icon and the number 1801 appear on front cover. Sound binding. Clean pages. Bright, colorful illustrations. Classic-but now never heard--counting rhyme in German... More

New York: W. H. Murphy, Circa 1846. Cardboard covers. Approximately 3" x 4.5". The cover features a humorous wood engraving of Handy Andy, the blundering servant of and English squire in a very popular bawdy, slapstick novel of the same name published in 1842. Complete with the usual irregular pagination... More