AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
Isn't “Rustlings in the Rockies” a GREAT Title?? 
Shields, G.O. Rustlings in the Rockies: Hunting and fishing by mountain and stream. Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1883. 8vo. Frontis., xvi (vii/viii bound in after xvi),9–306, [6 (adv.)] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Publisher's brown cloth, front cover with black-stamped hunting scene and title framed in gilt, spine with gilt-stamped title.
• Binding as above, corners and spine head lightly rubbed. Ex–social club library: call number on endpaper, rubber-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Pages clean. (27113)
Start the Day Right Shredded Wheat Co. The call of the bell. Niagara Falls, NY: Shredded Wheat Co., © 1913. 1 f., folded.
• Folded as issued, one panel printed in color; hole punched through upper outer corner, “cover” illustration with scuff, one tear to lower edge with loss of two letters (“no”). Age-toned. (26088)
Cold-War
Comedy — 1957Shulman, Max. Rally round the flag, boys! New
York: Doubleday & Co., 1957. 8vo. [8], 278 pp.
• First edition: Comedy in a Connecticut suburb, involving sex, soldiers,
and missiles.
• Dust jacket slightly yellowed and showing minor wear; generally a clean, nice copy . (5031)
Around
the World “Overland”?
— including
HAWAII?
Simpson, George, Sir. An overland journey round the
world, during the years 1841 and 1842. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1847. 8vo (21.3 cm,
8.4"). 273, [3], [17]–230, [2 (blank)] pp.
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Tokens of Loving Friendship
ILLUSTRATED Sinclair, Thomas S., illus. Album of gems. New York: J.C. Riker, [ca. 1850]. 4to (20.3 cm, 8"). [approx. 170] pp.; 6 col. plts.
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• Not in Faxon. Publisher's red sheep in imitation of morocco, covers framed in gilt double fillets surrounding a blind roll inner border incorporating blind-tooled corner fleurons; central title gilt-stamped on front cover and blind-stamped on back; worn and rubbed overall, with spine leather lost and hinges (inside) tender. Back free endpaper lacking; one guard leaf mostly torn away. Some colored leaves faded; incidents of foxing varying from mild to moderate. (26148)
“Easy” Einstein?Slosson, Edwin E. Easy lessons in Einstein. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1921. 8vo. Frontis., vii, [1], 123, [1] pp.; 1 plt., illus. 
• Publisher's tan cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black; binding a bit sprung with light wear to lower edges. Pages age-toned but clean. (16724)
A
Catholic School
Prize Copy:
“High Sanctity
Attained in an Indian Wigwam”
Smet, Pierre-Jean de. New Indian sketches. New York:
D. & J. Sadlier & Co., [ca. 1870]. 12mo (16.4 cm, 6.45"). Frontis., [2], [2]–3, [7]–175, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Provenance: Front pastedown with presentation bookplate of a Catholic Sunday School in Virginia, dated 1880; front free endpaper with recipient's ownership inscription.
• Sabin 82267; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 3631; Wagner-Camp 395; Howes D285. Publisher's green cloth blind-stamped in diapered pattern containing crosses (not in Krupp), spine with elaborate gilt-stamped title and decorations; binding cocked and rubbed, sides with spots of discoloration. Front pastedown and free endpaper as above. Back hinge (inside) reinforced with cloth tape. Pages age-toned, with scattered spotting. (26581)
COMFORT in the Hospitals & on the Battlefields Smith, Edward Parmelee. Incidents of the United States Christian Commission. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1869. 8vo (22.6 cm, 8.9"). Add. engr. t.-p., 512 pp.; 8 plts.
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The volume is illustrated with an additional engraved title-page and eight other steel-engraved plates, as well as several in-text engravings of dramatic moments in soldiers' lives.
• Sabin 82457. Publisher's dark red/plum cloth, covers blind-stamped, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine sunned, corners and spine extremities moderately rubbed. Ex–social club library; front fly-leaf with inked numerals covered over with paper, rubber-stamps on frontispiece recto, title-page, and several other pages. Paper slightly embrittled; occasional short edge tears. Title-page and five plates with very faintest waterstaining in lower margins, other pages seemingly untouched. (26273)
The Church of England in
China Smith, George. A narrative of an exploratory visit to each of the consular cities of China, and to the islands of Hong Kong and Chusan, in behalf of the Church Missionary Society, in the years 1844, 1845, 1846. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. 12mo (20.4 cm, 8"). xv, [1], 467, [1] pp.; 1 fold. map., 12 plts. (incl. in pagination).
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illustrated with 12 wood-engraved plates (some signed by Edward Bookhout) plus an oversized, folding map. Smith (1815–71) was the first Anglican bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong; along with his assessment of Anglican and other missions in China, his account includes observations of daily life as well as comments on infanticide, opium addiction and the opium trade, and the difficulties of evangelizing Chinese women.
When
CEMETERIES
Were PARKS
with
Great Landscape Gardening
& Sculpture
Smith, R. A. Smith's illustrated guide to and through
Laurel Hill cemetery, with a glance at celebrated tombs and burying places, ancient and modern,
an historical sketch of the cemeteries of Philadelphia, an essay on monumental architecture, and a
tour up the Schuylkill. Philadelphia: W.P. Hazard, 1852. 8vo (23 cm, 9"). Frontis., [1] f., 147, [1
(blank) pp., [1] f., 53, [1 (blank)] pp., 16 plts.
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heavily illustrated with in-text
wood engravings and with 16 engraved plates. All illustrations are identified
as to artist. The layout of the burial park is detailed in a colored plan
at the front of the volume.
Binding: Publisher's green cloth with textured covers; spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Front cover stamped in gilt with a frame with corner brackets; a very large oval center medallion shows an angel with harp posed between a broken pediment and an hour glass on a closed book, all flanked by weeping willows. Rear cover stamped in blind with same decorative elements. All edges gilt.
• Sabin 83734. Binding modestly rubbed, with spine faded and its gilt dimmed; cover gilt in parts “gone to copper” rather attractively. Scattered foxing; several sorts of spotting/staining, darkest stains in upper margins. Overall, a beautiful book in a better than decent copy. (26863)
“A Glorious Period of the Past” Sor, Charlotte de. Napoleon and his times. Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1838. 12mo (19.2 cm, 7.5"). 2 vols. I: viii, [13]–253, [1 (blank)] pp. II: viii, [13]–230 pp.
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Binding: Publisher's
ribbon-embossed green geometric-patterned cloth of Krupp's style Gt2; original
printed paper labels.Do
please click to enhance the image of this handsome American binding cloth—
it's hard to show, but worth trying to see!
• American Imprints 49627. On the binding, see: Krupp,
Bookcloth in England & America, 1823–1850, Gt2. Bindings
as above, cocked; edges, extremities, labels rubbed, chipped, spotted —
far from fresh, but also far from devastated. Ex–social club library:
bookplate on each front pastedown, call numbers in a 19th-century hand (lined
through) on pastedown and front free endpaper, title-pages and a few others
rubber-stamped. No other institutional markings. Front hinge (inside) of vol.
I starting, text block pulling away from spine, first few leaves starting
to separate. Front fly-leaf with pencilled numeral and 
pencilled
doodle/sketch of a chubby child; occasional faint pencilled
annotations. A few scattered spots of staining, pages mostly clean. (26294)
Sousa & the
Devil's Music Sousa, John Philip. The fifth string. Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Co., © 1902. 8vo. Frontis., [4], 124, [2] pp.; 6 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Publisher's olive cloth, Art Nouveau binding signed “P”; front cover pictorially stamped in gilt and orange, spine with gilt-stamped title.
• Binding a bit cocked with corners and spine extremities rubbed; spine with two small faintly discolored areas from now-absent labels. Light spotting to pages surrounding plates. (25993)
“A
Haven of Peace in a Distracted
World”
Spaulding, Thomas M. The Literary Society in peace
and war. Washington; Menasha, WI: Privately printed by George Banta Publishing Co., 1947.
8vo. 37, [1 (blank)] pp.
150 copies; our caption quotation
appears on p. 1. With a list of members on pp. 23–37.
• Publisher's cloth, lettered in gilt on the front. Near fine. (26702)
Captivity
among theSHAWNEESpencer, Oliver M. Indian captivity: A true narrative of the capture of the Rev. O.M. Spencer by the Indians, in the neighbourhood of Cincinnati. New York: G. Lane & P.P. Sandford (pr. by J. Collord), 1842. 16mo (15.5 cm, 6.1"). 160 pp.; 4 plts. (incl. in pagination), illus.
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Omens & Charms — Signs & Dreams Spofford, Thomas. The Yankee. The Farmer’s almanack for the year of our Lord and Saviour 1832 ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, (Mass.) lat. 42° 21’ north, but will serve for any of the states of New England; for New York, and Michigan Territory. .../ By Thomas Spofford. [7 lines of verse]. Boston: Willard Felt & Co. sold by him, and by David Felt, 1831. 12mo. 36 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Drake 4017. Uncut, stitched, partly unopened. (21434)
Period Interest & a Cool Cover (for $22.50) Spofford, Thomas. The Yankee: Farmers’ almanac, for the year of our Lord and Saviour 1842. : ... Calculated for Boston, lat. 42[°] 21[’]; but will serve for all New England, NewYork [sic] and Michigan. ... / By Thomas Spofford. [20 lines of verse]. Boston: Thos. Groom & Co., 1841. 12mo. 36 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Drake 4251. Stitching renewed. Some loss of paper and small amount of text on first four leaves to hungry rodent. Waterstains. (21375)
A Word-Book for Children — A Bright & Clean Copy Staats, Pauline G., & Clark M. Frasier. The right word. Pupil's word book for creative writing. Boston, NY, Chicago: Allyn & Bacon, copyright 1937. 8vo. iv, [2], 371, [1] pp.; illus.
• Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black and orange. A clean, crisp copy. (23630)
Magic MalletStandish, Burt L. Dick Merriwell's polo team. Or, the magic mallet. New York: Street & Smith, (1906). 8vo. [4], 311, [7 (adv.)] pp.
• Publisher's printed paper wrappers, edges chipped and corners lost. Being a "pulp" novel, this is on pulp paper — pages therefore age-toned, brittle, and breaking off where the corners are sharply dog-eared. (12422)
WISCONSIN State
Historical Society of Wisconsin. Collections on the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, for the years 1877, 1878 and 1879. Vol. VIII. Madison: David Atwood, 1879. 8vo (23 cm, 9"). 511, [1] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. Provenance: Title-page with affixed presentation slip from the State Historical Society; front free endpaper with affixed envelope flap addressed to the Rev. E.A. Dalrymple of Baltimore, MD.
• Publisher’s cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title. Binding sturdy but with portion of spine cloth missing, exposing underlying material; corners bumped, extremities very lightly rubbed. Front pastedown with institutional stamp. Pages slightly age-toned, else clean.
GREEK–AMERICANAStellakis, Leonidas N. [title in Greek, then] Sweet pumpkins. New York: Greek-American Humorous Review, 1924. 8vo. 256 pp.; illus. 
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An
AMERICAN
Dissatisfied
with New-Granada
Steuart, John. Bogotá in 1836–7. Being a narrative of an
expedition to the capital of New-Grenada, and a residence there of eleven months. New York: Pr. for
the author by Harper & Bros., 1838. 8vo (cm). viii, [13]–312, [2] pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Binding: Publisher's ribbon-embossed green floral-patterned cloth of Krupp's style Ft6.
• American Imprints 53109; Palau 322394; Sabin 91388. Not in Smith, American Travellers Abroad. On the binding, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823--50. Publisher's green floral-patterned cloth, spine with printed paper label; corners and spine foot rubbed, spine head pulled, paper label darkened with edges chipped. Front free endpaper with pencilled ownership inscription; occasional pencilled annotations and marks of emphasis. Light to moderate foxing. (25425)
Shaker Bible — “Testimonies” as Part Two Stewart, Philemon. A holy, sacred, and divine roll and book; from the Lord God of Heaven, to the inhabitants of Earth: revealed in the United Society at New Lebanon, County of Columbia, State of New-York, United States of America. Canterbury, N.H.: United Society, 1843. 8vo. vii, 222, [3] pp., [2] ff., 223–403, [3] pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. The second part (pp. 267–403), which contains its own title-page, is a collection of testimonies by “inspired writers,” or Shakers professing their faith in the book's divine source.
“Read and understand all ye in mortal clay,” exhorts the title-page — “Received by the church of this communion, and published in union with the same.”
Provenance: In the library of Colgate Rochester Divinity School; inscription on front free endpaper “To be returned to Amelia G. Mace, Office.”
• Sabin 32664, 79708; and 90701.5 for revised collation. Contemporary sheep, recently rebacked in plain calf with gilt-ruled bands and gilt-stamped green leather title-label. Ex-library copy, with rubber-stamp on all paper edges and p. [1]; rubber-stamped five-digit number at base of p. [iii]; inscription on front free endpaper in blue ink (see above); and faint traces of a librarian's penciling at inner margin of p. [iii] and verso of title-page. Small bookseller's ticket at lower outer corner of rear pastedown. Some foxing, especially to endpapers; offsetting from leather affecting title-page and following page, at edges; very good condition. (24495)
The Best-KnownShort Story in English Literature? Stockton, Frank Richard. The lady, or the tiger? and other stories. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884. 12mo (17.5 cm, 6.9"). [4], 201, [9 (adv.)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Publisher's quarter “tiger-striped” orange-brown cloth with gray cloth sides, front cover with gilt-stamped title and black-stamped door, spine with gilt-stamped title.
• BAL 18880; Johnson, High Spots of American Literature, 69; Wright, III, 5242. Binding as above; minor rubbing, spine gilt dimmed. Front hinge (inside) tender. Ex–social club library: call number in 19th-century hand on front free endpaper, rubber-stamp on half-title and title-page, no other markings. A very clean, nice copy. (26250)
The LadyNever Having Been There “SEES!” NYC & Other Places Stone, William Leete. Letter to Doctor A. Brigham, on animal magnetism: being an account of a remarkable interview between the author and Miss Loraina Brackett while in a state of somnambulism. New York: George Dearborn (Scatcherd & Adams, printers), 1837. 8vo. 75, [1 (blank)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. The second edition's “Postscript” promises “additional facts connected with this interesting subject, equally wonderful,” or even “more so.”
William Leete Stone (1792–1844) was a journalist, editor of the “Commercial Advertiser,” advocate of slave emancipation and Greek independence, historian of colonial New York and New England, and first superintendent of public schools in New York City.
Very scarce.
• NSTC 2S41964; Sabin 92135. See: Dicitonary of American Biography for much on Stone. Removed from a nonce volume; mildest foxing to first and final leaves with crescent of lost paper to foremargin (only) of one leaf not nearing text. A very good copy. (11023)
Writings of anInfluential AMERICAN Jurist Story, Joseph. The miscellaneous writings, literary, critical, juridical, and political, of Joseph Story .... Boston: James Munroe & Co., 1835. 8vo (24.7 cm, 9.75"). viii, 527, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Sabin 92310; American Imprints 34408. Publisher's green pebbled cloth with some discolorations, sunned spine with gilt-stamped title; corners/edges rubbed. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate and call-number ticket on front pastedown, title-page pressure-stamped, no other markings. A few early leaves separated; two leaves with outer margins reinforced some time ago. (26425)
Presentation
Copy — Sole Edition — A PhiladelphianumStruthers, William. Lyric moods & tenses. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1910. 12mo. 101, [1] pp. 
• Clean, crisp copy in publisher's red cloth, slightly darkened, gilt-stamping on front cover still bright. Front free endpaper with number stamped in upper right corner, also with author's gift inscription as described above; pages clean. (4898)
Wharton as TranslatorSudermann, Hermann; Edith Wharton, trans. The joy of living (Es Lebe das Leben) a play in five acts. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902. 8vo (19 cm, 7.7"). vii, [1], 185, [1 (blank)] pp.
• Garrison A7.1.a. Publisher’s olive paper–covered boards, front cover and spine stamped in gold; lacking the now seldom-seen dustwrapper, spine very slightly darkened, extremities showing touches of wear. Top edge gilt. Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1903. Pages clean. A good-looking copy.
Introduction to theStudy of Modern History Sullivan, William. Historical causes and effects from the fall of the Roman empire, 476, to the reformation, 1517. Boston: James B. Dow, 1838. 12mo (19.6 cm, 7.75"). viii, 615, [1 (blank)] pp.
Binding: Publisher's ribbon-embossed brown cloth with flower and acanthus leaf design (Krupp's style ft1), spine with gilt-stamped title.
Click the images for enlargements. • American Imprints 53164; Adams, Manual of Historical Literature, 168. On the binding, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England & America, 1823–1850, ft1. Binding as above; corners rubbed and small rubbed spot on front cover, spine extremities chipped, spine head with small lightly discolored area from now-absent label. Ex–social club library: bookplate and early inked call number on front pastedown, title-page pressure- and (faintly) rubber-stamped. No other markings. Front hinge (inside) partially reinforced with paper some time ago. Scattered light staining. A nice book. (26289)
Fred's Book — Scarce! Sunbeam, Susie [pseud. of Mrs. Henry S. Mackarness]. The picture alphabet, with stories. Boston: Locke & Bubier, [1856]. 32mo. [2 (blank)], 96, 96, [4 (blank)] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Publisher's terra cotta colored cloth, stamped in black on front cover, spine stamped with gilt lettering and decorations. Center of front cover bears a full-color paper on-lay picturing a dancing boy (possibly, Irish?) playing an accordion.
Provenance: In ink, on fly-leaf, “Fred from Aunty Bertha.” In pencil, “Frederic Wade Hitching, father of Elizabeth.”
Scarce, OCLC listing only one copy with this imprint.
• Binding slightly cocked/loose, stained, lightly rubbed over joints, and with cloth tearing a bit at head and foot of spine; paper cover onlay with one corner chipped. Lacks front free endpaper. Presentation inscription and note as above. Good+. (7481)
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