The Suspending Power and the Writ of Habeas Corpus
by ANONYMOUS [James F. Johnston, attr.]
Philadelphia: John Campbell, 1862. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; 48pp. Shallow crease along bottom margin of title page (serving as upper cover), else Very Good and fresh. Detailed legal argument against the power of the Executive to suspend habeas corpus. Attributed to Johnston by SABIN 36368.
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Father Tom and the Pope, or A Night in the Vatican
by ANONYMOUS [Samuel Ferguson, attr.]; Frederic S. Cozzens, "anti-pref.
New York: Moorhead, Simpson & Bond, 1868. First Thus. Small, slim octavo (ca. 20cm.); publisher's purple blind-ruled cloth, gilt spine; xiv,[5]-63pp.; illus. throughout, text printed on pale brown-wash stock. Light shelf wear, spine toned to tan with spotting to cloth sizing, contemporary ownership ex libris of a Wm. H. Davis accomplished in manuscript to front pastedown, else Very Good,... Read More
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Valpurgis; or, The Devil's Festival. In Two Cantos. The Ball and Drawing Room
by ANONYMOUS [Richard Harris Barham, attr.]; Robert Seymour, illus
London: William Kidd, 1831. First Edition. Slim 12mo (16.5cm.); late 19th-century maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spine, original pictorial wrappers laid in; 35pp.; frontispiece and one additional plate by Robert Seymour. A hint of wear to cloth extremities, late 19th-century engraved ex-libris of a Gulielmi Gemmell, illustration signed in plate "E.G.," to front pastedown; mid-20th century ex-libris of Nathan Comfort Starr... Read More
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Of the Birth and Death of Nations. A Thought for the Crisis
by ANONYMOUS [James McKaye, attr.]
New York: G.P. Putnam, 1862. Offprint. Octavo (19.5cm.); sewn self-wrappers; 33pp. Stitching snapped and signatures separated, brief soil to upper cover, faint creases and tiny loss at bottom fore-edge corner; Good or better only. Article attributed to a founding member of the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, formed the following year to investigate the status of slaves newly freed by... Read More
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The United States and England: Being a Reply to the Criticism on Inchiquin's Letters. Contained in the Quarterly Review for January, 1814
by ANONYMOUS [PAULDING, James Kirke]
New-York: A.H. Inskeep, 1815. First Edition. Issue A. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; 115pp. Light toning and foxing to textblock, last leaf of text nearly separated, else Very Good. Attack on Great Britain written in response to a series of unflattering articles written by Charles Jared Ingersoll following a trip to the United States. In turn Paulding portrays Great Britain "as... Read More
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Télephe en XII livres
by ANONYMOUS [PECHMEJA, Jean]
Londres [i.e. Paris]: Et se trouve à Paris, chez Pissot, 1784. First Edition. Octavo; pp. [6],264pp.; [*]4 A-Q8 R4; woodcut title page vignette, head- and tail-pieces; full contemporary red imitation morocco, double ruled in gilt, flat spine decorated in gilt. Extremities rubbed with boards occasionally exposed, contemporary blue ribbon marker detached but present. A Very Good, attractive copy. Pechmeja's... Read More
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Charles Dickens. The Story of His Life
by ANONYMOUS [Henry T. Taverner, John Camden Hotten, etc., attr.]
New York [Chicago]: Harper & Brothers [Western News Company], 1870. First American Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's brown pictorial wrappers; 110,2pp.; double frontispiece (tissue guards), illus. throughout, text in double columns. Wrapper extremities a bit chipped with a few shallow losses, else Very Good, internally sound. Presumed remainder issue, retaining the Harper & Brother sheets but bound in the wrappers... Read More
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The Lottery Ticket: An American Tale
by [RELIGIOUS FICTION - NEW HAMPSHIRE] ANONYMOUS
Cambridge: Printed for the Trustees of the Publishing Fund, by Hilliard and Metcalf, 1822. First Edition. 12mo (17cm.); disbound; 51pp. Very faint spotting to title page (serving as upper cover), else Very Good and sound. The tale of Mr. Merriam, an upstanding farmer in New Hampshire, and his moral decline after winning $1000 in a lottery, culminating in an... Read More
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Edmund and Margaret: or, Sobriety and Faithfulness Rewarded
by [RELIGIOUS FICTION - TEMPERANCE] ANONYMOUS
Cambridge: Printed for the Trustees of the Publishing Fund, by Hilliard and Metcalf, 1822. First Edition. 12mo (17cm.); disbound; 60pp. Light soil, else Very Good or better. Moralistic tale establishing the "basic situation often used in later temperance fiction--a marriage threatened by the husband's drinking habit" (David S. Reynolds and Debra J. Rosenthal, "The Serpent in the Cup" (1997),... Read More
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The "Goldfish": Being the Confessions of A Successful Man
by [ANONYMOUS]
New York: The Century Company, 1914. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in gilt and brown; plain endpapers; [vi],340pp. Straight and sound, unfaded, but with discoloration to front, foxing to endleaves and edges of textblock (not affecting pages), minor fingersoil: Good or better. "A self-made man contemplates his success and his family without pleasure." HANNA... Read More
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![Don't Be a Gull! Written for those who want lots more war and for those who don't, by one of the latter [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/918/279/876279918.0.m.2.jpg)
Don't Be a Gull! Written for those who want lots more war and for those who don't, by one of the latter [cover title]
by ANONYMOUS
[Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1943]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; 55pp. Rather dust-soiled, small stain to rear wrapper, else a Very Good, partially unopened copy. Comparison of the British population after years of war-time propaganda and the behavior of the Black-Headed sea gull. OCLC locates 5 copies in the United States as of April, 2016, at Kansas, Harvard,... Read More
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The Reviewers Reviewed, or British Falsehoods Detected by American Truths
by ANONYMOUS
New-York: R. M'Dermut & D.D. Arden, 1815. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); removed; 72pp. Stock a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Anonymous polemical against the "London Quarterly Review" and the English people in general, covering that country's labor, educational, and moral conditions. For example, "The general system of English boarding school education tends much to the formation of... Read More
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The 49 Questions: How would you reply to these statements or questions if your job was to talk to people at a public demonstration or discussion
by [Anonymous]
[Exeter, NH: Philips Exeter Academy Student Peace Group, N.D. but ca.1962]. Two mimeographed sheets, printed in black on goldenrod stock and stapled at upper left corner; 21.5cm X 28cm (8.5" X 11"); [2pp]. Horizontal fold at center, with minor wear and a few tiny creases to extremities; Very Good+. A curious list of questions designed to prepare demonstrators or... Read More
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The County: A Story of Social Life
by ANONYMOUS
New York: Pollard & Moss, 1889. Reprint. Octavo (19cm.); original brown decorative cloth embossed in black, gilt-lettered spine; [2],186,[4](ads)pp. Textblock uniformly toned due to poor paper stock, contemporary gift bookplate of the Salem Lodge no. 100, I.O.O.F., accomplished in manuscript. Very Good to Near Fine. Novel of two sisters from a prosperous rural British family and the struggles they... Read More
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Three Essays, on the Modern Practice of Consecrations, and Ancient and Modern Idolatry; with strictures on an oration lately pronounced and published, entitled, "Masonic and Social Address, &c.
by ANONYMOUS
Portsmouth: Peirce & Gardner, 1807. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); removed; 23pp. Stock a bit toned, final leaf starting to separate, else Very Good and sound. Contemporary gift inscription on title page verso. Issued in response to George Richards' oration "Masonic and Social Address delivered at the Laying of Corner-Stone of St. John's Episcopal Church, Portsmouth, N.H., June 24, 1807."... Read More
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Cursory Suggestions on Naval Subjects, with the Outline of a Plan for Raising Seamen for His Majesty's Fleets in a Future War, by Ballot
by [NAVY] [ANONYMOUS]
London: Printed for the author, and sold by F. C. and J. Rivington, 1822. First Edition. Octavo in fours (20cm). Rebound in black cloth, titled on spine in gilt; plain endpapers; [ii], 97, [1]pp; with folding advertisement for a Quarterly Muster, Pay, and Victualing Book sold by Burgess, Hunt, and Carter, Ramsgate. Errata slip laid down on final page.... Read More
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Colombe: A Comedy
by ANOUILH, Jean; Denis Cannan, trans.; Peter Brook, pref
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, [1952]. First U.K. Edition. 12mo (18.75cm.); original cloth in salmon price-clipped dust jacket lettered in white; 103pp. Jacket spine a bit toned, minor chipping to extremities, else Very Good or better. First produced at the Théâtre de l'Atelier, Paris, in February, 1951.
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Sociologie du Roman Africain: Réalisme, Structure et Détermination dans le Roman moderne ouest-africain
by ANOZIE, Sunday O.
Paris: Aubier-Montaigne, 1970. First Edition. 12mo. Printed card wrappers; 268pp. Crisp, unread copy, Near Fine. Socio-criticism by a Biafran scholar. Text entirely in French.
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Calidoscopio latinoamericano: Imágenes históricas para un debate vigente
by ANSALDI, Waldo (ed)
Buenos Aires: Ariel, 2004. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 495pp. Clean, tight, and unmarked; few faint spots of foxing to endpapers, else Fine. Edited volume, with chapters by Lucia Sala de Touron, Eduardo Azcuy Ameghino, Vicente Oieni, Vitor Izecksohn, Verónica Giordano; others.
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Frontier Forts Along the Potomac and its Tributaries
by ANSEL, William H (Jr); David M. Ansel, illus
Parsons & Romney: McClain Printing Co. / Fort Pearsall Press, 1990. Reprint of the 1984 edition. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xii,265pp; maps, illus. Tight, unmarked, Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, lightly soiled and edgeworn with a few brief nicks to extremities, Very Good. Reprint for distribution by the Fort Pearsall Press.
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ANNIVERSARY ODE
by Anspacher, Louis K.
New York: Anatolia Press, 1946. First edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First Edition. This is number 289 of 500, privately printed. Inscribed by Anspacher who was a playwright and scriptwriter as well as poet. Worn boards but otherwise intact and clean, with pages fresh and lovely. A scarce book.
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Die Holländische Philosophie im Neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Eine Studie
by ANTAL, G. von
Utrecht: C.H.E. Breijer, 1888. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.75cm.); later brown card wrappers, typescript paper label rather crudely taped to spine; [4],112pp. Spine faded and label rather yellowed and chipped, some minor soiling to textblock, occasional early pencil annotations at beginning of text, else About Very Good. Study of Dutch 19th century philosophy.
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Parenthood: Its Psychology and Psychopathology
by ANTHONY, E. James and Therese Benedek, eds
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1970]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; xxiv,[2],617pp. Some minor wrinkling to top jacket edges, small dent in textblock fore-edge, else Very Good or better.
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Three Clinical Faces of Childhood
by ANTHONY, E. James and Doris C. Gilpin, eds
New York: S P Books / Spectrum Publications, [1976]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth in green and white pictorial dust jacket; [14],255pp. Light shelf wear, top textblock edge lightly foxed, else Very Good or better.
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The Gang
by ANTHONY, Joseph
Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs-Merrill, [ca.1924]. Early reissue. Octavo (19.5cm); blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 276pp. Title page is a cancel. Some trivial soil to rear gutter and upper edge of text, with purple rubber stamp of "A. George Volck Incorporated" to pastedowns and endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is soiled, with numerous short... Read More
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