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Kenosha, Wisconsin: Samuel Lowe Company, L 1009, 1942. Small folio (12.25" x 9.5"), 16 unnumbered linen-like pages including covers, illustrated in color throughout. Publisher's pictorial, stapled card covers.
Briefly soiled, lightly browned in the margins, spine a bit rubbed, trace edge wear, otherwise Very Good or better.
An unusually nice copy featuring charming illustrations & alphabet rhymes by the prolific Ms. Voigt:
"A is for Aviator With his Airplane ..."

[Newark, New Jersey: Bureau of Moral And Hygienic Education, Inc.], 1927 (copyright) but probably issued in 1931). 16mo (6.5" x 4.75"), 24 pages. Publisher's light card covers, stapled.
Slight edge wear & soiling, soft vertical crease throughout, internal toning, otherwise very good.
Book ix in a series of sex booklets for "adults only" by the prolific Dr. Krauss, who describes himself as "The Evangelist of Health."
"What are some of the incentives to produce abortion? An unmarried woman seduced under false representations of a man who feels no responsibility for his own offspring, suffers alone all the shame and contumely of the act, and is tempted to cause miscarriage to shield her good name ..." ~Dr. Krauss, excerpted from the text.

Baltimore, Maryland: Published by the college, Volume 3, no. 2, June, 1867. Original broadsheet newspaper, single sheet measuring 24 inches by 37 inches folded once vertically forming 4 pages.
Old folds, lightly toned & foxed, moderately tattered (including creasing & closed tears), couple of small losses from ink burn briefly affecting text, brief math ciphering in pencil in the right margin of page 3, small rubber-stamped mark at the lower margin of the front page, otherwise very good.
The college was apparently one of 48 in the Bryant, Stratton & Co."International Chain of Business Colleges" designed to "place in the hands of aspiring young men the most ready and effectual means of attaining to positions of honor and emolument: in short, to impart in the most thorough manner, and in the shortest time possible, that kind and degree of training comprised in a business education."

Hollywood, California: Twilight Pub., (1970). First edition., Small octavo (7.75" x 5.25"), 162 pages plus 12 unnumbered pages providing "Glossary of exual Terms," with 63 frequently graphic plates from photographs within the pagination (many in color). Publisher's pictorial card covers. OCLC locates a single copy at, natch, Indiana University's Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex as of 6/12/2023.
Brief edge wear, some creasing, lightly rubbed, otherwise very good.
"A manual on total sexual satisfaction from preliminary play to total fulfillment."

Philadelphia: Printed for the author, published by R. Desilver & R.H. Small, Lydia R. Bailey, Printer, 1827. First Edition. 8vo, viii, 237 pages & [1, omissions] pages. Contemporary full tree calf with a gilt-lettered maroon spine label. Shaw & Shoemaker/ American Bibliography 29175; Nipps/ Lydia Bailey: Checklist of Her Imprints 389. Binding rubbed & scuffed, joints cracked, upper cover nearly detached, shallow losses at spine extremities, front free endpaper nearly detached, previous owner's name in old ink at front pastedown, browning & foxing throughout, otherwise Good & still quite serviceable.
This book was printed by Lydia R. Bailey, an early American female printer who was competitive in a trade dominated by men. She took over her husband's failing business upon his death.

Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, and Co, 1826. First edition thus. 12mo, 68 pp & 1 plate Contemporary gray paper over boards crudely rebacked in red cloth (not recently). OCLC locates 5 copies
Rebacked, moderately soiled, front hinge started, foxed & toned, previous owner's name & date in pencil at title page, otherwise Very Good.
Described in the preface by the anonymous compiler as an abridgement of Walker's Elements of Elocution which, "divested of all minute disquisition, and rendered strictly practical in its character, might be a useful manual for schools."

London: Kegan Paul,Trench, Trubner & Co., 1922. First edition. Octavo (8.75" x 5.75") viii & 333 pages, indexed. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine.
Slight wear at spine extremities & corners, foxing/ offsetting at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise near fine.
Sydney Grew & wife Eve also wrote a book on Bach which was a title in the Master Musicians Series.

Goessel, Kansas: Published by the Journalism & Typing II students, 29 issues, 1945 - 1949. First editions. Folio (14" x 85"), variously paginated, occasional illustrations. Stapled, mimeographed sheets printed recto & verso. OCLC finds a single holding of bound volumes, dates unspecified, as of 3/11/2021Folded once horizontally, edge wear including tears, corner creases, & a few small losses, age browned, soiled, previous owner's signatures & dooding, certainly good or better A broken run of this student-published periodical providing poetry, sports reporting, editorials, gossip, & nice graphics: a wonderful & nostalgic view of small town life in the Great Plains as seen through the eyes of its teen-agers just after World War Two. When incorporated in 1952, Goessel had a population of 260 The 2010 census finds a population of 539.

Boys Town, Nebraska: Father Flanagan's Boys Home, no date [1939]. First edition, this copy signed in ink by Father Flanagan at the first page: "Father Flanagan/ Boys Town, Nebr.,/ Xmas 1939." Tall quarto (12.25" x 9.25"), 16 unnumbered pages & covers, profusely illustrated from photographs. Original pictorial light card covers, stapled.
Lightly soiled, modest edge wear particularly at the corners, lower cover irregularly browned, otherwise very good or better.
"There is no such thing as a bad boy."
Father Flanagan (1886 -1948) revolutionized how orphaned and disadvantaged youth are cared for and will no doubt be declared a saint by the Catholic Church imminently.

Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Company, no date, ca. 1925. Springfield, Massachusetts: the company, no date, ca 192516mo (6.25" x 3.25"), 16 pp. including covers, illustrated throughout, with pricing. Publisher's pictorial stapled paper wraps.
Brief edge wear, lightly stained, staples rusted, Good or better.As noted by the company in the preface, "discriminating parents who demand Bradley Games are bringing into their homes amusements which not only give joy to a child but which are also a desireable influence in mental development."

[Newark, New Jersey: Bureau of Moral And Hygienic Education, Inc.], 1929 (copyright). 16mo (6.5" x 4.75"), 24 pages. Publisher's light card covers, stapled.
Margins sunned, internal toning, otherwise very good.
The first in a series of sex booklets for "adults only" by the prolific Dr. Krauss who was the president of the Bureau of Moral And Hygienic Education.
"SEX is SEX: - And the operation of it is the biggest force in LIFE. Abnormalities in its expression are perhaps mostly the result of supersensitiveness , due to retcence and repression; there is nothing wrong in proper expression of SEX ..." ~Dr. Krauss, excerpted from the text.

St Louis, Missouri: Johnson's Commercial College, [1878]. 24mo, single sheet measuring 5.25 inches by 11.5 inches folded 3 times vertically to form 8 pages. Printed on thin paper.
Lightly edgeworn, tanned & slightly soiled, Very Good." Johnson's Commercial College stands in the front rank as as educational institution of public utiity. It has a full corps of professors who devote their entire time to teaching. Its halls are sufficiently large to accomodate eight-hundred students in daily attendance. Every young lady and gentleman should attend and complete a full commercial course." ~Missouri Republican, excerpted from the text.

London, Edinburgh, & New York: T. Nelson & Sons, no date (1860 per British Library). Oblong 16mo (4.25" x 6.5"), Publisher's pictorial printed wraps with "Description of Plates" (16 pages, sewn) & 12 lithographs in color laid in (as issued).
Wraps mostly split at the fold & now repaired with archival tissue on the verso, soiled, edge wear, previous owner's name in ink on the upper wrap (Buchinger ?), text browned, light foxing/ toning mostly evident on the versos of the plates, otherwise good or better.
"Oxford (says the author of "The Land we Live In") is indisputably the most beautiful city in England. It contains a far larger and richer display of medieval and academic architecture than any other; and it yields to none in picturesque variety ..." ~Excerpted from the text.

[Newark, New Jersey: Bureau of Moral And Hygienic Education, Inc.], 1927 (copyright). 16mo (6.5" x 4.75"), 21 & [3] pages. Publisher's light card covers, stapled.
Margins sunned, internal toning, otherwise very good.
Book viii in a series of sex booklets for "adults only" by the prolific Dr. Krauss, who describes himself as "The Evangelist of Health." Includes a page titled "To Cut Off Viscious Families" on the 1927 Supreme Court decision approving sterilization.
"Of all the diseases to which flesh is the heir, none bring so much misery, moral and physical, as those called sexual or venereal..." ~Dr. Krauss, excerpted from the text.

New Haven: Yale University Library, 1980. First edition. Octavo (9.75" x 6.25"), xxiii & 570 pages, with frontis. Publisher's green cloth with a printed paper spine label, with a duplicate label mounted to the last leaf.
A fine copy.
A splendid reference, the collection includes books, manuscripts, letters, clippings, original drawings by Dickens's illustrators, & Dickensiana.

Leipzig: Verlag von J.J. Weber, 1892. Sextodecimo (6.75" x 5"), XIV, 291, & [1] pages plus two double page plates, with 71 illustrations in text. Publisher's very elaborate brown pictorial cloth lettered in gilt & black. Text in German, edges of the text block stained red.
Light edge wear & rubbing, brief archival tissue reinforcement at the verso of the first folding plate, previous owner's name, place, & date in ink at the front free endpaper, otherwise very good.
An exhaustive & profusely illustrated treatise & a superb example of a late 19th century pictorial cloth binding.

New York: Published and sold by James A Burtis (ie "Burtus"), printed by R. Tyrell, 1821. Second edition. 24mo, [5], 6 - 108 pp. Publisher's marbled paper over boards backed in calf. Gorlach/ Bibliography of 19th Century Grammars of English 72.
Joints cracking, binding rubbed, modest loss of marbled paper at the upper cover, previous owner's names & brief annotations in old ink at pastedowns & blanks, foxed throughout, Good or so. Originally published in 1819.

New York: The Claremont Printing Co., 1922. 24mo (6" x 4.75"), [1] & 44 pages. Publisher's stapled paper wraps.
Lightly toned & soiled, otherwise near fine.
Features important information Including "Some Facts the Young Man About to Marry Should Know," "Sexual Congress After Marriage," The Mistakes of the Bride-Groom," "Mistakes of the Honey-Moon," "Why Girls Are the Home Makers," "The Immorality of the Marriage Relation," and much more.
Dr. S[amuel] Dana Hubbard (1869 - 1937), dermatologist, was a member of the New York Board of Health for 40 years where he led efforts to expose quacks and investigated violations of medical practice acts. Additionally, he published numerous pamphlets presenting 
"facts" related to sex, motherhood, marriage, etc. Of note, Dr. Hubbard provided "scientific and medical facts" for at least two movies including "The Naked Truth, The story of a fellow who sowed his Wild Oats" and "Some Wild Oats," both of which are promoted in this pamphlet.

New York: The Claremont Printing Co., 1922. 24mo (6" x 4.75"), [1] & 28 pages. Publisher's stapled paper wraps.
Slight edge wear, light toning, otherwise near fine.
Features important information Including "Needs of the Expectant Mother," "Reasons Why a Mother Should Nurse Her Baby," "Whipping: Some Ideas About Training Children Humanely," "Developing Truthfulness," and much more.
Dr. S[amuel] Dana Hubbard (1869 - 1937), dermatologist, was a member of the New York Board of Health for 40 years where he led efforts to expose quacks and investigated violations of medical practice acts. Additionally, he published numerous pamphlets presenting 
"facts" related to sex, motherhood, marriage, etc. Of note, Dr. Hubbard provided "scientific and medical facts" for at least two movies including "The Naked Truth, The story of a fellow who sowed his Wild Oats" and "Some Wild Oats," both of which are promoted in this pamphlet.

Bound volume (modern gilt-lettered blue cloth & marbled paper) containing 14 octavo pamphlets
Bound without wraps, one pamphlet lacking title page & stained throughout, (Smith/ Oratory), one pamphlet closely trimmed briefly touching some text (Clayton/ Speech Central American Treaty, 1856), scattered foxing & toning, generally very good
Itemized below in order of appearance:
The Nassau Rake: Edited and Published by the Sophomore Class of the College of New Jersey Princeton, June, 1856, 83, [1] pp.
The Nassau Rake: Edited and Published by the Sophomore Class of the College of New Jersey Princeton, June, 1857, 112 pp.
Memorabilia Sophomorum Edited and Published by the Freshman Class of the College of New Jersey, Princeton, New Jersey, June, 1856, 55 pp.
DAVIS, Thomas T. Address and Poem Delivered Before the Associate Chapters of the Sigma Phi Fraternity, At Their General Convention Held in Williamstown, Mass August 16, 1853 Williamstown: Published by the Alpha of Massachusetts, 1854, 37 pp.… Read More