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Lake Champlain, Vermont: Young Men's Christian Association of Vermont, volume xiv, numbers 1 to 16, 1924. Octavo (9" x 6"), 109 pages, occasional illustration from photographs & art work by F. Harrison Stafford & Robert E. Allen. Original stapled paper wraps. Moderately soiled, light edge wear including a closed tear (about 1.25") at rear cover, staples rusted causing minor staining, otherwise Very Good. Sixteen issues of the Abnaki Herald, the journal of the nation's oldest YMCA all boy's camp. The camp was founded by Byron Clark in 1901 and is still in existence today. The theme of the journal reflects the camp motto, "Help the Other Fellow."

[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.

Philadelphia, Henry Altemus: no date (circa 1895). Sextodecimo (6" x 4.5"), 165 pages plus 16 unnumbered pages of publisher's advertisements, with frontis portrait of the author. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered & decorated in a floral motif in gilt, green, & red on the spine & upper cover.
Brief wear at spine extremities & edges, lightly soiled, spine dull, otherwise Good or better.
Brooks, Episcopalian clergyman, was long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts. Includes: Beauty of a Life of Service; Thought and Action; The duty of the Christian Business Man; True Liberty; Christ in Whom Christians Believe: & [Sermon on the Death of] Abraham Lincoln.

Washington, D.C.: Religious Liberty Association, 1911. "Revised & Enlarged Edition" edited by Willard Allen Colcord." Octavo (8.75" x 6"), 800 pages. Publisher's gilt-lettered dark maroon cloth.
Binding rubbed, spine gilt dull, modest wear at spine extremities & corners, front hinge started (still secure), previous owner's name & place at front pastedown, sporadic foxing & toning, a good or better copy.
Originally published in 1890. Provides a state by state review of compulsory piety rules, "Legislative, Executive, & Judicial."
"A perusal of the early Sunday laws of the American colonies will demonstrate how little acquainted were the first settlers of this country with the genuine principles of religious libert and separation of church and state." ~from the Introduction.

New York: Random House, 1980. First edition, this copy signed & dated in the year of publication, with sketch of a Berenstain Bear in ink at the first blank page. Quarto (11.25" x 8.25"), 64 unnumbered pages, illustrated throughout in color. Publisher's glossy pictorial paper over boards. Without dust jacket as issued.
One corner lightly bruised, otherwise fine.
A special copy indeed, delightfully written & illustrated by the Berenstains who have now both passed away.
"During the Bears' search for a Christmas tree they are reminded of what Christmas is really about." ~Abstract courtesy OCLC.

[Boston: Boston: Crystal River Society ?], no date (ca. 1887). Broadsheet, 2 pp., small 4to (10" x 6"), with color-printed "map" from a woodcut on the recto depicting a train en route from "Drunkard's Curve" to the "Black Valley Country." The verso supplies statistics and "Questions for Study in Moral and Political Economy." Small losses at corners, a few tears without loss, otherwise very good.A variant available in various incarnations as early as 1863, this example not currently found in OCLC. The recto offers the "above map enlarged to 18 x 24 inches in colored lithograph sent by mail to any address for 50 cents," the verso offers the handbill at 3 cents each or $2 per hundred, to be ordered from the Crystal River Society of Boston. The map was also advertised in the Home Missionary (volume 60, 1887).

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.

Berryville, Clarke County Virginia: Published & edited by John O. Crown, Volume xxi, number 34, October 10, 1889. Broadsheet newspaper, single sheet measuring 24 inches by 34 inches folded once vertically forming four pages.
Old folds, moderately toned & foxed, tattered including small tears & losses in the margins, creasing, one-half inch split at a fold briefly affecting text, pencil annotation in the top margin, otherwise good or better.
Contents include:Judases in MexicoInternational Sunday School LessonRevolt in the Black BeltLocal, often illustrated advertising
Publisher & editor, John Oliver Crown was the "son of Frederick and Henrietta Thomas Crown, husband of Sarah Jane Smith Crown, 1848-1916. Served in Co. B, 35th VA Cavalry "White's Comanches," CSA during the Civil War. In 1870 he returned to Berryville, VA, and purchased The Clarke Co. Courier and was owner/editor/publisher until his death. At the time of his funeral the businesses of Berryville closed to pay homage to him. He was a writer… Read More

Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little & Wilkins, 1828 First edition. 12mo (7" x 475"), xii & [13] - 171 pages. Contemporary marbled paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered brown calf. American Imprints 35092a
Binding worn: rubbed, scuffed, spine partially perished, text block cracked at the title page, foxed & stained throughout, Good or so & still quite serviceable.
"The controversy between the holy pontiff, Paul V, and the republic of Venice, having been terminated by the mediation of France, in a manner preserving to the holy see the honor due to it, and to the Venetians the glory they had merited, none but the Spanish had reason to be dissatisfied As they had declared for the Pope, and had offered to subjugate the Venetians, they were offended that he had entered into an arrangement without their participation; but having discovered the secret of this arrangement, they were convinced that they had no cause of complaint against him, and that the slight they had experienced was to be attributed solely… Read More

Allentaun [Allentown], Pennsylvnia: Gedruckt bei Guth, Young und Trexler, 1851. First separate printing. 24mo, 45 pp. Contemporary cloth with modern cloth wrapping the spine.
Rebacked (rather crudely), cloth rubbed through in a couple of places, endpapers & blanks browned, sporadic foxing, previous owner's name in ink at front pastedown, otherwise good or better. As noted in Horst Weigelt's Migration and Faith: The Migrations of the Schwenkfelders from Germany to America, regarding this edition: "In 1851 it was published for the first time as a self-contained print in a revision by Josua Schultz of the 1782 version." Quite uncommon, OCLC finds 11 copies under 3 accession numbers

[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.

Charles Town, West Virginia: Woman's Auxiliary, no date [ca. 1910's]. First edition. Octavo (8" x 5.25"), 28 pages. Original printed, stapled stiff paper wraps.
Wraps moderately browned, foxing mostly at early & late leaves, previous owner's name in ink at ffep, brief manuscript annotation in ink correcting an error in date in the margin of page 15, otherwise good or better.
"In my earliest ventures, looking lovingly back over the history of this country I used to remark that as from Spotsylvania sprang Orange, from Orange, Berkeley: so Berkeley, in a final acme of evolution as a tree breaks into blossom, bore the fair flower of Jefferson ..." ~Excerpted from the text.

Allentown: Gedruckt und zu haben bey H Ebner u comp, 1822 12mo (7.25" x 4.5"), xiv, 202, [2], 396 pp. Original full sheep with brass & leather clasps. Text in German, printed in fraktur. Arndt/ First Century German Language Printing, volume 2: 2524.
Binding rubbed & scuffed, losses mostly at spine extremities, lower joint cracking, one leather clasp becoming detached, stain diminishing over the first several leaves, foxed & browned throughout, several page corners with shallow diagonal crease, previous owner's name & date (1834) in old ink at first blank page, "No 14" in pencil at title page, Good or better & still quite serviceable Presented in two parts, the second having an additional half-title page A surprisingly uncommon Pennsylvania German Imprint, OCLC finds 17 copies under 3 accession numbers as of 1/31/2019

Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, (1879). Sextodecimo (7" x 5.5"), 96 pages including 3 full page illustrations from engravings preceding text & 3 following. Publisher's dark red cloth lettered in gilt & decorated in black on the upper cover.
Moderately soiled, spine browned, brief wear at corners, binding cracked following the last page of text (still secure), otherwise good or better.
"Father Tom and the Pope. - There is a time to laugh. And we had it when we read this book ... It is a broad satire on the faith and practice of Mother Rome: too broad perhaps for this country, where the Irish brogue, Irish humor, and Irish technical terms are not as readily caught as they are in the green isle for which the book was written."
 ~Excerpted from the publisher's remarks.

Louisville, Kentucky: Baptist Book Concern, (1923). First edition. 8vo, 165 pp. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover.
Covers soiled & spotted, corners bruised & rubbed, binding cracking in a couple of places, previous owner's name in ink at front pastedown, moderately toned & occasionally foxed, Good or so.Presents ten essays by various authors, good Baptists all, including:"The Menace of Feminism" (John William Porter), "Should a Woman Speak to Mixed Assemblies?" (John A. Broadus), "The Bible on Women's Public Speaking" (T.T. Eaton), "The Work and Sphere of True Womanhood" (W.H. Felix), etc. John William Porter, presumably the compiler as well, provides a closing summary, writing in part: "There was no woman among the twelve apostles, nor the seventy Surely had Christ intended for women to preach, and to speak in mixed assemblies, he would have made some mention of the fact."

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
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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

New York & London: D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc., (1946). First edition. Octavo (8" x 5.5"), 208 pp. Publisher's black lettered blue cloth-patterned paper over boards, in pictorial dust jacket.
Slightly rubbed, minor foxing mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise very good or better in very good lightly rubbed & soiled dust jacket with modest edge wear including a couple of nicks & tiny losses.
Author's first book. Hubert Creekmore was a closeted gay man whose views on fundamentalist christianity in Mississippi are well represented in this title.

Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1943). Early printing. Octavo (8.25" x 5.75"), 754 pages. Publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth, in second state dust jacket
Edges lightly rubbed, covers briefly spotted, gilt dull, faint small stain affecting the lower margin, a Good or better copy in soiled dust jacket, browned at the spine, rubbed, with tears & small losses, still Good or so.
An early printing in second-state jacket with $3.00 price intact, Rand's photo & three blurbs on the rear panel
"An excitingly dramatic novel, this book is based on a challenging belief in the importance of selfishness, on the provocative idea that man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket

Boston & New York: various publishers, various dates 1825 - 1841. Sammelband of eight octavo sermons bound in contemporary full pebbled black morocco by P. Low (with his label at the rear pastedown), the spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, lettered & ruled in gilt. All edges gilt, ribbon marker sewn in.
Joints & edges a bit rubbed, sermons bound without wraps, small early label of Little & Brown, "Booksellers & Importers" at the front pastedown, ownership signature of Sarah Pickering Pratt at the ffep, modest toning & sporadic foxing, brief pencil annotations in the margins of one page, otherwise very good.
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A Sermon, Delivered on the twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Boston Female Asylum. September 23, 1825. Boston: Office of the Christian Register. 1825. 20 pp.
A sermon Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. William Parsons Lunt, as pastor of the Second Congregational Unitarian Society in the City of New York, July 19, 1828. With "A Charge" by… Read More

Hartford, [Connecticut]: H.E. Robins and Co., 1853. Later printing. Octavo (8" x 5"), x & [11] - 402 pages, with engraved half title & full page illustrations from woodcuts. Publisher's red cloth elaborately lettered & decorated in gilt. All edges gilt.
Spine gilt dull, edge wear including shallow losses at the spine extremities, corners bruised, internally toned & foxed, light stain in the lower margin affecting early leaves, previous owner's name & date in pencil at the ffep, otherwise good.
Originally published in 1849. Author Hollis Read also wrote the influential Negro Problem Solved, or, Africa as She Was, as She Is, and as She Shall Be: Her Curse and Her Cure.