Religion from R & A Petrilla

Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1843. First Editions. Very Good. Articles in these issues include: Choctaw Indians; African Civilization and Manufactures; Female Seminary at Wailuku, Sandwich Islands; A Tamul Girl's Account of Her Conversion; North American Indians; A New Theory on the Origin of White and Black Men; Horrid Cannibalism; Mission… Read more

Brooklyn, New York: Golden Age Publ Co, 1937. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. (32)pp; 3 political cartoons in the text. Printed on pulp stock; slight wear to lower part of spine. 8" x 11". Contents of this issue include: Less Demand for Human Labor; Unsavory Odors from Chicago; New Hosiery Mills in… Read more

Cincinnati: Lodge, L'Hommedieu & Co., Printers, 1835. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 14pp, disbound, paper remnant along spine. 8.75" x 5.25" [American Imprints 35464].

Portland, Oregon: Champoeg Press, 1957. Hardcover. Fine. 76pp w/index; tipped frontispiece portrait of Father Joseph Giorda, S.J., rubricated title-page and chapter titles, one plate from a photograph, several other illustrations. Bound in pictorial red cloth, gilt spine title. 10" x 6.5" One of only 804 copies, designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy.

Hancock, MA / Hanover, NH: Shaker Community / Univ Press of New England, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes. pp: 253 + 338 with author-title index. Bound in tan cloth, gilt spine lettering on black background. 10.25" x 7" Contains 3,986 annotated entries. Volume I is devoted to literature by the Shakers;… Read more

New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes. pp: xxxiv, 640; xvi, 643-1,335 with index. Bound in red cloth, gilt lettering on spines and covers. 9.5" x 6.25"

Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. pp: x, 271; facsimiles of Mark Hoffman's forgeries and related correspondence. Bound in black cloth, gilt spine lettering, illustrated dust wrapper. 10.25" x 7"

New York: American Home Missionary Society / John A. Gray, Printer, 1857. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 34pp. Bound in decorated yellow wrappers, sewn. 9" x 5.75" Sturtevant was then president of Illinois College. Here, he discusses emigration to the 16 non-slaveholding States. "For obvious reasons...we shall leave out of our estimate the colored population… Read more

London: Printed by John Hasler, 1846. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 31pp. Contains the texts of eight papers, including: On the Separation of the Literary and the Theological Course, by Rev. F.W. Gotch; The Practicability and Expediency of Requiring All Students to Pay, at Least, for Their Board, by Rev. B. Davies; Theological Education… Read more

Boston: William Collier and Lincoln & Edmands, 1829. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 24pp, including Appendix. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.25" x 5.25" Babcock was associate pastor of the First Baptist Church of Salem. The Appendix here comprises the Constitution of the Education Society of Young Men… Read more

Boston: Lincoln and Edmands, 1832. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 12pp. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.25" x 5.25" [American Imprints 14531].

London: Printed by George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode; Sold by Barritt & Co, 1842. Hardcover. Very Good. Unpaginated, leaves bulk to 1-3/4". Separate title-page for psalms dated 1842. Bound handsomely in brown morocco, ribbed spine with gilt title, gilt-decorated turn-ins; polished brass corners and clasp, stamped Barritt & Co., London; all edges gilt.… Read more

Portland: Printed at the Argus Office, 1820. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 34pp. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.25" x 5.25" [American Imprints 711].

Portland [Maine]: Printed by Charles Day & Co, 1846. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 32pp. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.25" x 5.25" [American Imprints 46-1411.] Waterville College is the former name of Colby University.

Andover [MA]: Warren F. Draper, 1850. First Separate Edition. Softcover. Very Good. pp: 26, (2). Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.25" x 5" Park asserts that more colleges and professional schools "are needed, especially in our Western States, to resist the encroachments of foreigners upon those great… Read more

London: Hamilton, Adams and Co, 1844. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 48pp. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.25" x 5" The author admonishes seminary graduates and new ministers to pay attention to classical studies and philosophy, refers to the "at last successful battle for the emancipation of the negro… Read more

Scottdale, Pa: Mennonite Publishing House, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 246pp with index. Bound in blue cloth, dark blue lettering. 7.75" x 5". Few minor spots in text. Laid in is an unused Curteich postcard (ca. 1940) showing two "Mennonite Maids of Lancaster County, Ephrata, Pa.", printed by Weit News Co., Ephrata. [WorldCat… Read more

Germantaun [Germantown, PA]: Michael Billmeyer, 1806. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: 271, (4) Register [index]. Bound in old flame calf, five gilt rules on spine; printer's devices on title-page, tailpiece, and as separators between prayers in text. 6" x 3.5". Near fine condition for the age. [Early American Imprints 10468. Botte,… Read more

Rahway, NJ: Union Democrat Press, 1899. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. (10)pp; two small views from photographs, full-page portrait of Rev. John A. Liggett. Bound in light-green textured wrappers, gilt lettering and ornaments on cover. Covers slightly tanning. 8" x 6"

Burlington, NJ: Franklin Ferguson, Printer, 1859. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8pp, integral title-page, printed on an unopened broadsheet. 9.5" x 6" Written in pencil at top of cover: "Proof--Pres by F. Ferguson 12/59." This assembly drew "from six to seven thousand persons, of whom twenty-five hundred were Sunday School scholars." Chairman for the… Read more