Church of the United Brethren in Christ

A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the United Brethren in Christ

Dayton, W.J. Shuey, 1867. Leather bound. 757p. Bound in full red leather, decorated in gilt. Covers rubed and lightly faded. Old staining across the top edge of the pages which does not affect the book's readability. Overall good condition. Early United Brethren hymnal. This is the text put together in 1858 following the General Conference of 1857 held in Cincinnati. Dayton Ohio was an early center of United Brethren publishing. The book contains an old signature from 1886 indicating it was used in Ontario MI. .

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Book number: 1232871

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Catholic Church

Ordo Administrandi Sacramenta

Baltimore, Joannis D. Toy, 1824. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Leather bound. 132p. Bound in full leather. Pocket-size book measuring 3x5 inches. Good condition. Ex-convent library with their name stamped on the inside front cover. CINCINNATI ARCHBISHOP JOHN B. PURCELL'S COPY. Contains his signature on the title page plus two-page handwritten note tipped in at the front of the book. The note, which is in Purcell's hand, is titled "Brevior Formula" and is a brief guide to the administration of baptism. Interesting book of Catholic Ritual issued for priests in the United States in 1824. Parsons, Early Catholic Americana, p. 197. John B. Purcell was Archbishop of Cincinnati from 1850-1883. He presided over a period of tremendous growth for the Catholic Church in America because of the swell of European Catholic immigrants to Ohio. Although he brought in many positive institutions to the Cincinnati archdiocese, he ended his final years in disgrace after the collapse of a private bank he had started to provide banking services for immigrants. A rare and interesting piece of Catholic Americana. Good .

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Book number: 1259498

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Cicero; edited by John Davis

M. Tullii Ciceronis de Finibus Bonorum Et Malorum Libri Quinque

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1809. Second Edition. Leather bound. 340p + index. Large paper copy, measuring 6x9 1/2 inches. Bound in full green leather, ruled and decorated in gilt, spine elaborately gilt decorated. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Binding signed by C.K. Althoeber of London. Old bookseller label of Galloway and Porter, bookplate but otherwise unmarked. Text shows some mild browning but generally clean. Mild rubbing to edges of spine. A hardcover book in very good condition. .

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Book number: 1244076

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Thomas Clarkson

The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament

Wilimington DE, R. Porter, 1816. Abridged edition. Leather bound. One volume abridgement of the 1808 two volume edition. 348p. Bound in full calf, recased with restoration work to spine ends and new endpapers. Text is complete but stained throughout; the heaviest staining is on the title page and first thirty pages. Text completely legible. Small octavo, measuring 4 1/2 x 7 inches. Overall in good condition. A famous work on slavery and how it was ended in the British Empire. Clarkson was one of the chief leaders of the Abolitionist Movement in Great Britain and instrumental in the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807. He would campaign world-wide against slavery for the reaminder of his life. Sabin 13486. .

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Book number: 1248632

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Lilian Cohen

The Story of the Horatio Alger Commemorative Postage Stamp

Jackson Heights, LHC Limited, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. #58 OF 150 NUMBERED COPIES. A fine copy. This deluxe miniature book was designed and bound by Lilian Cohen. An esquisite work of which only 150 copies were made. Measures 2x3 inches.

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Book number: 18929

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Keywords: stamps

William Cardinal O'Connell

Recollections of Seventy Years

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. ONE OF 565 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Black decorated cloth. A hardcover book in fine condition with publisher's slipcase. Also loosely laId in is a typed letter on O'Connell's official stationary, signed in a secretarial hand. The letter is to historial Edward M. Pickman, author of The Mind of Latin Christendom. O'Connell thanks Pickman for sending a copy of his book and encloses his own in return. William Cardinal O'Connell (1859-1944) was Archbishop of Boston for 38 years. He was appointed a Cardinal in 1911. He was a powerful figure both in the Church and in Massachusetts politics for decades. Known as "Number One", he was a strong conservative voice in American culture during his lifetime. .

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Book number: 1240786

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US Supreme Court

The Case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court: The Full Opinions of Chief Justice Taney and Justice Curtis and Abstracts of the Opinions of the Other Judges

New York, The Tribune Association, 1860. Wraps. Reprint issued by the New York Tribune newspaper. 104pp. Self-wraps. The binding is intact but fragile, being held together by a single loose string. Clean and tight with some mild chipping to wrappers on the spine. .

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Book number: 1245070

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James Boswell as edited by John Wilson Croker

The Life of Samuel Johnson with Johnsoniana: 10 Volumes

London, Henry C. Bohn, 1853. Leather bound. The Croker Edition of Boswell complete in ten volumes. Uniformly bound in 3/4 brown leather and marbled boards. Gilt decorated spines; marbled endpapers; top edges gilt. In addition, there is an extra volume added in the same matching binding which is an 1845 edition of Johnsoniana where the two volumes are bound as one. A few touches of shelf wear but the set in overall fine condition. Includes all engraved plates and frontispieces called for. Small octavos, measuring 4x7 inches. Includes Boswell's Life of Johnson plus the Tour of the Hebrides in vols. I-VIII plus two volumes of Johnsoniana. .

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Book number: 1230760

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[Jane Addams] John Daniels

America Via the Neighborhood

New York, Harper and Brothers, 1920. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Original blue cloth, worn at crown of spine, front hinge neatly reinforced with archival paper tape, else a hardcover book in very good condition. SIGNED BY JANE ADDAMS ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The signature is in pencil. On the front pastedown opposite is a rubber ownership stamp of the Immigrant's Service League in Chicago, an organization Addams helped start. Addams (1860-1935) was the founder of Hull House, the recipient of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, co-founder of the ACLU, and a champion for women's rights. She was also an active champion of the rights of immigrants and helped to found the Immigrant's Protective League in 1907 - the organization was re-named the Immigrant's Service League in 1958. This work is a sociological study of immigrant neighborhoods and study on how to best assimilate immigrants into American life. A nice association copy of the important 20th century progressive activist. Very good .

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Book number: 1269224

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Charles Darwin

On the Origin of Species

New York, D. Appleton, 1860. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. FIRST PRINTING OF THE AMERICAN EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS IN HUMAN THOUGHT. 1st state of Darwin's classic, with two reviews facing the title page. Original brown pebbled cloth, stamped in blind. Restoration work to spine - this book was professionally rebacked, preserving most of the original spine which was laid down over newer brown cloth. The original brown coated paper endpapers were preserved. Although the repiar is visible, it was expertly done and the two cloths blend together nicely. The interior of the book is clean with only some minor foxing to the first and final few leaves. Two signatures in pencil of former owners, one of whom was E.L. Moseley, a noted Ohio teacher who founded the Science Department at Bowling Green State University. Housed in a custom open-ended slipcase. AN ATTRACTIVE COPY OF THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF A MAJOR BOOK. Darwin's influence on modern thought is of lasting and sigificant importance. .

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Book number: 1245998

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Dorothy Day

The Long Loneliness

New York, Harper and Brothers, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 288p. THE SCARCE FIRST PRINTING OF DOROTHY DAY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Former owner's signature else tight and unmarked. The jacket shows some mild chipping at the spine ends. It formerly was glued to the inside covers of the book and when lifted off, there was some minor loss to the flaps. There is also some glue residue on the endpapers. The scarce first edition of Dorothy Day's most famous work. A co-founder of the Catholic Worker, Day was one of the great 20th century voices of American Catholic progressivism. She has been declared a Servant of God and her cause for sainthood is currently in process. Very good .

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Book number: 1240843

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M.C. Devine

The World's Cardinal

Boston, St. Paul Editions, 1964. 3rd printing. Hardcover. A fine hardcover book in a near-fine dustjacket. INSCRIBED BY RICHARD CARDINAL CUSHING ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Cushing signed the book to Rev. James Harvey Miller "with fondest regards" A biography of Cardinal Cushing, who Archbishop of Boston from 1944-1970. He was a popular prelate known for his ecumenical spirit and fundraising skills. After the long tenure of the ultra-conservative Cardinal O'Connell, many found the affable Cushing to be a breath of fresh air. .

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Book number: 1240841

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Charles Dickens

The Life of Our Lord

Dayton, Dayton Ohio Herald, 1934. First edition. Paperback. The true first edition of this posthumous Dickens work. The work was published serially in American newspapers by United Features Syndicate. The newspaper clippings were then arranged and pasted into a softcover book. All of this occurred before the work was published as a regular book making this ephemeral scrapbook-style version the true first edition of Dickens' final book. This copy has an old stain on its cover else in good condition. The glue used by the published to mount the pages has bled through leaving discolored spots in the corner of each page. .

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Book number: 102049

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J.R. Dodge

Red Men of the Ohio Valley: An Aboriginal History of the Period Commencing A.D. 1650 and Ending at the Treaty of Greenville A.D. 1795

Springfield OH, Ruralist Publishing Company, 1859. 1st Edition. Leather bound. 435p plus one page of ads, complete with frontispiece + 3 plates. Recently rebound in full red leather, spine decorated in gilt with leather title/author labels. Binding in fine condition; interior in good condition. Scattered foxing to text with several pages showing old stains. The rare true first edition, first printing of this uncommon work of Ohio history. Howes D-398. The 1860 second edition is uncommon as well. Thomson (A Bibliography of the State of Ohio) notes author Jacob Richards Dodge lifted much of the text from other books. WorldCat locates only two copies of this edition. .

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Book number: 1235198

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Keywords: Americana, Indians, Ohio

Gardner Dozois, ed

The Year's Best Science Fiction 2006

Norwalk CT, Easton Press, 2006. Leather bound. MINT CONDITION. New book sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. Full leather, gilt edges, moire endpapers, silk ribbon marker. SIGNED BY NEBULA AWARD WINNER GENE WOLFE AND EDITOR GARDNER DOZOIS. .

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Book number: 1232879

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