France, Cleveland, and others: 1912-1970. Substantial private and professional archive of Cleveland-based artist, ad-man, typographer, designer, and Kokoon Klub member Lawrence Harl Copeland (1889-1977). Collection consists of fifty-seven (57) pieces of correspondence of which fifty-one were written by Copeland to his then-fiancée (and later wife) Helene Bander while a private..... More

Monmouth, ME: 1896-1897. Triangular "mystery book" (22x15x15cm.); drab card wrappers, red cloth tape spine; [36]ll. folded leaves that, when opened, reveal letters and messages from friends and classmates, each labelled "To be opened when..." ("you have retired to rest and blown out the light," "your last name commences with R...... More

Athens: Swallow Press / Ohio University Press, [1998]. First Edition. Wrapper issue. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; xvii,[1],249pp. Near Fine condition. Inscribed and signed by the editor on half title to the late Minnesota poet John Rezmerski and his wife Lorna. More

New York: Sheldon and Company, 1865. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine, brown glazed endpapers; vi,7-312pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Some wear to extremities with brief exposure at corners, light rubbing and soil to upper cover cloth, spine gilt dulled, small dampstain at bottom textblock edge, front hinge..... More

[St. Paul, MN]: New Rivers Press, 1984. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's green pictorial card wrappers; 76pp.; illus. throughout. A hint of shelf wear, else Fine. Minnesota Voices Project no. 22. Minnesota author's first poetry collection. More

Minneapolis: Tendon Press, 2002. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's glossy pictorial card wrappers; [6],55pp.; illus. Fine condition. Inscribed and signed by the author on half title to the late Minnesota poet John Rezmerski: "For John + Lorna -- I hope you both are well + that you find these poems..... More

[Evansville: Antes Press, n.d., but 1928]. First Thus. Large, slim octavo; publisher's blue blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 127pp. A few tiny surface scratches to boards, else Fine. Letters by the 19th-century Austrian Catholic missionary in Utica, New York, and Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin territory, translated from the original German. First..... More

Chicago: Hope Publishing Company, [1894-1898]. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo; publisher's black cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; 224 & [2],224pp.; sheet music throughout. Boards a bit scuffed with exposure at extremities, faint dampstains to upper cover of No. 2, contemporary pencil ownership inscription to both front free endpapers, additional pencil notes..... More

New York: Thomas Whittaker, n.d., ca. 1890s. First English Language Edition. Slim quarto; publisher's red cloth-backed pictorial boards; 16pp.; five color lithographed numbered plates on three panels, two folding out, the last mounted to rear cover and with several moveable components. Some chipping to board extremities, the whole rather toned..... More

Londonderry [NH?]: Dec. 5th, 1862. Original bill (approx. 10x20.5cm.) on single side of blue laid paper, written using three ink colors (black, blue, and red). A hint of soil, else Fine. An attractive but perhaps not the most expert writing example, though the calligraphy flourished trio of leaves in three..... More

Quincy, MA? ca. 1870. Small bifolium; pencil manuscript on first and last panels only; previous folds, some light soil, else Very Good and quite legible. Detailed guide to knitting baby shoes, printed on the blank leaves of the Lecture program of the 1870 Unitarian Society of Quincy, whose speakers that..... More

Haarlem: Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, 1927 or 1928. First French Language Edition. Octavo; publisher's white pictorial staplebound card wrappers printed in color, adorned with lithographic illustration reproducing the IX Olympiade's official poster design by Jos Rovers; rear cover advertising the 1928 International Exposition in Amsterdam, the design by Jan Wijga;..... More

Paris? Typ. Charles de Mourgues frères, 1855. First Edition. Broadside flyer (26.5x20.5cm.); a few tiny chips and brief splitting from previous folds, else Very Good and sound. Notice to the citizens of Paris warning them of funeral directors illegally offering lower-cost funerals than the mandated price list of their local..... More