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

Paris: A. Maloine, 1912. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's grey card wrappers lettered in silver foil, color pictorial element mounted to upper cover; 43pp.; three color plates. Ex-Rush Medical College Library with their inoffensive markings, spine chipped and upper cover starting to separate, else Good or better, internally fine. Illustrated..... More

Nasser, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: American Mission, 1931. First Thus. Octavo; publisher's cream printed staplebound card wrappers; vii,[1],31pp. Light soil to wrappers, faint crease to rear cover, one signature separated but present, else Very Good, internally clean and fresh. Printed by W. Heffer and Sons Ltd., in Cambridge. Posthumously published religious tract..... More

Chicago: Acmegraph Company, [1913]. First Edition. 12mo; publisher's blue pictorial ribbon-bound card wrappers printed in blue, green, and gilt, yapp edges, housed in original matching lidded box; 64pp.; text printed in green and blue throughout. Light foxing, box a bit toned with small tear at right-hand edge of upper lid..... More

N.d. ca. 1930s. Original manuscript filling recto and most of the verso of single leaf; approx. 350 words. Old soil along previous folds, one fold slightly obscuring text, else Very Good. Racy joke written in what could be a juvenile hand, possibly to be passed around in school. Recounts the..... More

[Cleveland: Western Reserve University, 1929]. First Edition. Folio (30.5cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in red, black, and yellow; 32pp.; illus. throughout, including cartoons by Groth and pictorial ads. Light wear from handling, one signature separated but present, else Very Good and fresh. The University's elegantly produced monthly humor magazine..... More

N.d. ca. 1930s. Two leaves (27.5x21.5cm.) printed mimeo on rectos only. Previous folds, one leaf toned, else Very Good or better. Collection of six tongue-in-cheek sample letters to write to customers with overdue accounts: "Just think, your account of $7.00 will have its first annual birthday this month! Shall we..... More