Homosexual Love" In Women
by Podolsky, Dr. Edward
Paper wraps. 4 pp article in Popular Medicine Illustrated. Sex-Health Body Care February 1935. Magazine in good condition.
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Lottobuchlein oder grundliche und nothige Belehrung fur jeden, der sein Gluck im Lottl machen will
by [Johann Paul Pohlmann]
Nurenberg: Germanien, 1800. Hardcover. 155pp., 1 folding chart. Front board detached. 4 copies located in German libraries. A rare book that advises on playing the lottery.
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A Statement of the Case of the People Against Elisha B. Fero
by Porter, Charles B. M.D.
New York: Appleton & Co, 1870. An offprint from "The Journal of Psychological Medicine." April 1870. 48pp. Removed from a bound volume, lacking the wraps. Fero was accused of murdering his wife. The defense argued it was a burglar that Fero tried to stop and his wife was killed in the process. Many facsimiles of Mrs. Fero's skull. The jury found him not guilty. Not in McDade.
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THE FALL RIVER TRAGEDY.; A History of the Borden Murders. A plain statement of the material facts pertaining to the most famous crime of the century, including the story of the arrest and preliminary trial of Miss Lizzie A. Borden and a full report of the Superior Court trial, with a hitherto unpublished account of the renowned Trickey-McHenry affair compiled from official sources and profusely illustrated with original engravings
by Porter, Edwin
Fall River: Geo. R.H. Buffinton, Pess J.D. Munroe, 1893. 312 pp. Very good with minor spotting to the last pages. A detailed account of the crime and trial. Howes, P-486; McDade 117.
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The Fall River Tragedy
by Porter, Edwin H.
Fall River, MA: Geo. R.H. Buffington, 1893. Hardcover. 212 pp. Title on cover faded. Owned by Lizzie D. Estabrook, 292 Pine Street, Fall River, Mass. It appears Estabrook lived in Fall River at the time of the murders. Pine Street is a three minute walk to the Borden house. Interestingly when Borden was acquitted, she went to the home of Charles Holmes who lived on Pine St. for a reception.
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An Authentic Life of John C. Colt, now imprisoned for killing Samuel Adams, in New York
by Charles Powell
S.N. Dickinson, 1842. Fourth Edition. Fourth Edition. Boston: S.N. Dickinson, 1842. 70pp. Removed. Good condition. This is the 70-page edition and there is also a 60-page edition. John was the brother of Samuel Colt who invented the famous revolver. John murdered a man and tried to ship the body to New Orleans. He was found guilty, was then sentenced to hang but opted to kill himself instead, stabbing himself in his own heart. McDade, 205.
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Observations On Reversionary Payments
by Price, Richard
London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1772. Second edition. Hardcover. 404 pp. Rebound with leather label. The second edition contains supplementary material adding to and refining Price's earlier work.
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Lot of four commonplace books of Susan Lane C.1798-1880 of Walpole, New Hampshire and Windham Vermont with related ephemera
by Pulsipher, Susan Lane
1818. A fascinating small collection kept by Susan Lane, who was born in Walpole, New Hampshire, about 1798, and died in Windham, Vermont. She wrote poetry and short prose. She goes on to teach, as indicated by a hand-drawn award of merit she pens, dated 1818. She married Elias Pulsipher and moved to Windham, Vermont. In 1870, she was living with a daughter and perhaps a niece. By 1880, she lived alone and died that year. The collection includes,... Read More
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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900
by Quiller-Couch, Arthur
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924. Bound in blue morrocco. Bound in full blue morrocco. Very good condition with half title and title page with minor crinkling and title page has a very small stain.
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The Gentle Shepherd
by Ramsay, Allan
Bert: R. Morison, 1788. 96pp. In homemade paper binding. Fragile. Front cover and end paper loose.
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Revolution de l'Amerique. Philosophique & Politique des Etablissements & du Commerce des Europeens dans las deux Indes
by M. l'Abbee Ranal
London: Lockyer Davis, 1781. Paper wraps. 171pp. A Swedish work in favor of the American Revolution which went through several editions in 1781. Front cover worn and detached. Some staining to bottom edge of pages.
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Manhattan Jungle, The Adventures of a Life Underwriter
by Ran, Kip (Lowell King Randolph)
New York: Exposition Press, 1956. 174 pp. First edition. Minor wear to jacket with rubbing, fading, and some smudging on the back of the jacket. Signed by the author.
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Dave Ranney Or Truty Years on The Bowery
by Ranney, Dave
New York: American Tract Society, 1920. 205 pages. In good condition. With a long inscription from Ranney.
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Crime, Criminals and Reform
by Ray, Al. G.
Saint Paul: McGill- Warner Company, 1911. 67 pp. Wraps worn. Two copies located at Cornell & University of Oregon. A very scarce piece written by the security officers of the railroad and given away by the line. Various criminals are described including clairvoyants.
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Education in its Relation to the Physical Health of the Brain. A Discourse Delivered Before the Rode Island Institute of Instruction, October 18, 1850
by Ray, I.
Boston: Ticknor, reed, and Fields, 1851. 52 pp. Fading in spots to the cloth binding-otherwise a very good copy. Ray was the Superintendent of the Butler Hospital for the Insane. His discourse addresses the difficulties of adolescence, and he offers cautionary advice about keeping older children away from evil literature that might inflame their passions. Scarce with copies only at the NY Historical Society Library, the Countway Library, and the British Library.
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The Horseman; With Practical Rules to Buyers, Breeders, Breakers, Smiths
by Redhead, H.W.
Cleveland, OH: Cowles, Pinkerton and Co, 1855. Hardcover. 108pp. Chipping to cloth spine. Redhead felt that vicious horses could never change unlike Rarey, also from Ohio that felt like they could be changed.
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Tamburlaine and Other Verses
by Reed, John
Hillacre, 1917. 41 pp. Uncut. Dust jacket lightly worn and faded. Waldo Pierce's copy with his bookplate and a note signed "Waldo" laid into the front. Reed was an active American Communist who died in Russia in 1920.
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Elizabeth Wharton "Baltimore Borgia" (Trial Review)
by John J. Reese
A review of the Recent Trial of Elizabeth G. Wharton on the Charge of Poisoning General W.S. Ketchum. Extracted from the American Journal of Medical Science. April, 1872. 27 pages, some staining. Although acquitted by the jury, McDade suggests she might have murdered others.
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History of the Fourth Regiment of S.C. Volunteers from the Commencement of the War Until Lee's Surrender
by Reid, J.W.
Greenville, SC: Shannon & Co, 1892. REBOUND hardcover. Reid, J.W. History of the Fourth Regiment of S.C. Volunteers from the Commencement of the War Until Lee's Surrender. Grenville, S.C.: Shannon & Co. 143pp. LACKS PORTRAIT. Rebound in 1/4 morocco and brown linen boards. $375.00.
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Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline, with the Appropriate Structure, and Oral and Religious Reflections
by Reynolds, John
Boston: A. W Wright, 1834. Hardcover. 252 pp. Staining. Paper label on spine in poor condition. With illustration of the prison. Bookplate of Orsamus C. King of Woodstock, VT., with year he purchased it and what he paid for it.
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Legalized Murder "Thou Shalt Not Kill
by Riley, C.T.
Parkersburg, WV: Baptist Banner Publishing Co, 1923. Third edition. Paper wraps. 71 pp. Covers worn. Dr. Riley said it was a Divine Revelation which led him to the anti-capital punishment cause.
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Rails of the World. A Monograph of the Family Rallidae
by Ripley, S. Dillon
Boston: David R. Godine, 1977. Deluxe edition in 3/4 morrocco with slip case. A fine copy and number 389 of the deluxe edition signed by Ripley and the artist J. Fenwick Lansdowne. A lovely copy. 406 pp. pp.
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Two variants of 1926 Paul Robeson and Lawrence Brown Music Program
by Robeson, Paul and Lawrence Brown
New York: The Pond Bureau, 1926. Two generic 4-page single folded sheets with biographical content and excerpts of positive reviews in the press. Each of these has a sheet placed in them with a program for the event at the Lyceum Theatre on April 22, 1926. These programs date from the beginnings of the collaboration between Robeson and Brown. Good with wear, toning to the pages and folds.
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Dorothea Lynde Dix: A Paper read Before the Worcester Society of Antiquity, November 20th, 1888
by Roe, Alfred
Worcester: Franklin P. Rice, 1889. Paper wraps. 20pp. Wraps torn and discolored.
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The Ordinary of Newgate's Account of the Behavior, Confession, and Dying Words of Sarah Metyard, and Sarah Morgan Metyard, her Daughter, Who were Executed at Tyburn, on Monday, July 19, 1762, for the Murder of Ann Nailor... Number II for the Said Year
by Roe, Stephen
J. Dixwell: London, 1762. Removed from a bound volume and page edges unevenly trimmed The mother and daughter Metyard were tried, convicted and executed for beating and starving to death an apprentice named Ann Nailor The mother owned a Haberdasher's shop and as it turns out had abused other children indentured to her This example is not located in the English short title catalog The Ordinary of Newgate was given the authority to publish accounts of the condemned as... Read More
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