Religion, Philosophy, Occult from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, (1879). Sextodecimo (7" x 5.5"), 96 pages including 3 full page illustrations from engravings preceding text & 3 following. Publisher's dark red cloth lettered in gilt & decorated in black on the upper cover. Moderately soiled, spine browned, brief wear at corners, binding cracked following the last page of text (still secure), otherwise good or… Read more about this item

Burgaw, North Carolina: John Roscoe Dail, (1984). First edition. Quarto (11" x 9"), 295 pages, with illustrations from photographs & a map. Publisher's comb-bound buff pictorial card covers. Lightly soiled, brief edge wear, otherwise very good. The author was a Presbyterian minister who served several churches from 1951 to 1981 throughout North Carolina.

New York: Random House, 1980. First edition, this copy signed & dated in the year of publication, with sketch of a Berenstain Bear in ink at the first blank page. Quarto (11.25" x 8.25"), 64 unnumbered pages, illustrated throughout in color. Publisher's glossy pictorial paper over boards. Without dust jacket as issued. One corner lightly bruised, otherwise fine. A special copy indeed,… Read more about this item

[Newark, New Jersey: Bureau of Moral And Hygienic Education, Inc.], 1927 (copyright). 16mo (6.5" x 4.75"), 15 & [1] pages. Publisher's light card covers, stapled. Internal toning, otherwise fine. Book vi in a series of sex booklets for "adults only" by the prolific Dr. Krauss, who describes himself as "The Evangelist of Health." "Our young women are too willing to be delicate… Read more about this item

Berryville, Clarke County Virginia: Published & edited by John O. Crown, Volume xxi, number 34, October 10, 1889. Broadsheet newspaper, single sheet measuring 24 inches by 34 inches folded once vertically forming four pages. Old folds, moderately toned & foxed, tattered including small tears & losses in the margins, creasing, one-half inch split at a fold briefly affecting text, pencil annotation… Read more about this item

[Newark, New Jersey: Bureau of Moral And Hygienic Education, Inc.], 1929 (copyright). 16mo (6.5" x 4.75"), 24 pages. Publisher's light card covers, stapled. Margins slightly sunned, some corner creasing, internal toning, otherwise very good. Book iv in a series of sex booklets for "adults only" by the prolific Dr. Krauss, who was the president of the Bureau of Moral and Hygienic Education. … Read more about this item

[Newark, New Jersey: Bureau of Moral And Hygienic Education, Inc.], 1927 (copyright). 16mo (6.5" x 4.75"), 21 & [3] pages. Publisher's light card covers, stapled. Margins sunned, internal toning, otherwise very good. Book viii in a series of sex booklets for "adults only" by the prolific Dr. Krauss, who describes himself as "The Evangelist of Health." Includes a page titled "To Cut… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1915. First edition, this copy inscribed to "kinsman" Luther M. Strayer, signed, & dated in ink by the author at the ffep. Small octavo (7.75 x 5.5"), xii, [2], 309 & [7, advertisements] pages. Publisher's gilt-lettered brown cloth. Binding rubbed & spotted from biopredation (mostly affecting the lower cover), lightly internally toned otherwise good & still quite useful. The… Read more about this item

[Newark, New Jersey: Bureau of Moral And Hygienic Education, Inc.], 1927 (copyright) but probably issued in 1931). 16mo (6.5" x 4.75"), 24 pages. Publisher's light card covers, stapled. Slight edge wear & soiling, soft vertical crease throughout, internal toning, otherwise very good. Book ix in a series of sex booklets for "adults only" by the prolific Dr. Krauss, who describes himself as… Read more about this item

Heidelbergh Catechism. Baltimore, Maryland: Published by Elias Heiner, 1849. "Revised & corrected, with additional proof texts." 24mo (5" x 3.25"), 55 pages. With: Constitution ... Baltimore: Printed by Sherwood & Co., 1849. 48 pages. Publisher's gilt lettered brown cloth. OCLC locates two copies only (accession # 29415313) as of 1/26/2024. Worn: Binding faded & soiled, gilt dull, stained & foxed, small… Read more about this item

[Newark, New Jersey: Bureau of Moral And Hygienic Education, Inc.], 1929. First edition. 16mo (6.5" x 4.75"), 30 & [2] pages. Publisher's light card covers, stapled. Margins sunned, internal toning, otherwise very good. Book v in a series of "approved sex booklets" for "adults only" by the prolific Dr. Krauss who also marketed "Hygienique." Provides rather explicit instructions which do not neglect… Read more about this item

New York: American Tract Society, no date (circa 1850's per OCLC). 24mo (5.75" x 4"), 24 pages. Publisher's printed paper wraps, sewn. OCLC locates two copies as of 1/28/2024. Upper cover partially separated, foxed & soiled, modest edge wear including nicks & small loss at the lower corner of the rear cover, internally toned, otherwise good or better. Author John Bartholomew Gough… Read more about this item

New York: Carleton, Publisher; London: S. Low, Son & Co., MDCCCLXIX (1869). First edition, this copy with presentation in ink by the author at the ffep: "A M[onsieur] Chabot/ avec les compliments/ de M'elle Kraft." 12mo, viii, [9] - 316 & 8 (ie 6) pages of publisher's ads plus 5 mounted albumen photographs. Publisher's rust/ brown cloth lettered in gilt… Read more about this item

Hartford, [Connecticut]: H.E. Robins and Co., 1853. Later printing. Octavo (8" x 5"), x & [11] - 402 pages, with engraved half title & full page illustrations from woodcuts. Publisher's red cloth elaborately lettered & decorated in gilt. All edges gilt. Spine gilt dull, edge wear including shallow losses at the spine extremities, corners bruised, internally toned & foxed, light stain… Read more about this item

Wheaton, Illinois: Church League of America, 1965. Original illustrated broadside, folio (14" x 6.5"), single sheet printed recto only. Text in three columns. Folded once horizontally, moderate edge wear, some creasing, tiny hole affecting a letter in Shackelford's name, lightly foxed & soiled, otherwise Good or better. Reprints an article originally published in the Chicago Tribune on October 17, 1965. The Tribune,… Read more about this item

Paris: J. Mallet et Cie, 1841. "Edition Illustree." Quarto (10.5" x 7.25"), xx & 525 pages including numerous illustrations in text plus 18 plates only (of 20 per list) printed on China paper & mounted to light card stock. Contemporary half black morocco & pebbled green cloth, the spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, lettered or ruled in… Read more about this item

New York: The Century Company, 1912. Reprint, originally published 1911. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), xi & 397 pages, with frontis portrait & numerous plates hors texte. Publisher's blue cloth lettered & decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt, the others uncut. Spine gilt dull, binding lightly soiled & briefly rubbed mostly at the spine extremities & corners, text block cracking in a… Read more about this item

Oslo: H. Aschehoug; London: Kegan Paul, Trench; Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz; Paris: Societe D'Edition Les Belles Lettres; Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1951. First edition. Octavo (8.75" x 5.75"), xiii & 163 pages, illutrated (plates, maps). Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth, in printed & decorated dust jacket. Edges lightly rubbed, couple of corners bruised, text browned, binding cracking at p. 64/65 (still secure), otherwise… Read more about this item

New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, 1883. Octavo (8" x 5.75"), xii & 601 pages, illustrated (facsimiles, plates, portraits, maps}. Publisher's gilt-lettered gray cloth. Ex-library with occasional rubber-stamped marks of the Sunday School Library of Providence, Rhode Island's Central Baptist Church. Gilt dull, brief edge wear, lightly soiled, sporadic foxing & toning, otherwise good. Adoniram Judson (1788 - 1850) was… Read more about this item

Berryville, Virginia: Virginia Book Company, 1966. "Revised edition," originally published in 1930. Octavo (9.25" x 6.5"), 255 pp. plus numerous illustrations mostly from photographs. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth, in pictorial dust jacket. Gilt slightly dull, otherwise a near fine copy in very good lightly soiled & toned dust jacket with slight edge wear. "Mrs. Lee published Virginia Ghosts in 1930, and in… Read more about this item