[Rarebooks] For Sale: pamphlets

Norman Kane nkane at kanebooks.com
Sat Oct 1 18:51:01 EDT 2005


We offer the following pamphlets:

ONE OF THE BRAVEST SONGSTER.  CHAS. C. McCARTHY AS LARRY HOWARD, ONE 
OF THE BRAVEST, SING KEE THE CELESTIAL LAUNDRY MAN . . .   N. Y.: New 
York Popular Publishing Co., 37 Bond St., [ca. 1886.]
Original pictorial color front wrapper, advts on rear wrapper, corner 
of wrapper repaired, 32pp.  OCLC locates one copy at the 
N.Y.P.L.  (Boston Fire, New
York Firemen, Sheriff's Sale, &c, &c.)  $125.00

CAMPBELL, M., ED.   WOOD'S MINSTRELS' SONGS . . .  N.Y.: Dick and
Fitzgerald, 18 Ann St., (1855).  Original pictorial front wrapper, 
advts. on rear
wrapper.  Pp. [3]-74.   Some edge-chipping.  Illustrations and music 
for some of the songs.  (Poor Uncle Tom, Colored Fancy Ball, Brudder 
Bones's Love Scrape, Female Slave's Lament, Guinea Maid, Charleston 
Gals, &c, &c.)
$75.00

[BOUDINOT, ELIAS.]  POOR SARAH; OR, RELIGION EXEMPLIFIED IN THE LIFE 
AND DEATH OF A PIOUS INDIAN WOMAN.  Phila.:  Religious Tract Society 
of Philadelphia; Wm. Bradford, agent, Feb. 1820.  Self-wraps,
cover-title, vignette on title, 12pp.  (Connecticut.)  Amer. Imprints 
557 locates 3 copies. $50.00

[WEEMS, MASON LOCKE.]  THE DRUNKARD'S LOOKING GLASS, OR
NARRATIVE OF PETER AND JOHN HAY . . . [&] THE WONDERFUL
DELIVERANCE OF A SOLDIER.  Phila.: Religious Tract Soc. of Phila.;
Wm. Bradford, agent, 1819.  Original self-wraps, cover-title, 12pp.
Vignette on title.  (Excerpted from Weems' work.  We find no 
reference to this edition, although other similar printings are 
listed. Scarce.)  $125.00

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