Carlyle, Thomas edited by. Latter Day Pmphlets; N0. V, Stump Orator. Phillips, Sampson & co., Boston, 1850.

Price: US$49.01 + shipping

Description: covers worn at corner, pages uncut soft covers very good

Seller: Ken Saunders, Stirling, ON, Canada

Carlyle, Thomas.. Latter-Day Pamphlets, Volumes I,II,III.. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1850, 1850.

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Description: Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1850. First American editions of the first three (of eight) pamphlets, same year as the first edition (Tarr, A21.2.I-III.a). All in original printed wrappers. "The Present Time", "Model Prisons", "Downing Street". Carlyle described the publication of these as ".a great relief to my own conscience as a faithful citizen". Fine copies of all three.

Seller: Up-Country Letters, Gardnerville, NV, U.S.A.

Wright, Elizur. Perforations in the Latter-day pamphlets. No. I, Universal suffrage, capital punishment, slavery, by one of the 'eighteen millions of bores'. Phillips, Sampson, and Company, Boston, 1850.

Price: US$142.50 + shipping

Description: 48p., self-wraps, disbound, minor browning, corners torn off of a couple of pages, rear blank detached and chipped. Wright, a mathematician and insurance actuary, was a prominent activist and publisher in the abolitionist movement and was part of the abolitionist strain that saw secret societies, such as the Masons, as enemies of human liberty. The 'latter-day' pamphlets referred to are Thomas Carlyle's.

Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Carlyle, Thomas (ed.). Latter - Day Pamphlets. No. 1 - March, 1850. The Present Time; No. II - March 1850. Model Prisons.; No. III - April, 1850. Downing Street; No.IV - April, 1850. The New Downing Street; No.V - May, 1850. Stump - Orator; No.VI - June, 1850. Parliaments. Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1850.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Missing top 1 1/2" of covering over spine. Foxing throughout. "Your life is yours to give - give it Thomas Carlyle" written in pencil. (not authenticated) Plus Hudson's Statute & Jesuitism bound in. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Collectorsemall, Rialto, CA, U.S.A.