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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS.
Pamphlet titled “A.A.”
33 pages. 8vo, original
printed wrappers; minor wear.
New York: Alcoholic Foundation, P.O. Box 658, June 1940
[400/600]
This pamphlet was the first issued by the Alcoholic Foundation after the “Big Book.” It consists
of a short introduction, six articles reprinted from the Houston Press, the Twelve Steps, and an
article by physician W.D. Silkworth. Some sources credit early Houston AA member Larry
Jewell as the author of the newspaper articles. The introduction boasts: “Rapidly growing, now
numbering about five hundred, our Fellowship is spreading throughout the country.”
Membership is now estimated at nearly two million.
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(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Colden, Cadwallader.
The History of the Five Indian
Nations of Canada.
Folding map. [1], iv, [4], v-ix, iv, xi-xvi, 204, 283, [1] pages. 8vo,
contemporary calf, moderate wear, tastefully rebacked; table of contents and Part II preface
misbound in front matter; bookplate of architect James Gamble Rogers on front paste-
down. With a preface leaf and final page of undated publisher’s ads.
London, 1750
[600/900]
Second English edition. The first London edition, issued in 1747, expanded on the 1727
original with a long appendix of Indian trading legislation and documents. This second edition
was reissued from the same sheets, with a new title page. European Americana 750/68; Field
342; Howes C560 (“aa”); Sabin 14274; TPL 220.
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(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Irving, John Treat.
Indian Sketches, Taken During
an Expedition to the Pawnee.
2 volumes. 12mo, early
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morocco, minor wear; small
bookplates of author Frederic Huidekoper (1817-1892) on front pastedowns.
London, 1835
[200/300]
First English edition, with added contents. Describes an effort to make peace between the
Pawnees and a group of Delawares who had been resettled among them. Field 764
(Philadelphia edition); Howes I79.
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(AMERICAN INDIANS.) McKenney, Thomas L.; and Hall, James.
The Indian
Tribes of North America.
2 folding color maps, 2 portraits of the authors, 122 color
plates (as listed). lxii, [2], 442; [iii]-viii, 458; xvi, 355, [1] pages. 3 volumes. 8vo, publisher’s
cloth, minimal wear; uncut; dust jackets with minor wear and soiling.
Edinburgh, 1933-34
[300/400]
With an extensive new introduction by Frederick Webb Hodge. Howes M129 (this edition “aa”).
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(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Willis, Thomas.
A Short Account of the Religious
Exercise and Experience of Betty, an Indian Woman; One of the Last of an
Ancient Tribe of Indians that Inhabited the South Side of Long-Island.
23 pages.
12mo, later
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calf, worn; dampstaining; presentation inscription on verso of title page by
prominent Quaker Stephen Gould of Newport, RI (bleeding through to recto).
New York, 1830
[300/400]
Betty’s story, according to the brief preface, was recorded almost verbatim by Quaker women in
1795 and 1812. This little-known account includes numerous biographical details; the one
place name mentioned is Westbury (now in Nassau County). Betty was thought to be in her
nineties when she died in 1823. Appended is “An Account of the Religious Experiences of an
Indian Man who Resided in Oneida County,” also dictated to a group of Quakers. Sabin
104520; 5 copies in OCLC; none known at auction since 1923.
