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Only this #1 issue was published?
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Only this #1 issue was published?

Item # 714153 ·
THE LEECH, Union College, Schenectady, New York, July, 1864  This short-lived title has an unusual masthead showing two men facing away from viewer. Much of the content is directed at L.P. Hickock, referred to at one point as "Old Hick," and the last page contains a review of Hickock's Rational Cosmology.
Only this single issue--volume 1, number 1--is known to have been printed. An item at the bottom of the last page would seem to confirm this: "Valedictory" "We now take leave of the public. If the evils we have reproved are not remedied, we shall draw more blood next year; for the present we are full and now top off; we, a leech, have got through sucking asses." 
This issue is offered by another dealer for $175.
Twelve pages, 9 1/2 by 12 inches, never bound nor trimmed with wide margins, some ink stains and dirtiness to the front page only, minor fold perforation to the front leaf. Interior pages are nice.

Item from our most recent catalog - #368 - released for July, 2026

Categories: The Civil War, Yankee
Price
$132
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.