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| LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. The Courtship of Miles Standish and other Poems. London:, W. Kent,, 1858., First Edition, Hardcover. A second state of the first edition, with 227 pages and a frontis, the first state with just 135 in wrappers and no illustration. BAL, 12121. This copy in a presentation binding by W. Townsend & Son, Sheffield. Book presented as a prize in 1866 by the Royal Free Grammar School, Retford. The publisher's ads are lacking. Dark green polished calf with a red morocco spine label, gilt raised bands forming six compartments, all blank except the title. Covers with double rule and blind edge decoration. Marbled boards and endpapers. Presentation plate on front pastedown. A clean and soundly bound copy. The covers generally and lightly rubbed with minor surface scratches and extremity wear. The spine is mildly sunned. Very Good+. USD 222.20 [Appr.: EURO 148.25 | £UK 133.75 | JP¥ 19611] Book number: 12321 Click here to order or inquire at The Gallagher Collection. | ||
| MILLER, JOAQUIN (CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER). The Baroness of New York. New York:, G.W. Carleton & Co.,, 1877., First Edition, Hardcover. Hardback 12mo in green cloth decorated in gilt and blind. 244 pages. BAL 13771 (publisher's device on back cover and purple endpapers). A two-part poem by the eccentric American poet most closely associated with California, but born in Indiana and raised in Oregon. Nice sound copy with a gift note in pencil on first blank; moderate toning to page edges; covers very lightly worn at extremities with a little turning to corners. Very good. USD 83.30 [Appr.: EURO 55.75 | £UK 50.25 | JP¥ 7352] Book number: 8616 Click here to order or inquire at The Gallagher Collection. | ||
| PAINE, ALBERT BIGELOW AND WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE; INTRODUCTION BY EWING HERBERT. Rhymes By Two Friends. Fort Scott, Kansas:, M.I Izor & Son,, 1893., First Edition, Hardcover. Hardback 12mo, about 7 inches tall, in blue cloth stamped in gilt. 228 pages illustrated by line drawings in text. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS. An interesting pair of inscriptions. Paine inscribed this copy with an impersonal "Merry Christmas" salutation dated 1893. White likewise wished " Merry Christmas" without personalizing it in 1934 in Emporia Kansas. He also noted that "This is a first (and only) edition." (initialed WAW). An interesting collection of tales of the west in verse (along with some non-western). An uncommon book, and illusive with the signatures of both authors, Paine's being the much more common signature on this book. A sound copy, but there is some separation after the first gathering. The covers are lightly edgeworn with some loss of surface color at the extremities, and a nick to the cloth at top edge of front cover. Previous owner name on the front blank. The colophon at the rear is somewhat toned from something which had been tipped in opposite where there remains some glue residue. Very good. USD 555.60 [Appr.: EURO 370.75 | £UK 334 | JP¥ 49036] Book number: 9322 Click here to order or inquire at The Gallagher Collection. | ||
| TWAIN, MARK. Mark Twain's Sketches New and Old. Hartford CT:, American Publishing Co.,, 1875., First edition, Hardcover. Octavo in the publisher's half brown morocco binding, all edges gilt. 320 pages. First edition, first state with the misplaced footnote on page 120, and "From Hospital Days" on page 299 along with the erratum laid in. Johnson, p.24. BAL, 3364. An interesting collection of irreverent essays composed over the previous 12 years. Previous owner name in pencil on front endpaper dated 1876. Prelims lightly foxed and free endpapers deeply toned at edges from the leather turn-ins. A little inconsequential chipping to the front endpaper and following leaf. Text is generally mildly toned. The covers are modestly edgeworn. It is possible that the hinges have been strengthened by a professional but if so, there is no evidence visible. The book is otherwise clean and soundly bound. Very Good+. USD 3333.30 [Appr.: EURO 2223.5 | £UK 2003.25 | JP¥ 294189] Book number: 12488 Click here to order or inquire at The Gallagher Collection. |
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