Benezet, Anthony. [PROBABLY ONLY COPY IN PRIVATE HANDS].

Observations on the inslaving, importing and purchasing of Negroes with some advice thereon extracted form [sic] the Yearly Meeting epistle of London for the present year also some remarks on the absolute necessity of self-denial, ...

Germantown [Pa.]: Printed by Christopher Sower, 1759. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 15, [i]pp. First edition. Disbound. Evans 8298; Sabin 4676; ESTC W1272. Attributed to Anthony Benezet by Evans. This first edition of Benezet's has not been seen in auction rooms for well over one hundred years. Very Good.

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Book number: 2532

Catalogue: First Editions, Eighteenth Century Books, Americana

Dickinson, Jonathan.

Familiar Letters to a Gentleman upon a Variety of Seasonable and Important Subjects in Religion. By. Minister of the Gospel in Elizabeth-Town, New Jersey.

Boston: Printed and sold by Rogers and Fowle in Queen-Street, next to the prison: and by J. Blanchard at the Bible and Crown in Dock-Square, 1745, 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [2], v, [1], 424 [i.e. 426], [2]pp. A4, B8-Z8, AA8-CC8, DD6 (DD6 blank). First edition. Errors in paging: page numbers 239-240 repeated; p. 350 misnumbered 150. Contemporary sheep, quite worn. Top of spine chipped. Front free endpaper missing. Evans 25024; [Evans 5572]; Felcone 65 note. Not in Jenkins. Good.

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Book number: 1311

Catalogue: First Editions, Americana

Irving, Washington.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. : No. I[-VII].

New York: Printed by C.S. Van Winkle, 101 Greenwich Street, 1819-[1820]. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 7 parts in 2 volumes. Title-page to volume 1 repaired and mounted. Parts I, VI, and VII are first edition, second printing. Parts II, III, IV, and V were printed one year after the first edition. I (1819): 94 pages; II (1820): 96-169 pages; III (1820): 92 pages; IV (1820): 93 pages; V (1820): 108 pages.; VI (1820): 120 pages; VII (1819): 123 pages. Modern half calf over marbled boards. Volume II 5/16th of an inch taller than Volume I. Shaw & Shoemaker 48355; BAL 10106; Blanck, J. Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 143. Foredge of pp. 73-74 of Part I missing, affecting one letter on page 74. Pages 115-118 of Part VII with a running tear. Some other pages repaired not very well at an earlier date. Staining to some pages. Without the wrappers. Good.

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Book number: 1267

Catalogue: First Editions, Americana, Nineteenth Century Books

Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]. [WITH ALMOST ALL FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE POINTS].

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 366pp. First edition. Earliest issue, with almost all first issue points: page 13: the illustration captioned 'Him and another Man' listed at p. 88 (BAL first state); the eleventh line from the bottom of p. 57 reads '.with the was.' (BAL first state); page 155 with final 5 "stamped in" by hand, and matching the original font in the setting of the page number (no priority, occurring randomly in all three states independent of other major signs of first printing sheets, but this setting seems to appear least often); the portrait frontispiece is in BAL's first state, "heliotype" imprint on the portrait frontispiece, title page with 1884 copyright on verso; page 9: the heading for Chapter 6 reads "Decided" (later corrected to "Decides"); page143: "I" in "Col." (line 1) missing and "b" in "body" (line 7) broken; and no signature mark '11' at page 161. The final leaf is a blank. Publisher's original sheepskin with the red-and-black lettering labels on the spine. Spine repaired, however, this is one of the finest sheep bindings we have seen on this book. It is estimated that only 2500 copies were issued in this binding. With 174 black-and-white illustrations by E.W. Kemble. Good.

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Book number: 2151

Catalogue: First Editions, Americana, Nineteenth Century Books

Wolcott, Roger.

Poetical meditations, being the improvement of some vacant hours; with a preface by the Reverend Mr. Bulkley of Colchester.

New London: Printed and Sold by L. Green, 1725. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [iv], lvi, I, 78, [iv - 1 of errata and 3 of advertisements]. Lacks half-title. First edition. Contemporary sheep. The first book of poetry printed in Connecticut and one of the earliest in North America. ESTC W28923; Evans 2722; Trumbull 1696; Johnson 207; Wegelin 465. Good.

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Book number: 2748

Catalogue: First Editions, Eighteenth Century Books, Americana