TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]

The Tragedy of Pudd'Nhead Wilson and the Comedy [of] Those Extraordinary Twins

Hartford, American Publishing Company, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's decorated rust brown cloth. With all first printing points described in BAL 3442. Profusely illustrated in the margins. Notable of course for its very early use of fingerprints in fiction to solve a crime, but also one of Twain's most philosophical works and a strong comment on a society that permits slavery. Owner name on front endpaper; slightest bit of rubbing to spine ends and bottom edge, otherwise an unusually tight, bright copy. Fine .

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Book number: 019708

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: Fingerprints, 19th Century Literature, Slavery, 19th Century American Literature, Detective Fiction, Mark Twain, Humor Detective Fiction Humor 19th Century American Literature Literature: American

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]

A Tramp Abroad

Hartford, American Publishing Company, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's sheep with a black leather label. BAL 3386: State C of portrait frontispiece; state B of regular frontispiece; and state B of sheets. An account of Twain's tour of Europe, including an Alpine tour, the description of which consists of over 100 pages, where he made an ascent of the Riffelberg in Zermatt, producing a parody of other Alpine accounts. Laid in is a leaflet advertising the publisher's geographical game "Rambles Through Our Country." Significantly fewer copies of Twain's titles were bound in publisher's leather than in cloth and are much more difficult to locate. This copy has a chip slightly larger than a nickel at the top of the spine. The joints are partly cracked but still tight. Scarce in this binding and in this attractive, unsophisticated condition. Despite the chip, a Near Fine copy .

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Book number: 003462

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: Travel, Germany, Alps, Illustrated Books, Mountain Climbing, Humor, Mark Twain, 19th Century American Literature, 19th Century Literature, Switzerland Switzerland Illustrated Books Literature: American 19th Century American Literature

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]

The Washoe Giant in San Francisco Being Heretofore Uncollected Sketches Published in the Golden Era in the Sixties...

San Francisco, George Fields, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. BAL 3559. Collected and edited, with an introduction, by Franklin Walker. Printed by Ward Ritchie and illustrated by Lloyd Hoff. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 003408

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: Humor, 19th Century Humor, Modern Firsts, Fine Press, 19th Century American Literature, Samuel Clemens, 19th Century Literature, Ward Ritchie Mark Twain Ward Ritchie 19th Century American Literature Literature: American

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]

The Washoe Giant in San Francisco Being Heretofore Uncollected Sketches Published in the Golden Era in the Sixties...

San Francisco, George Fields, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. BAL 3559. Collected and edited, with an introduction, by Franklin Walker. Printed by Ward Ritchie and illustrated by Lloyd Hoff. Ill.: Lloyd Hoff. Small leather bookplate. Offsetting to endpapers. Near Fine in worn, Very Good dustwrapper .

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Book number: 003438

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: Humor, 19th Century Humor, Modern Firsts, Fine Press, 19th Century American Literature, Samuel Clemens, 19th Century Literature, Ward Ritchie Lloyd Hoff Mark Twain Illustrated Books 19th Century American Literature Literature: American

WHITMAN, Walt

The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman

New York & London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, (1902). First Edition. Hardcover. The Book-Lover's Camden Edition consisting of 10 volumes in vellum-backed gray boards with gilt-lettered and decorated spines, top edges gilt. Copy #388 of 500 "Signed" sets with the printed signature of the publisher on each colophon page and the printed signature of Whitman. Issued under the editorial supervision of his Literary Executors: Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas B. Harned, and Horace L. Traubel with additional bibliographical and critical material prepared by Oscar Lovell Triggs. Each volume contains 4 full-page illustrations, many of Whitman at various stages of life, and also including Lincoln, Emerson, Darwin, Poe, Carlyle, Longfellow and others. The first 3 volumes contain LEAVES OF GRASS and the remaining 7 contain THE COMPLETE PROSE WORKS. Mild soiling and darkening to the spines. Very light water stain to the very top gutter of most pages in Volume 5; short tear to paper on rear cover and small nick to edge of rear board on other volumes. A Near Fine set, lacking the scarce dustwrappers .

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Book number: 019349

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: 19th Century American Literature, Walt Whitman, Sets, 19th Century Literature, Poetry Poetry 19th Century American Literature Literature: American 19th Century Literature

WHITMAN, Walt

The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman

New York & London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, (1902). First Edition. Hardcover. The Collector's Camden Edition consisting of 9 (of 10) volumes in publisher's 3/4 dark green morocco leather with gilt-lettered and decorated spines, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Copy #216 of 300 "Signed" sets with the printed signature of the publisher on each colophon page. Issued under the editorial supervision of his Literary Executors: Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas B. Harned, and Horace L. Traubel with additional bibliographical and critical material prepared by Oscar Lovell Triggs. Each volume contains 4 full-page illustrations, many of Whitman at various stages of life, and also including Lincoln, Emerson, Darwin, Poe, Carlyle, Longfellow and others. The first 3 volumes contain LEAVES OF GRASS and the remaining 7 contain THE COMPLETE PROSE WORKS. This set lacks Volume 1. Despite the missing first volume, this is an attractive set, the spines evenly sunned to a pleasant brown with only mild wear and rubbing. Very Good to Near Fine .

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Book number: 019350

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: 19th Century American Literature, Walt Whitman, Sets, 19th Century Literature, Poetry, Fine Bindings Fine Bindings 19th Century American Literature Literature: American 19th Century Literature

WHITMAN, Walt

Leaves of Grass Comprising All the Poems Written by Walt Whitman Following the Arrangement of the Edition of 1891-'2

New York, Random House, Inc. 1930. Hardcover. Folio (9-3/4" x 14-1/2") in original red half-morocco and bevel-edged Philippine mahogany boards with the publisher's device engraved on the front board, five raised bands on the spine where the title is stamped in black. Illustrated with 37 woodcuts by Valenti Angelo. Copy #198 of 400 copies printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn in handset Goudy New Style type on unbleached Arnold paper. The finest printing of LEAVES OF GRASS and a masterpiece of the Grabhorn Press, taking over a year to print. Ill.: Valenti Angelo. About ten pages with a small, dark stain at the very top margin, far from the text; light rubbing to the raised bands at the edge of the spine which is a bit sunned. Near Fine .

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Book number: 021647

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: Fine Printing, Illustrated Books, Poetry, Limited, 19th Century American Literature,19th Century Literature, Walt Whitman, Fine Press, Valenti Angelo Valenti Angelo Fine Printing 19th Century American Literature Illustrated Books Literature: American

WHITMAN, Walt

The Olden Time" in the New York Mirror. A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts. Volume XII : 5 July 1834 -- 27 June 1835

New York, Wilson & Company, 1834 - 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (10-1/2" x 14-1/4") bound in contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards with the gilt-lettered red morocco ownership label of Maria Youngs on the front cover; 416 pages including index. Includes the first printing in the 29 November 1834 issue of "The Olden Time," signed "W," THE FIRST PUBLISHED PIECE BY WALT WHITMAN still extant, published when he was 15 years old. Not in Myerson, though he refers to a possible Whitman work in THE MIRROR in 1835 as not seen (Myerson I3). In the three-paragraph piece Whitman talks about how though New York City may feel old and "civilized," there were still likely people around who "conversed with men who once saw the present great metropolitan city as a little dorp or village." He gives examples of two men who died in the mid-1700s--a Negro Harry and John Crockeser--who must have spoken to some still alive when he wrote the piece: "How these very aged persons serve as counters to diminish time, and to seem to draw all the mighty past, so seemingly long, into the compass of but two or three lives!" THE MIRROR was an 8-page weekly containing: A piece of music with words and notes on the last page of each issue; book reviews; literary criticism; poetry; letters from abroad; medicine; city improvements; fine arts; humor; New York theater; etc. Other articles on New York University; Cure of an Opium-Eater; Wilson, the Ornithologist; the Witches of Lancashire of 1612; Charles Lamb on Modern Gallantry; English Writers of America by Washington Irving; two poems by William Cullen Bryant; and more. Illustrated an engraved title page, text engravings and 3 full-page plates: the presidents of the United States, a view of Newburgh, NY, and "A Scene in the Highlands, NY." . The last issue missing one leaf but otherwise complete with the addition of a loose 1835 issue laid in. Little foxing but some dampstaining, occasionally heavy, but with little effect on the page with Whitman's piece. A few pages frayed at the edges. Front cover a little loose but binding is sound. Very Good .

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Book number: 019358

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: Americana, 19th Century Literature, Literary Periodicals, 19th Century American Literature, Walt Whitman, Illustrated Books, First Book, First Books Walt Whitman Literature: American Illustrated Books 19th Century American Literature

WHITTIER, John Greenleaf

At Sundown

Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. White vellum in heavy paper dustwrapper. BAL 22158: "This edition contains a brief introductory statement and 7 poems not in the private edition," published in 1890. Illustrated with a portrait and 8 tissue-guarded plates by E. H. Garrett. The Large Paper issue limited to 250 numbered copies printed on rectos only, this being #202. Ill.: E. H. Garrett. Fine in a Very Good rubbed, and uncommon, dustwrapper .

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Book number: 003255

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: 19th Century American Literature, Fine Press, 19th Century dustwrapper, 19th Century Literature E. H. Garrett Limited Literature: American Early Dustwrappers Poetry

WHITTIER, John Greenleaf

Old Portraits and Modern Sketches

Boston, Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Original brown cloth. BAL 21769: Binding A (no sequence determined). Only 1500 copies printed. Dec. 1849 Catalogue, earliest noted, inserted at front. Without "The End" on last page. Contents are 10 biographies including John Bunyan and Andrew Marvell. Modern bookplate. Spine chipped to text block, old repairs to both joints, gilt on spine very bright. Good .

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Book number: 003262

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: 19th Century American Literature, 19th Century Literature Literary Criticism Literary Biography Poetry Literature: American