(WHITMAN, Walt; et. al.)

Eris: A Spirit Record" and "Dumb Kate -- an Early Death" in the Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, Embracing Literature in Every Department. Volume I, Nos. 1-6

New York, Israel Post, 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary brown leather-backed cloth with decorative gilt rules, gilt-decorated and lettered spine, and a black morocco label on the front cover with the owner's name--Jannette E. Cook--in gilt. The first 6 issues of this important American magazine containing two stories by Walt Whitman (here referred to as Walter Whitman) titled "Eris: A Spirit Record" and "Dumb Kate -- An Early Death." Illustrated with steel engravings. Light foxing; some rubbing to the binding with a chip at the heel of the spine. Very Good .

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Book number: 019332

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: 19th Century Literature, 19th Century American Literature, Walt Whitman, Literary Periodical 19th Century Literature Literature: American 19th Century American Literature Walt Whitman

(WHITMAN, Walt; WHITTIER, John Greenleaf; et. al.)

Revenge and Requital. A Tale of a Murderer Escaped" in the United States Magazine and Democratic Review. Volume XVII, Nos. 85-87

New York, J. L. O'Sullivan and O. C. Gardiner, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Three issues of this important American magazine in their original wraps, including the July-August Double Number with a story by Walt Whitman (here referred to as Walter Whitman) titled "Revenge and Requital. A Tale of a Murderer Escaped." Illustrated with portraits including Andrew Jackson. Moderate to heavy foxing and staining. Quite uncommon in the original wraps. Very Good .

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Book number: 019330

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: 19th Century Literature, 19th Century American Literature, Walt Whitman, Literary Periodical 19th Century Literature Literature: American 19th Century American Literature Walt Whitman

BINNS, Henry Bryan

A Life of Walt Whitman

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. (1905). First Edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth. With 33 illustrations. Mild wear. Near Fine .

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Book number: 012103

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

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

BURNETT, Frances H

A Fair Barbarian

Boston, James Osgood, 1881. First Edition. Dec. green cloth. 1st printing. BAL 2055. Early work by the author of LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY and THE SECRET GARDEN. Slightly cocked, a little rubbed. VG .

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Book number: 003775

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: 19th Century Literature

CHOPIN, Kate

Bayou Folk

Boston & New York, Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated green cloth. BAL 3244. Short story collection of Louisiana life. Slight cracking to hinges; spine a bit sunned with some staining. Very Good .

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Book number: 019975

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: 19th Century American Literature, 19th Century Literature, Women's Literature, Southern Literature, Short Stories, Louisiana Literature: American Southern Literature 19th Century American Literature 19th Century Literature

[COOPER, James Fenimore]

The Pathfinder; or, the Inland Sea...

Philadelphia, Lea and Blanchard, 1840. First American Edition. Hardcover. First issue without the copyright notice in the first volume. Two volumes bound in modern 1/2 smooth brown calf with contrasting leather spine lables and green cloth boards. Spine with gilt lettering and rules. BAL 3892; Spiller & Blackburn 30. In this third of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, set during the French and Indian War, the narrator describes how he surrenders the girl he loves to a more successful suitor. Bound without original endpapers and blanks. Light, even foxing throughout with an occasional small stain. Early and unidentified owner name at the top of each title page. Near Fine, nicely bound .

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Book number: 010870

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: 19th Century American Literature, Leatherstocking Tales, French & Indian War, James F. Cooper, 19th Century Literature 19th Century American Literature Literature: American French & Indian War 19th Century Literature

CURTIS, George William

Prue and I

New York, Dix, Edwards & Co. 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth. BAL 4270: Binding A. Johnson High Spot. Dedicated to Mrs. Henry W. Longfellow. Curtis, editor of HARPER'S WEEKLY during the Civil War years and one of the most influential American journalists of any day, also was known for his speeches, one of which was a tribute to Charles Sumner. Curtis also had the honor of helping Thoreau build his cabin on Walden Pond. Housed in a later cloth dustwrapper and cloth slipcase. Small leather bookplate, old bookseller's ticket. Slight bubbling to cloth, minor rubbing. Near Fine in chemise and a Very Good slipcase .

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Book number: 003242

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: Johnson High Spot, 19th Century American Literature, 19th Century Literature 19th Century American Literature Literature: American 19th Century Literature Humor

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo

English Traits

Boston, Phillips, Sampson, & Co, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Original black cloth, blindstamped with gilt lettering on the spine, yellow endpapers. BAL 5226; Myerson A24.1.a. This copy with the battered type at the bottom of page 230 and the "1" on the half title page. Emerson's superb book on his travels in England including a chapter on Stonehenge. Housed in a cloth chemise and a half brown morocco slipcase with gilt lettering on the spine. A few small, faint stains to the cloth; a small gouge on the spine, not terrible in appearance. Otherwise the cloth is in very nice shape with the spine ends intact and the gilt bright. Contents very clean as well with the owner name of C.H.A. Carter on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good custom-made slipcase .

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Book number: 012028

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: Travel Essays, Travel, Stonehenge, England Essays Ralph Waldo Emerson Transcendentalism 19th Century Literature

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo

Essays: With Essays: Second Series

Boston, James Munroe, 1841 & 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. First Editions of Emerson's two essential collections of essays, each uniformly bound in later 3/4 brown morocco leather and boards with gilt rules, gilt-lettered spines with five raised bands, top edges gilt. Half-title in first volume, second volume bound without advertisements. One of the defining texts of American Transcendentalism. BAL 5189 and BAL 5198; GROLIER AMERICAN 47: "In effect a single book.. Timeless, and without a trace of 'dating'"; MYERSON A10.1.a and A16.1.a-b. Tasteful bookplate on each front pastedown; somewhat faint dampstain to preliminaries and first 10 pages of the second volume. Near Fine .

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Book number: 019803

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: Fine Binding, High Spots, 19th Century American Literature, Gift Ideas, Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th Century Literature, Transcendentalism Literature: American 19th Century American Literature Transcendentalism 19th Century Literature

[EMERSON, Ralph Waldo] HAWES, Josiah Johnson & SOUTHWORTH, Albert Sands

Photograph of Ralph Waldo Emerson

@1880s. Framed Photograph. Fine portrait of Emerson, image size 8-1/2" x 12-1/2" matted and framed to an overall size of 15" x 20". On the rear of the frame are two labels from Holman's Print Shop of Boston, circa 1940, on which is stated the following: "This photograph was in J. J. Hawes' studio at the time of his death and was stored with the rest of the contents until 1934, when it came to us for sale. It is a photographic copy of a daguerreotype portrait made by Mr. Hawes in the 1840's. The negative was a collodion-process plate ('wet plate'). This print could have been made as late as the 1890's, but more probably dates from the 1880's. When Mr. Hawes made the copy of the daguerreotype is not known." Southworth and Hawes produced some of the finest daguerreotypes of the 19th Century. Among their subjects, besides Emerson, were John Quincy Adams, Zachary Taylor, Daniel Webster, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Hawes died at the age of 94 in 1901, operating his studio up to the end. During the Depression his daguerreotypes were dispersed among a few museums and private collections. Not examined out of the frame but appears to be Fine .

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Book number: 011969

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: Early Photography, Southworth & Hawes, Literary Photographs, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th Century American Literature, 19th Century Literature, 19th Century Photography 19th Century Photography Literature: American 19th Century Literature Transcendentalism

[GLASGOW, Ellen]

The Descendant

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated green cloth. Virginia author's first book, a novel published anonymously. This in the first state binding with no name on the spine. Owner name of Belle Mayo on the top of the title page and Mrs. P. H. Mayo of Richmond dated 2 April 1897 on the front endpaper. A lovely copy, Near Fine .

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Book number: 019976

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: 19th Century American Literature, 19th Century Literature, Women's Literature, Southern Literature, First Book, First Books Literature: American First Book 19th Century American Literature 19th Century Literature

HALE, Edward E[verett]

For Fifty Years. Verses Written on Occasion, in the Course of the Nineteenth Century

Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated green cloth. An uncommon collection of poetry by the author of THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. Mild soiling to the covers. Very Good .

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Book number: 019569

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: 19th Century American Literature, Americana, 19th Century Literature, Poetry 19th Century American Literature 19th Century Literature Poetry Literature: American

HARRIS, Joel Chandler

Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated green cloth. BAL 7100: First State; GROLIER AMERICAN HUNDRED 83. Illustrated with 8 plates and text engravings by Frederick S. Church and James Moser. Early owner signature dated 7 January 1881 on the front blank. Ill.: Frederick S. Church and James Moser. Clean, tight copy with just a touch of wear to the spine tips and bumped lower corners. Near Fine .

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Book number: 003135

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: 19th Century American Literature, 19th Century Literature, Joel Chandler Harris, High Spots, Slavery, Black Dialect, First Book, Frederick S. Church Frederick S. Church and James Moser 19th Century American Literature High Spot Literature: American 19th

HARTE, Bret

The Lectures of Bret Harte

Brooklyn, Charles Meeker Kozlay, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. BAL 7407 & 3510. Contains the first appearance of Mark Twain's "Letter on John Camden Hotten" about the English pirate. Copy #87 of only 100 numbered copies of the Limited Edition bound in flexible suede with gilt lettering on the front cover. In a printed brown dustwrapper (not noted by BAL). Fine in a very scarce and Very Good dustwrapper which is moderately worn with a one-inch chip at the heel of the spine and a smaller chip slightly affecting the lettering at the top of the spine .

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Book number: 003661

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: Literary Firsts, Early Dustwrappers, Pirates, Lectures, Limited, Bret Harte Mark Twain Literature: American Early Dustwrappers 19th Century Literature

HARTE, Bret (editor)

Outcroppings: Being Selections of California Verse

San Francisco/New York, A. Roman and Company/W. J. Widdleton, 1866. First Edition. Twentieth century 3/4 navy morocco binding signed by Blackwell. BAL 7238: Form A or B. Harte's first book, an anthology of poetry edited anonymously by him. Contributors include Ina Coolbrith and Charles W. Stoddard. Occasional minor soiling to text. Binding about Fine .

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Book number: 021063

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: Fine Bindings, Bret Harte, Fine Binding, First Book, Poetry, California, 19th Century American Literature, First Books, 19th Century Literature First Book Fine Bindings Literature: American 19th Century American Literature