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“OF ALL SAD WORDS OF TONGUE OR PEN, THE SADDEST ARE THESE, 'IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN'": First edition, First issue of John Greenleaf Whittier's Snow-Bound
WHITTIER, John Greenleaf.
Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.
First edition, first issue of this poetic description of the pleasant isolation of “the inmates of the family at the Whittier homestead” with the final page properly numbered 52. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, pale yellow endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and title page vignette, headpiece and initial letter by Harry Fenn. BAL 21862. In near fine condition. Rear endpaper clipped. Housed in a custom clamshell and folding chemise case.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 139441
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Complete Set of First Editions of Isaac Leeser's Discourses on the Jewish Religion
LEESER, Isaac.
Discourses on the Jewish Religion.
Philadelphia: Sherman & Co, 1866-68.
Rare first editions of one of the 'major builders of American Judaism', Isaac Leeser's Discourses on the Jewish Religion. Octavo, 10 volumes, bound in full leather, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands. In near fine condition. Complete sets are of the utmost rarity.
Price: $18,500.00 Item Number: 107732
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First edition of Mary Howitt's Twelve Months with Fredrika Bremer in Sweden
HOWITT, Margaret. [Fredrika Bremer].
Twelve Months with Fredrika Bremer in Sweden.
London: Jackson, Walford, and Hodder, 1866.
First edition of Howitt's work on the twelve months she spent with close friend and writer Fredrika Bremer. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine and front panel, tipped in tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Bremer with an inscription from her to Howitt in facsimile. In very good condition. Scarce with only one other copy traced at auction. Bookplate.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 124150
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Rare first edition of John Malcolm Ludlow's President Lincoln Self-Pourtrayed
LUDLOW, John Malcolm.
President Lincoln Self-Pourtrayed.
London: Alexander Strahan, 1866.
First edition of President Lincoln Self-Pourtrayed, the scarce variant imprint, which was printed in London as indicated on p. 240 and the priority of which is unknown (M 864). Octavo, original publishers cloth with gilt titles to the spine, engraved tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Lincoln, with "The proceeds of this volume are intended to be devoted for the relief of the Freedmen of the United States exclusively" to the verso of the title page. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 105063
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George Ward Nichols' The Story of the Great March
NICHOLS, George Ward.
The Story of the Great March. From the Diary of a Staff Officer.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1866.
Early printing of Nichols' account of the Savannah Campaign. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with charts and maps, one folding. In good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 133029
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First edition of Frederic Cushman Newhall's With General Sheridan in Lee's Last Campaign
[NEWHALL, Frederic Cushman]. [Philip Sheridan].
With General Sheridan in Lee’s Last Campaign.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1866.
First edition of Frederic Cushman Newhall's Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece, folding map. In good condition. Ownership name. Rare.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 132434
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First edition of James Peckham's Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, and Missouri in 1861: A Monograph of the Great Rebellion
PECKHAM, James.
Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, and Missouri in 1861. A Monograph of the Great Rebellion.
New York: American News Company, Publishers, 1866.
First edition of Peckham's biography of the first Union general to be killed in the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. In good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 132918
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First Edition of Mary Mapes Dodge's Classic Work Hans Brinker; Inscribed by Her
DODGE, Mary Mapes.
Hans Brinker Or, The Silver Skates. A Story of Life in Holland.
New York: James O'Kane, 1866.
First edition of the author's second and best known work. Octavo, original green cloth, gilt titles to the spine. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Presented to Robert Dale Owen by the author January, 1866." The recipient Robert Dale Owen was responsible for introducing the legislation to establish the Smithsonian. He represented Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives (1843–47). As a member of Congress, Owen successfully pushed through the bill that established Smithsonian Institution and served on the Institution's first Board of Regents. Owen also served as a delegate to the Indiana Constitutional Convention in 1850 and was appointed as U.S.…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 76002
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL'S THE BIGLOW PAPERS
WILBUR, Homer. [James Russell Lowell]..
Meliboeus-Hipponax: The Biglow Papers.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.
Sixth edition of James Russell Lowell’s first book, a bitter criticism of the Mexican-American War and opposition to the expansion of slavery; named by the Grolier Club as the most influential book of 1848. Octavo, original cloth stamped in blind with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 139745
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“OF ALL SAD WORDS OF TONGUE OR PEN, THE SADDEST ARE THESE, 'IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN'": First edition, First issue of John Greenleaf Whittier's Snow-Bound
WHITTIER, John Greenleaf.
Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.
First edition, first issue of this poetic description of the pleasant isolation of “the inmates of the family at the Whittier homestead” with the final page properly numbered 52. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, pale yellow endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and title page vignette, headpiece and initial letter by Harry Fenn. BAL 21862. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and folding chemise case.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 137359
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"With an unceasing admiration of your constancy and devotion to your Country, and a grateful remembrance of your kind and generous consideration for myself, I bid you all an affectionate farewell": Rare Broadside of Robert E. Lee's Farewell Address
LEE, Robert E.
Robert E. Lee Farewell Address.
Boston: A. Hoen & Co, 1866.
Rare engraved broadside of General Robert E. Lee’s Farewell Address. A single leaf with a headpiece of General Lee, flanked by Confederate flags. In this speech, General Lee recounted his Farewell Address to the Army of Northern Virginia on April 10, 1865, the day after the surrender to General Grant. In an oval period frame.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 139247
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First editions of James Russell Lowell's The Biglow Papers, First and Second Series
WILBUR, Homer. [James Russell Lowell].
Meliboeus-Hipponax: The Biglow Papers. [With] The Biglow Papers Second Series.
Cambridge: Published by George Nichols: 1848/Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867.
First edition, first issue of James Russell Lowell's first book, a bitter criticism of the Mexican-American War and opposition to the expansion of slavery; named by the Grolier Club as the most influential book of 1848. BAL 13068. First issue, published under the pseudonym, with the preliminary advertisements, and only the Cambridge imprint to the title page. With a first edition of The Biglow Papers Second Series. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth stamped in blind with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition. From the library of Danish-American actor Jean Hersholt with his signed bookplate to each volume.…
Price: $700.00 Item Number: 139428
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First edition of W. Carew Hazlitt's Memoirs of William Hazlitt
HAZLITT, W. Carew. [William Hazlitt].
Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of His Correspondence.
London: Richard Bentley, 1867.
First edition of W. Carew Hazlitt's authoritative biography of his grandfather, great English critic and philosopher William Hazlitt. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, engraved frontispiece to each volume. In near fine condition.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 124128
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Finely bound example of Gustave Nadaud's Chansons De Salon Populaires et Legeres Operettes
NADAUD, Gustave.
Chansons De Salon Populaires et Legeres Operettes.
Paris: Henri Plon, 1867.
Finely bound example of the popular songs and operettas of French chansonnier Gustave Nadaud. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 92541
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"All things return, both sphere and mote, and I shall hear my bluebird's note, and dream the dream of Auburn dell": First Edition, first issue of Ralph Waldo Emerson's May-Day and Other Pieces; Signed by him
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.
May-Day and Other Pieces.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867.
First edition, first issue of this collection of Emerson's later poems. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and botanical emblem to the front panel, top edge gilt. Signed by Emerson on the title page, "R.W. Emerson." In very good condition with rubbing to the crown of the spine and minor chipping to the front free endpaper. Rare and desirable.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 96771