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Lowell, James Russell
Ode recited at the Commemoration of the Living and Dead Soldiers of Harvard University, July 21, 1865. Cambridge: Privately printed, 1865
$6,000
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie. Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1847
First edition, first state. This is an excellent copy of the rare first issue of Longfellow’s romance of the expulsion of the Acadians by the British during the French and Indian War. The idea for the poem came from Nathaniel Hawthorne, who had heard a story about tragic Acadian lovers. Longfellow did meticulous research on the historical setting of the poem, which paid off, literally—it earned him record royalty payments.
$6,000
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Whittier, John Greenleaf
Snow-bound. A Winter Idyl. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866
FIRST EDITION, FIRST AND SECOND ISSUES. These are the fine Bradley Martin copies of both issues of the poem that brought Whittier his greatest fame.
$6,000
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(WHITMAN, WALT)
Original drawing of Walt Whitman. no date, no place, 19th century
This original pen and ink drawing of Walt Whitman is mounted at the front of an 1888 edition of Leaves of Grass. The likeness of a jaunty, casual, Whitman wearing his trademark slouch hat takes its cue from the famous 1855 Hollyer engraving, but here we see an older Whitman with a full beard.
$4,800
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
“The Ocean” in The Salem Gazette. Salem, Massachusetts: Ferdinand Andrews and Caleb Foote, 26 August 1825
$4,500
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Cooper, James Fenimore
The Redskins; or Indian and Ingin: being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts. New York: Burgess, Stringer, & Company, 1846
First American edition, in original printed wrappers. This is the conclusion of Cooper’s Littlepage Manuscripts trilogy, a series of novels examining the leasehold system in New York. Cooper saw attacks on the system as a threat to private property. “He was particularly incensed when tenants, disguised as American Indians, resorted to violence” in opposition to the landowners” (ANB).
$4,500
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Twice-Told Tales. Boston: American Stationers Co., 1837
$4,500
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HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL and ELIZABETH MANNING HAWTHORNE, eds
Peter Parley’s Universal History, on the Basis of Geography. Boston: American Stationers’ Company and John B. Russell, 1837
$4,500
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Autograph letter signed [to Henry Arthur Bright]. Brunswick, 7 January 1854
$4,500
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863
$4,500