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Lowell, James Russell
Class Poem. Cambridge: Metcalf, Torry, and Ballou, 1838
$750
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
“Letter from Hawthorne” in The Weal-Reaf. A Record of the Essex Institute Fair, Held at Salem.. No Place, 4-8 September 1860, 10-11 September 1860
$600
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Cooper, James Fenimore
Mercedes of Castile: or, the Voyage to Cathay. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840
Fine first American edition of Cooper’s historical novel about Christopher Columbus’s first voyage. The Coopers had returned to America in the 1830s, but James continued to explore European influences and settings.
$600
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(WHITMAN, WALT.) Horace Traubel, ed.
At the graveside of Walt Whitman: Harleigh, Camden, New Jersey, March 30th and Sprigs of Lilac.. Philadelphia, 1892
First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Whitman’s friend and literary executor Horace Trouble to W. W. Clews and further inscribed by Traubel: “Edition: 750 / Number 382 / Horace L. Traubel.”
$500
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(WHITMAN, WALT.) Library of Congress
A complete set of the 1955 Library of Congress Whitman Centennial Recordings. Library of Congress, 1955
This is a complete set of these recordings of talks by leading scholars at the Library of Congress during the 1955 Leaves of Grass centennial celebration.
$450
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
“Little Annie’s Ramble” in Youth’s Keepsake. A Christmas and New Year’s Gift for Young People. Boston: E. R. Broaders, 1835
$300
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ROWE, NICHOLAS
The Works. London: Tonson et al., 1766
This handsome edition includes The Ambitious Step-Mother, Tamerlane, The Fair Penitent, Ulysses, The Royal Convert, Jane Shore, Jane Gray, and various poems.
$250
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(TWAIN, MARK)
How to Form a Mark Twain Club. [Mayfield, California or Webster Groves, Missouri: Mark Twain Society], no year
First and only edition. This document provides guidance for forming local Mark Twain clubs from the Mark Twain Society, founded by Cyril Clemens in 1930.
Scarce: WorldCat locates only the copy at University of Virginia.
$200
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LOEWENTHEIL, JACOB
The Psychological Portrait: Marcel Sternberger’s Revelations in Photography. Foreword by Phillip Prodger.. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2016
First edition, one of 100 copies of the Deluxe Estate Edition, signed and numbered by the author and accompanied by your choice of one of four 8 x 10 inch archival pigment photographs (Einstein, Freud, Shaw, or Kahlo).
$165
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CARTER, JOHN and PERCY MUIR, eds.
Printing and the Mind of Man: a descriptive catalogue illustrating the impact of print on the evolution of western civilization during five centuries. Munich: Pressler, 1983
SECOND EDITION, revised and enlarged.
$125