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Cooper, James Fenimore
Precaution. New York: A.T. Goodrich & Co., 1820
$12,000
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Life of Franklin Pierce. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852
$10,500
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Lowell, James Russell
Autograph manuscript “On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners.”. No Place, ca. 1869
$8,250
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(HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL.) Pulsifer, David
Inscriptions from the Burying-Grounds in Salem, Massachusetts. Boston: James Loring, 1837
$7,500
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WHITMAN, WALT
Autograph manuscript signed “Walt Whitman on the Poets.”. No place, [1885]
In this fascinating manuscript Whitman provides a newspaper with an article defending himself against attacks that he did not respect the great American poets of the day.
$7,500
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(WHITMAN, WALT.) Napoleon Sarony
Bust portrait of Whitman wearing a hat. New York, 1878
Boldly signed and dated 1879 by Whitman. Whitman observed of this delightful portrait, “It is one of my good-humored pictures. … This is strong enough to be right and gentle enough to be right, too: I like to be both: I wouldn’t like people to say ‘he is a giant’ and then forget I know how to love.”
$7,200
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GOODSPEED’S BOOK SHOP
An enormous run of Goodspeed’s rare book and manuscript catalogues. Vols. 1-370 and 381-575. Boston: Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1899-1973
Founded in 1898, Goodspeed’s published its first catalogue in 1899. For decades to come the firm would be a dominant force in American bookselling. These catalogues are a witness to that golden age.
$6,500
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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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Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin
Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents. Augusta, GA: S.R. Sentinel office, 1835
$6,000