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

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

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

Mosses from an Old Manse. New York and London: Wiley and Putnam, 1846

$4,500

“The Ocean” in The Salem Gazette. Salem, Massachusetts: Ferdinand Andrews and Caleb Foote, 26 August 1825

$4,500

[Irish Melodies.] Cantus Hibernici. New edition.. Leamington: Thomas Knibb, 1856

$4,500

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

The Deerslayer: or, the First War-Path. A Tale.. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1841

First edition of the final novel in Cooper’s Leatherstocking series, considered by many to be called Cooper’s greatest work and hailed by D. H. Lawrence as “a gem of a book.” This final installment in the saga of the life of Natty Bumppo is a prequel, relating an episode from the famous protagonist’s youth. Spiller and Blackburn state that this edition predates the first English edition; BAL remains non-committal on priority.

$4,500

Twice-Told Tales. Boston: American Stationers Co., 1837

$4,500

Peter Parley’s Universal History, on the Basis of Geography. Boston: American Stationers’ Company and John B. Russell, 1837

$4,500