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

Autograph letter signed [to Henry Arthur Bright]. Brunswick, 7 January 1854

$4,500

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

$4,500

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

$4,500

Autograph manuscript signed headed “Extract from ‘Bravo,’. Paris, 16 June 1831

A passage from Cooper’s The Bravo, A Venetian Story. Cooper likely wrote out this extended passage from The Bravo for an unknown admirer. Cooper identifies it at the foot of the page as “Chapter VI. vol. I. copied from proof sheet…” The manuscript varies in several places from the text of the novel’s first publication in 1831.

$4,500

Democratic Vistas. Washington, D.C: [Printed for J. S. Redfield, New York], 1871

FIRST EDITION. One of about 500 copies.

$4,200

Autograph manuscript signed, “Palestine: The Economic Aspect”. No place, 1946

In this long essay Harold Laski, one of the most influential public intellectuals of the 20th century, discusses the economic future of Palestine and the Jews immigrating there following World War II. Laski’s greatest influence came as a prolific author, professor at the London School of Economics, and leading advisor to the Labour Party. “Laski was a writer who exercised enormous influence in the turbulent environment of the early to mid-twentieth century. Though normally regarded as a political theorist, Laski frequently wrote on the problems of international politics” (Peter Lamb).

$3,800

Autograph manuscript signed from “Urania” including excerpts from the original manuscript. No Place, ca. 1846

$3,600

Soundings from the Atlantic.. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864

$3,600

Hyperion: A Romance. New York: Samuel Colman, 1839

Hyperion is one of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s first published works. It was published in 1839, and is a prose romance that follows a young American named Paul Flemming as he travels through Germany. The journey of the character is partially inspired by the death of a friend, and the romance in the tale is based on Longfellow’s own failed marriage proposals to his beloved.

$3,500