![[AMERICAN LITERATURE] A miscellany of 19th century titles, one inscribed.](/sites/default/files/styles/auction_slider/public/images/lots/368/1462368.jpg?itok=x7JsJXIw)
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[AMERICAN LITERATURE] A miscellany of 19th century titles, one inscribed.
Comprising: GARLAND, HAMLIN. Main-Travelled Roads. Six Mississippi Valley Stories. Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1891. First edition, first issue, a presentation copy by Garland dated 1891 to the front free endpaper. Publisher's grey cloth, the spine stamped in silver-gilt, housed in a green morocco backed clamshell case. The inscribed leaf detached, and with a few chips to edge, the hinges cracked, bookplate of Arthur Swann; HARTE, BRET. The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. First edition, first issue. Publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt and blind, coated brown endpapers, housed in a green morocco backed slipcase. Bookseller's stamp and early ownership signature to flyleaves, hinges cracked; WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF. Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First edition. Original brown cloth gilt, housed in a cloth case. Tips and corners lightly rubbed, upper portion of rear endpaper excised, bookplate of John Gregory Hodgins; BULLFINCH, THOMAS. The Age of Fable; or, Stories of Gods and Heroes. Boston: Sanborn, Carter, and Bazin, 1855. First edition, first printing. Publisher's patterned red cloth, housed in a custom red morocco backed slipcase. Contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown, chips to spine tips, slight fade; HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN. The Rise of Silas Lapham. Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1885. First edition. Original brown cloth stamped in black and gilt, housed blue morocco backed slipcase. Some wear to rear hinge, lightly rubbed, else fine; LOWELL, JAMES. The Biglow Papers. Cambridge: George Nichols, 1848. First edition, first issue with only Nichols imprint. Original plum cloth stamped in blind and in gilt, housed in a morocco backed slipcase. [Boxed with:] The Biglow Papers. Second Series. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. First edition. Original cloth. Rear hinge cracked, lightly rubbed; The first volume with hinges cracked, the spine faded and with small losses to tips, both with the bookplates of Jean Hersholt; and HOLMES Jr., OLIVER WENDELL. The Common Law. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1881. First edition. Publisher's green pebbled cloth, rebacked preserving spine strip, housed in a green morocco backed case. Ownership signature to the title-page which is partially detached; Together with One Hundred Influential American Books Printed before 1900. New York: The Grolier Club, 1947. First edition. Cloth backed boards.
See Grolier American 100 57 (Lowell); 65 (Bulfinch); 73 (Whittier); 76 (Harte); 84 (Holmes); 88 (Howells); and 95 (Hamlin). The lot 9 volumes in 8.
C Private Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman
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