![Item #WRCLIT87488 THE NEGRO IN THE SOUTHERN NOVEL PRIOR TO 1850 [wrapper title]. African...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
[Np]: Reprinted from THE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY XXV:4, October 1926. pp. 455-473pp. Stiff printed wrapper. Very good. Author's separate of this early work by the noted scholar and editor in the field of American studies. With the author's name in ink on the front wrapper.
Boston: Roberts Bros. 1872. [8],215pp. Bright blue cloth, spine decorated in gilt. Inserted double-spread frontis. Light rubbing at extremities, bit of white smudging in lower fore-quadrant of upper cover, otherwise a very good, bright copy. First U.S. edition, just possibly preceded by the London edition. The first installment in the.....
Boston: Roberts Bros. 1871. [8],376pp. Small octavo. Forest green cloth, lettered in gilt. Frontis and 3 plates. Two corner creases to free endsheets, spine extremities and fore-tips a bit frayed, one signature starting very slightly; a few stray marks to cloth, but a good copy. First U.S. edition, preceded by.....
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1894. Gilt decorated blue cloth, t.e.g. Spine darkened and a little frayed at extremities, short tear and crease to front free endsheet, else good. With Richard W. Gilder's tiny book label. Revised edition, originally published in MERCEDES, AND.....
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1889. Vellum backed gilt decorated cloth, t.e.g. Some darkening to spine, cloth a little rubbed at tips, but a good copy. First edition. A decent association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: "To R.W......
New York: Scribner, 1895. Large octavo. Cloth, pictorial onlay, t.e.g. Frontis and illustrations. Cloth a bit sunned, some flecking to cloth sizing at edges, crown and toe of spine frayed; internally very good. First edition. Frontis and cover illustrations by Will Bradley. One of 750 ordinary copies, from a total.....
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1892. Quarto. Cream cloth, lettered in gilt. Two bookplates on pastedown, white cloth moderately hand soiled, else a good, tight copy. Cloth case (faded). First edition, printing contributions of the moment ("sentiments dedicated to little children") in autograph facsimile by Hardy, James, Kipling, Jewett, Howe, Holmes, Meredith.....
Providence: Carter and Wilkinson, 1797. xii,[13]-141pp. 12mo. Contemporary sheep, gilt label. Ornamental head and tail-pieces. Boards slightly bowed, modest rubbing at edges, but a very good, crisp copy, with the half-title. First edition. With an introduction by James Burrill, Jr., who edited this posthumous collection from Arnold's papers and periodical.....
Providence: Carter and Wilkinson, 1797. xii,[13]-141,[1]pp. 12mo. Modern full morocco. Ink name on title, shallow chips at fore-edge of half-title and top edge of title, last two leaves cracking at top of gutter, with repair to terminal leaf, a few other small marginal mends; just a sound copy. First edition.....
![Item #WRCLIT63330 INSIDE: A CHRONICLE OF SECESSION. By "George F. Harrington" [pseud]. William...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT63330.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593712331)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. vi,[7]-223pp., printed in double column format. Large octavo. Original cloth. Title vignette and illustrations by Thomas Nast. Bookplate and small piece of tape residue on pastedown, occasional light foxing, crown of spine frayed; a good, sound copy, in chemise and half morocco slipcase. First.....
New York: Harper & Bros. 1895. Decorated cloth. Illustrated. Cloth a bit soiled, hinges cracked, small bookplate on pastedown. A good copy, enclosed in a half morocco clamshell box of a lesser degree of accomplishment. First edition. Possibly the dedication copy, inscribed beneath the printed dedication to William K. Otis.....
Paris: Printed at the English Press... 1793. [4],304pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound volume. Lacking the portrait, as often, some foxing and marginal offsetting to prelims and terminal leaves, otherwise a very good, crisp copy. First Paris edition (denoted the "Fifth editions, corrected") of Barlow's most popular undertaking in verse, including.....
Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1888. Original pictorial green cloth, stamped in dark brown and gold, edges stained red. Illustrations by Henry Sandham. First edition. A near fine copy, in somewhat rubbed half morocco slipcase.
Boston: Printed for S. Hall and Manning & Loring, April 1801. 38,[2]pp. Extracted. First edition. Typical tanning and foxing, but a good or better copy.
[ Philadelphia: Bureau of Nationalist Literature, ca. 1889]. 12pp. Printed self-wrappers. Disbound and rather ragged and chipped, small private ownership stamp on title, along with NYPL stamp. A poor, but complete copy. A separate Philadelphia printing of this Address delivered by Bellamy at Tremont Temple, Boston, on 31 May 1889.....
San Francisco: Henry Keller & Co., 1877. Pale plum cloth, lettered and decorated in black. Bookplate once tipped to front pastedown now just laid in, a few small bubbles to cloth, but a very good copy. Second, corrected and enlarged printing (i.e. first trade edition) of this collaborative work, preceded.....
![Item #WRCLIT64096 [ CONTAINING FOUR AMBROSE BIERCE LETTERS (caption title)]. Ambrose Bierce](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT64096.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593712341)
[ New York: Charles Romm, 1921]. Four printed single leaves. Wanting the original printed envelope that bore the above caption, a few folds, but otherwise near fine. First edition. A moderately elusive posthumous Bierce publication, about which BAL quotes Starrett: ". . . printed for Charles Romm of New York.....
London: John Camden Hotten, [1873]. Plum-brown cloth, decorated in gilt. Rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down, fore-corners a bit worn and cloth a bit rubbed, small spot to fore-edge in latter portion of text (mainly in the 32pp. catalogue), early ink inscription on half- title, once tipped-in bookplate now.....
London: Chatto & Windus, [1873]. [2],vi,175,[1],[8]pp. Small octavo. Pictorial wrappers. Rebacked at an early date with plain paper, wrappers chipped and frayed at edges, with tear at lower edge, occasional marginal nicks and short tears, two leaves of terminal catalogue carelessly opened, probably lacking the front true free endsheet; frankly.....
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835. Two volumes. Original purple muslin, paper spine labes (BAL's state B - no priority). Trivial sunning and slight smudges to cloth, some marginal discoloration early in the first volume, typical uniform toning of paper, but a very good set, unusually nice for this title.....
Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Robert Bell, 1777. [6],[9]-79,[5]pp. [p.78 misnumbered 68]. Octavo. Extracted. Some tanning and occasional spotting, lacking the rare half- title and frontis, pencil note in margin of [84] "Property of M[ichael] P[apantonio]," a textually sound but obviously imperfect copy. First edition, first state of the text.....
Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Robert Bell, 1776. [9],[6]-49,[1]pp. (page numbers 31-32 repeated). Octavo. Extracted. Lacking the frontis, scattered foxing, small tears at lower edge and in gutter of the title-leaf, terminal leaf badly stained, otherwise just a fair but textually sound copy of a rare book. First edition. The.....
New Haven: Published by Hezekiah Howe, Flagg & Gray, printers, 1818. 191pp. 12mo. Extracted from bound volume. Some mild offsetting to prelims and endleaves, occasional foxing, binding residue on spine, else a very good, copy. First edition of the first substantial publication by the then Congregational Minister, soon to be.....
![Item #WRCLIT88261 THE UNITED STATES LITERARY GAZETTE. VOL. 1. [whole numbers 1-24]. W. C....](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT88261.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1682714466)
Boston: Published by Cummings, Hillard & Co., 1825. [4],380pp. Quarto. Early cloth-backed boards. Some modest wear and staining to the boards, blank endleaves foxed with stains along top edges, a couple tears in first number at edges and gutters (without loss), long, clean tear in fore-portion of 333/334 (without loss).....
Boston: Printed for the Author, By E.G. House, 1809. 35,[1]pp. Printed self wrapper, bound up in late 19th century full calf, gilt, t.e.g., by Stikeman. Binding a bit rubbed and darkened at spine and extremities; internally a very good or better, partially untrimmed copy. Second edition, enlarged, of Bryant's first.....
