Bibliography of American Literature, 7 Volumes: Edited and Completed by Virginia L. Smyers and Michael Winship

New Haven, : Yale University Press, 1983. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Various printings, some first editions. Large 4to black cloth, gilt spine titles in red panels. This is the 1977 - 1983 printings thru authors James Kirke Paulding to Frank Richard Stockton. (There are now two additional vols. 9&10 and an index which completes the set). Bright, tight, clean and unmarked on text pages, no names. Some faint scuff to a few covers, but all bindings tight, and clean with foxing to top edge of 4 vols. Overall grade of very good. Heavy set.

The fundamental authority for identifying the first editions by hundreds of important American authors. Provides complete bibliographical descriptions. Illustrated with title page facsimiles and other reproductions. Consists of volume I, Henry Adams to Donn Byrne; volume II, George W. Cable to Timothy Dwight; volume III, Edward Eggleston to Bret Harte; volume IV, Nathaniel Hawthorne to Joseph Holt Ingraham; volume V, Washington Irving to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; volume VI, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet to Thomas William Parsons; volume VII, James Kirke Paulding to Frank Richard Stockton; lacking volume VIII, Charles Warren Stoddard to Susan Bogert Warner; volume IX, Edward Noyes Westcott to Elinor Wylie.