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Pindar, Peter [Wolcot, John] COLLECTED WORKS... London: [various publishers] 1786-7. Quarto. 9 vols. bound in one. First and early editions. Contemporary full mottled calf, raised bands, gilt compartments, morocco label. Worn at spine, joints cracking and one cover loose; a very good clean tight crisp copy otherwise. Wolcot's many works were frequently bound up into single volumes by their owners, and were often sold thus by booksellers of the day. This collection includes his two best-known works, and two unrecorded printings: A POETICAL, SUPPLICATING, MODEST AND AFFECTING EPISTLE TO THOSE LITERARY COLOSSUSES,…
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by Pindar, Peter [Wolcot, John]
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BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
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THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. New York: New York Common Prayer and Book Society, 1853. First edition thus. Original full sheep, gilt, morocco label, gilt. Worn, but a solid copy in the original publisher's binding. Twain arrived in New York City after leaving St. Louis and went to work as a type-setter at John Gray's firm on Monday, August 29, 1853 and stayed there until mid-October, when he left for Philadelphia. He wrote home to his mother on August 31, saying that he and forty other type-setters set type for an "immense" number of books and several magazines like The Knickerbocker, New York Recorder, Choral…
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MEMORIAL OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
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[MELVILLE, HERMAN] Putnam, George P., ed. MEMORIAL OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852. First edition, possibly a small private printing. Original black T-cloth, gilt. A few faint stains and marks to cloth, but a lightly rubbed tight clean copy of a book very seldom found in the original cloth binding. Includes first printings of letters and tributes from Melville, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Dana, Emerson, Bryant, Prescott, Simms, Paulding, Parkman, Kennedy, Bancroft, Irving, Willis, and others. Melville's letter, addressed to Rufus W. Griswold (who served as a memorial committee member), is…
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