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Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham, 1905. First limited edition. One of 248 numbered copies, signed by Quayle and printed on Japon vellum. Octavo. 341, [1] pp. Extensively illustrated and with many full page. Publisher's plaing gray boards, printed paper spine label, t.e.g., original ribbon. A couple of minor chips, else a lovely and clean copy of this book.William Alfred Quayle (d. March 1925) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1908.

Coutances: Impr. de Notre-Dame, 1920. First edition. Sixteenmo. Limitation unstated but signed by the author. 24 pp. Printed in red and black and with a full page color woodcut by Pierre Le Conte of a flower. Publisher's buff wrappers with red lettering, original glassine. An excellent copy.Written by Quesnel in celebration of the recent canonization of Joan of Arc. Joseph Quesnel was a founding member of Le Pou Qui a cultural association of Coutances, created in 1915, which brought together young artists of the area. It was sponsored by Adolphe Willette, who proposed to "revamp folk art" and "make Coutances known and loved not only in Normandy, but also in all the literary and artistic circles of the country" (Georges Laisney ). Among the founders were were Joseph Quesnel (1897-1931), René Jouenne (1897-1923) and Jean Thézeloup (1885-1968). Only one copy recorded by OCLC.

New York: Lewis M. Thompson, 1920. First edition. One of 100 copies. Octavo. 182 pp. plus two portraits (one as frontispiece). Publisher's beige boards with brown cover and spine lettering. In the original black dust jacket with gilt spine and cover lettering. Bookplate of railroad and banking magnate John A. Spoor. Mild foxing to endpapers but overall a lovely copy in a lovely jacket."English Notes for General Circulation by “Quarles Quickens,” a pamphlet published in Boston on December 6, 1842, was ascribed to Poe by Joseph Jackson in “Dickens in America Fifty Years Ago” (World’s Work, January 1912, pp. 292-293). The pamphlet was reprinted in 1920. W. N. C. Carlton demolished the ascription in the Americana Collector for February 1926" (Mabbot).Quarles Quickens is not a pseudonym of Joseph Jackson, who merely reprinted and incorrectly promoted the work as being by Poe. The pseudonym was used for the original 1842 printing. That author has just now been identified as Nathaniel Wheeler… Read More