First Editions of American Authors Forming the Library of Frank Maier of New York, Bindi 1-2Anderson Auction Company, 1909 |
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Address American Magazines American Poetry AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK autograph letter signed AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION COPY blue crushed bookplate Bost Boston Bryant Cambridge Charles cloth and boards Contains the poem copies printed crimson crushed crushed levant morocco dated Emerson engraved FIELD EUGENE folio Frontispiece George gilt edges gilt top half calf half cloth half morocco half roan Halleck HARTE BRET HAWTHORNE NATHANIEL HOLMES OLIVER WENDELL Illustrated inscription Inserted IRVING WASHINGTON issued James Russell Lowell Laid LARGE PAPER Literary Lond LONGFELLOW HENRY WADSWORTH LOWELL JAMES RUSSELL McKee Library N. P. Willis Nathaniel Hawthorne numbers orig original boards original cloth original wrappers paper label Phil Phila pieces POE EDGAR ALLAN Poet Portrait Post 8vo privately printed published RARE Royal 8vo scarce sheep SIMMS WILLIAM Sketches Songs stitched Stoddard T. B. Aldrich THOMAS TION uncut vellum verse Vignette volume WHITMAN WALT WHITTIER JOHN GREENLEAF William Cullen Bryant Writings written York
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Síða 23 - BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper...
Síða 2 - The highest bidder to be the buyer. In all cases of disputed bids the lot shall be resold, but the Auctioneer will use his judgment as to the good faith of all claims and his decision shall be final.
Síða 153 - The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
Síða 77 - Juvenile poems on various subjects. With the Prince of Parthia, a tragedy.
Síða 52 - Convention, September 17, 1787. Reprinted from the Original Text, with an Historical Introduction and Notes. By Henry B. Dawson.
Síða 171 - November fifth to eighth, 1886, on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Harvard College.
Síða 172 - AREOPAGITICA. A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England.
Síða 2 - All books are sold as catalogued, and are assumed to be in good SECONDHAND condition. If material defects are found, not mentioned in the catalogue, the lot may be returned. Notice of such defects must be given promptly and the goods returned within ten days from the date of the sale. No exceptions will be made to this rule. Magazines and other periodicals, and all miscellaneous books arranged in parcels, are sold as they are, WITHOUT RECOURSE.
Síða 129 - History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.
Síða 96 - TIME'S PORTRAITURE BEING THE CARRIER'S ADDRESS TO THE PATRONS OF THE SALEM GAZETTE, FOR THE FIRST OF JANUARY, 1838 KIND PATRONS, We newspaper-carriers are Time's errand-boys; and all the year round, the old gentleman sends us from one of your doors to another, to let you know what he is talking about and what he is doing. We are a strange set of urchins; for, punctually...