2 vols, 12mo, original rose linen and printed paper labels. The first book by Knickerbocker writer and later diplomat, Theodore Sedgwick Fay (1807-1898), a collection of genial Irvingesque essays and sketches that originally appeared in the New York Mirror, of which Fay was an editor along with George Pope Morris and John Inman. See the DAB. Cloth and labels a little stained and worn; some light foxing; a very good copy. BAL 5687; American Imprints 12383.

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Title

Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man, Consisting of the Little Genius, and Other Essays. By One of the Editors of the New-York Mirror

Publisher

New York: Printed and Published by J. & J. Harper, 1832

Publication Date

1832

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Hardcover

Edition

First edition.

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American Literature

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