Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.About Books

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New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1879. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. No owner's name or bookplate. Inner hinges are firm. Scattered speckles (foxing) on preliminary blank pages. These works originally appeared between 1832 and 1868 in the journal, North American Review. There are 12 essays by: William Hickling Prescott, Caleb Cushing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Bancroft, John Lothrop Motley, Washington Irving, Charles Francis Adams, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George William Curtis, Francis Parkman, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Some of the essays are published here for the first time in book form. For example, Bancroft's The Last Moments of Eminent Men is BAL 679. Washington Irving's essay [The Northmen] is cited in BAL (volume 5, page 91). Lowell's contribution [Shakespeare Once More] is also in BAL (volume 6, page 94). John Milton by Ralph Waldo Emerson is item G94 in Myerson. Also included is Mechanism of Vital Actions by O. W. Holmes (1857), although this first appeared in book form in 1861 (See Currier/Tilton 469). Original dark green cloth, gilt decorated. 1st printing of First Collected Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition. 8vo. vi, 482pp + 6 pages of ads.

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Bibliographic details

Title
Essays from the North American Review
Author
Rice, Allen Thorndike (editor); William Hickling Prescott, Caleb Cushing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Bancroft, John Lothrop Motley, Washington Irving, Charles Francis Adams, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George William Curtis, Francis Parkman
Publisher
D. Appleton & Company, New York
Publication year
1879
Condition
Very Good condition
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st printing of First Collected Edition.
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Literature / Literary Biography / Criticism

About Books

Henderson, NV, U.S.A.

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About Books [Genny and Michael Winne, proprietors, formerly of Parsippany, New Jersey) has been selling rare and out of print books since 1985. Besides book fairs and mail order catalogue, long-time collectors and dealers will remember our lengthy For Sale ads in the Antiquarian Bookman and similar magazines. Our inventory of more than 40,000 volumes is especially strong in the specialities listed, but contains fine books in a variety of other fields as well. Because most of our books are stored in protective boxes, rather than on shelves, they cannot be viewed as a whole. If you want to examine specific titles, please provide 24 hours notice and we will make them available for your inspection. Phone calls to (702) 750-2722 are welcome, but please only between the hours of 8am and 10pm, west coast time. Our phone is a landline that cannot receive texts.

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