This mainstay of the 19th century literary scene was a popular, influential liberal journalist and long-time editor of the "New York Evening Post," but is best remembered as a prolific poet whose best-known piece, "Thanatopsis," was written as a teenager. ALS, 1p, 5" X 8", New York, NY, 11 January..... More
This mainstay of the 19th century literary scene was a popular, influential liberal journalist and long-time editor of the "New York Evening Post," but is best remembered as a prolific poet whose best-known piece, "Thanatopsis," was written as a teenager. ALS, 2pp (lettersheet), 4" X 5¼", New York, NY, 21..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, [1872-74]. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. 4to. Quarter brown calf with raised bands and gilt lettering, rules and decorations and brown pebble-grain cloth over beveled boards. viii, 568pp; vi, 576pp. Tissue-guarded frontispieces, engraved title pages, extensive full-and partial-page engravings, heavy stock tissue-guarded plates, marbled endpapers..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, [1872-74]. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Folio. Full brown calf with raised bands and ornate gilt lettering and decoration and inner dentelles, with dark brown embossed ornate rules and borders. viii, 568pp; vi, 576pp. All edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispieces, engraved title pages, extensive full- and..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [1893]. Hardcover. Biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. 12mo. Beige cloth spine with gilt lettering and elaborate gilt floral pattern and pale green decorated cloth. li, 384pp. All edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece + engraved title page. Very good. Faint binding edgewear, else tight..... More