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Published by Book League of America, 1938
Seller: GloryBe Books & Ephemera, LLC, Deforest, WI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Pages tanned otherwise Good. NOT A FORMER LIBRARY BOOK.
Published by D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1879
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. 1st printing of First Collected Edition. 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.