ANGLO-AMERICAN FIRST EDITIONS. Part Two: West to East, l786-l930. Describing first editions of American authors whose books were published in England before their publication in America.
Pp. xxxii+132, l6 plates, index; qr. parchment, spine lettered in gilt, marbled papered boards, joints cracking, edges and spine rubbed; uncut; inked inscription on upper free endpaper, scattered light foxing; Constable, London, 1936. Edition limited to 500 copies. Bibliographia: Studies in book history and book structure, No. X, edited by Michael Sadleir. *Authors are Louisa May Alcott, Ambrose Bierce, Samuel L. Clemens, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harold Frederic, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Washington Irving, Henry James, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Herman Melville, Joaquin Miller, Edgar Allan Poe, Susanna Haswell Rawson, James Whitcomb Riley, Frank R. Stockton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, & John Greenleaf Whittier. Item #000013
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