Description:
2 volumes. xiii+132 pages with frontispiece, reproductions and index; xvi+170 pages with frontispiece, reproductions and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original publisher's slipcase. This edition limited to 500 copies.First published in 1936. Discussions of the actual first editions (English) of Alcott, Bierce, Clemens, Cooper, Emerson, Frederic, Harte, Hawthorne, Irving, James, Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell, Melville, Miller, Poe, Rawson, Riley, Stockton, Stowe, Whistler, and Whittier.
Condition: A near fine copy in like slipcase.