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Augusta: Richards & Shaver, 1893. 143 pages. Original embossed maroon cloth stamped in gold. [19.8 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference Library with no external markings. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamp on a few leaves including title, and number stamp on verso of title and in margin of one other page. Else very good. Some light rubbing and soiling to cloth, ownership inscription on front free endpaper, neat corner repair to the same leaf, first hundred pages a bit tanned. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. A collection of poems, aphorisms, and essays. One of the essays, "The Drama of Joseph E. Brown's Heart," is a memoir of the Confederate governor. Carlton Hillyer (1844-1918), was the auditor for the Georgia Railroad at Augusta and sat on the Augusta City Council. He served with the Georgia state forces near the end of the Civil War. His father was Julian Hillyer, U.S. Congressman and solicitor of the U.S. Treasury. His brother, George Hillyer, was a Confederate… Read More

New York: Twayne Publishers, [1992]. xv, 151 pages. Original cloth. [22.2 cm.] Fine in fine dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Review copy with slip laid-in.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, [1990]. vi, 170 pages; illustrated with a few photographs printed with the text. Original cloth. [23.4 cm.] Fine in fine dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, [2000]. xxiii, 326 pages, plus four double-sided plates. Original quarter cloth and boards. [23.5 cm.] Fine in fine dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.

Savannah, Ga.: Printed for the [Georgia Historical] Society, [by] Townsend, Printer and Binder, 1888. 25 pages. Original printed pale green wraps with cover title reading: "Sidney Lanier." [24 cm.] Good plus. Tiny chips to spine ends, short closed tear and minor crease at base of front wrap. Front free endpaper has three very short tears due to slightly rough opening, but its conjugate, the titie leaf, is unharmed and the pamphlet is otherwise unopened. Excepting a sliver of foxing to base of one leaf, the interior is clean and bright. A nicer than usual copy. FIRST EDITION. Charles Nephew West (1844-1900) was, like Sidney Lanier, a native of Macon, Georgia and a Confederate veteran. He was an attorney and an active member of the Georgia Historical Society. He also published "The Life and Times of William Harris Crawford" (1892). BAL (Lanier) vol. 5, p. 296.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1915. xiv, [2], 213, [1] pages. Original embossed green cloth stamped in gold. [25.3 cm]. Very nearly fine with bookplate of American industrialist, Franklin S. Terry, on the front pastedown. [Terry (1862-1926) was the founder of the Sunbeam Incandescent Light Company and co-founder of the National Electric Lamp Company (N.E.L.A.), which became a subsidiary of General Electric. He was instrumental in the creation of Cleveland's Nela Park.] Spine ends very slightly bumped and rubbed, slight offsetting from Terry's bookplate, still an excellent copy. FIRST EDITION. One of 750 copies, this copy not numbered. Illustrated with numerous photographic plates, including frontispiece. "The following compilation aims to present the `Boston of Holmes,' as set forth by himself. The many passages dealing with his favorite topic have been gleaned from his entire works and have been fitted together in chronological order." --preface, p. vii.

New York and Cincinnati: Livermore & Rudd; Moore, Wilstach, Keys, & Overend, [1856]. First edition. New York: Livermore & Rudd; Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys, & Overend, [printed by William Overend, Cincinnati, c.r. 1856]. 12mo. 311 pages. [10] pages publisher's illustrated ads (Livermore & Rudd) including a full-page ad for the present work. Illustrated with title page vignette and woodcuts in the text. Original embossed dark blue cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. 20 x 14 cm. Extremities worn, moderate soiling to the cloth, spine cocked, but sound and with hinges intact. Scattered foxing, heavy in a few places; several leaves with shallow chips to fore-edge; one closed marginal tear; several corners creased. Good only, but scarce in any condition. FIRST EDITION, New York issue. Perhaps preceded by a Cincinnati issue with Moore, et al. listed first in the imprint, although we can find no direct evidence as to priority. Binding variants of red and black cloth are also… Read More

New York: Livermore & Rudd; Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys, & Overend, [printed by William Overend, Cincinnati, c.r. 1856]. 12mo. 311 pages. [10] pages publisher's illustrated ads (Livermore & Rudd) including a full-page ad for the present work. Illustrated with title page vignette and woodcuts in the text. Original embossed red cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. 20 x 14 cm. Tiny tears to head of spine, the base of spine chipped to the text block, shallow gouge to the bottom edge of front board, tiny hole on the rear joint, but sound. A few stains to cloth including dark spotting along the joints. Sporadic moderate foxing; occasional, mostly marginal stains with a few spots to the text not affecting legiblity; light tanning to several pages due to prior enclosures. Thus good only, but scarce in any condition. FIRST EDITION, New York issue. Perhaps preceded by a Cincinnati issue with Moore, et al. listed first in the imprint, although we can find no direct evidence as to priority.… Read More

Boston: Richard G. Badger & Co., [1899]. [1] leaf, 151 pages, plus [1] page ads. Original red cloth stamped in black. [16.2 cm.] Very good plus. Tiny bump to edge of front board, minor rubbing to cloth, a few small spots to front endpapers. Faint foxing to gutters of some leaves, interior is otherwise clean and bright. FIRST EDITION.

New York and Washington: Neale Pub. Co., 1906. 406 pages. Original tan cloth stamped in gold with maroon rules; top edge gilt. [21.6 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference Library with call sticker on spine and light internal markings. Else good plus. Light wear, spine tanned, light soiling to cloth, but sound and internally clean. Suitable as a reading copy. FIRST EDITION.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1895. vi, 182 pages, plus frontispiece and three full-page plates by Victor A. Searles. [36] pages publisher's illustrated ads at rear. Original publisher's pictorial cloth stamped in red, silver, and gold. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Good. Cloth is faded, especially on the spine, a bit soiled with a few stains to rear cover, and lightly worn. Name on front endpapers. Tiny bit of old marginal damping near front of book, otherwise clean internally. FIRST EDITION. Juvenile fiction describing the adventures of two boys who get lost in the Okefenokee swamp and are taken prisoner by a band of Confederate deserters. Louis Beauregard Pendleton (1861-1939), a native of Tebeauville, Georgia, was a novelist who often wrote for children, the author of a biography of Alexander Stephens, and an editorialist at the Macon "Daily Telegraph" (1899-1914). Not in Wright.

New York: J.C. Riker, 1850. 12mo. 237 pages, plus frontispiece and extra engraved title page. Original purple cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and with gilt centerpiece on each cover. [19 cm.] Spine faded and with wear and tears at ends; corners worn. Heavy circular stains and impressions on covers, suggest the volume was perhaps used as a resting place for a tea kettle or the like. Hinges cracked, but holding. Lacking front free endpaper. Marginal damping to first few leaves including plates. Engraved title leaf chipped along lower edge (it apparently adhered to the frontispiece and was then torn free). Scattered foxing and small stains, not affecting legibility. Poor to fair only. First American edition? Title page states: "From the second London edition, improved and corrected," however no earlier edition from either side of the Atlantic is found by OCLC. A novel with the explicit purpose of inculcating Christian morals. "The author has written the… Read More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860, [c.r. 1859]. Small 8vo. 179, [1] pages, including half-title, plus frontispiece portrait of the author. 16-page publisher's catalog at rear dated Oct. 1859. Original brown cloth with gilt spine lettering; covers ruled and decorated in blind; brown coated endpapers. [18.5 cm.] Spine worn at ends and in vertical line along center, with loss of most of the "T" in "The." Corners bumped and a little worn. Name on front pastedown. Foxing to frontispiece; slight offsetting and foxing to title; a few minor traces of foxing scattered in the text. Good plus. FIRST EDITION. BAL 17291 (binding "A").

Boston and N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., [printed by] the Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1896. [6], 246, [1] pages, plus one page ads. Complete with frontispiece and 18 plates (inserted, but reckoned in the pagination), with tissue guard for frontispiece. Original green cloth with cover illustration in red, white and black against a gold background, and gilt lettering and triple rules on spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. [19.1 cm.] Near fine. A few tiny spots to cloth, traces of faint marginal foxing to some plates and facing pages, still a nice copy. Second printing. BAL binding A (no priority established).