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[Middlebury, Vt.: Middlebury College Press, 1935]. 4 pages. Original printed blue wraps. [22.4 cm.] Near very good. Wraps a bit faded and with some minor soiling. Leaves slightly toned and with some faint traces of foxing or soiling. FIRST EDITION. An address delivered while Allen was serving as a member of the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, a summer graduate program at Middlebury College, Vermont. Allen also participated in the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. In this address, he discusses the "Bread Loaf idea," which he describes, in part: "The idea that literature, that writing, is a constant state of becoming, that it went on in the past, that it continues now, and that it stretches into an almost but yet not entirely unpredictable future." --p. 3. Scarce.

Boston: Printed and published, under the patronage of the Company, by E.G. House, a member, 1820. 8vo (signed in fours). 199 pages. Original quarter orange paper over grey paper covered boards with printed paper spine label. [24 cm.] Spine cracked in several places with the text block holding by cords. It is holding well enough that the book is serviceable for reading as is, although a sympathetic backing is probably desirable. Spine also shows some chips, with some loss to the printed label. Boards soiled and with a faint notation on the front board; wear to all corners; and bend to the front board. Some chips, tears, and browning to the endpapers. Internally very good with occasional foxing only, most evident on the first page of text (see photo); some soiling to p. 158 not affecting legibiltiy; and a closed, marginal tear to pp. 121-122 in no way affecting the text. Faint pencilled name of P.R.L. Stone, a Boston merchant who dealt in West India goods, on front flyleaf. FIRST EDITION.… Read More

Cleveland: For private distribution, [printed by Horace Carr], 1930. [4], 59 pages. Original quarter green morocco over marbled paper cover boards with gilt spine title. [25.7 cm.] Near fine in like jacket and slipcase. A hint of sun to the spine, slight tanning to pastedowns, dime-sized chip to lower corner of one leaf, still a nice copy. Tiny chip to head of spine panel of jacket. Small bump and tear to top of slipcase. FIRST EDITION. One of 250 copies printed. Holmes was the librarian of the William Gwinn Mather Library in Cleveland. His highly respected bibliography of Increase Mather's works was issued in two volumes the following year by Harvard University Press.

[Sandusky, Ohio: Published by the author; printed by the Franklin Printing & Engraving co., Toledo, 1916.] 16 pages. Original printed wraps. [26.5 cm.] Good plus. Short tear to front wrap affecting two letters of subtitle, short tear to base of spine, some soiling and creasing to wraps. Internally clean. FIRST EDITION. Scarce. The second and last "Pomeroy Pamphlet," the first having been issued the previous year. In 1912, Albert A. Pomeroy issued the first volume of his book, "The History and Genealogy of the Pomeroy Family." In Jan., 1914, an article appeared in "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register" ("Genealogical Research in England," by Elizabeth French, pp. 47-64), which undermined the pedigree of Eltweed Pomeroy that Albert Pomeroy put forth in his book. Furthermore, an editor at the "Register," J. Gardner Bartlett, appended a note to the article (pp. 55-56) which attacked Pomeroy's use of evidence in his book.… Read More

Boston: Printed for S. Hall and Manning & Loring, 1801. 8vo [signed in fours; 21.6 cm.] [3]-38 pages. Lacking half-title and terminal blank. Removed from bound volume; stitching failing. Else good plus. A little edge-wear to title, some tanning, especially to first and final pages, light to moderate foxing. FIRST EDITION. Posthumously published. BAL 943.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. 246 pages. Original black cloth. Top edge stained maroon. [23.3 cm.] Very nearly fine in near fine dust jacket. Gutters of beige endpapers a little faded, two tiny spots to fore-edge. Jacket shows the slightest hint of sun to spine panel and some minor rubbing. FIRST EDITION. A historical novel depicting the prominent New England family from colonial times to the 20th century.