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Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon; New-York: Daniel Appleton & Co., 1836. First edition.. Spine and board edges faded to tan; lightly foxed; a very good copy.. Small 8vo (7.63 x 4.75), original ribbon embossed violet cloth, printed paper spine label, iv, 183, [1], 4 pages. From the pioneering Scottish phrenologist and then professor at the University of Edinburgh; these lectures were not collected in a Scottish edition until 1840. Contemporary pencil ownership signature on the front free endpaper. American Imprints 36851.

Philadelphia: Published by Abel C. Thomas, John Richards, Printer, 1835. First edition.. Spine head and corners just a trifle frayed; spine and board edges sunning; some light general soiling; a very good copy.. 12mo (7.13 x 4.38 inches), original watered rose cloth, printed paper spine label, 180 pages. Eddy, Universalism in America, 812; American Imprints 30185.

Philadelphia: Desilver, Thomas & Co., 1836. First edition. Cloth sunned and a bit spotted, label somewhat rubbed; some light foxing; in good to very good condition. 12mo (7.38 x 4.75 inches), original patterned rose cloth, gilt lettered leather spine label, 153, [1] pages. Many of these examples of youthful verses were written while the author was a student at West Point (including an anecdote of a classmate with a dislocated jaw), where he graduated in 1831.

New-York: Leavitt, Lord & Co. 180 Broadway; Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1836. First edition.. Spine and edges somewhat rubbed, with a little chipping to the label; some light foxing and soiling; a good to very good copy.. 12mo (7.63 x 4.5 inches), original blue-green cloth spine, drab boards, printed paper label, 225, [1] pages. The horse at the cider-mill; the mules in the press-room of the American Tract Society; and the watchman who walks his drowsy round until he falls asleep; are not the only beings that spend their lives in traversing a circle." The tale of a young man from modest circumstances who after a college education decides the world owes him a living; inevitably, he concludes the tale back at his father's wheelwright shop with sweat on his brow from honest labor. The political journalist and sometime novelist Stone does not exactly wear his own learning lightly here, though the occasional satirical jabs are pleasant enough. Wright I, 2510. Pencil ownership signature of A. Almendorf,… Read More