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1913. With Twenty-Four [Photographic] Illustrations and a Map. London: Methuen & Co., (1913). 32 pp ads Dated July 1912. Original blue-green cloth. First Edition of this early account of traveling through the Lake District by way of that new-fangled contraption, the motorcar. Fourteen sightseeing routes are described in detail -- including the gradient of the steeper climbs, since not all motorcars could handle them. Except for some fading of the spine, this is a fine copy. Provenance: "Brackenburn" bookplate of Hugh Walpole -- though with the additional typed slip "From Hugh Walpole's Library, with his Bookplate" -- which, though Walpole did know Abraham, indicates the involvement of the not-always-reliable bookseller D. Arnold Varty (see Charles Nugent's monograph on this matter in the Autumn 2021 Hugh Walpole Review).

1859. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1859. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First Edition of this very early Aldrich volume, his fourth -- after THE BELLS (1855), DAISY'S NECKLACE (1857) and THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE (1858). The title verse is "the poem of a little life that was but three Aprils long." This copy is in chocolate brown "A" cloth (one of three cloths used, without precedence); it has no ads (some but not all copies have either 5 pp or 10 pp). This is a remarkably fine, bright copy, virtually as new. Blanck 253.

1916. New York: John Lane Company | London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1916. Original orange-brown cloth decorated in black and gilt. First Edition of Sherwood Anderson's first (and most autobiographical) novel -- a rags-to-riches-to-unhappiness tale of an Ohio newsboy, complete with alcoholic father and martyr mother who in trying to feed her children works her way into an early grave. Sam McPherson strives for and achieves fortune, only to realize (after driving his father-in-law to suicide) that there is more to life than money. In 1922, this novel would be re-published with a different ending (less vague, more optimistic -- though many have argued that either ending is too unlikely). In any case, this was Anderson's initiation into the art of writing fiction -- which would come to fruition three years later, with WINESBURG, OHIO (1919). This is a fine copy of this early midwestern novel (complete with ear of corn on front cover and spine). Housed in a (slightly wrinkled) slipcase with leather label.