AMERICAN LITERATURE from Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books

Richmond {Va.] Printed for the Author by: Clemmitt & Jones, . . Small 4to, buff wrappers, front printed. SECOND EDITION. BAL569.First published 1857 in the "Southern Lterary Messenger". see Introduction. First separate publication 1862--BAL 561

New York: 121 East 18th Street, 1883-1886. . Four and a half pages, small letterhead Brander Matthews was the chair ofDramatic Literatureat Columbia, a position that the university created for him, and the first of its kind in America. He was also a theatre critic and author.Among Matthews friends were Robert Louis Stevenson, Samuel Clemens, William Dean Howells,… Read more about this item

New York, London and Montreal: The Abbey, [1900]. . 8vo, red cloth stamped in white on spine and in white and black on front cover, bottom front cover bumped. FIRST & ORIGINAL EDITION--Not a reprint.Eleven holdings in OCL.Warner P. Sutton (1849-1913). As a young man Sutton taught school in Watervliet and Ludington, Michigan. In 1875 he went to Saugatuck… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1953]. . Large 8vo, black cloth, some slight wear to the extremities; price-clipped dust jacket with some wear over corners and a closed tear at upper outer right and small segment lacking at front top inner left FIRST EDITION, so stated. INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper by Eleanor Anderson to… Read more about this item

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913. . 8vo, ribbed red cloth, spine with some staining from removal of shelf-mark; ex-library, rubberstamp on front pastedown; verso of frontispiece, and title. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ON THE TITLE.

Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1934. . Large 8vo, navy-blue cloth, spine very slightly dulled FIRST EDITION. Tipped onto the front free endpaper is a copy of a two-page T.L.s. from Nat M. Washer, President of the Texas Board of Education to the author congratulating him on the book and on his august ancestry, and recalling that as a child… Read more about this item

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899. . 8vo, green cloth, front cover with gilt and floral design, spine gilt, small tear at foot of spine; lettered dust jacket present, but lacking segments along the top of the front and back covers and an inch and a quarter section at the head and at the tail… Read more about this item

Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. . 8vo, gray/green cloth; dust jacket Petersen A38c; Massey 770

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. . 8vo, black cloth; dust jacket which has been price-clipped. First Edition

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1894. . Small 8vo, natural linen stamped in blue, somewhat soiled. First edition. Wright III 441

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1940. . 8vo, two-toned cloth, dust jacket chipped at head of spine; lightly sunned-. First Edition

Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. . 2 volumes. 8vo, purple cloth-backed original pale green boards, soiled; brown leather labels, chipped; endpapers darkened, minimal foxing; throughout; front inner hinge of Vol. I cracked, but firm; title of Vol. I waterstained FIRST EDITION. BAL 11040 (this binding not described), this set without the advertisements in Volume II.First separate work by this… Read more about this item

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1898. . 8vo, dark brown cloth, stamped in black, gilt on spine; corners slightly bumped; head and tail of spine showing minimal wear; non-authorial gift presentation on front free endpaper. First Edition. BAL 7390

Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1907. . 12mo, red cloth; corners bumped; some wear to extremities of spine. "Copyright Edition" No. 3987 of "Collection of British Authors". It is amusing that Tauchnitz considers Hearn British; his father was a British army doctor; but early in his life he settled in America. He died a Japanese citizen. Book ticket of a Kyoto… Read more about this item

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1903. . 8vo, navy-blue cloth; top edge gilt, others untrimmed

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924. . 8vo, pale-green paper-covered boards; orange cloth spine, worn; ownership signature on front free endpaper. First Edition

New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. . 8vo, green cloth, stamped in yellow and red, corners a trifle bumped, t.e.black. Bookplate of the Carlisle House Library (private collection) FIRST EDITION of the author's first book; first state of the text in the second state of the binding with the ear of corn pointing down.

[Pecos?]: Privately Printed , 1962. . 8vo, dark green cloth. A humorous discussion of the indelicate illustration on p. 283 of "Huckleberry Finn", suggesting that the artist, Edward Kemble, was responsible for the vulgarity, that it was a joke that went too far, the plate being mistakenly printed. Signed by the author with a monogram on the dedication page… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1895. . 8vo, pale blue cloth soiled, spine faded First Edition. BAL 4519

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1962. . 8vo, blue cloth, dust jacket present but cut down. Five poets (Holmes, Sarton Eberhart, Wilbur & Jarrell) discuss the "purpose of poetry, the role of the poet and the function of the critic..." Taken from lectures given at the second Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival in the fall of 1961, sponsored by the… Read more about this item