[Rarebooks] For Sale: Charles Brockden Brown

[Norman Kane]

We are offering the 3 works below for one price:

*** BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN.   WIELAND OR THE TRANSFORMATION.   N. 
Y.: Wm. Taylor & Co.; Phila.; Baltimore, 1846.
Original printed wrappers, front wrap. has some edge-chipping.  [4], 
124 pages.
Wright I-427.  The first title in a projected edition of Brown's 
works which was abandoned after only 2 titles were issued.  Uncommon.

*** ATKINSON'S CASKET OR GEMS OF LITERATURE .  .  .  Phila.:, Oct., 
1835, #10.   Disbound.  Contains an engraving of a scene 
from  Brown's Arthur Mervyn after G. Fairman, and 3 pages of comment 
& excerpts from this novel on the yellow fever epidemic in  Phila. in 
1793.  This number also has a half-page view on tinted paper of a 
long covered bridge over the Schuylkill River at Reading,

*** VILAS, MARTIN S.   CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN, A STUDY OF
EARLY AMERICAN FICTION.   Burlington, Vt.: Free Press Assoc., 1905.
Original gold-stamped cloth, 66, [1] pages, name on end paper, near fine.

THE THREE FOR $ 115.00             (Trade Discount 10%)


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