[Rarebooks] FS: Rare 1st ed. of the "first American novel" Boston: 1789

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[Brown, William Hill]. THE POWER OF SYMPATHY: OR, THE TRIUMPH OF NATURE 
FOUNDED IN TRUTH. In Two Volumes. Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Company. 1789. First 
edition. 2 vols. 138;158pp. Copper engraved frontispiece by Samuel Hill. Woodcut 
printer’s initials on title-pages. Cont. sheep, worn & rubbed, nicely 
rebacked in brown calf, gilt. Housed in a custom made 1/2 brown morocco clamshell box 
with red morocco spine label. Frontispiece with a few minor repairs at blank 
fore-edge. Title of Vol. I with offset browning from frontis. Text of both 
vols. foxed throughout (as usual).     $8,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
Rare first edition of the so-called “first American novel.” A fictional 
account of Frances Theodora Apthorp, sister of Sarah Wentworth Morton, to whom the 
work has often been attributed. Evans 21979. Wright I. 432.

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