[Rarebooks] FS: "The destroyer of weeds, thistles and thorns is a benefactor, whether he soweth grain or not."

[Charles Agvent]

Another of the nearly 60 new arrivals that we will be bringing to the 
New York Book Fair, April 8 - 10, at the Armory on Park Ave. and 67th 
St. We have not issued an advance list to anyone, and none of these will 
be listed anywhere on the internet until after the show is over. The 
only way to see them is to visit our booth: D8. We hope to see you there.

INGERSOLL, Robert G . THE WORKS OF ROBERT G. INGERSOLL. New York: The 
Dresden Publishing Co./C. P. Farrell, 1902. Autograph Edition . Twelve 
octavo (6" x 9") volumes attractively bound in 3/4 green morocco and 
marbled boards with gilt rules, the spine with five raised bands and 
four floral gilt decorations with red morocco onlays for the petals. 
Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece, mostly portraits, with 
the first volume also containing a hand-colored title page and a check 
SIGNED by the author bound in. Each volume is copy #2 of a limited 
edition of 250 copies. Light wear to some corners, a nick here and 
there. About Fine with a handsome shelf appearance.

Ingersoll was a popular orator who spoke on many subjects, his favorite 
being agnosticism, and he often poked fun at religious belief. He was 
known in his time as “the great agnostic." Ingersoll enjoyed a 
friendship with the poet Walt Whitman, who considered Ingersoll the 
greatest orator of his time: "It should not be surprising that I am 
drawn to Ingersoll, for he is Leaves of Grass... He lives, embodies, the 
individuality, I preach. I see in Bob [Ingersoll] the noblest 
specimen—American-flavored—pure out of the soil, spreading, giving, 
demanding light." Ingersoll delivered the eulogy at the poet's funeral 
in 1892. $4,000.00

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