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[Norman Kane]

FALKNER, W[M.] C[LARK].  THE LITTLE BRICK CHURCH, A NOVEL.  Phila.: Lippincott, 1882.  The rare first edition of this scarce novel.  Wright III-1789 (1 copy): "Before and during the American Revolution."  Original cloth stamped in gilt, just slight wear. Frontispiece.  (Colonel Falkner, Wm. Faulkner's gt. grandfather, was a hot-blooded Mississippian whose youth is  shrouded in tales of violence.  A veteran of the Mexican War, he raised several Confederate regiments during the Civil War, holding at one time the rank of Colonel. He was murdered on the public square by a former business partner. As a youth Wm. Faulkner expressed the wish to emulate his novel-writing ancestor,  "His influence on his gt. grandson named after him ... is immense." The character of Colonel Sartoris is drawn from Colonel Falkner.)
$350.00 ppd. ($300.00 to the trade)

[NAVAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION].  EXTRAIT DU JOURNAL D'UN OFFICIER DE LA MARINE DE D'ESCADRE DE M. LE COMTE D'ESTAING.  [Paris], 1782.  First edition, first state.  New USiana E199 (dd). Modern cloth-backed marbled boards, nice copy, with the ORIGINAL GRAY WRAPPERS (with some old penciling; old stain at foot of rear wrapper) bound in. Uncut and largely unopened copy, a few blank margins eroded. [2], 158 pages, portrait with vignette opposite p. [1]. (Naval operations during the American Revolution by the French fleet along the East Coast from New York and Newport to Savannah. QUITE SCARCE.  ("The unidentified author [possibly Captain Walsh, the Chevalier O'Connor] is highly critical of the conduct of his superior. A defense against his charges appeared in Brussels in 1782 ... probably by Estaing himself." - USiana.)
$490.00 ppd  ($420.00 to the trade)

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