[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition of Washington Irving's BRACEBRIDGE HALL, 1822

[Charles Agvent]

[IRVING, Washington] CRAYON, Geoffrey. BRACEBRIDGE HALL, OR THE 
HUMOURISTS, A MEDLEY. New York: C. S. Van Winkle, 1822. First American 
Edition. Two volumes bound in contemporary sheep leather with 
gilt-lettered morocco spine labels. Complete with half-title pages. BAL 
10109. A series of character sketches of the occupants of an English 
manor written while Irving lived in England. Earl y owner name of E. 
Hubbard on the front blanks and the half-title page of the first volume. 
Moderate to heavy foxing throughout; a few small tears with loss of a 
few words to the bottom of one page in the second volume. Very Good.

Washington Irving was America's first genuine internationally 
best-selling author and the first American to earn his living from his 
writing alone. (#017267)        $350.00

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