[Rarebooks] Original appearances of Melville, Longfellow, Lowell etc

[Garry R Austin]

Our first offering of the New Year; First Herman Melville Appearances, 
each work is complete.
We offer for your consideration the following, net to all & postpaid @ $100.
From
Austin's Antiquarian Books
PO Box 730
Wilmington, Vt. 05363
mail at austinsbooks.com
802 464-8438

Putnam's Monthly Magazine Of American Literature, Science & Art. New 
York: G. P. Putnam & Co., July To December, 1853.
Octavo; pp; vi, iv, 690; illustrated with wood engravings; half brown 
leather and marbled paper covered boards, black spine labels lettered in 
gilt; an ex-library copy with the bookplate of Middleburg College, no 
spine markings, moderate external wear, internally complete and very 
good; A miscellany of interesting articles; include "Life In Hawaii"; 
"The Pacific Railway and How It Is To Be Built; "Day's Owls Of North 
America"; New York Church Architecture"; "Salt Lake And The New 
Saratoga"; "Fishing At The West";

More importantly this volume contains the first appearance of Melville's 
"Bartleby The Scrivener, A Tale Of Wall Street"; Lowell's "A Moosehead 
Journal"; Longfellow's "Phantoms";

Together with;
Putnam's Monthly Magazine Of American Literature, Science & Art. New 
York: G. P. Putnam & Co., January To June, 1854.
Octavo; pp; iv, 684; sparsely illustrated with wood engravings; half 
brown leather and marbled paper covered boards, black spine labels 
lettered in gilt; an ex-library copy with the bookplate of Middleburg 
College, , no spine markings,moderate external wear, internally complete 
and very good; A miscellany of interesting articles; include; "George 
Washington's Early Days"; "Stage Coach Stories"; "New York Private 
Residences"; "An Adventure On The Plains"; "Nebraska"; Visit To The Iron 
Mountains Of Missouri"; "New York Places Of Amusement"; "Gambling Houses 
Of Paris"
More importantly this volume contains the first appearance of Melville's 
"Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles", under the "Tarnmoor" pseudonym; 
Bryant's "The Conqueror's Grave"; Lowell's "A Winter Evening Hymn To My 
Fire" & "Without And Within" & Peschiera"; Longfellow's "The Two Angels";
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