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Twain, Mark [Clemens, Samuel]
Europe and Elsewhere

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1923. First American Edition, 1st
Printing. Hardcover. A Fine copy of the first edition printing, in a Near
Fine (for this volume) dust jacket. The original red cloth binding's front
board and spine are lettered and decorated in gilt, the spine ends show
light pushing and mild rubbing, and each board's leading corners show only
mild rubbing. The dust jacket, lettered and decorated in rich red, shows
light wear and minor loss (including a touch at the spine panel's head, and
a larger chip at the jacket's spine tail) and is easily the cleanest,
brightest, most unfaded one we ever have seen. The jacket's front panel
presents a quote from famed Twain Bibliographer Albert Bigelow Payne
illustrating the volume's importance by stating as follows: "A number of
articles in this volume, even the more important, have not heretofore
appeared in print. Few of these papers were unimportant, and a fresh
interest attaches to them today in the fact that they present some new
point of observation, some hitherto unexpected angle of Mark Twain's
indefatigable thought." The dust jacket is NOT price-clipped [$2.25] [while
we cannot say that no others exist, this is THE ONLY COPY OF THIS JACKET
THAT WE EVER HAVE SEEN THAT IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED] and the rear flap shows
the "BOOK-SELLERS REORDER COUPON". Copies of the first edition in their
original cloth and dust jacket are quite uncommon and copies as nice as is
this one, are, in our experience: RARE. Fine / near fine. Item #3888

Undiscounted Price: $2,525.00


Hotten, John Camden
OUR EARLY EMIGRANT ANCESTORS. // THE ORIGINAL LISTS // OF // PERSONS OF
QUALITY; EMIGRANTS, RELIGIOUS EXILES; POLITICAL REBELS; SERVING MEN SOLD
FOR A TERM OF YEARS; APPRENTICES ; CHILDREN STOLEN ; MAIDENS PRESSED ; AND
OTHERS WHO WENT WEST FROM GREAT BRITAIN TO THE AMERICAN PLANTATIONS //
1600-1700 ;; WITH THEIR AGES, THE LOCALITIES WHERE THEY FORMERLY LIVED IN
THE MOTHER COUNTRY, THE NAMES OF THE SHIPS IN WHICH THEY EMBARKED, AND
OTHER INTERESTING PARTICULARS // FROM MSS. IN THE STATE PAPER DEPARTMENT OF
HER MAJESTY'S PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, ENGLAND

New York: J.W. Bouten, 1880. Second Edition. Hardcover. A VERY GOOD copy of
this notable work of History in the Publisher's original cloth, first
published by Chatto and Windus (England) in 1874. This is the stated Second
Edition of the work and was published in New York in 1880 (perhaps being
the first edition published in the United States --- although the book was
also reprinted / published in the United States by Empire State Book Co.,
from the London edition of 1874 -- date unknown to this Seller). The
binding is worn, the rear hinge is broken, and the first three leaves are
separated from the page block but remain present. Within, one finds the
occasional stray mark and a number of page pairs are unopened at the their
top edge. This is the only copy of this important and highly notable work
that we ever have seen and copies are, in our experience, QUITE SCARCE TO
THE MARKET. Very good. Item #3882

Undiscounted Price: $650.00


Trollope, Anthony
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson; By One of the Firm

New York: Harper & Brothers, Undated [1866]. First Edition, later
impression. Wrappers. A RARE SURVIVING COPY OF THIS VARIANT, LATER, BUT
EARLY, IMPRESSION RARE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL
WRAPPERS HOUSING THE FIRST EDITION STATE (perhaps, and we think likely,
first printing) OF THE TEXT LEAVES of this Anthony Trollope novel first
published in the United States on May 6, 1862 and not published in the UK
until November, 1870, making this American Edition the TRUE FIRST EDITION
OF THIS TROLLOPE NOVEL. The tale centers on a Partnership in a haberdashery
amoung Brown (a retired Butter dealer), Jones (Brown's son-in-law), and
Robinson (a strong advocate of advertising and an aspirant to the hand of
Brown's youngest daughter, Maryanne). Due to Brown's timidity, Jones's
embezzlement, and Robinson's extravagance, the Firm went bankrupt. This
wrappered copy has been bound in brown half-cloth and marbled boards which
(like the original wrappers) lack the spine. The front board's recto has a
pasted-on title label whereon the novel's title is written and its verso
bears a Muncie, Indiana Public Library label with the Library information
written thereon. The volume contains its original front and rear wrappers
and all of the required leaves. The front wrapper's recto shows "D 92" in
pencil as well as a bit of loss to its left portion which losses are now
adhered to the front board verso's adjacent margin. The front wrapper's
verso shows evidence of a removed label of some sort with evidence of its
location and size shown by a darkened area within which some remnants of
the label remain. Within, the front free endpaper is torn and a portion of
it remains with the front wrapper's verso as shown in the images provided
with our proprietary listing. The pages remain in reasonably nice condition
with some darkening throughout, varied foxing and scattered spotting, and
only slight edge wear and tiny tears to the edge of some of them. There is
minor tearing and some additional margin tearing with loss to the outer
margin of the leaf hosting pp 57/58. Copies of this FIRST EDITION text of
any variant or issue are EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE TO RARE and are, in
consequence, ABSOLUTELY RARE TO THE MARKET. In his Bibliography of
Trollope's works published in 1928 (which focused on Trollope's UK
editions), Sadleir states with respect to this novel's first American
edition: "It is impossible for a collector to ignore Harper's unauthorized
edition of Brown, Jones and Robinson, so greatly did it predate the English
version." While Sadleir gave some information on the US edition, he further
stated: "The above description is necessarily incomplete and, in some
places, problematical. I have myself never seen a copy of this pirated -
but by eight years 'first book' - edition of Trollope's unhappy excursion
into humour. America friends have contributed details of collation, but
even they have failed to discover a copy in original shape. Wherefore the
allocation of pages, the binding and illustration details have to be
surmised." [Sadlier speculated in his attempt at a collation that the
American edition probably had a frontispiece, but that speculation turned
out to be wrong.] In his Bibliography's Addenda and Corrigenda, published
in 1934, Sadlier stated: "A copy in fine untouched state has now been
discovered which makes possible the following corrected collation: ...."
[which Sadlier then gives]. In his excellent Bibliography of Trollope's
works published in the United States, Walter Smith notes that the 1862 copy
he shows and describes is the "...actual first edition and the first of
several works to appear in America before their publication in England. [He
further notes, as did Sadlier, that the story was first published in serial
form in the Cornhill Magazine from August 1861 - March, 1862 and was not
published in novel form in England until 1870.] Smith goes on to state
that: "One copy examined (Parrish Collection, Princeton, AT 355) had a
title page dated 1875; its front cover was undated and listed the price at
50 cents; the back cover was dated APRIL 1873." [Smith names the copy at
Princeton as "AT 354".] He also notes a copy in the Beinecke Library at
Yale University (IpT1749862K) as well as another in the Butler Library at
Columbia University and that the copies at both Butler and Columbia have
the four pages of advertisements bound in at the end. He further notes
that: "Brussel describes the Parrish copy, which advertises New Novels on
p. (5) in his book and reproduces a photograph of its front cover (151).
The Butler copy has Carroll A. Wilson's bookplate affixed to the inside
front cover." Smith also notes that the Huntington Library (433234) has a
rebound copy of the novel with a Library label to its title page. [Smith
does not mention whether the wrappers are included or not.] These four
copies, one of which has been rebound, are the only copies he mentions. In
his work regarding his own collection titled "Thirteen Author Collections
of the Nineteenth Century and Five Centuries of Familiar Quotations"
[1950], the great collector Carroll A. Wilson, in discussing this Trollope
novel, describes the novel as follows: "One of the outstanding Trollope
rarities; I know of three other copies in wrappers. Eight years before the
English first edition. This was No. 220 of Harper's Library of Select
Novels. With a preliminary leaf and two terminal leaves listing the
publications in the series, ending at 220." PLEASE NOTE: The present copy
of the work is as shown in the images provided at our Allington Antiquarian
Books site found at: www. allington books .com -- without the spaces. These
images of our copy show it to be "No. 220" in Harper's Library of Select
Novels priced at "50" Cents with the rear wrapper being dated "May 1,
1866", making it a bit later than the original 1862 true first edition,
first printing, first issue. The Parrish copy cited above also shows the
price of 50 cents. The present copy shows no advertisement pages either to
the front or rear. We put this copy as being later than the true first 1862
first edition, first issue, first state, but earlier than the Parrish copy
at Princeton (which is certainly later as it shows an undated front cover
-- as does our copy -- but a later dating (APRIL, 1873) to the back cover.
IN SUM: In our nearly five-decade search for Trollope rarities we have seen
only one other copy, bringing the total number of copies of the first
edition copies known to us to five. We were blessed to own that copy (which
fully matched Smith's collation) and were able to sell that copy for a
quite quickly to a major collector for a quite tidy sum. We offer this
variant copy, ITSELF QUITE RARE FOR A LOWER AMOUNT. A RARE COPY WHICH MOST
COLLECTORS WILL NEVER SEE, MUCH LESS HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE THIS
EXCEEDING DIFFICULT - TO - FIND RARE TROLLOPE FIRST EDITION and no
collection is complete without it. Very good. Item #3538

Price: Undiscounted Price $4,250.00


Various Authors and Artists; Williams, George Henry [Compiler]
George H. Williams’ Scrapbook w/ 100s of Political Cartoons/ Civil War -
1860s

[No Place Stated]: Various Authors and Artists, [No Date Known]. First
Edition. Disbound. George Henry Williams (1823-1910), was an
attorney-general and senator from Oregon who became a lawyer in 1844 with a
practice in Fort Madison, Iowa Territory. After Iowa was admitted to
statehood, President Pierce appointed him chief justice of the Oregon
Territory. In 1883, Williams became more prominent when he rendered a
decision in favor of a freed Negro, who sued his past owner for holding his
three children. [He was a northern Democrat opposed to slavery.] Williams
compiled this scrapbook comprised of several hundred political cartoons
along with allegorical poetry and commentary. Some of his writings are
signed and along with the cutout cartoons, reveal a great deal about the
author and public opinion. The book is in Poor condition with separated
boards, no spine and edges of text frayed with tears. Many of the cartoons
presented cover secession, Jefferson Davis, slavery, abolitionism, women’s
suffrage, politicians, and the war. A rare compilation with 337 illustrated
bookplates, many of which are in color, five envelopes (each with one side
pasted down and each visible side illustrated). The first four (4) numbered
pages are missing but pages 5-113 remain present and host illustrated
plates as do two pages with their numbers missing. A number of pages are
blank and some othershost newpaper clippings, these being to the rear
section of pages, some of which host handwritten text. Finally, an embossed
and lined piece of paper that measures approximately 8 inches by 6 inches
and appears to have been remove from a parcel of paper hosts a three stanza
poem signed by George H. Williams and dated by him "January 31 1875" with a
florish under his signature. [The text shows a word completed in the Poem's
first line with two letters in pencil which appear to have been written by
him.] The reverse side of the sheet has a short "Mother says...." ink
notation that reads like it is relevant to the Poem and one of the sheet's
bottom corners has broken off but remains present. In conclusion, we have a
remarkable, perhaps unique, significant collection of Civil War political
cartoons. SCARCE TO RARE.

>From oregonencyclopedia. org/articles/williams-george/:
George H. Williams was a Democratic politician and officeholder in Oregon
from the mid-1850s to the early twentieth century. He was chief justice of
the territorial supreme court, a delegate to Oregon’s constitutional
convention, U.S. senator from Oregon, the first Oregonian to serve in a
presidential cabinet, a member of national and international diplomatic
commissions, and mayor of Portland. For his service and serenity, the
Oregonian referred to him as “Oregon’s Grand Old Man.” He was, Oregonian
editor Harvey Scott remarked, “a man who never lost his equipoise, nor even
studied or posed to produce sensational or startling effects.”

Born in Lebanon, New York, on March 26, 1823, Williams was educated in
public and private schools and read at law in Pompey Hill, New York,
learning from an established Whig lawyer. In 1844, he became a lawyer and
removed to Iowa, where he was elected judge, serving from 1847 to 1852. He
also purchased a newspaper, the Lee County Democrat (later the Iowa
Statesman), owning it until 1852.

Williams was active as a Democrat in state politics and was known as a
practical politician who avoided partisanship. He became friends with
Iowa’s U.S. senators, George Jones and Augustus Dodge, and attracted
attention from Stephen A. Douglas, a powerful senator from Illinois.
Williams had campaigned for Franklin Pierce in 1852 and was a presidential
elector; and with strong support from Douglas, Pierce rewarded Williams
with appointment as chief justice of the Oregon Territory Supreme Court in
1853.

Williams arrived in Oregon by steamship from San Francisco on July 2, 1853,
accompanied by his wife Kate. On the territorial court, he held circuit in
the Willamette Valley, based in Salem, while Matthew Deady was judge for
southern Oregon Territory and Cyrus Olney served the northern territory.
The first major case Williams heard was Holmes v. Ford (1853), which raised
the issue of slavery. Williams ruled that slavery was not legal in Oregon,
considering that the territorial legislature had not expressly legalized
it. In Vandorf v. Otis (1854), he ruled that an Indian wife had legal claim
to half of a 640-acre claim made by herself and her husband under the
Oregon Donation Land Law.

During his first decade in Oregon, Williams became president of the
Willamette Woolen Company in 1856, a trustee of Willamette University the
same year, and an investor in the Oregon Printing and Publishing Company in
1863. Although he was a strong Democrat, he kept at a distance from the
Salem Clique Democrats who led the party in Oregon Territory. Nonetheless,
one witness reported that he was “a forcible orator” and physical, “his
arms going up and down with a regular tilt-hammer motion which earned him
the uneuphonious but significant soubriquet of ‘Old Flax Break.’”

In 1857, Williams was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and
played an important role in framing the state constitution by publishing
his “Free State Letter” in the July 28 Oregon Statesman, in which he argued
against both slavery in Oregon and the residency of free Blacks. His
position was based on his practical approach to politics. He was
anti-slavery, but he never made a speech castigating the institution as
immoral. Nonetheless, pro-slavery Democrats criticized him, but as he said
years later, “I knew what I was doing. It was the only argument I could
make to the people.”

Williams left the territorial bench in 1859, went into private practice
with A. C. Gibbs in Portland, and actively supported the Union during the
Civil War. He abandoned the Democratic Party as unpatriotic and became a
Republican. The Oregon Senate selected him as a U.S. senator in 1864. He
wrote the first Reconstruction Act and the Tenure of Office Act in 1867,
which led to the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in 1868. Williams
voted to convict Johnson in the Senate trial.

When U. S. Grant became president, Williams was a vocal supporter and
trusted adviser. Grant selected him for membership of the Joint High
Commission in 1871 to resolve conflicts with Great Britain over Civil War
claims, and in December of that year he appointed him attorney general of
the United States. Williams prosecuted cases against the Ku Klux Klan for
two years, increasing convictions of Klansmen fourfold.

Grant nominated him as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in early
December 1873, but he met fierce resistance from the legal establishment
because Williams lacked sufficient judicial experience and had mixed
government funds with his private accounts—actions that did not rise to
illegality but stained his reputation. Several key senators and Oregon
politicians, including J. W. Nesmith and Henry Corbett, forced Grant to ask
Williams to withdraw his candidacy in January 1874. The controversy damaged
Williams’ standing sufficiently that Grant pressed Williams to resign as
U.S. Attorney General in April 1875.

Williams returned to Oregon in 1881 as a partner in a private law practice.
In 1901, as a reformist-minded politician, he stood as president of the
Direct Democracy League, which worked to expand participation in Portland’s
electoral politics. In 1902, under a new city charter, Williams ran for
mayor on a reformist ticket and won, becoming reportedly the oldest mayor
in the nation. His tenure was during the Lewis and Clark Exposition, a time
of civic exuberance, but his administration was plagued by police
corruption and his failure to stem gambling and prostitution. A grand jury
indicted him in January 1905 for failing to order police to close gambling
halls, but the county district attorney dismissed the charge. Williams lost
his bid for re-election in 1905 to Harry Lane.
Williams was married twice, first to Kate Antwerp in Iowa in 1850 (she died
in 1863) and second to Kate George in Oregon in 1867. He had one child by
his first marriage and adopted two children during his second. Williams
died on April 4, 1910. [For an additional comment on Williams, see
https://hd. house divided. dickinson.edu/node/ 23912 (after removing the
spaces in the siteaddress.]. Volume Poor; Contents Very Good or better /
[No Dust Jacket]. Item #3786

Undiscounted Price: $3,000.00


Van Noppen, Leonard Charles; Van Noppen Charles Leonard
Vondel's Lucifer [SIGNED SET OF BOOKS AND SIGNED EPHEMERA]

Greensboro, NC: Continental Publishing, 1898, 1917, 1918 [1654]. First
Editions [Both Trade and Limited]. Bound and unbound as published. A Very
Good set of books and ephemeral items including: The First Trade Edition,
first printing dated 1917, in the Publisher's original orange cloth
lettered and decorated in black to both the front board and the spine, with
the front board illustration depicting the plate found within at unnumbered
page 389, itself depicting Raphel pleading with Lucifer and captioned "Thou
erring Morning-star, oh! spare thyself." SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by Charles L.
Van Noppen to Sydney Greenbie as follows: "For // Mr. Sydney Greenbie //
with the compliments // of // Chas. L. Van Noppen // Greensboro // N.C. //
May 21-23" (with the date underscored); FURTHER TOGETHER WITH: A copy of
Leonard Van Noppen's lengthy Poem "THE SPHINX" inscribed and signed by
Charles Leonard van Noppen at the Poem's end to Sydney Greenbie as follows:
"For // Mr. Sydney Greenbie // with the compliments of // Charles L. Van
Noppen" // Greensboro, N.C. // May 21-23" with the date underscored and
loosely laid in to the trade edition; FURTHER TOGETHER WITH a separate
booklet, dated 1917, measuring 7 3/8 inches by 4 6/8 inches containing the
primary text found at pp 439 - 458 of the trade edition's rear portion and
wearing its own wrappers with the front wrapper's recto mirroring the trade
edition's title page and the rear wrapper's verso bearing a promotion of
the book and perhaps serving as marketing material for the book; FURTHER
TOGETHER WITH the first and only Limited Edition (therein stated to be the
"Holland Art Society Edition), dated 1898, in the Publisher's original
boards and dust jacket, being copy 963 of 1,250 copies issued, INSCRIBED
AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR LEONARD CHARLES VAN NOPPEN on the front free
endpaper's recto as follows: "With The compliments of - Leonard Charles van
Noppen.", this beneath a prior inscription reading: "From J. Roy Collins //
to // Ora Belle Lee." This Limited Edition is FURTHER SIGNED BY ONE OF THE
BOOK'S TWO DIDICATEES, CHARLES LEONARD VAN NOPPEN (the author's brother and
the book's Publisher) as follows: With the compliments // of // Charles
Leonard van Noppen [partially underscored]; FURTHER TOGETHER WITH THIRTEEN
(13) separate plates together showing all of the full illustrations found
scattered within the text, all of which are shown in the list of
illustrations shown in the volume's illustrations list, such illustrations
being loosely laid in to the Limited Edition; FURTHER TOGETHER WITH an
undated photograph of Leonard Charles van Noppen in his uniform SIGNED BY
LEONARD VAN NOPPEN and loosely laid in to the Limited Edition. The Trade
Edition's front pastedown bears a pencil note stating "Author's Autograph"
which is in error as this copy was sent to Greenbie by the Publisher,
Charles L. van Noppen. Within the text of this Trade Edition shows a number
of underlinings and brief notations in pencil and/or blue ink, and the
binding shows some minor wear to the leading corners as well as some
scattered marking to the boards. The Limited Edition shows general wear to
the boards, some bending to the leading corners and shelf wear to the
bottom edge of boards, and each hinge is worn and broken. The front board
is illustrated with the figure shown on unnumbered page 263. On both the
front board and on page 263, the image is not captioned, but the list of
illustrations names it as "Lucifer" using the otherwise blank leaf prior to
the illustration. The dust jacket shows some wear to the leading corners,
the front panel's top and bottom flaps are truncated and attached to the
front panel's verso.

*A FEW SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES:*

The plates are properly loosely laid in to this Limited Edition and are
generally in Very Good condition. Some of them show some wear and tear and
one has a portion of it torn off and has been repaired by archival tape
applied to the plates verso. The trade edition and the copy of "THE SPHINX"
are inscribed by the Publisher, Charles Leonard van Noppen to Sydney
Greenbie. We believe this to be author Sydney Greenbie. Greenbie was a
Playwright and also authored books on Asia, and headed what was known as
the "Floating University" .

[NOTE: INFORMATION ABOUT THE AUTHOR and some about the Publisher FROM the
Dictionary of North Carolina Biography:
Leonard Charles Van Noppen, poet, literary expert, and translator, was born
at Wemeldinge, Zeeland, Holland. His parents, Cornelius Martin and Johanna
Maria Cappon Van Noppen, immigrated to the United States settling first in
Michigan in 1874 and then near Greensboro in 1877, where they became
members of the Society of Friends and their three boys, Charles Leonard,
John J., and Leonard Charles, attended the New Garden Boarding School. Both
parents of Leonard Charles Van Noppen died within a few months of each
other in 1887. His brother, Charles Leonard, sent him to the renamed
Friends School, Guilford College. He received an A.B. degree from Guilford
in 1890, a B.Litt. from The University of North Carolina in 1892, and an
M.A. from Haverford College in 1893. He returned to The University of North
Carolina in 1893 to study law. Although he was licensed, he never
practiced, having found literary endeavors more suited to his temperament.
For two years he attended lectures at the University of Utrecht and the
University of Leiden, where he immersed himself in the study of Dutch
literature. On his return to the United States he published his translation
of Joost van den Vondel's Lucifer in 1898. It was heralded as a major
literary event. The parallels between this first English translation of
Lucifer and Paradise Lost led some critics to pronounce Milton a
plagiarist. The translation was of such a fine quality that Henry Hadley
set it to music, and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra presented two
performances of it in Carnegie Hall. Van Noppen translated two other Vondel
works, Sampson and Adam in Banishment, which reinforced the claims of
Vondel's influence on Milton.

Because of his translations, Van Noppen became well known as an authority
on Dutch literature. He presented lectures at Princeton University, Johns
Hopkins University, the Lowell Institute of Boston, and a number of other
institutions, and from 1913 to 1917 he was the first Queen Wilhelmina
Lecturer at Columbia University. He was made an honorary member of the
Society of Netherlands Literature, and at various times before 1918 he
continued his studies at the Dutch universities.

Although preoccupied by his literary endeavors, Van Noppen had brief stints
as a journalist in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and New York City, and at
various times he was a private secretary to Justice John Woodward of
Jamestown, N.Y., Major William J. Gaynor of New York City, and Nathan L.
Miller, who later became governor of New York. In 1913 he read his own
poem, "The Vision—The Palace of Peace," at the dedication of the Carnegie
Peace Palace at The Hague and in 1916 presented his "Abraham Lincoln: An
Elegy" at the dedication of Lincoln Memorial University. On his first visit
to Holland Van Noppen became a Boer sympathizer. He returned to the United
States with Boer propaganda and translated the Independence Proclamation of
Martinus Theunis Steyn, president of the Orange Free State. During his
second trip to Europe he met African statesman Paul Kruger in Paris, and he
assisted the Boer Press Bureau at Dordecht.

After the United States became involved in World War I, he enlisted as a
lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Appointed assistant naval attaché at
The Hague, he was reputed to have carried on some secret work. He held the
same post for eight months at the U.S. embassy in London. In 1919 his
collection of war poems, The Challenge, was published first in Great
Britain and then in the United States. In London it was praised by Laurence
Binyon, Sydney Brooks, and Thomas Hardy. Van Noppen spent the remainder of
his life working on an epic poem, "Cosmorama: A Symphonic Poem of
Evolution," sometimes referred to under the title "An Epic of the Cell from
Protoplasm to Deity."

Van Noppen had the well-proportioned physique and physical capability of an
athlete. Although he favored a Byronic appearance in dress and demeanor,
his face also presented the qualities of strength and stolidity that are
usually associated with the Dutch character. He possessed a dynamic and
outgoing personality that generally made him a focus at social gatherings.
His poetry was popular during his lifetime, especially before and during
World War I in the midst of a neo-romantic revival. His poetry appeared in
the Christian Quarterly, Current Opinion, and Independent, and his work was
reviewed in the major magazines and newspapers including The Times of
London.
On 28 Sept. 1902 he married Adah Maude Stanton Becker, of Jamestown, N.Y.,
a former journalist who turned to editing his work after their marriage.
They had no children. Van Noppen died at age sixty-seven in Glen Cove, Long
Island. After her husband's death, Adah Van Noppen spent the remainder of
her life preparing Van Noppen's manuscript of his epic "Cosmorama" for
publication until her own death in Cambridge, N.Y., on 25 Feb. 1944.
Various Conditions. Item #3609

Undiscounted Price: $2,350.00

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