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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.* TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $4,250. NOW $1,250.* A
RARE SURVIVING copy of this VARIANT, LATER, BUT EARLY, IMPRESSION, OF THE
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 among 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 a 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: $1,250.00


Bryce, M. P. Right Hon. James; TOGETHER WITH Brooks, Sydney;
Engelenburg,Dr. F. V.; Blind, Karl; Carnegie, Andrew; Charmes, Francis;
Boulger, Demetrius; AND Nordau
Briton and Boer: Both Sides of the South African Question; With Map and
Illustrations // REPRINTED BY PERMISSION FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover.* TEMPORARILY
DISCOUNTED. WAS $325. NOW $100.* A Very Good + copy of the first American
Edition, First Printing of "Briton and Boer: Both Sides of the South
African Question", this being the first edition in book form (having been
taken from its first appearance in The American Review). This is a very
good copy in bright decorated cloth, in the a QUITE RARE ORIGINAL DUST
JACKET in fair or better condition with loss, but nevertheless PERHAPS THE
ONLY EXAMPLE OF THE JACKET EXISTENCE ON THE FIRST EDITION. [As noted above,
the RARE JACKET remains in only Fair condition: The front panel has
separated from the spine, a large section is missing from the front panel
and a separate on from the rear panel. The jacket also has general wear and
tear. The book (which remains in nice condition, shows only mild wear and
some soiling, as well as a tear to the its left edge -- and so should be
opened with care) provided the basis for the 1909 silent film "Briton and
Boer". Per Wikipedia: "The film is set at the outset of the Boer War,
beginning at the farm of Jobe De Larey, a Boer, and his family. His oldest
daughter Gretchen and falls in love with Englishman Allen Hornby,
superintendent of the mines, while attending an English school at Kimberly.
Allen asks Jobe for consent to marry Gretchen and he refuses.
Gretchen overhears Jobe and Piet Cronje planning for war and intentions to
seize the mines. She then sees Hans, a young Boer whom Jobe wanted her to
marry, receive a message to seize the mines and capture Allen. Gretchen
steals the message and Han's horse and rides to Kimberley to warn Allen.
Gretchen is pursued after the message and horse are found missing, where at
the bottom of the mine she refuses to leave and stays with Allen." Copies
in a condition as nice as is the copy are rather uncommon and those in the
dust jacket in any condition are, in our experience, RARE INDEED.
NOTE per Google: The war began on October 11 1899, following a Boer
ultimatum that the British should cease building up their forces in the
region. The Boers had refused to grant political rights to non-Boer
settlers, known as Uitlanders, most of whom were British, or to grant civil
rights to Africans. Very good + / Fair. Item #3834

Price: $100.00


Capote, Truman
A Christmas Memory

New York: Random House, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. *TEMPORARILY
DISCOUNTED. WAS $165. NOW $50.* A Very Good + copy of the first edition,
first printing of this Truman Capote short story in book form in a Very
Good + slipcase, and being the first separate appearance of the story in
book form. [The slipcase and book show a bump the the upper right corner
and are otherwise in excellent condition and appears to remain in unread
condition with a prior owner's stamp and signature to the front free
endpaper's recto.] The tales first appeared in book form was in "The
Selected Writings of Truman Capote" issued by Random House in 1963 and the
tale was reissued separately in 1966 to capitalize on the great popularity
of Capote's then recent true-crime novel "In Cold Blood" and this 1966
edition brought the tale to its enduring popularity. The book, based on
Capote's true-life experience, tells of a seven-year-old boy and his
cousin's holiday traditions and provided the basis for an Emmy
Award-winning television movie starring Geraldine Page in 1968 and for a
period time was frequently produced by high-school and regional theaters
throughout the United States -- an altogether rather nice copy of a notable
Capote tale. Very good +. Item #3854

Price: $50.00


Churchill, Winston Spencer; the Right Honourable Winston Spencer Churchill,
M.P.
Lord Randolph Churchill

London and New York: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1907. Second Edition [being
the First Edition in one volume]. *TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $8,250. NOW
$3,750.00.* A Very Good + or better copy of the Second Edition, being the
first edition in a single volume with the printed/typed dedication page
reading: "TO // CHARLES RICHARD JOHN SPENCER-CHURCHILL // THIS BOOK // IN
ALL FAITHFUL FRIENDSHIP // IS INSCRIBED". The Volume is bound in the
Publisher's burgundy cloth and wears its RARE, PUBLISHER-ADDED 1925 DUST
JACKET. A very good+ or better clean copy with the burgundy color slightly
faded on spine, in very good to Very Good + jacket which is darkened on the
spine, but the lettering remains and readable, and shows shallow chipping
to the spine ends and bottom of spine not affecting lettering, plus one
very small chip in spine below the title not affecting lettering and slight
closed tearing to the spine's leading portion a touch below the author's
name. The front and rear jacket panels are complete. The spine panel also
shows a few small light spots on jacket spine, but it remains a very good
to very good + jacket. The front free endpaper has been signed and dated
Sir John Heydon Romaine Stokes (1917-2003) and dated June 1937. Stokes was
a major in the Royal Fusiliers in the Second World War and a Member of
Parliament from 1970 to 1992, and he appears to have purchased the book
shortly before WWII. The jacket is Macmillan's 1920s style brown paper
which the Macmillan often added to earlier titles still in stock to update
their advertising. The rear panel of the jacket lists "Some Standard
Biographies" including Sir Sidney Lee's King Edward VII. The ad for King
Edward announces vol. 2 for Autumn 1925, thus dating the jacket. A clean,
square copy, very scarce in this jacket and virtually unobtainable in the
1907 jacket. NOTE: We have reliable information that, with respect to first
edition issued in two volumes, only five (5) jackets are known to survive
for Volume I and only three (3) survive for Volume II. We have never seen
or heard of a copy of this second edition (issued in only one volume) in
the dust jacket and and conclude that describing this jacket as being
"Rare" is fully justified. A RARE COPY INDEED. Very good +. Item #3846

Price: $3,750.00


Coleridge, Samuel T.
The Rime of The Ancient Mariner and Other Poems

Mt. Vernon, New York: The Peter Pauper Press, [1946]. Hardcover in
Slipcase. *TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $30. NOW $20.* A Very Good + or
better copy of the first edition of this 1678 work (originally titled "The
Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) published by The Peter Pauper Press set in
Baskerville types on Gilpin paper and housed in its original slipcase which
shows some soiling and splitting. Of this famed Poet, Wikipedia states:
"Samuel Taylor Coleridge (/ ko l r d / KOH-l -rij;[1] 21 October 1772 – 25
July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and
theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the
Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He also shared
volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles
Lloyd." Notably, the work was the author's longest major Poem, and was
first published
in 1798 in the first edition of "Lyrical Ballads" by Wordsworth and
Coleridge. Coleridge wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and
Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His
critical work, especially on William Shakespeare, was highly influential,
and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking
cultures. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including
"suspension of disbelief". He had a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson
and American transcendentalism."
An altogether nice copy of this famed work. Very good +. Item #3859

Price: $20.00


Wharton, Thomas
Hannibal of New York; Some Account of the Financial Loves of Hannibal St.
Joseph and Paul Cradge

New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1886. Hardcover. *TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS
$50. NOW $25.* A Very Good to Very Good + and somewhat askew copy of the
first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original mustard yellow
cloth with the front board illustrated with a spider in a web and with oak
tree branch and leaves also in black, and the spine panel being lettered in
both black and in gilt and illustrated in gilt, being number 193 in Holt's
Leisure Hour Series. The front pastedown and the facing side of the front
free endpaper list titles in the Leisure Hour Series and those in the rear
list "LATE LEISURE HOUR NOVELS". Several leaves of the page block protrude
beyond the others but remain firmly attached and the volume's binding shows
some typical soiling and general wear. Copies of this work are presently
rather uncommon to the market. Very Good to Very Good +. Item #3858

Price: $25.00


Davison, T. Raffles
Port Sunlight: A Record of Its Artistic & Pictorial Aspect

B. T. Batsford. First Edition. *TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $545. NOW
$95.00. *A Fine copy of this SCARCE work, in a Near Fine dust jacket with
some tearing/chipping to the spine ends, panel corners, and to the rear
panel's bottom edge. The front free endpaper's recto shows a slight mark to
the top edge as well as to its leading egge Port Sunlight is a small town
in England's northwest, being a model village built as a community for
workers employed at the adjacent Lever soapworks at Merseyside. The homes
were built after designs by notable architects and were influenced by
William Morris and the Arts & Crafts movement and the village took its name
from the popular Lever cleaner named 'Sunlight', and a Lever Brothers
"compliments of" card is loosely laid in. In our experience, copies in the
dust jacket are exceedingly difficult to find.
Port Sunlight is arguably the finest surviving example of early urban
planning in the UK, and has remained largely intact since its foundation by
William Hesketh Lever in 1888. The village is home to more than 900 Grade
II listed buildings set in 130 acres of parkland and gardens.

More than 30 different architects created the buildings, monuments and
memorials we still see today, and nearly every period of British
architecture is represented through revival design. The village is a good
example of the aesthetic movement, which emphasised visual and sensual
qualities of art and design, and the Arts and Crafts Movement, with its
emphasis on traditional craftsmanship.

Lever built Port Sunlight to house the workers at his soap factory, Lever
Brothers, which eventually became the global giant, Unilever. The village
represents one man’s vision to provide industrial workers with decent,
sanitary housing in a considered architectural and picturesque form.

However, rather than a philanthropic venture, Lever claimed it was all part
of a business model he termed ‘prosperity-sharing’. Rather than sharing the
profits of the company directly with his employees, Lever provided them
with decent and affordable houses, amenities and welfare provisions that
made their lives secure and comfortable and enabled them to flourish as
people. It was also intended to inspire loyalty and commitment. Item #3665

Price: $95.00


Howells, William Dean [Howells, W. D.]
The Mother and the Father [In the Rare Dust Jacket]

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.
*TEMPORARILY REDUCED. WAS $365. NOW $60.00.* A Fine copy of the first
edition, first printing of this long Poem by William Dean Howells bound in
the Publisher's original green cloth with the front board lettered in gilt
and decorated in blind and the spine lettered in gilt, with sharp corners
showing only a touch of rubbing and with the closed page block's top edge
in gilt. The hard-to-find price-clipped yellow dust jacket shows some tiny
chips and tears to the edges and some general soiling. The Volume contains
a tissue-guarded frontispiece and three additional illustrations. Of this
work, the American Review of Reviews stated: "William Dean Howells... has
given us an exquisite poem which, while neither rhyme nor strictly blank
verse, is of the real Victorian flavor. It is entitled "The Mother and the
Father", and it gives in simple, direct, delicately intuitive sentences a
description of the three momentous hours in the story of a wife and
husband: the birth of their child, the hour of her marriage, and the hour
of her death. The range of joy and sorrow in these dramatic passages is set
forth in Mr. Howells' own masterly way." The highly influential Author,
Critic, and Playwright William Dean Howells (1837-1920), called "The Dean
of American Letters" was both a prolific author and, from 1871 to 1881, the
editor of the Atlantic Monthly magazine. [Howells dust jackets of the
1900-1910 period are quite scarce (much scarcer than Twain jackets in that
period). These yellow Harper jackets are notoriously brittle and, when
present, are usually found incomplete and with a good amount of wear and
tear. However, this dust jacket is quite nearly complete and is one of the
best of these yellow Howell dust jackets that we ever have seen. [PLEASE
NOTE: The two images of the book lying flat make it appear to be brighter
than it is.] A Fine copy in a Very Good example of the RARE dust jacket.
Fine / very good. Item #3601

Price: $60.00


Lady Brassey
A Voyage in the Sunbeam; Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1894. Later Edition [First Illustrated
Edition]. Hardcover. *TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $165. NOW $45.* A Very
Good or better copy of this later edition elegantly bound in red leather
with the spine panel lettered and decorated in gilt and each board,
including their edges, as well as the turn-ins, decorated in gilt. The page
block's closed edges, each pastedown, and the facing side of each adjacent
free endpaper are elegantly marbled, while the boards and spine show some
general wear. Very good. Item #3857

Price: $45.00


Paine, Albert Bigelow [(1861-1937)]; [Clemens, Samuel / Twain, Mark
(1835-1910)]
Mark Twain: A Biography [First Published in 1912, then 1924, then 1928, and
thereafter]

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First Thus. Hardcover. *TEMPORARILY
DISCOUNTED. WAS $4,650. NOW $1,250.* An EXCEPTIONALLY RARE SET OF ALBERT
BIGELOW PAINE'S FAMED BIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN [SAMUEL CLEMENS] PUBLISHED IN
1928 IN THE RARE DUST JACKETS AND RARE SLIPCASE, being the second edition
of such Biography in three volumes [AS WAS THE TRUE FIRST EDITION OF 1912,
WHICH PRECEDED THE TWO-VOLUME SECOND EDITION OF 1924]. Each Volume of this
set bears the Publisher's edition code K-C, showing that each volume was
published in November, 1928 and that it is a proper set. This set was
issued in a small printing and seldom turns up with all three volumes
present and this is the only set with the jackets and slipcase that has
been seen at . The volumes are essentially Fine and show only minor surface
marking, the upper leading corner of Volume II is nudged and that of Volume
III is bumped. The EXCEEDINGLY RARE DUST JACKETS have some modest spine
chipping and spotting as well as some old tape repairs inside and outside
of jackets, though the jacket panels are generally nice. THE EXCEEDINGLY
RARE SLIPCASE is tattered and shows some seam splits, and the case's top
panel is detached but present. [Thus, while the case would benefit from an
expert restoration, it nevertheless is complete and an ABSOLUTE RARITY as
no copies of the 1912 Biography are recorded with the jackets or box, and
only one set of a 1923 reprint is known in the jackets and box, making this
set just the second example of the Biography with surviving jackets and
box, and is, as best we can determine, virtually the only obtainable
jackets or box for this classic Paine Twain Biography.

Additional Information:
This is the data an expert bookman know to me has noted over 30 years of
collecting Twain and talking with all the big Twain collectors and
consulting auction records. There are no copies of the 1912 biography with
jackets or box, although the contemporary ads noted a box. There was a
three-volume. reprint in 1921 or 1923 with one set that survived in plain
brown jackets with spine cutouts and housed in a white box and this 1928
edition clearly was designed to match the royal blue ribbed cloth and the
robin's-egg blue jackets of the 1924 autobiography in large 8vo. form. He
further notes that this 1928 edition was apparently very small and that it
is likely that only probably a few hundred copies of it were published such
that odd volumes turn up now and then, but this set is the only complete
set this expert has ever seen, with or without jackets and box.
Furthermore, only one set of a 1923 reprint is known in its jackets and
box, and this set is just the second known example of this Biography with
its surviving jackets and box. Fine / Very Good or Better. Item #3833

Price: $1,250.00


Hale, Edward Everett, [BRAYMAN, GENERAL]
The Man Without a County, TOGETHER WITH THREE RELEVANT SIGNED MANUSCRIPT
LETTERS from HALE TO BRAYMAN together with ONE LETTER FROM GENERAL BRAYMAN
DICTATED AND SIGNED BY HIM FURTHER TOGETHER WITH TWO TYPED LETTERS SIGNED
BY BRAYMAN'S GRANDSON. A NUMBER OF THE LETTERS MENTION “The Man Without A
Country” MAKING THIS AN EXCELLENT AND EXCEEDINGLY RARE COLLECTION OF THE
FAMOUS STORY AND ASSOCIATED LETTERS

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First Edition, First Printing. Original
Wrappers and Letters. *TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $2,850. NOW $1,550.* A
Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in the
Publisher's original pink wrappers in NEAR FINE CONDITION (showing wear to
the spine -- including some splitting to the lower spine and a tear to the
front cover near the spine as well as some general wear to the wrappers)
signed by the presumed prior owner W. P. Burgess to the upper face of the
front wrap and there dated by him "1865", the year of publication; TOGETHER
WITH THREE MANUSCRIPT LETTERS, EACH SIGNED BY HALE, further together with
ONE FIVE (5) PAGE MANUSCRIPT LETTER FROM GENERAL BRAYMAN TO HALE dated
November 15, 1893 written IN THE HAND OF GENERAL BRAYMAN'S DAUGHTER [Mason
Gowdy's mother], having been dictated by him to her, and SIGNED BY GENERAL
BRAYMAN AND MENTIONING HIS PLEASURE TO HEAR THAT HALE HAD MET THE GENERAL
BRAYMAN'S DAUGHTER WHO MENTIONED BRAYMAN TO HALE UPON THEIR MEETING,
STATING HIS DELIGHT AT HAVING RECEIVED HALE'S LETTER OF OCTOBER 24th
accompanied by Hale's "admirable little book "THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY"
the receipt of which reminded him of the first reading of the story at
Natchez in the Autumn of 1864 and further discussing the book and Hale's
initial public reading of it FURTHER TOGETHER WITH a Transcript of one of
the Hale letters ; FURTHER TOGETHER WITH two (2) typed letters signed by
MASON B. GOWDY (General Brayman's Grandson), ONE DATED FEBRUARY 18, 1962
accepting an offer from a person named Dale Putnam to purchase three (3)
manuscript letters signed by Hale and another dated January 24, 1963
enclosing the THREE (3) SIGNED HALE MANUSCRIPT LETTERS SENT TO PUTNAM FROM
GOWDY [all of which begin with "My Dear Sir"]: one of five (5) pages dated
March 20, 1876 written on three (3) leaves of South Congregational Church
of Boston stationary with the Church's name lined through (presumably by
Hale) on the first page, a second letter dated March 29, 1876 in Hale's
hand written over three sides of two sheets lacking the upper right corner
of the first leaf, and a third letter of four (4) pages written on two
leaves of Hale's personal stationary with slight loss and wear to the
corners and one vertical fold and two horizontal folds to each page, all
three (3) of which letters are addressed to "My Dear Sir". In the March 20,
1876 Hale compliments the addressee for having written to him an
interesting asking for more information than he (Hale) is able to do at
present, stating in the then-recent "...late editions of the story, there
is a Long Note which really tells, all there is to tell" and that he has
included or will include the substance of the aforementioned information
and that "Stephen" is referred to as Philip's brother and mentions his
[Hale's story "If Yes and Perhaps". He concludes by giving the addressee an
address to which the addressee can send Hale of letter of introduction. In
the Letter dated March 29, 1876, Hale thanks the addressee for his "kind
introductions, and the letter that accompanies them" and mentions how he
will use them with "gratitude and interest" and states that he hopes to be
in Natchez "in about a week." He further states that he has received from
its Publisher the magazine to which he (Hale) referred in his (Hale's)
letter mentioned above that he asked the article's Publisher to send to the
addressee and asking him to not come eastward without letting him (Hale)
know that he (Hale) can easily be found at his address (which Hale names to
him). Finally, in his "My Dear Sir" (General Brayman we believe) letter
dated October 24, 1893 and written on Hale's personal stationary, Hale
states (regarding the World's Fair in Chicago ( ): "On a recent visit at
Chicago I met your daughter Mrs. Gowdy, - and she has been good enough at
my request to give me your presently address." Hale further notes that she
is the grand daughter or grand niece of the owner of the estate in Natchez,
where(?) our hero Philip Jordan (married?) - and from which he went out on
his last expedition. When I was in New Orleans they (?) me Philip Nolan's
portrait, - and invited me to their present home in ___(?) County." He
further states that while there he met an "old negro who must have been
between 80 and 90 - who remembered seeing Phil Nolan before he went off on
the expedition in Texas in which he lost his life. // Of course, I do not
mean, "The Man Without a County" - but the adventurer [?] then in Texas for
whom I named him. // If you can make time to write me what you told me of
your Natchez experience connected with my story you will give me great
pleasure. // I take the liberty of sending to you the edition which is in
print for a School book. // Believe me, Dear General Brayman, // Yours
truly // Edward E Hale". [NOTE: As this letter begins "My Dear Sir:",
itself states that it is to General Brayman and was owned and sold by his
Grandson, we reasonably conclude that all the Hale letters are from Hale to
General Brayman.


but the letter dated Oct. 24, 1893 and referring to the then recent CHICAGO
FAIR and in consequence of he met others including all of expeditioner
Philip Nolan from whom he took the name for his main character in "The Man
Without a Country". Consequently, we have three (3) MANUSCRIPT LETTERS FROM
HALE AND SIGNED BY HIM, ONE (1) MANUSCRIPT LETTER SIGNED BY GENERAL
BRAYMAN, AND TWO TYPED LETTERS SIGNED FROM BRAYMAN'S GRANDSON, MASON B.
GOWDY.

NOTE ON GENERAL BRAYMAN: Brayman, once the Governor of Idaho - having been
appointed to that office by President Grant, was a friend and neighbor of
Abraham Lincoln in Springfield. Brayman was a lawyer served on many cases
with Lincoln with whom he also practiced Law in Springfield and to whom he
was a neighbor and a friend until Lincoln's death. He served under General
Grant under whom he commanded forces during AMERICA'S Civil War, and -- at
his death -- was the oldest Editor and the oldest Mason in the United
States.

Roger Williams (c. 1603 – March 1683) was an English-born New England
Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded Providence
Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations and later the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom, separation of church and
state, and fair dealings with the Native Americans.

Williams founded the first place in modern history where citizenship and
religion were separate, providing religious liberty and separation of
church and state. This was combined with the principle of majoritarian
democracy.

General Brayman married the daughter of Roger Williams.

Roger Williams (c. 1603 – March 1683) was an English-born New England
Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded Providence
Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations and later the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom, separation of church and
state, and fair dealings with the Native Americans.

Williams was expelled by the Puritan leaders from the Massachusetts Bay
Colony, and he established Providence Plantations in 1636 as a refuge
offering what he termed "liberty of conscience". In 1638, he founded the
First Baptist Church in America in Providence.] Williams studied the
language of the New England Native Americans and published the first
book-length study of it in English.

was expelled by the Puritan leaders from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and
he established Providence Plantations in 1636 as a refuge offering what he
termed "liberty of conscience". In 1638, he founded the First Baptist
Church in America in Providence. Williams studied the language of the New
England Native Americans and published the first book-length study of it in
English. Very Good + / [No Dust Jacket -- as issued]. Item #3823

Price: $1,550.00
Kipling, Rudyard
REWARDS AND FAIRIES [IN THE RARE DUST JACKET]

London: Published by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1910. Craig, Frank. First
Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A Near Fine copy of the first edition,
first printing, in the Publisher's RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET.  *TEMPORARILY
DISCOUNTED.  WAS $6,875.  NOW TEMPORARILY $3,150.*     The volume is bound
in the Publisher's original red cloth with gilt lettering to the front
board and the spine. The front board also hosts a raised medallion showing
the profile of an elephant's head with the elephant holding a lotus flower
in its trunk and a small swastika (which at that time was a Hindu symbol
for Peace. The leading corners of each board, as well as the elephant
medallion and the spine ends show slight wear and each board's leading
corner shows minor bumping. The closed page block's top edge is in gilt
which shows some darkening, and the leaves are clean and lack the foxing
usually seen on other copies of this work. Notably,in addition of other
Kipling works, the text contains Kipling's the first appearance in book
form of Kipling's famed poem "If". [A 2005 poll taken by the BBC in the UK
voted "IF" to be Britain's favourite Poem and the Poem received twice as
many votes as the number 2 choice, Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shallot".
Inspired by the actions of Dr. Leander Starr Jameson, a British Officer
whose forces were defeated by the Boers in 1895, but who was portrayed as a
victorious hero by the British press, the poem is a powerful masterclass in
maintaining the British stiff upper lip.[See Richards A242.] As noted
above, the book wears its dust jacket, a noted jacket that is considerably
scarcer than jackets on most Kipling books. This copy once belonged to a
Yale graduate who was a well-known and popular figure and died young around
age 30 (he was an assistant NY attorney and died in South Carolina), and
carries his bookplate to the front pastedown. The dust jacket shows age
toning and general wear to the edges as well as an area of loss to the rear
panel's upper portion. Altogether this is a nice copy of a highly notable
Kipling book in the RARE DUST JACKET. Near fine / very good +. Item #3820

Price: $3,150.00




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