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[LITERATURE - AMERICAN]. A group of 19 FIRST EDITIONS by American authors primarily from the nineteenth and early twentieth century, including:
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[LITERATURE - AMERICAN]. A group of 19 FIRST EDITIONS by American authors primarily from the nineteenth and early twentieth century, including:


TRUMBULL, John. The Poetical Works. Hartford: Lincoln & Stone for Samuel G. Goodrich, 1820. 2 volumes. -- IRVING, Washington. Miscellanies. London: John Murray, 1835. -- LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. -- STOWE, Harriet Beecher. The Minister's Wooing. New York: Derby and Jackson, 1859. -- THOREAU, Henry D. Letters to Various Persons. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. -- WHITTIER, John Greenleaf. Snowbound. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First issue with p. 52 numbered at foot. -- THOREAU, Henry D. A Yankee in Canada. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. -- EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. May-Day and Other Pieces. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. -- SEWELL, A. Black Beauty. Boston: George T. Angell, 1890. 2 copies in different colored wrappers. -- CRANE, Stephen. War is Kind. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1899. -- And 7 others.

Together, 19 works in 20 volumes, all 8vo, ALL FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally very good.