Hurry-Graphs; or, Sketches of Scenery, Celebrities and Society, Taken From Life by WILLIS, N. Parker - 1851

Detroit, Michigan: Kerr, Doughty & Lapham, 1853. Later printing. Hardcover. Fair/No jacket. 364 pages. A collection of editorials and artlcles written by the author for a newspaper in New York. Brown cloth binding with blindstamped decorations on front and back covers and gilt titles on spine. Heavy spotting of cover with some fading and edge wear, gilt worn, corners and spine ends bumped, old obituary for William A. Engeman pasted to front free end paper over handwriting, paste smudges on end paper, interior pages bright with a good bit of foxing and a few stains, binding shaken.

Auburn and Rochester: Alden and Beardsley, 1856. Early printing. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo, 364 pages, purplish embossed cloth, stained, splitting at top of spine These sketches "are one man's imprint from parts of the world's doings at one place and time. New York, and what interested it in the middle of the nineteenth century, will be a chapter for History to which this volume will contribute. - Preface". Includes his famed essay on the Death of Edgar Allan Poe.

NY: Funk and Wagnalls, 1959. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. x, 364pp. Scattered foxing throughout, else very good in publisher's brown cloth decorated in blind that is lightly worn at the extremities with some minor loss at the spine ends and the mddle of the rear joint.

GB: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. Clean tight text has been fitted with new endpapers and professionally rebound in marbled boards with a blue spine. . 1st Edition. Hardback. VG/No DW.

(C.W. Benedict, Stereotyper and Printer for) Burnett & Bostwick, New Orleans: 1854., 1854 364p. Printed bookseller's label for H.C. Holmes, 1149 Markat St., San Francisco, Cal. Stamped ownership of Peter O'Connor and Visitation Convent, St. Paul, MN. Early inked ownership of J. E. Campbell. 12mo. Original full publisher's cloth binding, embossed and decorated in blind, with a center cypher and "New Orleans". Spine decorated with gold flowers. Hardbound. Very good. A wonderful account of travels in New England and New York. Included are (sometimes extensive) observations on: life; manners; etiquette; scenery; Daniel Webster; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Thomas Hart Benton; Edgar Allan Poe; Grace Geenwood; Cape Cod; the Delaware River; Lake Mahopac; railroads; steamships; hotels; etc. Much on girls, women and society. Nathaniel Parker Willis(1806-1867), was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth… Read More