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New York: C. S. Francis; Boston: J. H. Francis, 1839, 1839. First edition. BAL 11139; Wright I, 1583; Sabin 37991. Some light foxing and wear; small ink stain on the spine; an unusually fine copy.. 12mo, original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt lettering. Two pages of publisher's terminal advertisements. The first book by Caroline Kirkland, an interesting realistic novel based on her first-hand experience of pioneer life with her husband and six children in a remote Michigan village. She writes in the preface that her work was in part inspired by and patterned on Mary Russell Mitford's famous sketches of life in an English town, Our Village, published in installments from 1824 to 1832.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1877, 1877. First edition. Sadleir 1527; NCBEL III, 1066; cf. Wolff 4415, who had the third edition. Edges a little worn; hinges on volume one starting, but sound; very good copy.. 2 vols, 8vo, original decorated gray cloth, gilt decorations and lettering. 36-page publisher's catalogue dated March 1877 in volume one. The first novel by William Hurrell Mallock, a famous Peacockian roman à clef, written while Mallock was an undergraduate at Oxford, which brings together under one roof several poets, philosophers, critics, and dilettantes to discuss the problems of religion, society and the arts. Many of the characters are thinly based on well-known persons, including Huxley, Ruskin, Carlyle, Arnold, Pater, Ouida, and Violet Fane (to whom the novel is dedicated). "The most successful conversation novel of the period . . . Mallock's epigrammatic satire on liberalism, radicalism and cant plays freely over the ensuing talk and talkers. It ends inconclusively with the… Read More

[London: Privately printed by John Murray, 1824.], 1824. First edition. NCBEL III, 297; Chew, Byron in England, page 211. Fine copy.. 8vo, modern red morocco, gilt lettering. A rare privately printed pamphlet by Byron's publisher John Murray, compiled and written in response to Thomas Medwin's Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron at Pisa (1824), which was notorious for its inaccuracies. Chew describes Medwin's work as a "trumpery affair, giving a fairly amiable impression of Byron, but full of errors and frivolities . . . the whole testimony of Medwin, unless corroborated by reliable persons elsewhere, is worthless." Among those Medwin succeeded in offending was John Murray, who responded by quoting directly from Byron's letters in his possession in the "deadly parallel" format, and in the process revealed interesting publication details about Byron's books and life. The self-wrappers title-page, which did not bear an imprint, lacks the upper and lower blank margins, which have been skillfully… Read More