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London: Printed by David, Wilks, and Taylor for J. Mawman, 1801, 1801. First edition. Garside, Raven and Schöwerling 1801: 57; JISC (Copac) records four copies in the British Isles; OCLC records three copies in North America. The binding is professionally executed by Canterbury Bookbinders; the text is in fine condition.. 12mo, modern blue-green buckram, gilt lettering, untrimmed. A scarce and clever epistolary novel by Annabella Plumptre (1761-1838), the younger sister of novelist, translator and traveler Anne Plumptre (1760-1818). The Plumptre sisters were raised in an eurdite family and began their parallel careers as writers early in life. The Western Mail tells the story of George____________ who robbed the mail to pay his debts and relieve his family of their destitute circumstances. He was eventually caught, found guilty and paid the ultimate price at Hounslow Heath. Some years later his family again found themselves in difficult circumstances and looked to the bag of letters their father… Read More

New York: McClure, Phillips, 1901, 1901. First edition. Cloth a little soiled and worn; very good copy.. 8vo, original decorated gray cloth, black lettering. ¶ White's second book, and like his first and many to follow, a novel of rugged Western life. ¶ Inscribed twice by White: on the front paste-down is a long presentation inscription: "My dear Colonel McClure: I want you to have this book, not because I think it amounts to very much, but because it is really a sincere attempt to record some of the life we talked about at dinner the evening of March 12, 1903. / Stewart White." And on the front free endpaper is the short inscription "With the Compliments of the author / Stewart Edward White.".

Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883, 1883. First edition. BAL 9610; Wright III, 2835. Cloth a little worn at the edges; very good copy.. 8vo, original terra-cotta cloth, gilt lettering. One of the major realistic domestic novels from William Dean Howells.

London: Printed for F. Cogan, 1749 [&] 1750, 1749. First edition. ESTC T79268; Teerink 81 (Supplement); Case, English Poetical Miscellanies, 467; NCBEL II, 472, 476, 483, etc.. Binding a rubbed, but sound; some foxing and smudges in the text; very good copy.. 3 vols in 2, 8vo, contemporary brown calf, gilt rules, decorations and lettering. Three volumes, complete, of an important English poetical miscellany which the editor and publisher Francis Cogan assembled for the cause of preserving what he feared were works that would be lost to the "low and declining state" of poetry. Included are the Earls of Dorset, Halifax and Roscommon, Samuel Garth, Thomas Tickell, Ambrose Phillips, Thomas Sprat, and what are stated to be uncollected pieces by John Sucking, Matthew Prior, Thomas Ottway, and Jonathan Swift (a few of which Teerink suggests may be doubtful).

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834, 1834. First edition. Wright I, 2276; Sabin 76442; American Imprints 26627. Cloth faded and a little worn; some foxing; very good copy.. 2 vols, 4to, original tan linen and printed paper labels. Frontis portrait. The selected writings of prominent member of the New York literati during the Knickerbocker era, Robert C. Sands (1799-1832), who, among other things, founded the Atlantic Magazine and edited the New York Review with William Cullen Bryant. Included here are his main works of fiction, an interesting essay on American literature, selection of his verse and a brief biography of Sands by another member of the Knickerbocker scene, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck (1786-1870). This copy is additionally an interesting association copy; from the library of American author and journalist James Lawson (1799-1880), friend and collaborator with many New York writers of the period. Lawson's signature on the front free endpaper. Laid in is a clipping of an obituary of Sands by… Read More