LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN FARMER; DESCRIBING CERTAIN PROVINCIAL SITUATIONS, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS, NOT GENERALLY KNOWN; AND CONVEYING SOME IDEA OF THE LATE AND PRESENT INTERIOR CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE BRITISH COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA by Crevecoeur, St. John, J. Hector (Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur) - 1782

London, England: (for) Thomas Davies and Lockyer Davis, 1782. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. LACKS the two maps as called for -- of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. 8vo . Brown, Former library copy with ONLY a small 1/5" x 2" pasted-in paper with handwritten catalogue and accession numbers. Beautifully rebound by 19th century British binder W.T. (William Turner) Morrell (signed upper left corner FFEP) half speckled calf, stone marbled boards, with contrasting maroon spine label. Five raised bands (six compartments, each with floriated design in gilt). a 1.5"-wide band of scuffing to front and rear boards, light rubbing to extremities. [16], 318, [2]. LACKS the two folding maps (Nantucket and Martha's Vinyard). Sabin 17946; Howes C-883. Lovely, tight, clean and affordable early copy of one of the most important works of American Literature. Though edited by a French writer, "considered one of the foundational works of American literature. "Description of American life of great influence in attracting European immigration in the post-revolutionary period. As literature, unexcelled by any American work of the eighteenth century." (Howes C-883).

Note: The page of advertising called for at the rear was removed in the rebinding process, a not infrequent occurrence.