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Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original publisher's beige paper wrappers. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2." Pages 273-400, complete. Eight additional pages of advertisements for a variety of products and services in back. Printed on front cover: "The Atlantic Monthly, Devoted to Literature, Art, and Politics. March, 1862." Pages are clean and intact except for light age toning, some browning and bumping along edges of text block, and a few former owner's pencil notations. Covers are clean and intact overall but have moderate chipping to edges and corners, splitting along spine, and small closed tears along edges. A Very Good copy. The Atlantic Monthly was founded in 1857 in Boston as a magazine specializing in literature, art, and politics. Among its founders were Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Francis H. Underwood, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Its first editor was James Russell Lowell. The magazine is still published to this day as the Atlantic. This is the March 1862 (Vol. IX, No. III) issue of the Atlantic Monthly. The following are the titles of the articles or features in this issue: "Fruits of Free Labor in the Smaller Islands of the British West Indies," "A Story of To-Day" [Part VI of a fictional series], "Mountain Pictures" [poem], "The Use of the Rifle," "Agnes of Sorrento" [Chapter XXIII of a fictional series], "Methods of Study in Natural History," "The Southern Cross" [poem], "Concerning the Sorrows of Childhood," "The Rehabilitation of Spain," "A Raft That No Man Made" [short story], "Fremont's Hundred Days in Missouri," "Birdofredom Sawin, Esq., to Mr. Hosea Biglow," "Taxation," "Voyage of the Good Ship Union" [poem], and "Recent American Publications."
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. AGNES OF SORRENTO. TICKNOR AND FIELDS, BOSTON, 1862.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: TEAR AT HEAD. COVER SOILED SOMEWHAT. BOOKPLATE TORN FROM INSIDE FRONT COVER.
Seller: Nemona Collectables, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, U.S.A.
STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Agnes of Sorrento. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1862.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. 412, 16(ads)pp. Attractive engraved bookplate on the front pastedown, spine insignificantly lightened and a very tiny, faint stain on the front board, still a lovely and easily fine copy. A relatively uncommon book, Stowe's idealized "Italian" novel, which exhibited her new found tolerance for Catholicism. Fine copies are exceptionally scarce.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.