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Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: In as-is condition. Binding copy. Ex-library. Both boards detached with severe rubbed, dryness. Missing spine. Spine cracked and broken. Interior is toned with foxing. Free of marginalia. Delicate, but able to be handled. Please see photos. Features three installments of An Excursion To Canada by Henry David Thoreau. Herman Melvilles Mardi and a Voyage Thither on pages 157-164 in February issue. Old Ironsides by James Fenimore Cooper on pages 473-487 in May issue and pages 593-607 of the June issue.
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (January 1953) First issue of 'Putnam's Monthly'. 120 pages; light green paper wrapper (6 3/8 x 10 inch) unopened, with some fraying along the edges and spine, fold on the back cover. Edited by Charles F. Briggs from 1853 to 1857. Henry D. Thoreau's "An Excursion to Canada" on pages 54-59 is published for the first time. Very good clean copy of this rare issue of an important publication series.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. This first volume of Putnam's Monthly Magazine includes an article titled "Our Young Authors - Melville," (pages 155-164) and an article "Are We a Good Looking People?" that mentions Melville and other contemporary authors as "handsome and superior-looking men" (page 311). The interesting article on Melville by the magazine's publishers both heaps praise on his early works such as Mardi and Typee, but harshly criticizes his later works Moby Dick and Pierre, citing their "inexcusable insanity." The volume also include "Old Ironsides" by James Fenimore Cooper and a three chapters from Thoreau's "An Excursion to Canada." Bound in later three quarter dark blue leather with green, red, and yellow marbled paper boards. Marbled endpapers. Interior pages are generally clean and bright with occasional browning or light foxing. Very good condition. 6.5 x 9.5 pages. 703 pages. LIT/050418.
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Moderate rubbing to spine and joints. 3/8" loss to leather at edges of corners of boards. 1/4" missing to leather across tail of spine. 1/4" hole to leather in rear joint. Boards rubbed. Quite heavy patchy foxing throughout. Illustartions generally clean. Later pencil marginalia to some pages, including the article "Woman and the Woman's Movement". ; The first six issues of Volume One, monthly issues for January to June, 1853. Bound in one volume. iv, 703, [1] pages + 1 double-page wood engraving "New York - Bird's-Eye View from Union Square". There are another smaller 24 in-text wood-cut illustrations of New York buildings within the two parts of the article "New York Daguerreotyped". A few other in-text illustrations. 1 small map on page 185, "Harbor of Havana". 19th century half calf and green cloth boards. Binder's ticket on front endpaper, Culver & Page, 130 Lake St, Chicago. Tail of spine has "W. P. EGAN" in gilt, (?) this is not the name of the publisher. Page dimensions: 233 x 150mm (9 1/8" x 5 7/8"). Contents of this volume include the first three installments of Henry David Thoreau's "Excursion to Canada". The author's name is not printed, but this is by Henry David Thoreau. Putnam's Monthly Magazine only published 3 of 5 installments. "Unfortunately, Curtis chose to delete some lines about the Catholic Church which he thought too inflammatory, and, unable to resolve the ensuing dispute, Thoreau had Putnman return his Canada manuscript after only three of five installments were printed, along with his unpublished CapeCod manuscript." - Fink, "Thoreau and his Audience," pp. 83-84. Also includes "Our Young Authors - Melville" on pages 155-169. "Woman and the Woman's Movement" on pages 279-288, an article disparaging of the woman's movement - "The very virtue of woman, her practical sense, which leaves her indifferent to past and future alike, and keeps her the busy blessing of the present hour, disqualifies her for all didactic dignity. Learning and wisdom do not become her." - page 279. Includes the poem "The Mill Pond", author's name not printed, but by John Townsend Trowbridge. "During the past six months we have received from voluntary contributors, four hundred and eighty-nine articles, the greater part from writers wholly unknwon before. They came from every state and territory in the Union, with the single exception of Deseret, whose 'Saints,' probably, do not regard our Monthly as a fitting receptacle for their literary efforts." - from the final page, "Close of the First Volume". Steven Fink writes about 'Putnam's Monthly Magazine' in his essay "Thoreau and his Audience": "The first of five proposed installments of his [Thoreau's] "Excursion to Canada" appeared in the very first issue of Putnam's in January 1853. Putnam'swas an instantly popular monthly of the very highest literary quality, notable on several counts. As an adjunct to Putnam's book publishing firm, the magazine was following the lead of Harper Brothers, which had established Harper's Monthly Magazine three years earlier. Whereas Harper's had built its business largely on cheap reprints of British fiction,Putnam's explicitly announced itself as a forum for American writers." - Fink, page 83. [References: Borst D42 (for Thoreau - "An Excursion to Canada"); Fink, Steven "Thoreau in his Journal", in Myerson, Joel (ed.) "The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau" Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.]
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Putnam s Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art Vol. 1, January June, 1853 Contains first print appearance of part of Henry David Thoreau s later 1866 volume A Yankee in Canada . New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1853. Edited and with contributions by Charles Frederick Briggs, George William Curtis and Parke Godwin. George Putnam sought to focus on American writers and American literature in the magazine he established in 1853. Bound together, this first volume of Putnam's Monthly Magazine includes: Fredrick Bremer, Midnight Sun James Fenimore Cooper: Old Ironsides Elizabeth Ellet, Mary Spears Horace Greeley: Modern Spiritualism (pg. 59) Charles H. Hanson, The Bourbon Question (in which Hanson argues that the Rev. Eleazr Williams, a missionary to the Native Americans, was actually the dauphin, Charles Louis, son of Louis XVI and Maria Antoinett). Henry William Herbert: Ornithomanes . Rebecca Brodnax Hicks, Virginia in a novel form Henry Wadsworth Longfellow First Appearance of two poems: The Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Galgano(a verse translation of a story from Il Pecorone by Giovanni Fiorentino). Henry James, Sr., Women s Movement James Russell Lowell: The Fountain of Youth Herman Melville: Our Young Authors There is also an article in this edition reviewing Melville s writings, praising Typee and Mardi, but harshly criticizing Pierre, and Moby Dick, citing their inexcusable insanity . William North: The Living Corpse Henry David Thoreau: Three parts of An Excursion to Canada , later published with additional material in 1866 as "A Yankee in Canada . (pg. 54, pg. 179, and pg. 321) Condition: Hardcover. Brown cloth covered embossed boards show varying shelf wear and scuffs. ~1" crack in cover and spine joint; bumping and exposure of corner boards. Some rubbing to gold gilt writing on spine. Gilt remains clear and readable. Inside, the binding is good. Varying degrees of foxing throughout. The tops of the last four pages are torn, not affecting text. Please see photos. More photos available on request.
Seller: Barrow Bookstore, Concord, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$204.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: iv, 703, [1] p., 1 leaf of a plate showing the residence of J.P. Kennedy, Ellicott's Mills, Md., 1 double-page wood-engraved view of New York City: in-text illustrations, map; 24 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-stamped title in second compartment: "Putnam's Magazine vol. 1." All page edges red. Marbled endpapers. Edited and with contributions by Charles Frederick Briggs, George William Curtis and Parke Godwin. George Putnam sought to focus on American writers and American literature in the magazine he established in 1853. This volume includes first appearance of two poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Galgano, the latter a verse translation of a story from Il Pecorone by Giovanni Fiorentino; The Fountain of Youth by James Russell Lowell; Old Ironsides by James Fenimore Cooper; Ornithomanes by Henry William Herbert; The Living Corpse, a Poe-inspired story by the suicidal William North; and three parts of Henry David Thoreau's Excursion to Canada (published, with additonal material, in 1866 as A Yankee in Canada). The focus on American writers includes Briggs' reflections on the popularity of Uncle Tom's Cabin in Uncle Tomitudes; Fitz-James O'Brien in Our Young Authors on Herman Melville; and The Student Life of Daniel Webster by Edwin D. Sanborn. This volume also includes both Henry James, Sr.'s declaration of the inferiority of women in his Woman and the "Woman's Movement," and contributions by women writers--Virginia in a Novel Form by Mrs. Hicks (Rebecca Brodnax Hicks (1823-1870)), who published The Kaleidoscope, a weekly newspaper in Petersburg, Va.; Mary Spears by Elizabeth F. Ellet (1818-1877), author of The Women of the American Revolution; and Midnight Sun by Fredrika Bremer. It features articles about Cuba, Japan, and Honolulu; the occult (Modern "Spiritualism" by Horace Greeley); Ericsson's caloric ship; New York City in Clarence Cook's series New-York Daguerreotyped and in The Benevolent Institutions of New-York by Charles Loring Brace. It also includes the popular Have We a Bourbon Among Us? and The Bourbon Question by Charles H. Hanson, who argued that the Rev. Eleazar Williams, a missionary to the Indians, was actually the dauphin, Charles Louis, son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. In Very Good Condition: rubbed, most heavily at corners, but solid; occasional light foxing; a few sections of pages have browned, but most have not; clean and tight.
Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.