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Price: US$59.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Full leather. 510 pp. With a few illustrated plates. Bound volume of this literary magazine and political journal, embracing Jacksonian democracy through political essays written by its editor, John O'Sullivan (and others). While delving into politics, the journal also published American literature, historical essays, etc. This volume contains three stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, all of which presumably appeared in Twice Told Tales; work by John Greenleaf Whittier; pieces on the life of Aaron Burr; an account of a voyage on the Nile River; an account of American whale ships captured by Chile and freed by Poinsett; an account of the separation of Louisiana territory from the Spanish, etc. GOOD condition. Moderate to heavy scuffing and uneven fading to the covers, heavy to the spine. A few small areas of staining and discoloration. Owner's signature present. Doodle on the second blank endpaper. Tick marks in the contents pages, with a few sentences underlined in several sections of the book. Scattered foxing throughout.
Seller: Mare Booksellers ABAA, IOBA, Dover, NH, U.S.A.
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Condition: Fair
Description: 96pp + several pages advertising, engraved portrait of James Polk. Or paper wraps with portrait. Contemporary subscription label on front cover, covers toned with several small chips, rear cover detached but present, front cover damp affected not affecting interior pages, title page and engraving foxed. Early issue of this important early American literary periodical in its original wraps. Contains first appearance of Howe's Masquerade by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Other contents include articles on banking; Discovery of America by the Northmen; early extract from Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella; several poems and short works of fiction. Also an engraved portrait of James K Polk, then Speaker of the House of Representatives. Size: 8vo
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
Price: US$82.56 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 112pp + several pages advertising, engraved portraits. Or paper wraps with portrait. Covers toned, front cover partially detached, slight foxing throughout, damp stains in varying degree to approx 1/2 pages. Early issue of this important early American literary periodical in its original wraps. Contents include 13 pages on Texas/Mexico. Folding engraved portrait of Felix Grundy, then recently appointed as Attorney General. Size: 8vo
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: Volume One, Numbers 1-4. Half calf leather over marbled boards, gilt title and ruling, (8 1/2" x 5 1/1"). 514 pages, w/ Index to volume one; illustrated with four engraved portrait plates. Includes three works by Nathaniel Hawthorne and "European Views of American Democracy" by De Tocqueville. Expected typical overall general wear and rubbing, scattered foxing heaviest on prelims. Size: Thick Octavo
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$99.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 112pp + several pages advertising. Or paper wraps with portrait. Covers toned with small chip at base of spine and bottom corner, slight foxing throughout, lacks engraving of Levi Woodbury (as usual-this portrait was inserted in the following issue). Early issue of this important early American literary periodical in its original wraps. Contents include first appearance of Edward Randolph's Portrait by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Lacks portrait of Levi Woodbury, then Secretary of the Treasury, but with a rather lengthy article about him. Size: 8vo
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound volume, leather spine and corners, marble boards. Solidly bound, average yellowing to pages, rubbing to edges. Former owner signature on rear endpaper (same signature partially rubbed out on front endpaper as well).
Seller: Graver & Pen Rare Books, Midland, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (22cm). Contemporary half sprinkled sheep with blue marbled paper boards, titled on black spine labels; 398pp; frontispiece and two plates. Sound but rubbed and foxed: just Very Good. Contains the first appearances of three pieces by Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Chippings with a Chisel," "Biographical Sketch of Jonathan Cilley," and "Tales of the Province-House No. III. Lady Eleanore's Mantle." CLARK D38, D39, and D40.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Magazine. Vol. 1, No. 3, February 1838. Octavo. With a publisher's printed slip tipped in at the front, and twelve-page "United States Monthly Advertiser" printed on yellow paper bound in at the back. In the original printed wrapper, with a contemporary small owner's name in ink on front cover. Lacking the back cover, paper spine back is chipped away at spine ends, else very good with light foxing. Contains the first appearance of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Snow-Flakes" (collected in the second volume of Twice-Told Tales in 1842), and an early first magazine appearance of Emerson's oration "Nature - A Prose Poem" delivered before the Phi-Beta-Kappa Society at Cambridge, August 31, 1837. Scarce in the original wrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Numbers Published in October, 1837, and January, February and March, 1838. 514, 72pp. 4 plates. 8vo, modern green cloth, plates moderately foxed, scattered light foxing to text, otherwise very good. Washington: Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1838. This volume contains the first four issues which complete the first volume of this periodical. John L. O'Sullivan was a lawyer from New York City who moved to Washington, D. C. and published this periodical with Samuel Langtree. "The aim of this publication, as O'Sullivan stated it, was `to strike the hitherto silent string of the democratic genius of the age and the country'.The editors succeeded in this aim, for the Democratic Review became the mouthpiece for the exuberant nationalism of the period." Dictionary of American Biography XIV, p. 89. Contains several articles and stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 514 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Containing these pieces by Hawthorne: The Toll Gatherer's Day Foot Prints on the Sea Shore Snow-Flakes. Bound by STIKEMAN & CO. in three quarter blue morocco, richly gilt spines, raised bands, t.e.g., with the original publishers' blue cloth covers bound in. From the library of Agnes Neustadt, with her bookplate. About fine
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.