American Literature
The Rise of Silas Lapham.
Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1885. First edition. BAL 9619, state 1; Wright III, 2829. ¶ Howells’ most famous novel, and one of the cornerstone works of American realistic fiction, the story of the newly rich businessman, Silas Lapham, his frustrations in dealing with Boston brahmins and his rise and eventual.....
A Woman's Reason: A Novel.
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883. First edition. BAL 9610; Wright III, 2835. One of the major realistic domestic novels from William Dean Howells.
A Collection of the Political Writings of . . . Selected and Arranged, with a Preface, by Theodore Sedgwick, Jr.
New York: Taylor & Dodd, 1840. First edition. Sabin 39863; American Imprints 40-3934. Writings from the combative radical Democrat and journalist William Leggett (1801-1839), who edited the Evening Post with William Cullen Bryant and championed and wrote extensively on abolition and free speech. This collection marked the first American attempt.....