![Beacon Hill. A Local Poem, Historic and Descriptive. Book I [all published]. AMERICAN POETRY,...](/pictures/thumb/28071.jpg?v=1560207655)
Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring for the Author, 1797. First edition. BAL 14558; Evans 32512; Stoddard & Whitesell 581. ¶ The first and only published part of an ambitious verse history of the American Revolution, dedicated to "the Citizen-Soldiers who fought, conquered, and retired, under the banners of Washington...
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London: John Camden Hotten, [1873]. First edition. BAL 1096; Starrett 1. Bierce's first book, a collection of his San Francisco journalism published by agreement - an agreement he would soon regret - with the infamous London publisher John Camden Hotten.
Paris: Bibliothéque Nouvelle de la Jeunesse, [1884]. First edition of the first French translation of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. OCLC records three locations (BL, Illinois and Yale). ¶ A handsome French translation of Tom Sawyer, with fine original illustrations. Hughes also translated Huckleberry Finn, which was published in a......
Boston: James Munroe, 1844. First edition. Myerson A17.1.a; BAL 5199. Emerson's famous condemnation of slavery in the United States and commemoration of the West Indian emancipation. From the library of Walter Wallace, with his bookplate on the front paste-down.