Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1830. First edition. BAL 14874; Wright I, 1943; American Imprints 2696. An unusual novel based on Neal’s experiences in England, where he lived and worked as a writer between 1824 and 1827. Always a vocal partisan for American language and ways, the story relies heavily on.....
(New York:) Published by Elam Bliss, 1829. First edition. American Imprints 39223; Sabin 38075. A landmark work on the history of American literature by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (1783-1838), author, local Massachusetts politician and lawyer. In 15 "lectures" Knapp writes about the origins of an American literature and the influences on.....
Alexandria: Printed by Cottom and Stewart, Booksellers, 1802. First American edition. American Bibliography 1860; cf. Garside & Schöwerling 1801:15 for the English edition. The first American edition of the only novel by Thomas Bellamy, the picaresque tale of a young boy, Alfred, who is abandoned by his mother and lives.....
New York: Published by Abraham Asten and Matthias Lopez, 1818. First collected edition. BAL 23331; Stoddard & Whitesell 1215; American Bibliography 46864. ¶ The scarce collected verse of Samuel Woodworth (1784-1842), with a 10-page biographical sketch of the author by the publishers, Abraham Asten and Matthias Lopez, who state that.....
New York: William H. Clayton, 1824. First edition. BAL 10112; Wright I, 1429; Langfeld & Kleinfield, pages 26-27. A collection of eight of Washington Irving's earliest sketches and theatre reviews, all originally written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. They first appeared in 1802 in the Morning Chronicle, a newspaper edited.....