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.
Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1902. First edition, one of 525 numbered copies. BAL 13244; Warde, Bruce Rogers, 31. ¶ A handsome production, designed by Bruce Rogers.
Philadelphia: Joseph Healy; Boston: Weeks, Jordan; New York: John S. Taylor, 1838. First edition. BAL 21710, binding A; American Imprints 53638. ¶ An early and substantial collection of over 50 poems by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1891). The first part contains 24 of his memorable abolitionist poems, collected for the first...
Boston: Walker, Wise, 1861. First edition. Sabin 16221. A plea for emancipation from radical Unitarian minister and friend of Emerson and the Transcendentalists, Moncure Daniel Conway (1832-1907). Conway, a prolific and interesting author, was born and raised in Virginia; he attended Harvard Divinity School; served as a minister in Washington...
Hartford: Printed by Peter E. Gleason, 1816. Second American edition; the first was published in Walpole, New Hampshire in 1797. BAL 20738; Wright I, 2629; American Bibliography 39136. ¶ An interesting novel by playwright, poet and jurist Royall Tyler (1757-1826), the story of American physician Updike Underhill who signs on...