A RARE AUDUBON PROOF

Audubon, John James. Belted Kingfisher (Plate LXXVII). [ R. Havell], ca. 1830.

A rare color proof for the first edition of The Birds of America.
Price: $27,500
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A FAMILY PRESENTATION COPY OF EMERSON'S POEMS

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Poems. Boston: James Munroe, 1847.

Inscribed by Emerson's brother William. First American appearance in a book of Emerson's classic "Concord Hymn."
Price: $1800
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AN AMERICAN LITERARY TREASURE TROVE WITH 26 AUTOGRAPHS

Griswold, Rufus Wilmot. The Prose Writers of America. . . new edition revised and enlarged. Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, (c.1870).

Griswold's famous American prose anthology in its original deluxe alligator-skin binding, with autographs of many of the contributors.
Price: $3800
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HOLMES'S MOST BELOVED WORK IN GREEN CLOTH

Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1858.

Holmes's Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table in the scarce bright green cloth.
Price: $1800
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KEROUAC'S OWN ANNOTATED COPY OF DOSTOYEVSKY

(Kerouac, Jack.) Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Possessed. New York: Modern Library, 1936.

A fascinating glimpse at Kerouac's response to the work of one of his greatest literary influences.
Price: $12,500
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A RARE EARLY LONGFELLOW PRESENTATION COPY

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Hyperion: A Romance. New York: Samuel Colman, 1839.

First edition of Hyperion inscribed to Henry R. Cleveland.
Price: $3200
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LONGFELLOW PRESENTATION COPY

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Kéramos and Other Poems. Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1878.

A charming Longfellow presentation copy.
Price: $2500
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AN ASTOR FAMILY ASSOCIATION COPY OF LOWELL'S MOST INFLUENTIAL WORK

Lowell, James Russell. The Biglow Papers [title begins: Meliboeus-Hipponax.] Edited. . . by Homer Wilbur. Cambridge: George Nichols, 1848.

Scarce first issue of the first edition of The Biglow Papers, in the rare red cloth binding.
Price: $1500
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ARTHUR GORDON PYM RARITY

Poe, Edgar Allan. Arthur Gordon Pym: Or, Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Famine. . .. London: John Cunningham, 1841.

Very scarce English edition reprinted in Poe's lifetime.
Price: $1250
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EULALIE

Poe, Edgar Allan. "Eulalie" in American Review. New York: Wiley and Putnam, vol. II, no. 1, July 1845.

First printing.
Price: $350
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