And, indeed, this account of a young man's experiences on the Neversink on a voyage around “The Horn” recounts the cruelty and hardship that Melville and all seaman experienced on naval vessels, but it also tells of camaraderie and good times.

Evidence of readership: Foremargins with finger oil staining. Notes in margins: p. 275, “this book is full of folly and exagerations” (sic); p. 345, “perfectly just”; p. 389, “what an improbable story — a regular U.S. Sailor wearing a rag[g]ed white jacket, a regular non-descript”; p. 403, “mis print”; lower area below final line of text: “damn bad,” “not good,” “good for the devil.”

Provenance:  From the library of the German Society of Pennsylvania.

•  BAL 13662; Wright, II, 1871.   Slightly later quarter sheep with marbled paper sides; binding shows wear, refurbished. Text with staining and spotting as evidence of heavy reading and use; last several gatherings with reinforcement at gutter. Various margins with short tears. Two leaves misbound; lacks two leaves of advertisements. Ex–social club library: call number on endpaper and at top of title-page, pressure- and rubber-stamp on title-page, three pages with light rubber-stamp, no other library markings. Now in a half-calf clamshell case with gilt spine. A copy with a distinct, interesting, and perhaps further-explorable history!  (26827)

•  Publisher’s cloth, spine with printed paper label; spine and back cover scuffed, spine label darkened and chipped. Front pastedown with institutional stamp. Many signatures unopened. Pages slightly age-toned, else clean; paper embrittled, with a few short edge tears.

•  Brown, Culinary Americana, 2819g.   Publisher's printed paper wrappers; upper outer corner slightly bumped, spine extremities showing minor rubbing. Pages age-toned, four with areas of offsetting from laid-in newspaper recipe clippings; clean. An attractive copy, bearing the stamp of the distributing Metropolitan agent (Schenectady, N.Y.) on the title-page.  (26052)

This is a states' edition, promulgated by José Gómez de la Cortina, Governor of the Federal District.

•  Streeter, Texas, 880.   Very good condition. Lacking the integral blank leaf.  (24618)

•  Publisher's purple cloth, spine faded to brown; bottom of spine pulled with small loss of cloth; top of spine with brown paper tape repair. Ex-library: call number on spine; bookplates; five-digit number stamped in two blank areas; blind pressure-stamp on title-page; charge pocket removed from rear pastedown. Foxing of the sort to be expected, no other soiling.  (21276)

Scarce: OCLC records only one holding of another issue.

•  Half leather over marbled paper boards, stamped with gilt rolls and lettering, rubbed and spine slightly cocked; leather with some loss at spine extremities, corners, and over back joint. Bookplate of a Catholic seminary library on front pastedown, rubber-stamp on free endpapers, ink numeral on first leaf and rear free endpaper, properly deaccessioned. Tiny chip to upper outer corners throughout; light, even faint, waterstaining to lower corners and outer margins. Pleasanter in hand and under eye than it sounds, this isan interesting snapshot of early-'30s Catholic life in, and as viewed from, the American South.  (17149)

Although a scholar in Greek and Latin at Washington University, Waterhouse according to the DAB had "interests [that] carried him far from the classical subjects he enthusiastically expounded in the classroom." He is noted as a "firm believer in the future of the Middle West [and] an ardent advocate of improving the Mississippi River."

•  On Waterhouse, see: Dictionary of American Biography, XIX, 533. Original flexible fabrikoid, splitting along spine.

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•  Very good condition. Written in a small but clear hand.  (24650)

This would, of course, have been a hometown publication for Monroe.

•  Sabin 50017; Shoemaker 34179. Untrimmed and unbound, spine reinforced with tape. Title-page with early inked ownership inscription, and very faint numerical stamp. Light foxing, some dog-earing to lower corners.

•  American Imprints (1833) 20211; NSTC 2M35483.   Publisher's brown cloth, spine with printed paper label; cloth faded and discolored, spine label rubbed. Front free endpaper with faint pencilled ownership inscription dated 1856. Light to moderate foxing throughout. (20642)

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Please note that this is not the similarly named 1934 hardcover cookbook.

•  Brown, Culinary Americana, 3958.   Publisher's printed paper wrappers; upper edge bumped, spine and edges sunned. Pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean. Bon voyage!  (26051)

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Prize copy: Front free endpaper with inked presentation inscription from a school principal, noting the recipient's perfect attendance in 1905–06.

•  Publisher's orange cloth, front cover and spine with black-stamped title, front cover with black-stamped pictorial vignette; binding showing minor wear but overall very clean and attractive. Front free endpaper with inscription as above. Pages clean.  (26697)

•  Wright, III, 3879. Publisher’s green cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; cloth showing minor wear overall. Frontispiece with outer edge waterstained; four leaves with some offsetting from laid-in scrap of cloth. Pages with a few scattered small spots, mostly clean.

•  Publisher's red cloth, spine with paper label, in excellent condition save for slight discolorations to spine label. With laid-in prospectus. Pages mildly cockled; scattered, pinpoint spots of something(?) that got into the slurry during the paper-making. A handsome, clean copy.

Provenance: Inscription to Ellie Bond Robinson (from her cousin Elizabeth); elegant small booklabel, “Gardner.”

•  Publisher’s textured cloth, framed in blind, front cover with gilt-stamped title; covers and corners showing very slight traces of wear. Front free endpaper with small booklabel and with inked gift inscription dated 1887. One flap (“Circumspection”) lacking, with all other flaps present and working. An attractive copy of an uncommon item.