Binding:  Publisher's textured denim blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped vignette of Friendship, Love, and Truth personified within an architectural frame; back cover with Truth stamped in gilt within the same frame stamped in blind. All edges gilt.

•  Faxon 608.   Binding as above, front cover and spine lightened to an attractive dark robin's egg blue, gilt showing minor rubbing and oxidizing. Presentation leaf unused. Guard leaves foxed, pages and plates generally clean.  (26749)

Provenance: The front free endpaper bears a neatly inked ownership inscription dated 1860 (J.C.W. Kempe) and an additional inked “sold to” inscription dated 1871 (Aden Mc Bowman); Bowman also signed another blank, and the presentation leaf is made out to Kempe as “P.G.J.C.W. Kempe.”

Binding:  Publisher's deep blue/black diced sheep in imitation of morocco, covers with gilt-stamped vignette of Friendship, Love, and Truth personified within an architectural frame; spine gilt extra with column motif. All edges gilt.

•  BAL 6877; Faxon 609.   Binding as above, joints and extremities rubbed, spine gilt slightly dimmed. Inscriptions and presentation leaf as above. Poetry clippings, fabric swatch, and lock of hair laid in. Scattered staining, generally light, throughout; chromo very bright and nice.  (27041)

Binding:  Publisher's gray cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and green-stamped grass vignette, spine with gilt-stamped title. Binding signed “HP.”  Top edge gilt.

•  Binding as above, sunned and stained/spotted; front hinge (inside) cracked; frontispiece and title-page with small waterstain along inner margin. Pages mostly clean, with scattered light spotting. A copy with faults, but not faults to devastate its interest.  (26629)

On the bottom half is a signed receipt, in Spanish, dated Granada 8 May 1501, wherein Germán de Paris and Jacques acknowledge receiving the above mentioned payment.

•  The usual slash of cancellation (faintly visible above), indicating that this has been entered into the account books. Remnant of stiff paper at top of verso indicating it was once mounted in an album.

Jackson grew up in Massachusetts and was a close friend of Emily Dickinson. Her marriage in 1852 to a Captain Hunt ended tragically, for he and their two children were dead by 1865. For health reasons she moved to Colorado and in 1875 married a banker named William Jackson. She developed a keen interest in the plight of the American Indian and secured the extraordinary privilege of doing research in the Americana Department of the Astor Library in New York City during the morning hours before the doors officially opened.

She hoped this work would effect a reversal of government policy and herself purchased sufficient copies to send one to every member of both houses of Congress. She then turned to fiction as another avenue of attack: Her best-known novel, Ramona, was her attempt to produce for American Indians a work that would affect their lot as Uncle Tom's Cabin did the plight of black slaves.

A landmark book.

•  BAL 10444.   Publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gold. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, rubber-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Two small areas of minor discoloration on spine where paper shelving labels removed. Overall a very nice copy. (26260)

•  Original illustrated wrappers. Ink markings on front cover.

Binding: Contemporary calf over heavy boards, panelled and framed in blind with floral, geometric, and armorial blind-tooling within panels; a pencilled note on the front free endpaper says, “Richardson binding.” There once were clasps, now lost.

Provenance:  Title-page with small inked inscription, dated 1836, of Charles Nice Davies (1794–1842), a Welsh linguist, librarian at the Congregational Library, and divinity tutor at Brecon College.

•  STC (2nd ed.) 14600.5; ESTC S112182.   Bound as above, rebacked preserving original spine; leather cracked, edges and extremities rubbed, clasps now lost, hinges (inside) reinforced some time ago. Institutionally rubber-stamped on lower closed page edges, front pastedown, and first contents page. Title-page provided in early pen and ink facsimile, with inscription as above; last text page with commentary on the book's age, dated 1724 and 1913. Early inked underlining and marks of emphasis throughout; occasional marginalia, two pages dealing with women and the Church having extensive annotations. Pp. 675/76 lacking. One leaf with tear from upper margin extending into three lines of text, without loss; one leaf with large chip from lower margin, not affecting text. Scattered spots of staining only — a clean, strong volume.  (24511)

Heavily illustrated; hammer prices pencilled in.

•  Original printed boards, scuffed and stained yet volume sound and pleasant enough with interior clean. As noted, most hammer prices pencilled in.  (26156)

•  Schweiger, II, 513; this ed. not in Brunet. Contemporary half vellum over paste paper covers, spine with early inked title; sides and edges lightly scuffed, spine with vellum darkened and chipped. Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription dated 1775, lined through; front free endpaper with 19th-century (?) inked inscription; title-page with early inked inscription reading “Carolus Comes a Wartensleben.” Back free endpaper excised. Title-page torn along inner margin and with short tear from outer edge, just touching one letter. One leaf with small ink blots and several leaves with small nicks to outer edges; scattered light foxing. A few small early inked annotations.

Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate “De la bibliotheque de F. Freudenreich.”

•  ESTC T48434; Alston, III, 308; Goldsmiths’-Kress 11089; Sabin 32702. Contemporary speckled calf, neatly rebacked preserving original gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels, spines with gilt-stamped thistle decorations; edges and corners rubbed, sides showing small scrapes and discolorations. Residue on pastedowns from sometime removal of bookplates. Pages age-toned, with occasional small spots, and offsetting from binding to in margins of first and last few leaves. All edges speckled.

•  This ed. not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages age-toned, else clean. (16762)

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A later issue of the first edition, with a different title-page but printed from the same stereotype plates as the first edition, which was published in Cincinnati in 1871.

Provenance:  “Presented by / D. Johnstone to his / son Washington. / Brantford Setp. 12 '77.”

•  Howes K62; Newberry Library, Indian Captivities, 170; Graff 2296.   Publisher's blue cloth, salmon endpapers, title in gilt on spine with top and bottom of spine pulled; blind-stamped image of an Indian within borders on each cover, covers spotted. Interior clean and with remarkably little foxing; indeed, this appears only (and minimally) to the frontispiece.  (25972)

•  Speaking of himself, the author says "Tho’ he has chosen a title used by Moliere, he has neither borrowed a single circumstance from that great poet, nor, to the best of his recollection, from any other writer"—but certain situations may nevertheless seem somewhat familiar. The elderly soldier woos a young maid who thinks he is pressing the suit of his handsome young son, and the straying husband’s tête-à-tête at the masked ball turns out to be with his own disguised wife. Kelly tweaks these theatrical conventions by adding a saintly wife who smiles and forgives her husband’s capture in the most compromising of circumstances, then assures her best friend that she’d far rather he had twenty distracting dalliances than one serious—plus a spinster authoress, who throughout the play jots down what she considers the best conversational lines and most passionate utterances for use in her own plays!

With an etched frontispiece of Act 4, Scene 4.

•  ESTC T002464; NCBEL 1, 845. In recent wrappers. On Kelly, see: Dictionary of National Biography, XXX, 351–52. With sewing holes and five pages (including title) stamped by now-defunct library; some pages dog-eared. Frontispiece with a few small discolorations.

•  This ed. not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. Very faint foxing. (16784)

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•  Not in Brown, Culinary Americana.   Publisher's printed paper wrappers, slightly age-toned, back upper outer corner minutely chipped. A clean, fresh copy — a fine one.  (26065)