American Lands and Letters. The Mayflower to Rip-Van-Winkle
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and chart. Original pictorial brown cloth. Rubbed, spine frayed at ends, else a sound copy. Item #409259
First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author to his daughter on the front free endpaper: "For Dear Harrie! whop has put her Xmas monies–(a waste of shekals!)–into the purchase of this book, & so, has given me the tenderest compliment of the season! New York 1898 Donald. G. Mitchell." Opposite the dedication leaf, Mitchell has tipped in a manuscript note: "To My Daughters–who have never done me a more unkind thing than to urge me to the writing & printing of this little book, & who have loved and encouraged me–by insisting that it is better than it really is: God bless them!? D.G.M." The printed dedication reads: "This volume is affectionately inscribed to those daughters of Edgewood who have helped the author in so many searching and housewifely ways, and who have encouraged him by kindly insisting–over and over–that this little book was a great deal better than it really is. God bless them! D. G. M. February 22, 1897." BAL 13980 (a second volume of essays under the same general title was published in 1899).
Price: $450.00