A joint catalogue with James Cummins Bookseller.
New York: George Dearborn, 1835. 8vo (23.8 x 15 cm). vi, 84 pages. Half-title. Engraved portrait frontispiece by T. Kelly after Rogers, engraved title with a vignette of Cro' Nest above West Point by James Smillie after Robert Weir (dampstained), with tissue guard. Original purple blind-ruled cloth, gilt-decorated at center.....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. 8vo (18 x 11 cm). [viii], 344 pages. 4-page advertisements inserted between front endpapers. Original brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Christmas 1853 gift ink inscription from B. Frost to his niece Mary B. S. Fuller on front flyleaf. FIRST EDITION, fifth printing.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. Two volumes, 12mo (18.2 x 11.5 cm). Half-titles, 16-page advertisements dated March 1860 at end of vol. 1. Original brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spines. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, second printing. BAL 7621; Clark A23.3.b.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. 8vo (18 x 11 cm). xi, 398 pages. Half-title, 1-page advertisements at end. Original brown blind-embossed cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, first printing, with ads at end. BAL 7626; Clark A24.1.a.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. 8vo (17.5 x 11 cm). 229 pages. Half-title, 1-page advertisements at end. Original green decorated cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, first issue with "t" for "It" on page 42, line 18. BAL 7638; Clark A29.2.a.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. 8vo (17.9 x 10.8 cm). 273 pages, 4-page advertisements dated January 1852 inserted before front endpapers. Original brown ribbed blind embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Though the US and UK editions were intended for simultaneous publication, the American publication probably.....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. 12mo (16.5 x 9.8 cm). viii, 335 pages. 4-page advertisements at end. Frontispiece and three plates. Original red blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION, only printing, BAL's first impression, which Clark calls "probable second state" of the preface. Collects Grandfather's Chair, Famous Old.....
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. 8vo (21.3 x 15 cm). 79 pages. Frontispiece, illustrations in text. Printed on rectos only. Original decorated beveled cloth, decorated endpapers, edges gilt. FIRST TRADE EDITION, first issued privately without a title-page nor identification of the author. Holmes read this poem on 6 June.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. 8vo (19 x 13 cm). [x], 189 pages. Half-title. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Barney Corey (presentation inscription from the author). FIRST EDITION of Parson's first book, second issue, with leaves [1].6/7 cancels (the first issue is known only as a set of.....
Philadelphia: Published for the Author by Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1839. 12mo (17 x 10.5 cm). 156 pages. 12 lithographed plates after P. S. Duval. Original red roan-backed printed boards dated 1840. FIRST EDITION, in boards unrecorded by BAL or Heartman & Canny. The upper board on this copy notes.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. 8vo (17.8 x 11.2 cm). 52 pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Whittier by H. W. Smith after a photograph by Hawes (foxed), with tissue guard. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt-titled on front cover and spine. Provenance: Edward S. Marsh (engraved bookplate by W. F. Hopson). FIRST.....
