FIRST EDITIONS OF AMERICAN AUTHORS The Library of of New York PART I. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: The Embargo, 1809, Poems, 1821, White-Footed Deer, etc. RALPH WALDO EMERSON: The Goodwin Sermon, Nature, Essays, Representative Men, FIRST ISSUE, Poems, 1847, and others, including several Presentation Copies. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: Times Portraiture, the Sister Years, Fanshawe, Peter Parley's History, Presentation copies, and letters. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: The Collegian, complete in parts, The Autocrat on Large Paper, with Inserted Letter, Urania, Astrea, Woodstock Family Record, and many Association Items. WASHINGTON IRVING: Salmagundi, Knickerbocker History, the Sketch Book, and a Presentation Copy of the Lives of Mahomet. THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH: Forty Items, twelve of which are Association Items. EUGENE FIELD: The Denver Tribune Primer; Culture's Garland with etching and letter, Humorous Epitaph in verse written for F. H. Bristol, the Sabine Farm on Japan paper with presentation verse, and ethers equally, interesting. W. D. HOWELLS: Fifteen Items, many of which are Association Items. And others, among which will be found many books from the Library of Charles Dudley Warner and presentation copies to him. SALES BEGIN AT 2.30 AND 8.15 O'CLOCK The Anderson Auction Company 12 EAST 46TH STREET NEW YORK THE NEW YORK ASTOR, LEVX AND Conditions of Sale 1. All bids to be per Lot as numbered in the Catalogue. 2. The highest bidder to be the buyer; in all cases of disputed bids the lot shall be resold, but the Auctioneer will use his judgment as to the good faith of all claims and his decision shall be final. 3. Buyers to give their names and addresses and to make such cash payments on account as may be required, in default of which the lots purchased to be immediately resold. 4. Goods bought to be removed at the close of each sale. 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We make no charge for executing orders for our customers. We use all bids competitively and buy at the lowest price permitted by other bids. Public exhibition three days before the sale. Priced copy of this Catalogue may be secured for $2.00. Introductory Note MR. R. FRANK MAIER has long been known to the collectors of First Editions of American Authors, and the dispersal of his Library affords another unusual opportunity to those who wish to secure some of the rarities of which he is the possessor. Some of these are the only known copies that are ever likely to come into the market, and others are of supreme interest from some association point of view. It is impossible to mention even briefly the more important items of Mr. Maier's collection: from the Poems of Aquila Rose printed by Benjamin Franklin in 1740, through the Colonial and Revolutionary periods, the beginning of the Nineteenth Century and the gradual rise of distinctive American Literature evidenced by the works of Lowell, Poe, Emerson, Whittier, Whitman and others, every period is represented. Books of undoubted rarity are Edgar Allan Poe's copy of Al Aaraaf presented by him to his Cousin Elizabeth, long known as one of the most interesting association books in existence; his Murders in the Rue Morgue, No. 15 of the Prose Romances, in the original wrappers, of which only two other copies are known; The Raven, in the original wrappers, with one of the many contemporary imitations of it which appeared during the height of its popularity, in Poe's own hand; Hawthorne's Fanshawe; the two Carrier's Addresses for the Salem Gazette for 1839 and 1853, The Sister Years and Time's Portraiture; and a copy of Our Old Home with a letter from Hawthorne inserted; Lowell's Commemoration Ode given to Miss Townsend, and the copy of Maria Lowell's Poems which he gave to J. E. Cabot; Whittier's copy of his leaflet poem on the Gove Anniversary; another privately printed poem in memory of Charles Summer MEM AORK with manuscript corrections; the rare earlier items of Moll Pitcher, and Mogg Megone in the original cloth; a Whitman manuscript and several presentation copies, and many others. Special attention should be called to the many association copies in Mr. Maier's Library; books from the libraries of Charles Dudley Warner, Longfellow, Whittier, Bryant and others, many with their author's presentation inscriptions. These are books which will always be valued-books which by ownership, inscription or marginal notes are associated in our minds with the names of writers or events in their lives. When this interest is linked with the first appearance of the book in the form approved by the author, it gives an added zest to the collection of First Editions. Most of the books are in cloth covers with leather labels, each author being marked by a distinctive color, although many of the more rare and valuable ones, notably Poe's Al Aaraaf will be found in handsome levant cases. Mr. Maier's bookplate, engraved by S. Hollyer, will be found in all his books. The sale of Part II [and concluding part] of Mr. Maier's Library will be held on the afternoons and evenings of November 22nd and 23rd, 1909. |