[American Literature] | A group of seven titles and one autograph note

The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman

[American Literature]

A group of seven titles and one autograph note 

Lot includes: Alcott, Louisa May. Little Men. Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. 8vo. 4 pp. ads, signature "1" on first page of text, frontispiece; ownership stamps to flyleaves, lightly toned. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt; light shelf wear. First American edition, first issue. BAL 167 [With] Autograph note from Louisa May Alcott [np, nd], "Miss Alcott's so busy she cannot write notes to little girls. If she did there would be no stories for them to read"; folds. Housed in a custom slipcase. — Bierce, Ambrose. Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. San Francisco: E. L. G. Steele, 1891. 8vo. Original brown cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt; lightly rubbed. Housed in a custom slipcase. First edition. Grolier 100-94. — Dos Passos, John. U.S.A. Trilogy: The 42nd Parallel, 1919, The Big Money. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946. 3 volumes, 8vos. Illustrated by Reginald Marsh. Publisher’s cream buckram over beveled boards, morocco title labels to spine and upper cover, gilt, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, housed in a cloth slipcase with printed paper label to spine. Limited edition, number 202 of 365 sets, signed by the author and illustrator on limitation page. — [Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth]. Outre-Mer; A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea. No. 1 [and No. II]. No. 1: Boston: Hilliard, Gray & Co. 1833. 8vo. Spotting throughout. Original printed yellow marbled wrappers; worn, silked in places, losses to extremities. No. 2: Boston: Lilly, Wait, and Company, 1834. 8vo. Spotting throughout. Cloth-backed drab paper boards; lightly stained and worm. Together 2 volumes, first editions, the Blair copy (booklabels) housed in a custom slipcase. BAL 12053 & 12056.  — Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems. Cambridge: John Owen, 1846. in 8s. Partially unopened; lightly toned. White paper wrappers, titled and decorated in gold; lightly soiled and worn. Housed in a custom slipcase. First edition, the Blair copy (Blairhame booklabel to chemise; Christie's 14 December 2016, lot 247). — Salzmannn, Christian Gotthilf; Mary Wollstonecraft [Translator]. Elements of Morality, for the Use of Children. Philadelphia: J. Hoff & H. Kammerer, 1796. First American Edition, 2 volumes, 12mo. 2 pp. ads, 20 hand-colored plates; scattered soiling throughout; Early tree calf; rebacked and somewhat worn. Housed in a custom clamshell case. Ex Samuel W. Pennypacker (bookplate to pastedowns). — Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. 8vo. Original blue-mesh cloth, dust jacket; inner flaps with corners clipped, a bit soiled, some wear at corners, small split at foot of front joint, head of spine a bit chipped. First edition, first state with page viii so numbered and with the third line from the bottom of page 19 reading "sence"; first issue jacket without the reviews on the rear panel. 

Sold as a group lot, not subject to return.