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The Juvenile Scrap-Book for 1849; a Christmas and New Year's Present for Young People. Edited by Grandfather Merryman. With Twenty-Eight Engravings on Steel.
1849
 

ALCOTT, A. BRONSON. Concord Days.
1872
 

ALCOTT, A. BRONSON. Tablets.
1868
 

ALCOTT, A. BRONSON. Table-Talk.
1877
 

ALCOTT, LOUISA M. Silver Pitchers: and Independence, a Centennial Love Story.
1876
 

ALCOTT, LOUISA M. Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys.
1871
 

ALCOTT, LOUISA M. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag. My Boys, Etc.
1872
 

ALCOTT, LOUISA M. Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys.
1871
 

ALLSTON, WASHINGTON. Outlines and Sketches.
1850
 

ANGELL, D.M. and CAR The Ladies' and Gentlemen's Mirror of Fortune; or, the Analysis of Life, Illustrated by Gems from the Best Writers...for the Entertainment of Literary and Social Circles.
1858
 

ANON. Self-Consciousness of Noted Persons. Compiled in Leisure Hours, by J.S.M.
1882
 

ARGENSON, RENE LOUIS Essays, Civil, Moral, Literary & Political. Written After the Manner of M. de Montagne: Interspersed with Characters, Portraits & Anecdotes. First American Edition.
1797
 

ARNOLD, MATTHEW. Essays in Criticism.
1865
 

BANCROFT, GEORGE. The Grecian Wreath of Victory.
1824
 

BEECHER, HENRY WARD. Eyes and Ears.
1862
 

BIRD, ROBERT M. Peter Pilgrim: or, a Rambler's Recollections. By the Author of "Nick of the Woods."
1839
 

BLAIR, HUGH. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres.
1784
 

BORROW, GEORGE. Lavengro; The Scholar--The Gipsy--The Priest.
1851
 

BOSWELL, JAMES. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
1807
 

BOURNE, GEORGE. The Spirit of the Public Journals; or, Beauties of the American Newspapers, for 1805.
1806
 

BRISTED, JOHN. An Oration on the Utility of Literary Establishments, Delivered (at the Request of the Proprietors) at the Opening of the Literary Rooms in New-York...
1814
 

CAROVE, FRIEDRICK W. Story Without an End; Translated from the German...by Sarah Austin; with a Preface and Key to the Emblems, by A. Bronson Alcott.
1836
 

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha.
1828
 

CHAPMAN, JOHN JAY. Dante.
1927
 

CHAPMAN, JOHN JAY. A Glance Toward Shakespeare.
1922
 

CHAPMAN, JOHN JAY. The Collected Works...27 works in 12 volumes. 1892-1933. Introductions by Melvin H. Bernstein. Memoir by Chanler Chapman. Bibliography by David M. Stocking, augmented by the Publisher. ISBN 087730-003-8.
1970
 

CHILD, L. MARIA. A New Flower for Children. For Children from Eight to Twelve Years Old.
1856
 

CLEMENS S.L. Mark Twain's Adhesive Scrap Book. [pasted slip].
1877
 

CLEMENS, S.L. Mark Twain's Scrap Book [pasted slip].
1877
 

CLEMENS, S.L. Punch, Brothers, Punch! and Other Sketches. By Mark Twain.
1878
 

CLEMENS, S.L. Mark Twain's Perforated Interleaved Scrap Book. Patent Number 477,040. Directions...
1892
 

CLEMENS, SAMUEL L. A Tramp Abroad...Three Hundred and Twenty-Eight Illustrations.
1880
 

CLINTON, DE WITT. An Account of Abimelech Coody [i.e. Gulian C. Verplanck] and Other Celebrated Writers of New York: In a Series of Letters from a Traveller to His Friend in South Carolina; January 1815.
1864
 

COFFIN, R.S., the "B Epistle to Joseph T. Buckingham, Esq.
1826
 

COOPER, J.F. The Prairie, a Tale, by the Author of The Spy, the Pilot, &c. &c. In Three Volumes. Vol. I [-III].
1827
 

COOPER, J.F. The Red Rover, a Tale....in Three Volumes. Vol. I [-III].
1827
 

CRANE, STEPHEN. War Is Kind. Drawings by Will Bradley.
1899
 

DE LA MARE, WALTER. The Return.
1922
 

DE LA MARE, WALTER. Henry Brocken. His Travels and Adventures...
1904
 

DE LA MARE, WALTER. The Connoisseur and Other Stories.
1926
 

DE QUINCEY, THOMAS. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar.
1841
 

DEL LA MARE, WALTER. The Veil and Other Poems.
1921
 

DICKENS, CHARLES. Dickens' Works. [Spine label]. 12 volumes.
1880
 

DODGSON, CHARLES LUD Feeding the Mind. By Lewis Carroll. With a Prefatory Note by William H. Draper.
1907
 

DODSLEY, ROBERT. The Economy of Human Life, Translated from an Indian Manuscript...
1830
 

DUPRE DE SAINT-MAUR, The State of Innocence, and the Fall of Man, Described in Milton's Paradise Lost. Rendered into Prose; with Historical, Philosophical, and Explanatory Notes. From the French...by a Gentleman of Oxford.
1813
 

EATON, WILLIAM JR. Address Delivered Before the Two Literary Societies of the University of North Carolina, May 31, 1848.
1848
 

EDGEWORTH, MARIA. Tales and Novels. Eighteen Volumes in Nine [Twenty Volumes in Ten].
1832
 

EMERSON, R.W. An Oration, Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838.
1838
 

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO Author's Edition.The Conduct of Life. Second Edition.
1860
 

EMERSON. "Threnody" in [M.A.H.] Echoes of Infant Voices.
1849
 

EMERSON. Reception and Entertainment of the Chinese Embassy, by the City of Boston.
1868
 

EVERETT, A.H. An Address to the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, on the Character and Influence of German Literature....
1839
 

FENELON, FRANCOIS DE Le Telemaque de Ecoles, ou les Aventures de Telemaque, Fils d'Ulysse...
1818
 

FIELD, EUGENE. Eugene Field's First Book. The Tribune Primer. With Additional Sketches Not Collected from the Denver Tribune.
1900
 

FIELD, EUGENE. The Writings in Prose and Verse...
1896
 

FIELD, EUGENE. Sharps and Flats. Collated by Slason Thomson. Volume I-[II].
1900
 

FIELD, KATE. Pen Photographs of Charles Dickens's Readings. Taken from Life.
1868
 

FIELDING, HENRY. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Four Volumes.
1810
 

FIELDING, HENRY. The Author's Farce; and the Pleasures of the Town. As Acted at the Theatre in the Hay-Market. Written by Scriblerus Secundus.
1730
 

FROST, JOHN. The Class Book of American Literature...from the Best Writers of Our Own Country....Designed to be used as a Reading Book in American Schools.
1826
 

FULLER, HENRY B. The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani Together with Frequent References to the Prorege of Arcopia. Second edition.
1890
 

GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. The Vicar of Wakefield; a Tale. With the Life of the Author, by Dr. Johnson.
1831
 

GOULD, EDWARD S. American Criticism on American Literature [and] The Benefits and Influences of Commerce: by John H. Gourlie...[in] Lectures Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association...
1836
 

GRIGGS, REV. The Manuscript. Vol. I-II (all).
1828
 

HALE, MRS. S.J. Edit Flora's Interpreter: or the American Book of Flowers and Sentiments. Second Edition, Improved.
1833
 

HALIBURTON, THOMAS C The Clockmaker: or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville. First Series-[Second Series & Third Series].
1840
 

HARTE, BRET. The Queen of the Pirate Isle.
1886
 

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL Passages from the French and Italian Note-Books...
1871
 

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL Pansie: A Fragment.
1864
 

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL Passages from the French and Italian Note-Books.
1872
 

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL Our Old Home. Annotated with Passages from the Author's Note-Book, and Illustrated with Photogravures.
1891
 

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL A Visit to the Celestial City.
1845
 

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL Passages from the English Note-Books. Vol. I-II.
1870
 

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL The Complete Writings...Autograph Edition with Portraits, Illustrations, and Facsimiles in Twenty-Two Volumes. [With] Nathaniel Hawthorne by George Woodberry. Large Paper Edition.
1900
 

HAWTHORNE. The Weal-Reaf. A Record of the Essex Institute Fair, Held at Salem, Sept. 4,5,6,7,8, with Two Supplementary Numbers, Sept. 10, 11, 1860.
1860
 

HEARN, LAFCADIO. "Gombo Zhebes." Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs, Selected from Six Creole Dialects. Translated into French and into English, with Notes, Complete Index to Subjects and Some Brief Remarks upon the Creole Idioms of Louisiana.
1885
 

HEARN, LAFCADIO. Two Years in the French West Indies.
1890
 

HEARN, LAFCADIO. Miscellanies. Articles and Stories Now First Collected by Albert Mordell. [In two volumes].
1924
 

HEARN, LAFCADIO. Occidental Gleanings. Sketches and Essays Now First Collected by Albert Mordell.
1925
 

HEARN, LAFCADIO. Kotto. Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs. With Illustrations by Genjiro Yeto.
1903
 

HEATH, WM. The Beauties of Washington Irving...Illustrated with Six Engravings.
1831
 

HERBERT, HENRY WILLI The Dog. By Dinks [i.e. Jonathan Peel], Mayhew, and Hutchinson. Compiled, Abridged,Edited, and Illustrated by Frank Forester...Complete & Revised Edition.
1857
 

HOLMES, O.W. Soundings from the Atlantic.
1864
 

HOLMES, O.W. Semi-Centennial Celebration of the New England Society in the City of New York, December, 1855. Oration: By Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D. Poem: By John Pierpont, D.D. And a Report of the Festival.
1856
 

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDE Oration Delivered Before the City Authorities at Boston...
1863
 

HOWE, S.G. The Cretan Refugees and Their American Helpers. A Statement Addressed to the Contributors for the Relief of Cretan Refugees.
1868
 

INGERSOLL, CHARLES J Inchiquin, the Jesuit's Letters, During a Late Residence in the United States of America...Containing a Favourable View of the Manners, Literature, and State of Society, of the United States...by Some Unknown Foreigner.
1810
 

IRVING, WASHINGTON. The Journals...(Hitherto Unpublished). Edited by William P. Trent and Geroge S. Hellman. Printed for Members Only. [Vol. I-III].
1919
 

IRVING, WASHINGTON. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. No. 1-[7]. [All].
1819
 

IRVING, WASHINGTON. Salmagundi: or, the Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Landstaff, Esq. And Others. In Two Volumes.
1824
 

IRVING, WASHINGTON; Salmagundi; or, the Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. and Others. Reprinted from the American Edition, with an Introductory Essay and Explanatory Notes, by John Lambert. Vol. I-[II].
1811
 

JAMES, HENRY. English Hours. With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell.
1905
 

JAMES, HENRY. A Little Tour in France. With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell.
1900
 

JOHNSON, JAMES WELDO The Book of American Negro Poetry. Chosen and Edited with an Essay on the Negro's Creative Genius.
1922
 

JOHNSON, SAMUEL. The Works. . .a New Edition. In Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq.
1809
 

KNAPP, SAMUEL L. Lectures on American Literature, With Remarks on Some Passages of American History.
1829
 

KNAPP, SAMUEL L. Advice in the Pursuits of Literature, Containing Historical, Biographical, and Critical Remarks.
1832
 

KRUMMACHER, FRIEDRIC German Parables.
1833
 

LAMB, CHARLES & JAME Original Letters, &c. of Sir John Falstaff, Selected from Genuine Manuscripts which have been in the possession of Dame Quickly and her descendants near four hundred years...
1813
 

LAMB, CHARLES. The Letters...in Which Many Mutilated Words and Passages Have Been Restored to Their Original Form; with Letters Never Before Published and Facsimiles of Original MS Letters and Poems. With an Introduction by Henry H. Harper. [Five volumes].
1905
 

LONGFELLOW, H.W. ED. Novelas Espanolas el Serrano de las Alpujarras; y El Cuadro Misterioso.
1830
 

LONGFELLOW, HENRY W. Coplas de Don Jorge Manrique, Translated from the Spanish; with an Introductory Essay on the Moral and Devotional Poetry of Spain.
1833
 

LONGSTREET, A.B. A Voice from the South: Comprising Letters from Georgia to Massachusetts, and to the Southern States. With an Appendix...
1847
 

LOWELL, J.R. Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Incorporation of Concord, [Mass.], Sept. 12, 1885.
1885
 

LOWELL, JAMES RUSSEL Meliboeus-Hipponax. The Bigelow Papers, Edited, with an Introduction, Notes, Glossary, and Copious Index, by Homer Wilbur, A.M.
1866
 

LOWELL, JAMES RUSSEL Conversations on Some of the Old Poets.
1845
 

LUNT, GEORGE. Radicalism in Religion, Philosophy, and Social Life...
1858
 

LYNCH, ANNE C. The Rhode-Island Book: Selections in Prose and Verse, From the Writings of Rhode-Island Citizens.
1841
 

MATHEWS, CORNELIUS. Americanism. An Address...Before the Eucleian Society of the New-York University...
1845
 

MITCHELL, DONALD G. Bound Together: A Sheaf of Papers.
1884
 

MITCHILL, SAMUEL L. A Discourse on the State and Prospects of American Literature...
1821
 

MOODY, WILLIAM VAUGH Poems.
1901
 

MOODY, WILLIAM VAUGH The Masque of Judgment. A Masque-Drama in Five Acts and a Prelude.
1900
 

MOORE, BARTHOLOMEW F An Address Delivered Before the Two Literary Societies, of the University of North Carolina.
1846
 

MOORE, HENRY D. Edit The Winter-Bloom. With Nine Brilliant Illuminations, in Oil Colors.
1850
 

MOORE, THOMAS. The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life. In Seventeen Volumes.
1832
 

MORE, HANNAH. The Works of Hannah More. First Complete American Edition. [In two volumes].
1835
 

NEAL, JOHN. Man. A Discourse, Before the United Brothers Society of Brown University...
1838
 

NEAL, JOHN. Portland Illustrated.
1874
 

NEAL, JOSEPH C. In Town & About or Pencillings & Pennings. Designed & Drawn by Felix O.C. Darley. With Illustrative Descriptions...No. I [all?].
1843
 

NORTON, CHARLES ELIO A Review of a Translation into Italian of the Commentary by Benvenuto da Imola on the Divina Commedia.
1861
 

NORTON, CHARLES ELIO The New Life of Dante Alighieri.
1889
 

ORWELL, GEORGE. Nineteen Eighty-Four/ The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript. 1 of 55 copies full morocco bound and boxed by Gray Parrot. Introduction by Peter Davidson. Preface by Daniel G. Siegel. ISBN 087730-015-1.
1984
 

ORWELL, GEORGE. Nineteen Eighty-Four/ The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript. 1 of 275 copies quarter bound by Gray Parrot. Introduction by Peter Davidson. Preface by Daniel G. Siegel. ISBN 087730-012-7.
1984
 

OVID. Metamorphoseon Libri X. Or, Ten Select Books of Ovid's Metamorphoses; with an English Translation...and Davidson's English Notes.
1790
 

PALTOCK, ROBERT. The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins; Containing an Account of His Visit to the Flying Islanders, Taken from His Own Mouth, in His Passage to England, from Off Cape Horn, in America, in the Ship Hector. By R.S. a Passenger in the Hector. Improved Edition.
1835
 

PARKMAN, FRANCIS JR. The California and Oregon Trail: Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life.
1849
 

PARSONS, THOMAS W. T Seventeen Cantos of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri.
1865
 

PEABODY, ELIZABETH P Record of a School: Exemplifying the General Principles of Spiritual Culture. Second Edition, with an Explanatory Preface, and Other Revisions.
1836
 

PEABODY, ELIZABETH P Record of a School: Exemplifying the General Principles of Spiritual Culture.
1835
 

PLEADWELL, FRANK LES The Life and Works of Joseph Rodman Drake. A Memoir and Complete Text of His Poems and Prose Including Much Never Before Printed.
1935
 

PLUTARCH. Plutarch's Lives, Translated from the Original Greek; with Notes Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch. By John Langhorne, and William Langhorne...in Eight Volumes.
1811
 

POE, EDGAR A. The Conchologist's First Book: or, a System of Testaceous Malacology...with Illustrations of two hundred and fiffteen shells...
1839
 

POE, EDGAR ALLAN. Arthur Gordon [Pym] or, Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Famine. Being the Extraordinary Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym, Mariner, of Nantucket, North America, During a Voyage to the South Seas...
1841
 

PYAT, FELIX. The Rag-Picker of Paris. Translated from the French by Benj. R. Tucker.
1890
 

QUINBY, DANIEL F. Ed A Compendium of Literary, Philosophical and Religious Knowledge
1851
 

RICKETSON, ANNA AND Daniel Ricketson and His Friends. Letters, Poems, Sketches, Etc. Edited by His Daughter and Son...
1902
 

RUFFIN, EDMUND. Anticipations of the Future, to Serve as Lessons for the Present Time. In the Form of Extracts of Letters from an English Resident in the United States, to the London Times, from 1864 to 1870. With an Appendix, on the Causes and Consequences of the Independence of the South.
1860
 

RUSH, JAMES. The Collected Works...in four volumes. Introductions & Appendix by Melvin H. Bernstein. ISBN 087730-008-9.
1974
 

RUTHERFORD, WILLIAM. A View of Antient History; Including the Progress of Literature and the Fine Arts. In Two Volumes. Third Edition, Corrected.
1809
 

SANBORN, F. B. The Personality of Thoreau.
1901
 

SANTAYANA, GEORGE. The Works....
1936
 

SARGENT, MRS. JOHN T Sketches and Reminiscences of the Radical Club of Chestnut Street, Boston.
1880
 

SCOTT, SIR WALTER. Tales of a Grandfather, First Series; Being Stories Taken from Scottish History...in Two Vols. [Second Series & Third Series, each in two vols.] [and Fourth Series; Being Stories Taken from the History of France...in Two Vols.] 8 vols.
1833
 

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM The Plays of William Shakespeare. Complete in One Volume. Accurately Printed from the Text of Isaac Reed, Esq.
1813
 

SMOLLETT, TOBIAS. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. In which are included, Memoirs of a Lady of Quality. In Three Volumes.
1807
 

STEVENSON, ROBERT LO Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751...
1886
 

STODDARD, R.H. Ed. The Treasure-Trove Series. Compiled by W.S. Walsh. Burlesque.
1875
 

STOWE, HARRIET B. Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly.
1852
 

STOWE, HARRIET BEECH The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin...
1853
 

SWIFT, JONATHAN. Tale of a Tub, Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind....An Account of a Battle Between the Ancient and Modern Books in St. James's Library, and a Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operations of the Spirit...with the Author's Apology, and Explanatory Notes, by W. Wotton, D.D. and Others.
1846
 

TAYLOR, BENJ. F. January and June. Third Edition.
1860
 

TCHERNYCHEWSKY, N.G. What's To Be Done? A Romance. Translated by Benjamin Tucker.
1886
 

THACKERAY, WILLIAM M The Yellowplush Correspondence.
1838
 

THOREAU, H.D. The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau. Lately Discovered Among His Unpublished Journals and Manuscripts. Edited by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. [Vol. I-II].
1905
 

THOREAU, HENRY D. Cape Cod.
1865
 

THOREAU, HENRY D. Walden or Life in the Woods.
1909
 

THOREAU, HENRY D. Excursions. [Edited by R.W. Emerson].
1863
 

THOREAU, HENRY D. Excursions. [Edited by R.W. Emerson].
1863
 

THOREAU, HENRY D. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. New and Revised Edition.
1868
 

THORPE, ROSA HARTWIC "Curfew Must Not Ring To-Night". Illustrated.
1883
 

TRAUBEL, HORACE L. & In Re Walt Whitman Edited by His Literary Executors.
1893
 

TROWBRIDGE, J. T. The Vagabonds.
1868
 

TUCKERMAN, HENRY T. The Optimist.
1850
 

TUCKERMAN, HENRY T. The Optimist.
1850
 

VAILLE, F. O. & H. A The Harvard Book, A Series of Historical, Biographical and Descriptive Sketches. By Various Authors. Illustrated with Views and Portraits. Vol. II [only].
1875
 

VERGILIUS MARO, PUBL The Works of Virgil, Translated into English Prose...for the Use of Schools, as well as of Private Gentlemen. In Two Volumes. First American Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected by Malcolm Campbell, A.M. Teacher of Languages.
1803
 

VERPLANCK, GULIAN C. Discourses and Addresses on Subjects to American History, Arts, and Literature.
1833
 

VULPIUS, CHRISTIAN A Rinaldo Rinaldini der Rauber-Hauptmann...Erste americanische Auflage. Vol. l-[3] in one.
1820
 

WESTERN ASSOCIATION Sayings and Doings of the Sixth General Meeting Held at Eagle Lake, Warsaw, Ind. July 6 to 10, 1891. Published by W.A.W.
1892
 

WHITE, RICHARD GRANT National Hymns. How They Are Written and How They Are Not Written. A Lyric and National Study for the Times
1861
 

WHITE, RICHARD GRANT Revelations: a Companion to the "New Gospel of Peace." According to Abraham.
1863
 

WHITTIER, J.G. A Sabbath Scene. Illustrations by Baker, Smith, and Andrew.
1854
 

WHITTIER, JOHN G. Old Portraits and Modern Sketches.
1850
 

WINTHROP, THEODORE. Life in the Open Air, and Other Papers.
1863
 

WISTER, OWEN. Lady Baltimore.
1906
 

WISTER, OWEN. The Pentecost of Calamity.
1915
 

WRIGHT, FRANCES. A Few Days in Athens; Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript Discovered in Herculaneum.
1831
 

YOUNG, DAVID. The Wonderful History of the Morristown Ghost; Thoroughly and carefully Revised.
1826
 

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