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Homes of American Authors; Comprising Anecdotical Personal and Descriptive Sketches by Various Writers. Illustrated with Views of their Residences from Original Drawings and a Fac-Simile of the Manuscript of Each Author
1853Best.-Nr. 21559New York: G.P. Putnam 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. viii 366 pp with 19 steel-engraved plates portraits and views of the authors' homes 14 wood-engraved vignettes of which 7 are printed in color and 16 facsimiles. A handsome copy in publisher's full morocco with stamped decoration and raised bands all edges gilt marbled endpapers. Some scuffing to the leather occasional light foxing; else very clean and sound. Includes chapters on Audubon Paulding Irving Bancroft Bryant Dana Prescott Sedgwick Cooper Everett Emerson Simms Longfellow Hawthorne Webster Kennedy and Lowell. The chapter on Emerson also includes some discussion of Thoreau who "lives in the berry-pasture upon a bank over Walden Pond and in a little house of his own building." BAL 1345; Bennett p. 58. G.P. Putnam hardcover
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