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 Greyslaer: A Romance Of The Mohawk.
 [28423] (KENTUCKIANA - NEW YORK) Charles Fenno Hoffman.
New-York: Harper and Brothers, 1840. 12mo, [i-viii], [13] - 243; [1] - 260 pages. Two volumes. First American Edition. Bound in orig. publisher's green embossed cloth with patterns of leaves and flowers with paper spine labels. Both bindings very clean, spine labels rubbed, but lettering still quite strong. Top margin of each title page with clipped signature excised and with small owner's stamp beneath, else a very good set with a trifle foxing to text. Hoffman's historical romance was loosely based upon the well known Kentucky murder of the Solicitor-General by Jereboam O. Beauchamp in 1826. In Hoffman's story, a young patriot is unable to marry the woman he loves because of a previous secret dishonor. Charles Fenno Hoffman (1806-1884) achieved popular success with “Greyslaer” and was also known for his regional poetry often set on the Hudson River. [BAL 8527. Wright I, 1216. Sabin 32385: recording a later New York edition, - “An interesting historical novel, founded on Indian and early Border Warfare.” Graff 220, passim. Bennett: “The best early novel of New York State in Revolutionary days.”] $150
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 Howard's End.
[109713] (LITERATURE) E.M. Forster .
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1910) reprinted, January, 1911. Octavo, 422 pages: followed by p. [1] publisher's section-title to advertisements; p. [2] blank; pages. [3-4] publisher's advertisements; pages. [5-6] blank. 1st American Edition, second printing. One of 1004 copies. Bound in dull rose cloth boards, without dust jacket. Title lettered in gilt and within rule to front cover. Spine gilt dulled, mild foxing near end of book. Rear hinge cracked with netting exposed, but still firm and tight. A very good copy. Putnam, without Forster's approval, made textual alterations and supplied titles to all chapters. According to Kirkpatrick, by the third printing in February 1911 they were deleted. Kirkpatrick stated in 1985: "Mr. Minton [Putnam's president] thought it unlikely that any copies of the first impression were withdrawn; it is, therefore, probable that 1500 copies bearing the unauthorized chapter titles were sold." Then: "It is probable that the contents-pages, chapter titles, and chapter running heads were deleted at the second printing, of which a copy has not been seen." This copy of the second printing does in fact have all three egregious offenses found in both issues of the first impression. It is assumed that Forster's complaint postponed publication until 1911. Copies extant of this second printing must be very scarce to not have been verified by Kirkpatrick's second edition as of 1985. [Kirkpatrick A4b.] $350
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