John James Piatt Editor (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. xlv, [50]-240pp, steel engraved frontispiece, green cloth with gilt titles, lower extremities worn thru, front inner hinge cracked, a good copy overall. The author was born in Connecticut in 1802. He attended Brown University, where one of his instructors was Horace Mann, and one of his classmates was Samuel G. Howe. In 1830 he settled in Louisville, Kentucky, where he founded the Louisville Journal, one of the outstanding literary newspapers in the country. His clever and forceful editorials are thought to have been one of the factors that kept Kentucky in the Union during the Civil War. As a poet, he was a master of the blank verse form. See Townsend: KENTUCKY IN AMERICAN LETTERS, and Ward : A LITERARY HISTORY OF KENTUCKY.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. 1900 Edition. With a touch of soiling, mostly a brown mark on the rear board, otherwise a VG, unmarked, hardcover first edition of 1900 in linen binding with gold lettering on the cover and spine, pasted plate on the cover, t.e.g., untrimmed edges, 436 pages plus lots of plates. No DJ. Photos on request. MEDIA SHIPPING, extra for airmail or internatonal shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. b/w Plates (illustrator). 1st. 1st Limited edition, #193; an anthology of Ohio related items.white c w/grey boards, paper label; neat hinge repair; wear at tips; 438 clean, unmarked pages. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is darkened on spine with some milder darkening on front and back panels. Dust jacket has a small bump and a 1/2 inch tear at top back edge. 436 pages with 32 illustrations.