Robert Mongomery Bird (2 results)

Half-Calf. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A group of bound novels which includes 4 Fennimore Cooper titles; "Lionel Lincoln, or, The Leaguer Of Boston" 1838. + "The Pilot. A Tale Of The Sea". 1839. + "The Spy; A Tale of The Neutral Ground" 1841. + The Last of The Mohicans. A Narrative of 1757, 1841. + Robert Montgomery Bird "Peter Pilgrim, or, A Rambler's Recollections". 1838. + Anna Maria Porter; "Don Sebastian, or, The House Of Braganza". 1839. All with separate title pages. The Dr Bird title we assume is a first English edition, 1st published in the USA in 1838 also. The Porter work was originally published in 1809. "The Pilot" by Cooper was NOT given a separate title of its own until 1838 in the USA, as it formed part of a triple title set, here it HAS a title page. There is some foxing to a few leaves in The Pilot. but still good or better the remaining titles are all firm and tight and very good. Bound in a contemporary half-calf with marbled paper boards, some light rubbing at extremes. Contents generally Very good, contents complete. * The Peter Pilgrim title has these headed short stories or extra passages also: "A Night on the Terrapin Rocks," "The Mammoth Cave," and " The Bloody Broad-Horn." The Arkansas Immigrants," "The Fascinating Power of Reptiles.". Anna Maria Porter was an early almost forgotten female writer who enjoyed considerable success in her early life as an author brought up by her mother after her father a military surgeon, died quite young, all the family were artistic. RARE. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good binding. First Edition. Two 8vo volumes; in the publisher's purple muslin, with labels on the spines; [i]-xxviii, [29]-278, blank leaf; [1]-296; with an inserted 12 page catalog at the back of each volume; the catalogs are both in State A [with no priority established].; there is a previous owner name on the pastedown of Volume II with initials on the pastedown of Volume II; each volume has the name "Anne C. Coleman" on the title page; there is some light and scattered toning throughout the books; there is minor separation at the top of the gutter of Volume I.~~Bird's early works were plays; Calavar is his first novel.~~A lovely copy in the original bindings.~ (BAL 1152). Very Good binding.…