First American Edition. Octavo. Contemporary full leather, 4 raised bands to spines. All edges gilt. Both volumes inscribed and signed by George Putnam, presumably the American publisher of Edgar Allen Poe, Washington Irving, and James Fenimore Cooper. Good, cover leather dry and worn; cover of Volume 1 nearly detached, cover of Volume 2 detached but present.

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Title: The Works of Joseph Stevens Buckminster; With Memoirs of His Life. In Two Volumes
Publisher: James Munroe and Company, Boston
Publication Date: 1839
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition.
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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