Samuel t pickard editor (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. Two Volumes; 5 6/8 inches x 8 6/8 in., half-titles; frontispieces with title-printed tissue guards; title-pages printed in red and black with Riverside Press device, limitation statement on reverse of title-page; preface; contents; list of illustrations. Volume 1: [x], [1]-402 pp.; Volume 2: [viii], pp. [403]-802, including index; illustrated with a total of 20 plates, each with title-printed tissue guards. Dark brown morocco leather spines, sides and corner-pieces, with five raised bands on the spines, and gilt-lettered titling and designs in compartments, with marbled paper over boards; top-edges gilt, headbands, green silk bookmarker ribbons bound in, matching marbled endpapers. The spines show light fading, light wear to cover corners. Includes letters during the Civil War period and letters from Whittier to: Celia Thaxter, Sarah Orne Jewett, Dorothea Dix. Weight: 5 lbs. Postage may be extra on this item. …

First Edition. Inscribed by Pickard on front endpaper: "Rev. Herbert Loubard with regards Samuel T. Pickard", dated July 25, 1904, and 3pp. A.L.s. from Pickard to Loubard and printed "Note to page 61" adhered to rear pastedown. Octavo (18.5cm); brown cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; top-edge gilt; 6+4+115pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) plate frontispiece, with three black-and-white photographic (halftone) plates. Modest shelf-wear with rubbing to corners, light soil to upper edge of textblock, tape residue and off-setting to recto of front endpaper and front flyleaf, and two tiny marginal tears to title page; Very Good. A known forgery. This alleged diary was recovered forty years after Hawthorne's death and given to an acquaintance from his youth, William Symmes, who released excerpts to a local paper. Pickard then edited the entries for this edition, in hopes the complete diary would eventually surface, but shortly thereafter included the disclaimer "Note on page 61" that stated Symmes portrayed his own experiences as Hawthorne's. Pickard's later confessions and handwritten book inscriptions suggest far more was fraudulent, and plates were destroyed for their lack of authenticity (Clark, G15). This copy includes an A.L.s. from Pickard with his confession on his doubts about the diary and his wishes to meet with Loubard. Pickard's inscription and "Note to page 61" lend importance to this copy. BROWNE, A Bibliography of Nathaniel Hawthorne, p.103. CLARK, Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography, G15. BLANCK, Bibliography of American Literature, p.34. [89696].…