At Sundown

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 x 7 in. Fine ivory cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; minor wear and toning, a few tiny spots. Binding tight and text spotless. Poetry. RGR.

Cambridge: Privately Printed: The Riverside Press, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. A couple of pages with offsetting from previously laid in news clippings. Near Fine in a Fine chemise and close to Fine slipcase with a sunned spine. Publisher's olive cloth. BAL 22137: 277 copies printed. As with many copies this has the slip of paper tipped in at… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good rubbed, and uncommon, dustwrapper. E. H. Garrett. White vellum in heavy paper dustwrapper. BAL 22158: "This edition contains a brief introductory statement and 7 poems not in the private edition," published in 1890. Illustrated with a portrait and 8 tissue-guarded plates by E. H. Garrett. The… Read more about this item

Publisher's cream-colored buckram-style cloth with elaborate upper board gilt lettering and decorative device within double-ruled gilt border, 12mo, pp. 70. Tissue-guarded frontis of the author and 8 additional illustrations by E. H. Garrett inserted. Note that the List of Illustrations calls for the final illustration to be inserted at page 64 but it is at page 68. Top edge gilt.… Read more about this item

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/fair. A Very Good copy of the first trade edition, first printing, in the remnants of the EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE glassine dust jacket (some general handling soil to the binding along with a bit of corner rubbing and some darkening at the spine head… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1893. First trade edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Second state with correct page listed for last illustration. Ilustrated with frontispiece and 8 plates, all with tissue guards, by E. H. Garrett. In ivory cloth covered boards with bright gilt decorations and top edge gilt. Covers very lightly soiled, else a clean, unmarked, bright, tight… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1892. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, large paper issue. Illustrated by E.H. Garrett. Japanese vellum gilt. Modest soiling to the spine, a very good or better copy. One of 250 numbered copies printed on rectos only of Whittier's last book. *BAL* 22158.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892. This is a true first trade edition, first state, of Whittier's last collection of 18 poems published during his lifetime. The book was originally published in a privately printed edition of only 277 copies, mainly for the author's friends, in 1890. The public demand was such that Whittier expanded the slender volume, adding additional… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Privately Printed, The Riverside Press, 1890. First edition. One of 277 copies printed. Original green cloth, gilt, a near-fine copy, with the publisher's slip bearing a facsimile autograph. Inscribed by Whittier to his close friend, the abolitionist Henry I. Bowditch, "after 'Le's' death,' signed with initials and dated Dec. 1890. BAL 22137.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. with no dust jacket. 1892. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Signed "Christmas 1892 John James Ingalls" on front cover. Ingalls was the U.S. Senator from KS 1873-91. Signed by dedicatee, Edmund Clarence Stedman (Poet, essayist, and scientist), on dedication page. Also signed by Richard Smith (as R. S.) Spofford on… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Very Good. 1892. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. A first trade edition (following a small, privately distributed issuance) of this collection of poems by the noted American anti-slavery poet John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892). With black & white illustrations by E. H. Garrett, including a tissue-protected frontis portrait of the author. --- In… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. First Edition. Original white cloth, illustrated with frontispiece and 8 plates. Cloth quite age soiled, with several stains on rear board. Cloth splitting along outer rear hinge. One plate badly torn. Else a solid, internally clean and sound copy of the first trade edition of the title.. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" -… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1893. Very good copy (soiled, sunned spine and edges, but still quite presentable) with top-edge gilt bright and intact, gilt title on white covers. Beautifully printed with 9 illustrations (including frontispiece of Whittier), several still protected by the laid-in tissues. Text is bright and clean except for some toning on page edges. NOTE on the edition: "At… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin, 1892. Hardcover. Good. Good + cream cloth harcover (no dust jacket if issued) with gilt letter, border and decoration shows rubbing, soil and faint staining to covers, bit of bumping to bottom corners, previous owner marks at front endpaper and front blank, couple tiny marks at page 38 and some other light trace wear. 70 pages… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by E.H. Garrett. Owner's name stamped on front free endpaper; boards lightly soiled, spine is lightly tanned thus very good. Whittier's last book.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An ivory cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Cover and plates foxed. Early owner's signature on front endpaper. Otherwise clean and tight. Illustrated with several black and white plates.

Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1892. Bound in original white cloth, gilt borders, decorative gilt cover title, top edge gilt. small 8vo. Bound in original white cloth, gilt borders, decorative gilt cover title, top edge gilt. 70 pages. First trade edition. BAL 22158. Inscribed, "Mary North / from / E.G.W. / Xmas /92," in ink in from free endpapers. This edition… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1892. Limited Edition. Octavo. Large-paper copy limited to 250 copies. The present copy is number 190. Two years prior to this volume, there was a privately printed volume which became exhausted among the author's friends. The demand since had been so persistent that he cosented to republish it. He added a few new poems in this… Read more about this item

HB 12mo VG/-- 1st Ed. Illustrated. 70 pages. BAL 22158, 1st trade ed; state 3. Cream cloth boards with gilt design, rules and letters; teg; laid paper; printed & paginated recto only. Darkened on spine; some soiling/foxing to covers; some pages unopened - 1/2" tear at leaf 52 fore edge where unopened fore edge was partially opened; tight; clean interior;… Read more about this item

Boston/New York, Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1892., 1892. First trade edition. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait and 8 illustrations by E.H. Garrett. Original gilt stamped white linen, t.e.g. Very good. Contemporary ink signatures on the front free endapers, Christmas 1892. Text printed on rectos only.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.