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New York: Published by Thomas Longworth and Co, 1820. Third edition. Presumably a remainder issued ca. 1850. Read More Item Details for Salmagundi; or, the Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. and Others Add to Wish List
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London: Thomas Tegg, 1824. With a foreedge painting of City Hall by Miss Currie, with a calligraphic notation signed by Currie on the front blank: "This is No. 33 of the Books with Foreedge Paintings by Miss Currie. The Painting under the gold is a view of CIty Hall New..... Read More Item Details for A History of New York, from the Beginning the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty ... by Diedrich Knickerbocker Add to Wish List
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Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. First American edition. Read More Item Details for The Alhambra: A Series of Tales and Sketches of the Moors and Spaniards... [in two volumes] Add to Wish List
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Tarrytown, New York: Sleepy Hollow Restorationas, [1978]. A Facsimile of the first Edition originally published in 1876 by Macmillan & Company of London. Copy 10 of the American Heritage Collector's Edition. EDITOR'S OWN DELUXE COPY. Read More Item Details for Barcebridge Hall...With a new Introduction by Andrew B. Myers Add to Wish List
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London: Henry Colburn, nd. Read More Item Details for Tales of the Alhambra Add to Wish List
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Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1921]. Wyeth, N.C. First Wyeth Edition, First Issue with top edge gilt. One of Wyeth's most desirable book. Read More Item Details for Rip Van Winkle Add to Wish List
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U.S. Frigate Brandywine: April 24, 1826. A letter from one of Washington Irving's nephews––William Iriving––to another, his brother Washington, named for his famous uncle. The men were sons of Irving's brother John Treat Irving. William, a navy man, urges his younger brother "Wash" to stay in school as a cadet..... Read More Item Details for ALS of William Irving, to his brother Washington Irving, both nephews of the famous author Add to Wish List
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Greenburgh, Westchester C[ount]y, [NY]: November 17, 1838. To the Erosophic Society at the University of Alabama. "I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter announcing my election as honorary member of the Erosophic Society of the University of Alabama. I beg you to present to the Society..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed ("Washington Irving"), to the corresponding secretary of the Erosophic Society at the University of Alabama, accepting honorary membership Add to Wish List
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Greenburgh, [NY]: June 17, 1839. Union College, Schenectady. Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed ("Washington Irving") declining an invitation to speak at Union College in Schenectady, NY Add to Wish List
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Washington, D.C: June 13, 1832. Irving writes to his nephew, New York State Senator William Irving Dodge, the son of Irving's sister Ann Sarah: "I thank you for your very kind and affectionate letter. It will give me great pleasure to visit you in the ... summer time and to..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed ("your affectionate uncle / Washington Irving"), to William Irving Dodge Add to Wish List
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n.p: n.d. Requesting proofs. "Mr Irving will thank Mr Davidson to let him have proofs of the interleaved edition as soon as possible – and to set up the reserve of the 2d edition in slips, as he wishes to get through with the correcting of the work and to..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Note Signed in the third person ("Mr Irving"), to a Mr Davidson Add to Wish List
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[Paris]: March 10, [1824]. "It would give me great pleasure my dear Madam to accept of Mr Fairfax' kind invitation but I have a nephew ill at my lodgings with a virulent attack of the smallpox whom I cannot quit – and indeed under such circumstances it would be improper..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed ("Washington Irving"), citing the care of a sick relative in declining the invitation of Mr. Fairfax Add to Wish List
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New York: Printed by C.S. Van Winkle, No. 101 Greenwich Street, 1822. First American edition. IN AMERICAN BINDING. Read More Item Details for Bracebridge Hall or, The Humorists. A Medley, By Geoffrey Crayon, Gent Add to Wish List
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n.d. A manuscript leaf of material Irving meant to––but did not––use for his Mahomet and His Successors (1850). Headed "Babylon," and citing the German historian Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren, it reads in part: "In the earliest records of the human race, says the learned Heeren, the name of Babylon appears..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript titled "Babylon," an unused fragment intended for Mahomet and His Successors, enclosed in an ALS to Rev. Frederick G. Clark Add to Wish List
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[N.p., Liverpool?]: June 18, 1818. Reading in part: "Enclosed is the letter of Walter Scott's, which I have just found in looking over my papers...." Irving also conveys letters of Francis Jeffrey (editor of the Edinburgh Review) and "Mr. Campbell the poet." Irving had contributed a biograhical note to an..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed ("Washington Irving"), to Mr. Bolton, conveying literary autographs of Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Campbell, and Francis Jeffrey Add to Wish List
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np: Tuesday, January 26 [n.y.]. Reading: "My dear Sir: I accept with great pleasure your invitation to dinner on Saturday next..." Read More Item Details for Autograph Note Signed ("Washington Irving"), accepting a dinner invitation Add to Wish List
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[1821]. "...they had often seen strange lights and heard strange sounds from the tower..." A leaf from the manuscript of Irving's episodic novel Bracebridge Hall, which he wrote in 1821 while living in England and which was published in early 1822. The leaf comes from the "Student of Salamanca" chapter..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript leaf from [from Bracebridge Hall] Add to Wish List
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nd. Unpublished notes. Unpublished manuscript notes made by Irving following a visit, at an unknown date, to the Tower of London. In part: "The treasury of crimes; the horror of sighs; the church of St Peters within the tower is the burial place of most of those guarded persons who..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript leaf headed "Notes of a Visit to the Tower" Add to Wish List
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n.d. A working reckoning in Irving's hand of relative word and page counts in his work. "Bancroft first vol 34 lines of 42 words}1428 words on a page ... WI ms. 24-36 865 words per page; average of my ms. pages in 1 vol 966 ... about 805 of my..... Read More Item Details for Manuscript sheet of book-keeping, possibly for Irving's Life of George Washington Add to Wish List
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Boston: Fred S. Collins, Publisher 20 Brattle Street, [c.1890]. 2nd thousand. Read More Item Details for The Devil and Tom Walker: Together with Deacon Grubb and the Old Nick Add to Wish List
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Birmingham: May 18, 1842. Irving writes to a subordinate in Madrid regarding consular business while he was en route there as U.S. Minister to Spain, an office he held from 1842-1846. In part: "I have received a letter from Mr. William Henry Freeman recently appointed consult of the United States..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed ("Washington Irving"), to Aaron Vail Esq. Chargé d'affaires of the U.S. in Madrid Add to Wish List
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Greenburgh: May 11, 1839. Reading in part: "Permit me to speak as warmly as I can in favor of Dr. Dudley Atkinson for the post of resident Physician or Health commisioner. I owe him a strong deep debt of gratitude for his skillful treatment of a young friend of mine..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed ("Washington Irving"), to Hon. Guilian Varplanck. About appointment of Dr. Dudley Atkinson as resident physician or Health Commissioner and about his care of Mr. Coolidge of Boston Add to Wish List
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[ca.1840]. Two manuscript pages from Irving's short story "Count Van Horn," originally published in the Knickerbocker magazine for March 1840, and gathered in the collection Wolfert's Roost (1855). The first page, numbered "244" in keeping with the pagination in the Knickerbocker, begins: "A circumstance which occurs in this part of..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript page from "Count Van Horn" in Wolfert's Roost Add to Wish List
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[ca.1829]. A page of notes on Ismael ben Ferrag, a Moorish leader in medieval Granada. In part: "With all his courtesy to his Christian foe, Ismael ben Farag was a Moslem of the old stamp. He detested the subtleties with which learned commentators had overlaid the simplicity of the primitive..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript, describing the death of Ismail ben Farog, Moorish leader in medieval Spain Add to Wish List
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nd. In part: "The old count, though a nobleman of great wealth ... in his old days married the daughter of a respectable farmer ... the match gave scandal to some of his haughty aristocratic relations, but it has proved of the happiest consequences..." Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript page from a rejected portion of either Tales of the Alhambra or his Conquest of Granada Add to Wish List
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