Irving, Washington. The Author of "The Sketchbook".

Miscellanies. No. 1. containing A Tour on the Prairies.

Irving, Washington. The Author of "The Sketchbook". Miscellanies. No. 1. containing A Tour on the Prairies. John Murray, London 1835. 12mo, xiii, 335pp. True first edition, followed almost immediately by the American first. With the half-title, which is frequently lacking. A romanticized view of a trip through Oklahoma that Irving took in 1832. Irving notes that "the Indian of poetical fiction is like the shepherd of pastoral romance, a mere personification of imaginary attributes" (p. 54). Howes, U.S.iana, I-86. Nicely rebound in half brown calf & marbled boards, black title label & gilt title, raised bands, gilt decorated. Item #8260

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