American Literary Autographs: From Washington Irving to Henry James

Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp

Dover, 1977 - Antiques & Collectibles - 10 pages

Exact reproductions of valuable original manuscripts and fragments from the Pierpont Morgan Library collection—passages from Cooper’s Deerslayer, Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, writings of Whitman, Poe, Howells, O. Henry, many more. Introduction. Transcriptions and commentary. 98 plates.

About the author

Charles Ryskamp is Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton University and former director of The Pierpont Morgan Library and of the Frick Collection. Scott D. Westrem is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York--Lehman college and the Graduate School. He is editor of "Discovering New Worlds: Essays on Medieval Exploration and Imagination.

Bibliographic information

• Title: American Literary Autographs: From Washington Irving to Henry James
• Authors: Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Dover, 1977
• ISBN: 0486235483, 9780486235486
• Length: 10 pages
• Subjects: Antiques & Collectibles / Autographs; Antiques & Collectibles / General; Literary Collections / General; Reference / Genealogy & Heraldry