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American edition author's first book AUTOGRAPH LETTERS bibliographical binding bookplate Boston Catalogue Charles cloth back cloth box collection complete contemporary boards contemporary calf corrections dated earliest English edition English Poetry engraved errata extremely rare famous fly-leaf Folio Francis Galton frontispiece gilt edges Grolier American List Grolier Club half morocco slip half red morocco half-title Henry hinges cracked Housman's Humphry Clinker Illustrated immaculate copy imprint inscription James John leaf Library London manuscript morocco solander nice copy novel Old Mother Hubbard original black cloth original blue cloth original boards original brown cloth original calf original cloth original green cloth original printed wrappers original red cloth original wrappers paper labels Paris Pforzheimer Philadelphia plates POEMS portrait Presentation copy inscribed Privately Printed published rarity Richard Bentley Samuel Ward scarce signature sprinkled edges THOMAS tion title-page translation uncut Vanity Fair vellum volumes W. B. Yeats WILLIAM written York