Friday, August 20, 2010

Literary Landmarks of Philadelphia

I've been selling very well on EBay.  I haven't made a lot of money, but getting something for my clutter is a good feeling.  I like that some of my things are making their way to homes where people are grateful to get my stuff at a good price and use it.  I've added the link to a book that I paid quite a bit for about twenty years ago.  I thought since it was the first in a run of some 1000 printed copies that it would be of some value.  It is Literary Landmarks of Philadelphia and was printed in 1939.  Here is part of my description on EBay for this item:

Joseph Jackson is the author of this fairly rare volume which is unique as it is volume number 1 of a limited edition run of only 1,050 extant copies.  It is in good condition. There are some rubs on boards, and some beginning signs of foxing on the end pages, otherwise the text and illustrations of former Philadelphia literary landmarks are in very good condition.

From the introduction, "....Eighteenth Century Philadelphia was Eighteenth Century London in miniature, it might be said; and it drew the writers of books and the painters of portraits, as well as engravers, from Europe, as well as from other parts of America, all of them providing legends and anecdotes, which are still recounted."

Chapters are devoted to the following book people:
Walt Whitman
Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale-author of "Mary's Lamb"
John Adams
Amos Bronson Alcott
Edgar Allen Poe
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
William Penn
John Penn
Dr. Joseph Priestley-discoverer of oxygen and carbon monoxide
Noah Webster
George Washington
And many more...

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