Mansfield Park: A Novel. Two volumes.
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832,
First American Edition. duodecimo, drab blue paper laid over drab grey cloth, with contemporary calf spines. Carey & Lea, Item #32877
Lacking the [4] pages of advertisements that sometimes appear in front of the title page of Volume One. Withdrawn from the New Hampshire private library of Portsmouth Athenaeum having their contemporary printed book label on front pastedown of each volume with a later red ink WITHDRAWN rubber stamp in the center. No other library marks in either book. Bindings shabby. Calf dried and chipped, corners rounded, each volume with two loose gatherings and volume two with several leaves at back with brown stain (1 or 2 examples pictured - just a few pages in similar condition). Pages fairly free of foxing.
Price: $9,500.00