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Americana. James (Henry), Daisy Miller, first UK edition, later impression, London: Macmillan and Co., 1879, half-title, publisher's cloth, 8vo; Stowe (Mrs. Harriet Beecher), Uncle Tom's Cabin, first UK edition, London: Ingram, Cooke, & Co., 1852, repaired title-page, original publisher's cloth, rebacked preserving all of the original spine, refreshed endpapers, 8vo; Howells (W.D.), The Undiscovered Country, first UK edition, London: Sampson Low, et al, 1880, original publisher's red cloth, 8vo; London (Jack), The Call of the Wild, London: William Heinemann, 1903, publisher's pictorial cloth, 8vo; Hawthorne (Nathaniel), Passages from the English Note-Books, two volumes, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871, publisher's green cloth, 8vo; Newell (R.H.), The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, London: John Camden Hotten, 1866, publisher's papered back over pictorial papered boards, 8vo; further literature, including Washington Irving, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, James Branch Cabell, etc., (22)
Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.
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