STORIES OF AMERICAN LIFE;

by American Writers by Mary Russell Mitford

$1,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830. 12mo, three volumes: pp. i-iii iv-vii viii 1 2-358 359-360: ads ; i-ii 1 2-342; i-ii 1 2-336, nineteenth-century three-quarter black leather and marbled boards, spine panels richly tooled in gold, brown leather title pieces. First edition. The first anthology of American short fiction excluding single author collections and literary

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