THE MERRY TALES OF THE THREE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM. Edited

by i.e. written by the Author of John Bull in America by James Kirke Paulding

$850 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: G. and C. Carvill, 108 Broadway. Sleight & Tucker, Printers, Jamaica, 1826. 12mo, pp. 1-3 4-324, flyleaves at front and rear, original gray paper boards with tan linen shelf back, printed paper label affixed to spine panel, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Anonymously published collection of short fiction. Includes The Man Machine; or, the Pupil of 'Circumstances,' pp. 21 -142, a very early American

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