ATTEMPTING TO PURCHASE A REMAINDER STOCK, in an autograph letter, signed 20 March 1848 from Washington, D.C., to publishers Lindsay & Blakiston of Philadelphia

by Samuel Colman

$150 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

4to. One-page, below a list of 11 titles from one to ten copies of each and some calculations showing his balance with Lindsay & Blakiston, Colman reports the above are on hand. Please say at what price you will sell what remains of this & mark for cash … I expect to be at the Trade sale in N.Y. & presume I shall have the pleasure of meeting one of you. This Samuel Colman seems to be the father of the prominent American artist of the same name; the elder Colman b. 1799 ,

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