Taghconic; Or Letters and Legends about our Summer Home

by Herman Melville, Godfrey Greylock, J. E. A. Smith

$500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. 228 pp. 8vo. Half cloth and marbled paper boards, ex library copy, with markings. Sealts, Melville's Reading, 478. Item #353966 A travel guide dedicated to the Summer Ramblers on the Berkshire Hills, which mentions the homes of several authors. The author notes that upon a little hill, around which the Housatonic makes a graceful curve, is the villa of Oliver Wendell Holmes...Adjoining

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