The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

by James Hogg

$15,000 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. First edition. First printing, one of just a thousand copies; reports indicate that fewer than three hundred actually sold. In 1828, the leftover sheets were reissued with a new title-page as The Suicide's Grave; or, Memoirs and Confessions of a Sinner, and a severely bowdlerized version was published in 1837 as volume five of Tales and

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