The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth by Thomas Bailey Aldrich - 2012-01-10

New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1858. Book. NVG. Original Cloth. First Edition. Book has occasional interior foxing, slightly bumped corners, no ads, and p. 14 does not carry a translation. Gilt lettering on spine is approx. 90% complete..

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1858. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 41, [1]pp. Blind embossed brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine title. Minor foxig and soiling, else near fine. *BAL* 251: first state.

New York: Ridd & Carleton, 1858. Spine and board edges sunned, pp. 20-25 with small stains in upper margins.. 12mo (18 x 11 cm). 41 pages. Frontispiece, with tissue guard, half-title printed on recto; tailpieces, including Arabic quotations. Advertising leaf at front for Aldrich's 'A Collection of Poems." Publisher's plum blind-ruled and -monogrammed cloth. Provenance: C.B. Tillinghast (bookplate, his book number 1175). FIRST EDITION, first state, with p. [14] containing an Arabic quotation with no English translation, and no terminal advertisements. Aldrich references Poe's "The Thousand-And-Second Tale of Scheherazade" in his Preface: "To this same Arabic Wonder-Book [Tellmenow Isitsoornot] is Mr. Poe greatly indebted for his Thousand and Second Tale." BAL 251.

New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1858 41 pages.. Illus. by Frontis.. 8vo. First Edition (1st issue). Original Cloth. Very Good Plus.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1858. First Edition. 3/4 Leather. Very Good. 18.5 x 11.5 cm. 12mo. 41pp. Bound into 3/4 blue leather, gilt spine lettering and floral pattern.Original green pebbled cloth covers have been bound into the rear. Presentation copy with inscription from the publisher dated August 1858. First edition, first state as per BAL with no advertisements and the line in Arabic on page 14 not translated. Some scuffing to the spine. There is a gouge to the bottom right of the front cover. BAL 251.

1858. ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH. NY: Rudd & Carleton, 1858. Sm. 8vo., embossed green cloth. First Edition, first state, with no terminal advertisements and without the English translation for a line of Arabic appearing on p. . [BAL 251]. Signed presentation from Aldrich, to contemporary fellow-poet William Winter, on the front endpaper: "William Winter/ With the "'True Love'" of/ T.B. Aldrich." Also, with Winters' personal bookplate on the front pastedown and with his ownership signature on the verso of the front endpaper. Winter also has made a few pencil marks in the outer margins of a few pages. An early association copy between two well-known writers- both just beginning their literary careers. Aldrich also makes mention of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Thousand-And-Second Tale of Scheherazade" in his Preface: "To this same Arabic Wonder-Book [Tellmenow Isitsoornot] is Mr. Poe greatly indebted for… Read More