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CULTURED OYSTER BOOKS LITERATURE • FINE ARTS • SCIENCE P.O. Box 404, Planetarium Station • New York, NY • 10024 CATALOG NINETEEN Terms Individuals unknown to us are requested to pay in advance. Libraries will be billed. Items may be returned within ten days of receipt. We prefer to ship by USPS Priority mail. Actual postage cost by zone and weight will be charged per order. <strong>Books</strong> may be reserved for a limited period by telephone or email. If using email, please include the words CATALOG NINETEEN in the subject line. Residents of New York State will be billed for the appropriate sales tax. All items are offered subject to prior sale. All modern items are first editions in dust jackets unless otherwise noted. We have tried to describe the condition of both book and dust jacket as carefully as possible. We would be glad to receive want lists and to assist in building specific collections and we are also interested in purchasing similar material Payment can be accepted by: Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express Search our additional stock at: http://www.abebooks.com Visit our new website at: http://www.oysterbooks.com (212) 362‐0269 cultured@oysterbooks.com George and Becky Koppelman
A Profitable Adventure to the Fortunate Literature & Letters & Early Printing 1 – 101; 154 – 156; Fine Arts 102 – 121; Science, Mathematics, & Medicine 122 – 153. References Cited & Index of Authors & Subjects 1. Adams, John Quincy. DERMOT MAC MORROGH, OR THE CONQUEST OF IRELAND; An Historical Tale of the Twelfth Century in Four Cantos. Boston: Carter, Hendee & Co., 1832. A 10-page Dedication and Preface “To my countrymen and readers” by the author, is followed by a long 92-page narrative poem in 266 8-line ottava rima stanzas. There is an errata slip tipped in at the last page. Several of the errata items appear to have been hand-corrected in the text in Adams’s hand. The book has been rebound in leather c.1950, now faintly rubbed, with gilt lettering on the spine. The text is complete with the half-title and trailing blank, in very good condition showing just occasional light foxing. Adams once wrote, “Could I have chosen my own genius and condition, I would have made myself a great poet.” Indeed, a collection of his shorter verse, Poems of Religion and Society, was published in 1848 and went through many printings in the following decades. The first poem in that book, The Wants of Man, was later cited by Ralph Waldo Emerson as one of his favorite poems. However, Dermot Mac Morrogh was not a success, perhaps due in part to Adams’s intent for it to be “a moral tale, teaching the citizens of these States of both sexes, the virtues of conjugal fidelity, of genuine piety, and of devotion to their country.” Note: There has been only one other book of poetry by an American president, Always a Reckoning by Jimmy Carter, published in 1995. There have also been a number of collections of Abraham Lincoln’s writings that incorporate some early verse, and no doubt similar miscellaneous poems by other presidents have appeared in print. The New Yorker recently unearthed two undergraduate poems by current presidential aspirant Barack Obama that were published in 1981 in Feast, the Occidental College literary magazine. When asked to comment, Harold Bloom told The New Yorker that he was “not unimpressed by the young man’s efforts,” in contrast to his scathing dismissal of Carter’s book, calling him “literally the worst poet in the United States.” We would hazard that 6 would suffer a much kinder fate than 39 if subject to that kind of scrutiny. Quite scarce. $750.00 James Agee’s copy at Phillips Exeter Academy, March, 1927 2. [Agee, James] Sinclair Lewis. ELMER GANTRY. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. A later printing, ex-library copy with the bookplate of The Phillips Exeter Academy library on the front pastedown, stamped DISCARDED, in good condition only, but with James Agee’s signature, J R Agee dated March 1927 on the front free endpaper. In March, 1927, Agee, at age 17, was in his “upper-middle” year (junior) at Exeter, an admirer of Sinclair Lewis and already committed to a literary career, submitting poems and stories to the Phillips Exeter Monthly. This is the very copy mentioned in one of his early letters to Father Flye (Letters of James Agee to Father Flye, pp. 27-28,) dated Exeter March 17, 1927. Agee writes: “I’ve bought and read Elmer Gantry, the Lewis satire on religion. It’s very
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