SELECT TALES. BEING A COMPILATION OF SINGULAR, INTERESTING, REMARKABLE AND AUTHENTIC NARRATIVES, ANCIENT AND MODERN. SELECTED PRINCIPALLY FROM THE MOST ESTEEMED AND POPULAR LITERARY WORKS, EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN, THE GREATER PART OF WHICH HAVE NEVER BEFORE BEEN OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC IN BOOK FORM

Charlottesville: Printed by Watson & Tompkins for Joseph Martin, 1833. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. First Edition of Select Tales; A Compilation of Singular, Interesting, Remarkable and Authentic Narratives, Ancient and Modern, edited by Joseph Martin. A collection of peculiar and often macabre tales, including "The Wife of Seven Husbands," "The Murderer's Last Night," and "The Cavern of Death: A Narrative of Border Warfare." One of two issues according to Wright, this volume with the note 'To Subscribers' at the end of the Preface, p. 4. Contemporary writing in pencil and ink to the endpapers and preliminaries. Wear and slight surface loss and cracking to the leather binding. Full calf with a tan leather label. Very Good. Fourteen institutional holdings noted on OCLC. (American Imprints 21151. Wright 1819). Very Good binding.