Wolfert's Roost And Other Papers, Now First Collected

New York: G.P. Putnam & Co, 1855. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and blind. Near fine in maroon cloth chemise, housed in fine three quarter brown morocco slipcase. 383 pages. 19x 13 cm. Twelve pages of Publisher ads at rear dated February 1855. Essays include The Birds of Spring, The Creole Village, The Bermudas, Sketches in Paris, The Seminoles, Don Juan et al. Engraved frontispiece and additional title page. With U.S. one cent postage stamp of Washington Irving pasted at front free endpaper. First printing with correct pagination and the frontispiece and title page pasted to the stub of excised leaf. Spine foot nicked, interior contents clean. BAL 10108.