205 items in the characteristic Bookworm & Silverfish fold-out broadsheet format, a heterogenous mix of Americana, Southern material, sheet music, literature and miscellanea. Includes a fugitive Pittsbugh novel, Samuel Young’s Tom Hanson, the Avenger, a Tale of the Backwoods (Pittsburgh, 1847), “Wrps (rubbed, edges frayed, age soil) preserved in later scuffed leather”:
By 1950 Pittsburg columnist George Sweetnam reported no copies located of any of the three [Sam’l Young titles]. Over half a century later OCLC still locates no copy (nor of the other two, for that matter!). . . . $2500.
(I cannot mention a novel of this sort without putting in a plug for David Reynolds’ Beneath the American Renaissance, a lively study of sensational American literature of this period and something of a touchstone for the Bibliophagist bookselling concern.)
Contact Bookworm & Silverfish (Mr. Jim Presgraves, prop.), PO Box 639, Wytheville, VA 24382. (276) 686-5813.
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