Apr 10, 2003 - Sale 1966

Sale 1966 - Lot 27

Price Realized: $ 489
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
[CLARKE, McDONALD.] The Elixir of Moonshine; being, A Collection of Prose and Poetry, by the Mad Poet. A Great Proportion of which has never before been published. lacks the portrait * Sketches. Volume 1 (of 2). Stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait. Together, 2 volumes. Small 8vo, first volume in late 19th-/early 20th-century 3/4 black morocco gilt, top of spine rubbed, with some light soiling and dampstaining of contents; second in contemporary sheep gilt, with superficial chipping on spine, front joint cracked, contents browned. Gotham: Printed at the Sentimental Epicure's Ordinary, A.M. 5822 [i. e., New York, 1822]; New York, 1826

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scarce first editions.