Nov 17, 2020 - Sale 2551

Sale 2551 - Lot 163

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
DE QUINCEY, THOMAS. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Half-title. 12mo (177 x 105 mm), contemporary 1/2 tan calf over marbled boards, front cover and front endpaper detached; ownership inscription, 6 pp. publisher's advertisements at end; supplied cloth dust jacket, matching cloth folding box. First edition of de Quincey's first published work. [and] Another copy. Half-title. 12mo (155 x 95 mm), original boards, spine and joints mostly perished, front cover detached, staining; ownership initials, gathering split at pp. 104-105 held by two cords; supplied glassine and cloth dust jacket, housed in cloth box as above. First American Edition. Philadelphia, 1823. London: Taylor & Hessey, 1822