[GOODRICH, SAMUEL GRISWOLD.] THE TALES OF PETER PARLEY ABOUT AMERICA. Illustrated with 36 wood engravings on 32 plates, many signed with

initial H [Alonso Hartwell], several others by J. W. Barber, a few with color added from a later owner. 12mo, original 1/4 sheep, original boards, worn with covers detached; endpapers detached and with childish scrawl in brown ink, some scattered dampstaining and browning to text, a few minor marginal chips or short tears; 1/4 morocco slipcase. Boston: S. G. Goodrich, 1827 FIRST EDITION of the rare first book of tales by the original Peter Parley. Only a few copies appear to come have come up previously at auction: one in New York in 1974, the Oppenheimer copy sold in London in 1982, and the incomplete H. Bradley Martin/Mildred Greenhill copy in New York in 1990. Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod 1 (recording only the Harvard University copy); Grolier/American 35; Pierpont Morgan 49 (the C. Waller Barrett copy "one of two known copies").