Fine Books & Manuscripts
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Lot 50
[AMERICANA]. [“UNCLE SAM”]. FIDFADDY, Frederick Augustus. T...
Estimate: $200 - $400
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[AMERICANA]. [?UNCLE SAM?]. FIDFADDY, Frederick Augustus. The Adventures of Uncle Sam, in Search After His Lost Honor. Middletown: Seth Richards, 1816. 8vo. 412 pp. Bound in modern quarter brown leather over plain boards, spine lettered in yellow (binding toned, rubbed, pages 73 and 74 lacking, but supplied in modern photocopy, title-page chipped at inner margin, text toned, soiled, foxed). Good. THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS POLITICAL ALLEGORY, AND THE FIRST BOOK TO SYMBOLIZE THE UNITED STATES AS ?UNCLE SAM.? Measurements: 7 x 5 x ??.
