Excerpt from First Editions of American Authors: A Manual for Book-Lovers

Since it became known that for a few paltry dimes our fellow-hunter acquired that genuine prize, poignant anguish has been experienced by the rest of us, and none has suffered more than I, for though I covet not the responsibilities of a scapegoat, God knows I would cheerfully bear, instead of that man Way, the burden of shame resulting from having done a bookseller. It is true that I have one of these first Ballades, but what of that? Can an appreciative man have too much of a good thing, - when that good thing is a rare first edition?

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