ATTEMPTING TO PURCHASE A REMAINDER STOCK, in an autograph letter, signed 20 March 1848 from Washington, D.C., to publishers Lindsay & Blakiston of Philadelphia.
4to. One-page, below a list of 11 titles (from one to ten copies of each) and some calculations showing his balance with Lindsay & Blakiston, Colman reports "the above are on hand. Please say at what price you will sell what remains of this & mark for cash … I expect to be at the Trade sale in N.Y. & presume I shall have the pleasure of meeting one of you." This Samuel Colman seems to be the father of the prominent American artist of the same name; the elder Colman (b. 1799), a native of Maine, began his bookselling career in Portland before relocating, first to Boston, as a bookseller from the 1820s, as a publisher from 1833, then to New York; in the later 1840s he operated a store in both cities. Folded (old cellophane tape repair to a separated horizontal fold, with browning from adhesive); binding traces along one edge. (10622). Item #37410
Price: $150.00