1810 GOTHIC HORROR NOVEL. The Sicilian Pirate Sells Soul to Devil & Prophecies by a Wizard. Rare. Reformer ] were made and probably

] were made and probably sold or given for a certain donation amount

EIGHTY SEVEN YEARS HAVE I SOJOURNED ON THE EARTH

Silvester Tiffany

The Hudson River [excellent woodcut of Native Americans

half of which number were Indian orphan children who have been taught to read and write

1810 GOTHIC HORROR NOVEL. The Sicilian Pirate Sells Soul to Devil & Prophecies by a Wizard. Rare. Reformer ] were made and probablyA very rare gothic "terror" novel or "horror" novel, of the kind satirized by Jane Austen. It belongs to a school of literature which spawned enduring literature, such as Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, etc., but which was largely littered with lurid tales that mashed into a chapbook format every horror and taboo with which one might induce a reader to inquire within. . . a sort of printed menagerie or "freak show." The present work is