First editions of Thomas Bailey Aldrich, William Cullen Bryant, John Burroughs, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russel Lowell, Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier and other American authors ... including the collection of Charles E. Pyser of Paterson, N.J.