The Literary Examiner, and Western Monthly Review [bound with:] The Examiner and Hesperian [caption titles for both].; [Edited by E. Burke Fisher and W.H. Burleigh]

[Pittsburgh, PA: Whitney & MCord], 1840. First edition, volume I, nos. 1-5 of the first title (wanting No. 6); volume II, no. 1 of the second (wanting No. 2). 4to. Two titles bound in one: 392; 72 pp. Wanting any title page, index, or preliminaries that might have been published. The Examiner and Hesperian was a new name the editors chose for The Literary Examiner as a second volume began, but the whole enterprise ended after no. 2 of the former was issued (perhaps occasioned by the move to Cleveland of one of the editors, E. Burke Fisher, who continued his publishing career there). Mott I, pp. 390 and 804. OCLC: "This Pittsburgh literary magazine published poetry and tales, literary reviews, biographical sketches, and articles on geography." American Imprints 56847 (Library of Congress, Minnesota Historical Society, North Carolina, Texas-Austin, Spokane Public). OCLC apparently locates only microform and internet resource versions (all recording only a caption title). Endpapers at front repaired, those at the rear wanting, owners' names, foxed; still a good serviceable copy of a rare western periodical. Contemporary calf (quite rubbed and worn), rather crudely rebacked in leather at an early date, leather spine label. (#5711).