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[TYLER, ROYALL. 1757-1826.]The Algerine Captive; or, the Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill: Six Years a Prisoner .... Walpole, NH: 1797. 2 volumes. 12mo (158 x 98 mm). Modern gilt-ruled morocco, signed Bennett, N.Y. on front turn-in. Browning, slight chipping to first title page, a few inked margin notes. FIRST EDITION, published anonymously by Boston playwright and jurist Royall Tyler. Tyler gained fame with his play The Contract, the first American-written and performed play, which debuted in New York City in the same year this work was published, and was attended by then-President George Washington. Rare, with only two other copies known at auction since 1945. Evans 3295.