The Biglow Papers. Edited with an introduction, notes, glossary, and a copious index

by Homer Wilbur, A.M. by James Russell Lowell

$350 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition, BAL binding A. 12, xxxii, 163 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original brown cloth stamped in blind, spine title gilt. Some fading, head of spine chipped, foot rubbed; Very Good. BAL 13068, Grolier 100, No. 57. Item #218270 First edition of Lowell's caustic satire of the Mexican-American War and the issue of the expansion of slavery.

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