The Prison Bard: or Poems on Various Subjects

by George Thompson

$125 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

Hartford: William H. Burleigh, 1848. First Edition. First printing. 12mo 19cm . Quarter-bound in black leather with blue speckled paper-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine, all edges sprinkled grey; yellow endpapers; i -iv 5 6-215pp. A straight copy, much rubbed and scuffed, worn at head, tail, and joints, foxed: Good. In 1841, while attempting to free the slaves of a R.N.

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