Truth: a New Year's gift for scribblers

by William J. Snelling

$325 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Boston: Stephen Foster, 1831. First edition of the author's first book of poetry, 16mo, pp. vi, 7 -52; without the errata slip not present in all copies ; a nice copy in original muslin-backed drab boards, the cloth a little nicked and brooken along the spine. Snelling 1804-1848 was the son of Josiah Snelling, commandant of the fort that bears his name at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers in St. Paul. William lived at Fort Snelling for

• Binding: Hardcover

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