Poems written during the progress of the abolition question in the United States, between the years 1830 and 1838
$450 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books
First edition
Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1837. First edition, second issue, with two added poems at the back; 12mo, pp. 103, 1 ; engraved frontispiece, 2 medallion wood engravings, woodcut ornaments in the text; front hinge cracked, else very good in original green cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover. Whittier later said the book was published without his knowledge, full of errors, merely for abolition purposes. In this copy a suitor has added a holograph verse
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