The Jonny-cake letters I-XII. Dedicated to the memory of Phillis, my grandfather's colored cook.

by Shepard Tom by Thomas Hazard

$500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Providence: Sidney S. Rider, 1880. First separate and first collected edition; 12mo, pp. 4 , 173, 1 ; original printed gray wrappers; pages toned; very good copy contained in a quarter brown morocco slipcase, gilt-lettered spine. These letters originally appeared in the Newport Mercury and the Providence Journal during the years 1878-79. The letters were later continued to the number of twenty-six, but these were not separately issued. With the ownership

• Binding: Leather

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