Abaddon, the Spirit of Destruction and other poems

by Sumner L. Fairfield

$65 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

First edition

New York: Sleight and Robinson, 1830. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 157 + 1 pp. Green covered boards with cloth spine. The author, Sumner Lincoln Fairfield 1803 - 1844 was an American poet born who, according to his own wife, had a very sensitive and melancholy as she stated: His nature was haughty, unbending, and reserved; he could not brook personal or newspaper attacks. I have seen him writhe under mental pain even

• Binding: Hardcover

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