SONGS OF SUMMER

by Richard Henry Stoddard

$225 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition · Signed

Boston, MA : Ticknor and Fields, 1857. First edition. 19 cm. viii, 1 - 229pp.; 12pp. October 1856 publisher's catalog. Faded and edgeworn purple cloth. Inscribed to Harriet McEwen Kimball from a friend Jan., 1857 with a tipped in manuscript poem of Stoddard's titled The Speech of Love with variant lines from the printed version in the book. BAL 19070. It appears the signature was clipped from the manuscript poem. Harriet was a noted poet herself, assume the

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