Autograph fair copy, signed of A Mystical Ballad. 10 stanzas

by James Russell Lowell

$2,250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

3 pages inlaid with verso of second leaf addressed to G. R. Graham Publisher of Philadelphia. Folio 14 x 10 1/2 inches 36 x 26.5 cm . Blue-gray crushed morocco with an arabesque border, with gilt dentelles with a leaf and flower motif, cream moire silk pastedowns and endsheets, a.e.g., by Stikeman. Light wear to the binding, faint old dampstain to watered silk endpapers, the manuscript with traces of the usual folds, a few restorations, loss to the foot of the second sheet, the poem itself

• Binding: Leather

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