Our country; its dangers and its destiny: a desultory poem, pronounced before the Allegheny Literary Society at its semi-annual celebration, September 2, 1841

by William Henry Burleigh

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First edition · Signed

Allegheny: Allegheny Literary Society, 1841. First edition, 12mo, pp. 43, 1 ; original brown cloth gilt-stamped on upper cover; small chip in spine; very good, sound, and clean. The author's first or second book see Foley . In 1833, Burleigh assisted his brother, Lucian, in editing The Unionist, a paper founded to support Prudence Crandall's school for African Americans, in which he also taught. Inscribed in pencil from Lucian Burleigh to E. H. Squier, author

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