Poems and ballads

by A. P. McCombs

$200 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Baltimore: John W. Woods, 1865. 12mo, pp. 2 , 161, 1 ; original green cloth, gilt title on spine; light wear to extremities, some spotting in text, very good. Among the general cliches of pretty girls, the weather, and the local geography, are a number of poems on the politics of the day, including the emancipation of Maryland, the assassination of Lincoln, draft dodgers, and National Treasury Vampires. The author does not appear to have published anything

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