Bars Fight in History of Western Massachusetts. The Counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin and Berkshire. Volume II, Part III

by Lucy Terry, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Prince

$15,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Springfield, MA: Samuel Bowles and Company, 1855. First edition of the first book-appearance of the poem Bars Fight by Lucy Terry, which is believed to be the oldest known work of literature by an African American. 619pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt and decorated in blind. Good, binding a little tender, worn and softened corners, sunned spine with loss, bookplate to front pastedown, tidemarks to prelim

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