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Poems

Poems

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Book Notes: Front hinge cracked and starting at the gutter, still holding. Red cloth decorated in black and gilt; spine ends frayed and worn; corners rubbed. Foxing and staining on the endpapers, with pencil owner notes on the front endpapers. Text block edges toned; pages foxed throughout.

Author(s): John Greenleaf Whittier
Edition: Alta Edition

Publication year: 1890

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: Worthington Co.

Condition: Acceptable
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A one-volume collection of the poems of John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), the American Quaker poet who worked to end slavery through his writing, editing and political organizing, a founding member of the American Anti-Slavery Society and one of the Fireside Poets, remembered for his antislavery writings and for Snow-Bound. Contents open with "Mogg Megone," "Toussaint L'Ouverture," "The Yankee Girl" and "To William Lloyd Garrison" and include "The Slave-Ships," "Stanzas for the Times" and hymns written for anti-slavery meetings. Published by Worthington Co., 747 Broadway, New York, 1890, in the publisher's decorated cloth with "Alta Edition" on the spine.

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