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Whittier, John Greenleaf : Snow-Bound : A Winter Idyl

Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, Mass, 1892

Limited to 250 copies printed on Japanese paper, this is the Publisher's copy, later inscribed to Mrs Roland Hazard. 1st Edition of the "Prefatory Note". vii, 43 pages; photogravures; notes; bound in white vellum with gilt design and lettering on the cover and spine. Signs of slight wear to the top and bottom of the spine, else a fine clean copy inside and outside. Printed only on the left hand pages. Blanck - BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, Vol 9. Number 22152.. Illustr.: Garrett, E. H.. Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

Whittier, John Greenleaf : Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl

Ticknor and Fields, Boston, MA, 1866

First Edition, First Issue. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Protected in mylar. Very slight chipping at top of the spine and slight rubbing at bottom of the spine. Slight darkening to spine and edges of covers. A couple minuscule spots on back cover. Occasional light pencil marks in the margins. Bright, clean, Near Fine copy in a custom-made leather clamshell case. Leather case has beautiful blue and white marbled boards backed with blue leather. Book measures 4 3/4" x 7 1/4." Leather case measures 5 1/4" x 8." Fifty-two pages, complete. One black-and-white frontispiece portrait of the author and one black-and-white title illustration, complete. Former owner's bookplate tipped in on front pastedown: "Otto Orren Fisher." Bookplate features a black-and-white illustration. Excerpt from a laid-in description from a former owner (a book dealer): "First edition, first issue with page 52 numbered. ... in the rarest color cloth (except for two copies bound in white cloth for Whittier). The first issue of this book is so rare that it attracted forgers as early as the 1920s. This nostalgic poem shares a distinction with only five other American works of being on both the Grolier English Hundred (100) and the Grolier American Hundred (73). BAL 21862." Referenced in the Bibliography of American Literature (BAL) as no. 21862. John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was an American poet and abolitionist. He was one of the Fireside Poets, a group of poets mostly from New England who were very popular during the nineteenth century among critics and the general public alike. Many of their poems centered upon domestic and moral themes. Whittier is best-known for his anti-slavery writings and this book, Snow-Bound (1866). Snow-Bound is a narrative poem about members of an unnamed family who gather indoors after a snowstorm and tell stories of their life experiences until they are no longer snowed in. The poem tells of bucolic and nostalgic times past before the Civil War. The setting is Whittier's childhood home, John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead, in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Otto Orren Fisher (1881-1961) was an American industrial surgeon for the Hudson Motor Company and a nationally renowned book collector. His personal library contained over 80,000 volumes.. Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover

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