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Boston: Light and Stearns, 1836, 1836. First edition. BAL 21697; American Imprints 42466. Recased with new endpapers (as it was when Spoor owned it); cloth slightly stained and faded; very good copy, enclosed in a red morocco solander case.. 16mo, original patterned brown cloth, gilt decoration and lettering on the upper board. An early narrative poem by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1891), based on the story of the legendary 17th century Indian warrior Mogg Hegon. Mogg Megone was first published in the spring of 1835 in two issues of The New England Magazine. From the library of collector John A. Spoor, with his bookplate crowding the front paste-down of this small volume. Lot 1131 in the Spoor sale catalogue, Parke-Bernet, 1939.
Mogg Megone. A Poem by WHITTIER, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) - 1836
by WHITTIER, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)
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Mogg Megone. A Poem
by WHITTIER, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)
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Boston: Light & Stearns, 1836. Spine lightly sunned, some foxing, but a very attractive, unsophisticated copy. 16mo (11.3 x 6.7 cm). iv, 69 pages. Publisher's blue embossed cloth, gilt-title within arabesque frame on front cover. FIRST EDITION, with terminal leaf used as the rear pastedown as often. Whittier's epic narrative poem used the life of the Native American warrior Mogg Hegon "as a frame-work for sketches of the scenery of New England, and of its early inhabitants. In portraying the Indian character, he has followed, as closely as his story would admit, the rough but natural delineations of Church, Mayhew, Charlevoix, and Roger Williams; and in so doing he has necessarily discarded much of the romance which poets and novelists have thrown around the ill-fated red man" (preface). It was first published in two issues of The New England Magazine in 1835. American Imprints 42466; BAL 21697; Sabin 103809. In entirely original condition, unrestored.
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- Date Published 1836
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Mogg Megone, A Poem
by WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF
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- Hardcover
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