The Silent Harp;: or, Fugitive Poems
by ALLEN, Elizabeth
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Lebanon, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Burlington: Edward Smith, 1832. First edition. 8vo. 119, [1] pp. Publisher's blue cloth-backed pink boards, printed spine label; some wear to covers, contents foxed, rfep removed, a few annotations by a contemporary reader First edition of this collection of poems by the Vermont poet, stricken with deafness by a fever in her sixteenth year. The volume concludes with the antislavery poem "The African." The volume merited a second edition, published in 1835. Allen published her autobiography along with a collection of short stories in Sketches of Green Mountain Life, 1846. The author is not be confused with Elizabeth Akers Allen (1832-1911).PROVENANCE: Thomas Leigh (presentation inscription dated Jan. 1861 on ffep); Dr. E.B. Hamilton (signature to front cover); Hallowell Social Library (circulating library label on front pastedown)
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- Bookseller
- Bull's Head Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100861
- Title
- The Silent Harp;
- Author
- ALLEN, Elizabeth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Edward Smith
- Place of Publication
- Burlington
- Date Published
- 1832
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Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- RFEP
- The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be...