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Paperback / softback. New.

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BiblioLife, 2009-03-19. Paperback. Used:Good.

BiblioLife, 2009-03-19. Hardcover. Used:Good.

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Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 12mo. Publisher's blind-stamped red cloth with spine gilt. 187pp., 8pp. ads (dated November, 1853). Cloth at the spine ends crown worn down to the text block, some light soiling, else very good. First book of poetry published anonymously by the suffragist, abolitionist, and author of *The Battle Hymn of the Republic,* Julia Ward Howe.

Boston : Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Worn copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Panels are dust-toned as with age. Spine bands are worn. Text remains clear and unblemished. SIGNED by Julia Howe Ward. Physical description; iv, 187 p. ; 19 cm. Subject; Passion-flowers.

Howe, Julia Ward. PASSION FLOWERS. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854. First edition, in unrecorded color. Original blue cloth, spine extra gilt. Her first book, published in an edition of 1,000 copies, that caused a lot of chatter upon publication and reached a third edition the same year. Nathaniel Hawthorne said she "ought to have been soundly whipped" for publishing it. Howe's frank and personal airing of her marital grievances is what upset proper Bostonians, especially her poem "Mind Versus Mill-Stream" which was a razor-sharp metaphor for a typical Victorian man's unrealistic expectation of finding… Read More

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854. First edition of Julia Ward Howe's first book. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, publisher's advertisements at rear dated 1853. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper prior to publication, "Lizzie Agassiz from her Julia Howe Dec. 22nd 1853." The recipient, Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz was an American author, naturalist, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In very good condition with the gilt to the spine bright. An exceptional association. Howe's first book was written in secret and published anonymously without her husband's knowledge by Longfellow and Ticknor, who had previously rejected one of her husband's manuscripts. The content was considered divisive as it overtly voiced Howe's frustrations with gender inequality and the confines of gender roles in 19th century America.