James T. Fields: Biographical Notes and Personal Sketches with Unpublished Fragments and Tributes from Men and Women of Letters

Beschreibung

8vo. Rebound in teal green cloth with gilt spine lettering. 275pp. Very good. Modern binding near fine, while internally tight and moderately, lightly age toned throughout. Ex-library, with very few and discreet markings and rectangular inkstamped "Young Men's Library Association Dubuque, Iowa" lightly inkstamped on title page and last text page. A tight and nice first edition, despite faint ex-library markings. Annie Fields (1834-1915), who compiled this shortly after Fields' death, was widow of this publisher, editor, poet and lecturer (1817-81) and herself an author of some renown. Since a signed copy of this posthumously-published collection is impossible, here's the next best thing: Tipped to front flyleaf is a clipped (4½" X 7/8") letter closing, a hurried "Truly Yours J.T. Fields" and a few partial words above penned in his usual purple ink. The volume closes with a poem written specifically for it by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Auf Wiedersehen," which appears here (pp. 274-75) for the first time.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

James T. Fields: Biographical Notes and Personal Sketches with Unpublished Fragments and Tributes from Men and Women of Letters

Verlag

Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston

Veröffentlichungsdatum

1881

Bindung

Hardcover

Ausgabe

1. Auflage

Signiert

Signatur des Verfassers

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• Literary Biography