[Rarebooks] For Sale: American Poetry - Association Copy in Custom Binding

[Norman Kane]

DAVIDSON, LUCRETIA MARIA.   AMIR KHAN, AND OTHER POEMS: THE REMAINS 
OF LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON, WHO DIED AT PLATTSBURGH, N. Y. . . . AGED 
16 YEARS . . .  WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH, BY SAMUEL F. B. MORSE, 
A.M.   N. Y.: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1829.  First Edition.
Half polished calf with marbled boards, somewhat rubbed, spine 
labelled and decorated in gilt, binder's ticket of Wm. Ashkettle, 
Bookbinder, 27 Pine-Street.
Inscribed: "G. A. Worth, Esq., with the highest regards of the 
Author's Brother, M. M. Davidson. Nov.8th 1838."  All edges gilt; 
boards and end papers with unusual diagonal marbling. Collector's 
military bookplate.                $325.00         (Trade Discount 10%)


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