[Rarebooks] FS: THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT, First Edition, 1880

[Charles Agvent]

One of many interesting 19th Century American and British Literary items 
on our website: http://www.charlesagvent.com including signed pieces by 
William Wordsworth, Mark Twain, and many others.

THOMSON, James. THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT AND OTHER POEMS. London: 
Reeves & Turner, 1880. First Edition. Original cloth. First book by this 
alcoholic poet and prophet of despair whom Stanley Kunitz called "the 
most complete pessimist, perhaps, that literature has ever known." The 
title poem of this volume, his masterpiece, is one of the greatest of 
the nineteenth century. Small bookplate neatly removed from the front 
pastedown. Minor nicks to the spine tips and edge. A very attractive 
copy. (#008709)        $450.00

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