[Rarebooks] FS: Pennsylvania Deutsch verse--Ephrata imprint

[Bob Petrilla]

Hoffman, Benneville Ottomar. SNARL OF A CYNIC: A Rhyme by Benneville
Ottomar Hoffman, A Pennsylvania Teuton. Ephrata, Lancaster Co., PA: P.
Martin Heitler, Printer, 1868. First Edition. 40pp.  6" x 4"  Very Good.
Original cloth.
This interesting Ephrata imprint presents a long poem in which a
misanthrope pours out his history and philosophy of life. Written "by one
of that class of native Americans known as the Pennsylvania Dutch, a
peculiar class of people, of peculiar habits and customs, and perhaps of
peculiar turns of thought" (printer's introduction).    $50.00


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