Poems. (including A Visit from Saint Nicholas)

Moore, Clement C. / NY: Bartlett & Welford 1844
first edition but includes previously published material; small octavo, [i] (half title)-[xiv], [15]-216 pp, later half leather has top of spine covering broken off and lacks the front cover, general age toning to interior but paper not fragile, on an added leaf there are six lines of music in an unknown hand with the note "The above is the Melody with the harmony referred to on pages 49 & 50", the end of the poem A Trip to Saratoga; includes A Visit from Saint Nicholas on pages [124]-127 in its first appearance as a work formally recognized by the author as his own, it had previously appeared under his name in The New York Book of Poetry ... in 1837 but this was more of an attribution and there is a minority view that Henry Livingston was the real author; BAL 14348. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: American literature, poetry

Item #: 530268

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