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M. Doolady, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1867 M. Doolady (New York), 4 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches tall full leather bound, gilt ruling and gilt-lettered red leather labels to spine, recently rebound with refreshed endpapers, lacking two plates but otherwise complete, xi, [1], [5]-237, [1] pp. Very slight rubbing to covers. Tiny edge chip to the fore edge of the title page and dedication page. Minor age toning to final page of text. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this rare issue. ~EB06~ [1.5P] First edition of the first published volume of poetry from poet and journalist Mary Lambert, then writing in her first husband's name of Tucker. The author, Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert (1838-1896) was born in Alabama and raised in Georgia before settling in Philadelphia after the Civil War. Of particular note are Lambert's poems describing the sorrows of the post-war South. Three years after this collection and Lowe's Bridge, A Broadway Idyl were…
Read More Loew's Bridge: A Broadway Idyl by [LAMBERT, Mary Eliza Tucker] - 1867
by [LAMBERT, Mary Eliza Tucker]
Loew's Bridge: A Broadway Idyl
by [LAMBERT, Mary Eliza Tucker]
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New York: M. Doolady, Publisher, 1867. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. 78pp. Frontispiece and six wood engravings. Publisher's brown cloth titled and decorated in gilt, beveled boards. Contemporary bookplate of C.S. Skinner and penciled gift inscription. Scattered foxing throughout, modest inner corner damage on frontispiece leaf, slight wear at spine ends, overall very good. The Alabama-born author published two volumes of poetry, both in 1867. An 1870 autobiographical sketch which appeared in *Southland Writers* implied she was from an impoverished family of the white Southern aristocracy, giving no hint of her African-American ancestry. The Loew's Bridge referred to in the title of this long narrative poem was a pedestrian bridge in New York City at the corner of Broadway and Fulton Streets.
- Bookseller Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (US)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available 1
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher M. Doolady, Publisher
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1867
- Keywords Americana, AmerLit20thCent, Poetry, NYCinterest