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Book Condition: Used Handsome presentation of these scarce proofs, the leaves rather fragile with a couple of splits and one page with a detached seg
Seller: Charles Agvent

United States
About Item: [1894]. First Edition. Manuscript. Handsome presentation of these scarce proofs, the leaves rather fragile with a couple of splits and one page with a detached segment laid in. Near Fine. The proofs of one of Field's best-known poems consisting of 6 long rather fragile printed leaves with the heading "Sharps and Flats" on the top of one page, the title of his weekly newspaper column, neatly bound into a lovely full brown morocco leather folder with gilt lettering on the front cover and silk pastedowns and endpapers. Each leaf has extensive pencil corrections for publication in the Chicago DAILY NEWS on 4 May 1894. With Field's bookplate on the verso of the front silk endpaper. Peter is a little boy in Kentucky who likes to read and ignores his chores and warnings about a witch. One morning he walks into the witch's fog and disappears. His family and neighbors head into the fog calling for him. Some say the witch in her wrath transmogrified all those good people; That, wakened from slumber that day… Read More
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