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Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition, first issue. 12mo. 52pp. Frontispiece engraving portrait of the poet with tissue guard. Half-title present. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. A very good copy (wear to extremities more so to spine ends; light abrasion to spine affecting gilting; dampstaining to rear board and last two pages; contemporary owner name). Item #13344
The poem, considered to be some of Whittier's best writing, chronicles a rural New England family as a snowstorm rages outside for three days. Stuck in their home, the family members exchange stories by their roaring fire.
Price: $300.00
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