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Miram, and other Poems
by Whittier, John Greenleaf
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Fields, Osgood and Company, 1871. First Edition. Small Octavo. Frontispiece, vignette title page, 106 pages. His poems were devout with a Quaker sensitivity and an incipient evangelicalism. In this poem, the devout Miram seeks to convert her Muslim master with appeals to beauty. Like most of his later poems, this poem is beautifully constructed yet easily accessible to the reader. A fine copy of the first edition (the later printings were by James Osgood and company). Bound in green cloth over beveled boards, lettering gilt, spine lettering gilt, brown coated endpapers, no names or bookplates. A very handsome copy. [BAL 21889].
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- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 031053
- Title
- Miram, and other Poems
- Author
- Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Fields, Osgood and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1871
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Islam--History and Art;
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Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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Scottsdale, Arizona
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