Author: FIELDS, ANNIE
Title: The Singing Sheperd and Other Poems
Description: Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed, with a short inscription, by the author, on the front endpaper. This book is in Very Good to Near Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some edge wear and nicking to the paper spine label, along with rubbing and noticeable toning. The lettering has been badly rubbed. The text pages are clean, but have noticeable, generalized foxing. This copy has been signed, with a short inscription, by the author, on the front endpaper. "Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she was the second wife of the publisher and author James Thomas Fields, whom she married in 1854, and with whom she encouraged up and coming writers such as Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Freeman, and Emma Lazarus. She was equally at home with great and established figures including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose biography she fearlessly compiled." (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author. Very Good .

Keywords: Poetry Annie Fields Signed Editions Boston, MA


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