Author: FRANKLIN, Benjamin
Title: Father Abraham's Speech
Description: N.p. G.K. Hall & Co, 1963. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff blue wrappers. 24pp. Fine. Massachusetts Historical Society director Stephen T. Riley introduces this superb facsimile of "the only known nearly perfect copy.. printed and sold in Boston by Benjamin Mecom in 1758" -- the first separate printing of Franklin's famed "Sayings of Poor Richard." A lovely Christmas keepsake and a tight, pristine substitute for the unobtainable first edition!.

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