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[HARTE, FRANCIS BRET].

"Poem" [in] Fourteenth Anniversary of the Society of California Pioneers.

Place and Imprint: San Francisco: Printed at the Alta California Book and Job Office, 1864.
Edition: First edition.
Bibliographical References: BAL 7237; Cowan, page 595.
Condition: Wrappers a little dust-soiled, but essentially a fine copy.
Book ID: 27716

Physical Description

8vo, original printed wrappers, 31 pages.

Comments

An eight-stanza poem written for the 14th anniversary of the Society of California Pioneers that juxtaposes the calmness of California to the violence of the Civil War in the Eastern states. "Poem" is one of Harte's earliest appearances in print, three years before his first book.

Price: $375.00