[Item #31474] Home: Femme Heroic and Miscellaneous Poems. Jessee H. BUTLER.

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Boston: Colby and Rich, 1875. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's blue decorative gilt-embossed cloth; 236pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece, tissue guard. Boards rather rubbed, upper cover soiled and gilt unevenly dulled, some foxing to textblock edges and frontispiece, else About Very Good and sound. Chiefly amateur nature poetry by a San Francisco author. From the Preface: "He [the author]...like the lark, builds his nest on the dear old Earth, as on the bosom of his mother; and like the same unassuming little bird, flutters upward, towards the sun, singing and trembling in his own ecstasy" (pp. 7-8).

Price: $75.00

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