The Long Island Farmer's Poems. Lines Written on the "Quaker City" Excursion to Palestine, and Other Poems [Inscribed and Signed]
New York: N. Tibbals & Sons, [1886]. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author on front pastedown: "To My Esteemed Friend Isaac D. Barton / With the compliments of Author Bloodgood H. Cutter. 1887." Octavo (19cm.); publisher's brown decorative cloth stamped in black, gilt-lettered spine; [2],iv,5-499pp; engraved portrait frontispiece, plates throughout. Light shelf wear, textblock somewhat toned and brittle due to poor paper quality; title page, once detached, has been re-attached on a stub. Good only.
Illustrations include a portrait of Mark Twain, who incorporated Cutter into his work "Innocents Abroad" as the simple-minded "poet lariat." Uncommon signed.
Price: $125.00