MITCHELL, S[ilas] Weir

The mother and other poems.

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893. 8vo. iv, 69 pp. FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION. Original green publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine, “1892" in gilt to upper cover; top edges gilt, others uncut; light scattered foxing, affecting mostly the first and least few gatherings. From the library of Alfred Heacock Whittaker. Item #11778

First published edition of this collection of poems. Titles include My lady of the roses; The decay of Venice; and Evening by the sea. BAL, 6, 14155; BMC, XVII, 522; Osler, 5153.

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