Ames, Mary Clemmer: A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary, with Some of Their Later Poems

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Ames, Mary Clemmer : A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary, with Some of Their Later Poems

Hurd and Houghton, New York, 1873

Original publisher's brown cloth binding. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 351 pages, complete. Two black and white plates showing the portraits of Alice and Phoebe Cary. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Impressed floral decorations on front cover and spine. Impressed border decoration on back cover. Tiny bit of chipping on top and bottom edge of spine and one corner of back cover. Book is otherwise very clean and intact. Pages and covers are clean. Binding is tight. Alice (1820-1871) and Phoebe Cary (1824-1871) were American poets. The two sisters had a Universalist upbringing and supported Progressive ideas. This book contains a biography of Alice and Phoebe Cary and includes several of their poems under categories such as "Ballads and Love Songs," "Poems of Thought," "Poems of Nature and Home," "Religious Poems," and "Last Poems.". Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover

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