Free Thought Lectures! and Poems.
Santa Cruz, California: Courier-Item Book Office, 1884.
Price: $100.00
About the item
First edition. Woodcut frontispiece portrait. 160pp. 8vo. Publisher's burgundy cloth, upper cover titled in gilt, worn and some discoloration. Text a bit toned. Early owner's inscriptions on endpapers.
Item #338514
An anthology of poems and lectures devoted to Free Thought, edited (with contributions) by Dr. James L. York (et al). The table of contents lists various contributors, in addition to the author: Chas. Mackay, Lizzie Doten, Jno. H. Yates, Alex M'Lachlan, Gerald Massey et al. OCLC locates eleven holdings of this 1884 first edition. An expanded edition was published in 1888.
