Item #37134 The Biglow Papers. Edited with an introduction, notes, glossary, and a copious index by Homer Wilbur, A.M. James Russell Lowell.

The Biglow Papers. Edited with an introduction, notes, glossary, and a copious index by Homer Wilbur, A.M.

Cambridge: Published by George Nichols, 1848.

Price: $300.00


About the item

First Edition, BAL binding A. 12, xxxii, 163 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original purple cloth stamped in blind, spine title gilt. Some fading, spine chipped with loss of headcap, foot rubbed, else very good, preserved in morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. BAL 13068, Grolier 100, No. 57.

Item #37134

First edition of Lowell's caustic satire of the Mexican-American War and the issue of the expansion of slavery.