Item #39581 Napoleon Bonaparte and other Poems. Sara Generva Chafa.

Spiritualist's Poems, Inscribed

Napoleon Bonaparte and other Poems.

Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1872.

Price: $350.00


About the item

First Edition. Frontispiece Photograph by Otto Wagner, New York. 1 vols. 8vo. Spiritualist's Poems, Inscribed. Bound in Publisher's presentation full pebbled brown morocco, a.e.g., marble endpapers with their label at the back "Bound by the Riverside Press."

Item #39581

Inscribed on flyleaf "Hiram B. Croisby With the Regards of the Author, June 17, 1872."

Miss Chafa went on to become Mrs. H.S. Lake, speaker at the First Spiritual Temple. Her life was quite spirited. Her husband Mr. Lake was a Priest when he met her, but smitten he renounced his vows and married the young lady.