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LOWELL, Robert T. S.]

FRESH HEARTS THAT FAILED THREE THOUSAND YEARS AGO; WITH OTHER THINGS

Ticknor and Fields Boston 1860 1st edition. Original embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering. Front cover a little puckered with a tiny worm hole on the spine; extremities of spine (1/8-inch) chipped. 7-1/4 x 4-1/2 inches. BAL 13480: binding A. March 1860 advts. Four pages of reviews tipped in at front; as issued. The preferred state of an uncommon book of poetry by Jas. Russell Lowell's brother, including his best known poem, "The Relief of Lucnow." ("It was the pipes of the Highlanders/ And now they played 'Auld Lang Syne/' It came to our men like the voice of God/ And they shouted along the line.")

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