Item Details
John Smith's Letters, With 'Picters' to Match: Containing Reasons Why John Smith Should Not Change His Name ; Miss Debby Smith's Juvenile Spirit [ ... ]
Smith, Seba
- Format
- Book; Online
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Samuel Colman, 1839.
- Language
- English
- Variant Title
- John Smiths letters 1839
- Description
- 139 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
- Notes
- Sabin 84145; Wright I 2464; BAL 18382.
- BAL's 1st printing with signature collation: [1]-12⁶; plates are only 16.5 cm. high.
- A collection of humorous letters first published in the New York Mirror.
- Not included under Seba Smith's works in Williamson's Bibliography of Maine, but attributed to Seba Smith by M.A. Wyman in her Two American pioneers, p. 87-88 and 236, and by Sabin.
- Local Notes
- SPECIAL COLLECTIONS: Original boards with blue cloth backstrip and paper label on front, which reads: John Smith's letters, with picters to match, consarning the disputed territory away down east in the state of Maine. London: Wiley & Putnam, 67 Paternoster Row, 1839. Clifton Waller Barrett Library, Seba Smith Collection.
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