Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 50

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Freneau, Philip. The Poems of . . . Written Chiefly during the Late War. 8vo, modern calf; moderate foxing; early owners' inscriptions on flyleaf and title page, later owner's inked stamp on half-title. Philadelphia, 1786

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first edition, thick paper issue. The first collected edition of his writings, including many poems relating to the Revolution and American Indians. "Unquestionably he was the most significant poetic figure in America before Bryant"--DAB. BAL 6435; Evans 19658; Felcone, New Jersey Books 94; Sabin 25897.