(LITERATURE AND POETRY) WHEATLEY PHILLIS Memoir and Poems of

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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) WHEATLEY, PHILLIS. Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. Dedicated to the Friends of Africans. 103 pages. Frontispiece portrait of Wheatley after the original by Scipio Morehead. Small 8vo, original patterned cloth with some slight abrading to the extremities; the front cover shows the outline of a large printed label, which does appear on some copies of this book issued in paper-covered boards. This copy has the cloth bound over the boards. Boston: George W. Light, 1834

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first edition of this edition with the added memoir.