(LITERATURE AND POETRY) WHEATLEY THATCHER BB Memoir of Phill

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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) WHEATLEY. THATCHER, B.B. Memoir of Phillis Wheatley Native African and a Slave. Portrait frontispiece after Scipio Morehead. 36 pages. 12mo, original cloth with paper label on the upper cover; spine about half perished, with remnants of an old label, old stamp of "Nantucket Athenaeum" on the title page; portrait page affixed to the front paste-down. Boston: George W. Light, 1834

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first edition of a very scarce bookpublished the same year that George W. Light issued the 1834 edition of Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, edited by Margaret Matilda Odell, a descendant of Wheatley's. Light was a clever businessman, and recognized a good thing. He published a second edition of Wheatley in 1835.