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(MOORE, CLEMENT C.) Keene, John; Editor. The Poets of America. Frontispiece, tinted additional title-page, and numerous illustrations by John Gadsby Chapman, a few also tinted. 8vo, publisher's brown morocco decoratively stamped in gold and brown along spine and covers, lightly rubbed, but quite attractive; all edges gilt; scattered light foxing. New York: S. Colman, 1840
scarce american gift book and the first illustrated appearance of "a visit from st. nicholas by Moore, in book form. Keene was a well-known New York bookseller who edited another important annual, The Opal. Marshall 20.
