MOORE CLEMENT A Visit from St Nicholas in The New York Book

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"'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS..." MOORE, CLEMENT. "A Visit from St. Nicholas" in The New-York Book of Poetry. Additional engraved title-page with vignette. 8vo, contemporary full morocco, gilt urn emblem set within a multi-filleted border on both covers, spine gilt in compartments, some rubbing to spine ends and corners; gilt turn-ins; all edges gilt; dampstaining to early and later signatures, rear hinge partially split. New York: George Dearborn, 1837

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first edition and aside from the early almanacs, the first appearance of the poem in book form as well as the first time that Moore is identified in print as the author. Moore's authorship of the poem remained guarded until 1837, when he permitted his name to be used when the poem appeared in this anthology, a collection of fugitive poetry by native New Yorkers, edited by Charles Fenno Hoffmann. Marshall 15.