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WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF. The Poetical Works. Illustrations; engraved author's portrait frontispiece. 8vo, contemporary full tree calf bordered in gilt, spine gilt with two morocco lettering pieces, modern rebacking, all edges gilt, light wear to board extremities; author's inscription in blue ink on first blank; contents clean. Household Edition. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1886
signed by whittier with four line excerpt in his hand from his famous abolitionist poem For Righteousness' Sake: "God's ways seem dark; but, soon or late / They touch the shining hills of day; / The evil cannot brook delay, / The good can well afford to wait. / John G. Whittier / Amesbury May 17, 1887."
