For nearly thirty-five years Julian Mason's The Poems of Phillis Wheatley (1966) has been the standard edition of the poems and letters of this young black poet of eighteenth-century Boston. This new edition has been extensively revised in light of Wheatley scholarship since its publication. It has been expanded to include all of the fifty-six poems and twenty-two letters now known to be by Wheatley, the significant variants of the poems, and the four Proposals for publication of her works, all of them annotated. This ...
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For nearly thirty-five years Julian Mason's The Poems of Phillis Wheatley (1966) has been the standard edition of the poems and letters of this young black poet of eighteenth-century Boston. This new edition has been extensively revised in light of Wheatley scholarship since its publication. It has been expanded to include all of the fifty-six poems and twenty-two letters now known to be by Wheatley, the significant variants of the poems, and the four Proposals for publication of her works, all of them annotated. This edition contains the recently discovered poem "Ocean," new information about Wheatley's library (including a southern connection), a more accurate reading of a letter central to understanding the response to her 1772 Proposals, new variants of two poems, and a new reading of her George Washington poem. By going back to the original manuscripts (and to first printings when the manuscripts are not extant), Mason has provided the fullest and most accurate edition of Wheatley's poems and letters yet produced. The new index and bibliography assure the volume's usefulness for the scholar, the student, and the general reader.
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Good. No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Blue boards, red spine labels with gold-color lettering and decorations, 863 pp. Moderate wear with slight rubbing on spine, previous owner's name with surname marked-out on front free endpaper, crack at rear endpapers, clean text, tight binding.
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Frontispiece. Very Good++ Ex-Library Hardcover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Retired library copy, usual stamps, stickers, and labels; Some light rippling to top edge of ffep, else textblock is clean and tight. Maroon top page edges. Light blue cloth in great condition, some faint sun toning to spine and library label on foot. 863pp., including index.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. Introduction by Allan Nevins. 863pp. Ink markings on a few pages (affecting a bit of text), binding cocked with faint foxing on page edges, very good in a very good dust jacket with foxing on both sides, and a sunned spine.
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Good. First Edition. Stated 1st Edition thick green cloth hardback with dark green stripes. Nice Lincoln frontispiece photo. Ex-library with solid binding. Outside spine has edge splits. No dj.
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Very Good in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. 2 one inch closed tears to top of dust jacket. 1/4 inch open tear to front bottom dust jacket. Some shelf wear.
