Select Minor Poems, Translated from the German of Goethe and Schiller. With Notes.
Published by Boston: Hilliard, Gray, 1839
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Up-Country Letters, Gardnerville, NV, U.S.A.Up-Country Letters
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Condition: Used
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Boston: Hilliard, Gray, 1839. First edition. Original green cloth, printed paper label. Volume III of George Ripley's "Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature". A presentation copy: "G.W. Haven, Esq. with the respects of J.S. Dwight". George Wallis Haven contributed some of the translations. Also helping Dwight were George Bancroft, Sarah Margaret Fuller (BAL 6489, her first appearance in a book), James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, Frederic Henry Hedge, Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, Charles Timothy Brooks, and Christopher Pearse Cranch. Dedicated to Thomas Carlyle, who told George Ellis in May of 1839 that Dwight, in this translation, ".seemed to understand the matter better than anyone else." Spine sunned. Label rubbed and chipped. Front hinge starting. Light foxing. A Very Good copy.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Select Minor Poems, Translated from the German of Goethe and Schiller. With Notes.
- Author
- Dwight, John S. (Sullivan), translator.
- Publisher
- Boston: Hilliard, Gray, 1839
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Up-Country Letters
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